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...
I heard Drudge talk about it. This is getting fun.
Charming. Just charming. Clearly she's showing off her recently acquired skills as a contemporary graduate of the Hillary Clinton School of Political Etiquette.
LOL... I was just over there.
Know anything about this?
It is Theresa...
Of course, Drudge screwed it up as well. cough cough
I sure wish I'd heard about this earlier...I could have seen it on WTAE.
This picture is from the Yahoo collection; someone hung around Kerry and took pictures of him way back when. When he lost an election, he took to building model planes. Really. That's what the caption for this photo said.
Perfect democrat wife. Do as I say, not as I do, for I am better than you are! It is the other party who are the uncivil ones you know! Sheesh!
I say let her speak more often....I love it. She's nutty!
Oops...just checked..actually, it is Teresa
Is this the way a first lady should behave? The pickle queen is nothing but a two faced snob and I wish she had said that to me. She wouldn't have known what hit her.
She strikes me as trash that inherited money.
Heinz Kerry Tells Reporter to 'Shove It'
Teresa Heinz Kerry Calls for More Civil Tone in Politics, Then Tells Reporter to 'Shove It'
The Associated Press
BOSTON July 25, 2004 — 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," the wife of Sen. John Kerry told her fellow Pennsylvanians on Sunday night at a Massachusetts Statehouse reception.
Minutes later, Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, questioned her on what she meant by the term "un-American," according to a tape of the encounter recorded by Pittsburgh television station WTAE.
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 Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Before her encounter with McNickle, she criticized the tenor of modern political campaigns, without being specific.
Vice President Dick Cheney recently came under criticism for using a four-letter obscenity in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the Senate floor. He later was unapologetic about the remark, saying: "I felt better after I said it."
It depends on what the meaning of "we" is.
It just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER!
It just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER!
WOW .. what did the reporter write??? *L*
Check this one out!!!!!!
HIGH WATER ALERT!
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