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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Bwaaahaaaaaa! Liberals mocking liberals.
Sounds like TROLL talk.
Democrats mock everything. It's ALL they have.
Kerry? That is not a word I readily understand.
I won't deny he did get shot at, but he certainly never planned on it.
%100 with ya on that ..nice work
3 1/2 months in Nam and speeding away from his comrades to avoid what he thought was enemy fire makes him a coward in my book.
To top that off - he opted to leave his crew behind for a pansy job in the states.
Glad you aren't in charge of deciding who our leaders are!!
Well, if Kerry does get divorced, Suha Arafat is now available.
Look..the second Kerry walked out and said REPORTING FOR DUTY , he was dead..Right , an anti war hippie trying to run as Sgt Rock ..I almost fell off my chair laughing that night watching the Dem convention .What a cornball , transparent move that all was.Did he really think ANYONE bought that act ? He left himself WIDE WIDE open for his war record to be pulled apart.
Nice to hear that journalists were running interference for their candidate of choice. I am damn sure that if Laura Bush had been acting in a manner similar to THK, it would have been front page headline news for weeks at a time.
FOAD presstitutes.
where were all these tell alls with the Clintoons? The difference being they are still terrified of Hillary and Kerry was not to win so it doesn't matter if they rat him out
AHAHHAHAHA too funny man..Yea , she's in the price range of Kerry's interest ..
Another plus for her - she lives in France!!
Do you folks realize what they are confessing to here? They KNEW Kerry was a flip flopper and yet they let Kerry go unchallanged when he complained about the "republican attack machine". They would have allowed this country to elect an indecisive President, during war time, just because he pushed their agenda.
There ya go ..perfect match..the simp and the blimp
They were talking about this on NewsWatch and there all were very passive about it.
The NewsWatch panel said the Kerry thing with McCain was no big deal .. RIGHT! However, had the information regarding McCain being offered 2 positions (VP and SECDEF), been a Bush event .. you can bet your bottom dollar it would have been leaked on purpose.
You neglected to mention the dangerous time in Cambodia, too...
Yep..dogs that they are..They were fighting for a guy I bet most didnt even really , deep inside , have any faith in or trust .
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