Teresa Heinz-Ketchup 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.

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."

From: "THE SOURCE" To: "INFORMED VOTERS" Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:19 AM Subject: INCREDIBLE! AND SHE WANTS TO BE FIRST LADY? > Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in > Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, and was educated > in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was > working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when > she met a handsome young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a > bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business." > They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family > ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the U.S. > House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the > first of three terms in the United States Senate. > > Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided > with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb while > traveling between Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The senator, his > pilot and co-pilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. > He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons. > > Four years later, after inheriting Heinz's $500 million fortune, she > married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from > Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of > her radicalization was set in motion. > > Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry > to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before they were married. John > Kerry may not have check-writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and > pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining > beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many > years of hawking catsup, pickles, and soup, has fallen into the hands > of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe > in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth. > > So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one > example: According to the G2 Bulletin, an on-line intelligence newsletter > of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than > $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does > the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money? It supports numerous > anti-war groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. > Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried. It > supports the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides > Foundation and > billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks > to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states. > It supports the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders > are known to have > > close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas. It supports the National Lawyers > Guild, > organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their > attorneys, > Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheik Omar > Abdel Rahman, > communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of > the > 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It supports Planned Parenthood, the > National Abortion Rights Action League, and the Abortion Action > Project. It supports the > "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return > all of > Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico. > > These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the > anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our > would-be first > lady > - the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife > of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the > United States. > If voters will only try to imagine a woman such as Teresa Heinz Kerry, the > fairy > godmother of the radical left, laying her head on a pillow each night just > inches > from the President of the United States, hopefully they will decide > that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White House > is with an engraved > > invitation in hand.

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."

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