Posted on 07/25/2004 8:11:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 25, 2004 23:33:04 ET XXXXX
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.
Developing...
did she really do that?!?!
Sure hasn't been a good convention for them so far, and it hasn't even started yet! I may have to watch after all. ;)
It was just after her remarks concluded. It took place off stage and yes there were MANY people in the crowd surrounding them and they had also just heard her say "Unamerican remarks". Yhis is NOT going away.
Haha! I love the last bit with her spokesperson. "She was frustrated with this right-wing rag that has consistently blah blah blah." Doesn't that go directly against the entire point of her little "civility in politics" speech? Priceless!
It's Hillary's, er, Bush's fault...
Teresa Heinz Kerry isn't sure if anyone is qualified enough to be president of the United States, but believes her husband, Sen. John Kerry, is pretty close.
"He's determined and he's optimistic and he's idealistic," she said Saturday after speaking to a crowd at Sioux City's Anderson Dance Pavilion. "He has a very good sense of fairness and justice and he is creative about thinking of solutions to problems."
In short, Heinz Kerry said her husband is "idealistic but practical." And she thinks he will win the election in November.
"If not, it will still have been a great endeavor," Heinz Kerry said.
"When you're with people and they're open and you're open, you learn a lot about yourself and you also learn a lot about the world," Heinz Kerry said. "It's a great school."
"I would not be a very good campaigner if I had to shake hands and do the 'please vote for my husband' sort of thing," she said. "Not only would that bore me, but I don't think it's really effective. People tell me it is, but I don't think it is."
"Losing my husband so suddenly was a huge jolt," she said. "It was very painful."
"Negative energy is black energy. I just repulse it back to where it comes from," she said. "I'm not interested in that. Nor are people, I don't think. You don't uplift anything with lies and ugliness, period."
I do what I do, I am who I am. I can't pretend to be anything else," Heinz Kerry said. But, if she becomes the first lady, she would like to influence the American people. "I would hope to make everyone be acceptable to this country. After all, this country is the most diverse country."
I know how happy I could be living very simple in a hut in Africa taking care of sick people," she said. "I know I could be happy doing that because I have been. I like my things, but I know I can do without them, too. That's probably my greatest piece of luck."
"I love music and I love the small arts. I think it's very important for foundations to really fund and develop small arts initiatives," Heinz Kerry said. "[The endowments] do a lot of work on the environment, on education, on early childhood development and some aspects of health, particularly related to the environment."
Heinz Kerry said the one main misconception about her is that she was born rich.
"People think I was born with, I don't know what, gold nappies or something," she said. "I just had a wonderful childhood, wonderful mom and dad and a wonderful family. I knew the value of work and the value of study."
"She is ALWAYS saying this and I am damn tired of it!!!"
What have you got against telling a reporter to shove it!
Why don't you go shove it!
I hope that the Boston Herald and the NY Post will run this Tereza Heinz Kerry story on their front page tomorrow.
How could I ever explain to my children a would be First Lady telling an American citizen to "shove it"??
I'll bet the DUmmies think this incident shows "character."
Is "Shove It", Pennsylania for "Go F*ck Youself"? WOW!! Terasa...I Knew Ladies, and YOU are NO Lady"!!
Everytime I look at her, she looks stoned, out of it, whatever you want to say. Her elevator doesn't go to the top to say the least.
See...Dick Cheney started it! Now, THIS is just the type of unAmerican, Uncivilised stuff Mrs. Heinz is talking about! Reporting on her angry outbursts is just so, WRONG! </sarcasm
Can we identify the bi-plane kit in the picture and get everyone to send that kit...
See post 115 for a link to video (though it runs slow due to the no-doubt overloaded servers).
The video report is fair and balanced. The reporter even says the paper is not a conservative paper, but one with a "conservative editorial tradition." Wow...bending over backwards for fairness there. The AP just called it a conservative paper.
Here is the news director's take from the website:
"The video shows a verbal confrontation between Teresa Heinz Kerry and a reporter from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review following remarks Heinz made moments earlier where she spoke about civility and politics. She was trying to point out that some of the harping and positioning going on in the campaign was rough and off the mark. She called some of that "un-American behavior." The reporter heard it, our camera caught it and the reporter was asking Heinz what she meant by the comment. The video, unedited and played longform so you can get a feel for it aired exclusively on WTAE's Action News at 11 p.m. Sunday night. You can watch it here.
Stations around the country will no doubt clamor for it. Controversy makes headlines and headlines sell newspapers and get people interested in the story, something many Americans have not been up until now. Call it ironic that a speech about rough and tumble politics and "un-American behavior" is what grabs the headlines...
Scott and Reporters from WTAE's Washington DC Bureau begin filing stories Sunday night and don't stop until after the balloons drop Thursday. They'll report on the messages and the themes espoused during the week. Scott will also focus on Pittsburgh angles. Thats why he was standing next to Theresa Heinz Sunday, camera rolling. If WTAE had opted out of covering this convention like other stations, you wouldn't see the video of that particular story mentioned earlier."
I wonder what the NY post will choose as the cover tomorrow. They have so many choices.
"KERRY BOOED AT YANKEES GAME" or
"TERESA KERRY TELLS REPORTER TO SHOVE IT". I would love to be a fly on the wall in the newsroom there tonight.
Shabby Chic!!!!!! LOL!! How about just SHABBY!
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