Posted on 11/14/2004 8:19:13 PM PST by Cableguy
Teresa Heinz Kerry hardly suffered from a lack of media attention during the presidential campaign.
But if a lengthy, behind-the-scenes Newsweek piece is on the mark, press accounts failed to reflect the degree to which she was a disruptive force in her husband's campaign who often looked "sullen," was deemed a "hypochondriac" by the staff and had a knack for "silencing a cheering crowd."
"On the campaign bus," Newsweek reports, "there had been constant talk of marital spats between the candidate and his wife. . . . Though they kept Teresa's sometimes erratic behavior out of their copy, when they were speaking among themselves . . . the reporters were increasingly vocal in mocking the candidate's wife."
It is difficult for daily journalists covering a candidate to report on the personal travails and staff infighting that envelop most campaigns. Some reporters who traveled with John Kerry said these stories are hard to pin down because campaign officials refused to discuss such details on the record. Others said it was risky to write stories that would alienate not just the candidate but the staffers on whom reporters depend for news.
"There were hints in the daily coverage that Kerry had problems with being decisive and Teresa was not completely helpful," says Evan Thomas, who wrote the Newsweek article. "But I don't think anybody tried to step back and look at the pattern of it. The press has gotten so consumed with the day-to-day that they've forgotten about or become uninterested in the whole Teddy White approach to reconstruction."
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Kerry who?
Oh boy, no Christmas in Nantucket for Howard.
Yeah, who? Are they talking about the poodle guy?
They're talking about that guy who ran with John Edwards, and lost.
---"On the campaign bus," Newsweek reports, "there had been constant talk of marital spats between the candidate and his wife. . . . Though they kept Teresa's sometimes erratic behavior out of their copy---
They keep the info out of their copy and we keep their copy out of our lives.
All these bs reasons they didn't report what they saw. They favored Kerry, period end of story. Literally.
Kerry gamed it in Vietnam to set himself up to be a future Prez. Fella named Bin Laddin screwed the whole scam up. Reckon the turds ever consider this?
Did MamaT's obvious nastiness, and the K-flopper's lack of influence over her behavior, cost him at least as many votes as the losing margin? A lot of women don't like men being controlled by nasty females...
Seems to me the only person who couldn't see this stuff is the goofball who wrote this story.
I have seen that Olberman (the fool) on his blogsite over there at MSNBC still keeps insisting that the huge story of an OH recount is about to break -
This guy is a complete fool but I want to hear that his comments are completely untrue.
Anyone with any info please fill me in. Thanks.
These two remind me a lot of the Clintons. I'm sure she's thrown a lamp or two at him.
Kerry had problems being decisive? Do tell. He has never held any sort of executive position (=decision-making position). His last leadership position, in charge of a five-man boat, was over thirty years ago.
As a longtime journalist, I've NEVER seen anything like it. And what a totally worthless candidate on which to squander what's left of your credibility. UNreal.
"There were hints in the daily coverage that Kerry had problems with being decisive..."
No way, not the Kerry I saw in the election.
Who wants to start a divorce pool?
Thank God,
He could have made the same kind of mess of the country if he had been elected.
That doesn't stop them from trying...
So much for reporters telling the truth as they know it
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