Posted on 07/25/2004 8:11:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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TERESA TELLS REPORTER TO 'SHOVE IT'
Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic nominee John Kerry, told a reporter to 'shove it' on Sunday evening -- immediately after giving a speech calling for a more civil tone in politics.
Speaking to the Pennsylvanian delegation at the statehouse in Boston, Heinz Kerry delivered an impassioned plea against hate politics:
"We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics."
"I remember a time when people in political parties in Pennsylvania talked to one another and actually got things done. We have to go back to those days when we can do things properly, for the people need it."
"My prayers for you, for me, for the country, for the world, are that we keep this at a high level, with dignity, with respect and with a great idealism and courage that took our forefathers to build this great nation."
According to multiple sources who attended the event, Heinz Kerry upon finishing the speech pushed her way through the Secret Service to get to Pittsburgh Tribune Review reporter, Colin McNickle. Upon getting to Mcnickle, Heinz Kerry asks, 'Are you from the Tribune Review' Mcnickle says, 'Yes, I am.'
At this point and in an irritated fashion Heinz Kerry says, 'Of course, understandable. You said something I didnt say. Now Shove it!'
Tape of the incident is being edited to air on Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV, and, according to a media source, ABC NEWS is set to run with it thereafter.
A witness of the incident said reporters were "stunned" by Heinz Kerry's outburst, especially in light of the speech she had just given.
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read the AP story in post #33. Dont be so quick to side with her for no reason. Are you trying to contribute or not?
Did the original exchange happen in front of the audience?
She has bad manners.
Local Anchors are not very well informed as you know.
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JOhn KErry will introduce his wife from the podium as "Our first African-American First Lady-to be..." :)
(Well, technically... :) Just like I can call myself a Native American. No Indian blood in me, but I was born in Lynn, MA, which is part of America, so I'm a Native
American, aren't I? :)
Bad manners or bad habits--of the chemical kind. Or maybe she's a natural @itch.
I thought all those pressitutes deserved it when Jenna did her stick out the tongue thing.
the press has not been excactly civil when printing things about them and I think as a grandmother they are so cute:)remind me of my granddaughter.
These demorats or Bullies!!
Interestingly, during the primaries, numerous news stories were written about the "problem" TERRREEAAAYYYyyyyaaaazzzaa presented for KERRY and how they had to assign a plethora of "handlers" to keep her under control. I guess they are not doing so well. Listen, I can hear her singing:
"There comming to take me away HA HA, HO HO, HE HE, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those fine young men in their clean white coats and they are coming to take me away!"
Ping :)
Terry Kerry really believes wee Edwards' "TWO AMERICAS".One for her and a quite different one for everyone else.
Good post.
DUPLICITOUS, LYING, TREASONOUS, HYPOCRITES, MACHIAVELLIAN . . .
HEY, SHEEPLE,
which word above do you not understand!!!?
Sigh.
Frankly I'm sick of the un-American activities also. And those activites are coming from her party, and it's international cohorts. It verges on some pretty stiff illegal activity, if only it would ever be recognized for what it is.
POSTED: 10:55 pm EDT July 25, 2004
UPDATED: 11:49 pm EDT July 25, 2004
BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry urged her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention to restore a more civil tone to American politics, then minutes later told a newspaperman to "shove it."
"We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics," she told her fellow Pennsylvanians at a Sunday night reception at the Massachusetts Statehouse.
Heinz Kerry said "I didn't say that" several times to McNickle. She then turned to confer with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and others. When she faced McNickle again a short time later, he continued to question her, and she replied, "You said something I didn't say. Now shove it."
The Pennsylvania delegation was the first to be visited by the wife of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry. Before her encounter with McNickle, she criticized the tenor of modern political campaigns, without being specific.
"I remember a time when people in political parties in Pennsylvania talked to one another and actually got things done," said Heinz Kerry, whose first husband, Republican Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania, was killed in a plane crash in 1991. "We have to go back to those days when we can do things properly, for the people need it."
"My prayers for you, for me, for the country, for the world, are that we keep this at a high level, with dignity, with respect and with a great idealism and courage that took our forefathers to build this great nation," she said.
Also Sunday, Heinz Kerry acknowledged being nervous about her scheduled Tuesday night speech.
She said she had to practice "a speech that is written on the TelePrompters, and I'm kind of dreading it, because I am generally unscripted."
Pennsylvania's delegation to the Democratic National Convention revived plans to attend the city-sponsored reception at the Massachusetts capitol only hours before Heinz Kerry's appearance, after the threat of union picketing by local police and firefighters faded away.
Previously, to avoid conflicts with protests by the city police and firefighter unions, state party leaders made plans to hold an alternate reception at the delegation's hotel. But they canceled the hotel event after the firefighters reached a contract accord Sunday.
Marla Romash, Teresa Heinz Kerry spokeswoman, told WTAE-TV's Scott Baker, "This was sheer frustration, aimed at a right-wing rag, that has consistently and purposely misrepresented the facts in reporting on Mrs. Kerry and her family."
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What a fraud. Now this woman thinks she's Eleanor Roosevelt??
WOW .. What a nasty liitle thing
OH .. and for the record .. she didn't know what paper the reporter was from when she FIRST started snapping at him
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