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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON MARCH 15, 2004 21:16:28 ET XXXXX GLOBE REPORTER CLAIMS TAPE RECORDED KERRY 'MORE' LEADERS NOT 'FOREIGN' LEADERS; TRANSCRIPTION 'SCREW-UP' A BOSTON GLOBE reporter at the center of a growing controversy over comments made by John Kerry last week in Florida now claims he "screwed-up" -- and John Kerry never bragged how "foreign leaders" privately backed his presidential bid! "I mistranscribed a key word," explains Patrick Healy, a political reporter for the BOSTON GLOBE who covered the event in a pool capacity. "Listening to the audio recorder now, in the quiet of my house, I hear...

"The Kerry PR machine, (the national media) takes one for Kerry." Please, don’t insult our intelligence! Just what is going on with the national, liberal media? Are there some so determined to see their guy John F. Kerry president, they will do anything short of selling their soul? With only a few addressing the recent Kerry-induced, faux pas, yet fewer reporters grudgingly going there, certainly many may have not heard the scoop. Just what did Kerry say to whom? Why be concerned? Kerry told his supporters, foreign leaders were pulling for him. Numerous national media outlets quoted him saying, “I’ve...

<p>John Kerry misrepresented his voting record on Cuba during a recent visit to Florida, the Miami Herald reports.</p> <p>Here's how reporter Peter Wallsten put it in a story published Sunday: "John Kerry had just pumped up a huge crowd in downtown West Palm Beach, promising to make the state a battleground for his quest to oust President Bush, when a local television journalist posed the question that any candidate with Florida ambitions should expect: "What will you do about Cuba?</p>

GLOBE REPORTER CLAIMS TAPE RECORDED KERRY 'MORE' LEADERS NOT 'FOREIGN' LEADERS; TRANSCRIPTION 'SCREW-UP' A BOSTON GLOBE reporter at the center of a growing controversy over comments made by John Kerry last week in Florida now claims he "screwed-up" -- and John Kerry never bragged how "foreign leaders" privately backed his presidential bid! "I mistranscribed a key word," explains Patrick Healy, a political reporter for the BOSTON GLOBE who covered the event in a pool capacity. "Listening to the audio recorder now, in the quiet of my house, I hear 'more leaders' and I am certain that 'more leaders' is what...