Shove it

[sonofbarcelonabob]

Heinz Kerry Tells Reporter to'Shove It'

By PETER JACKSON
Associated Press Writer

BOSTON (AP) -- 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."

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How sad is the fact that Mrs. Heinz-Kerry couldn't even remember what she said a few minutes ago?

[itsallaboutme]

She said "Shove it" Wow...Oh-my!!!! BFD. It's not like she said F@#$ off or something really nasty.

One must ask "Is this news"?

I say good for her, some of these reporters need to be put in their place.

Now it would be anothing thing if she said "F#%#-off to a the first lady or say a congressman.

Or she could have said what GW said while campaigning for President. When he said to one of his aids "Boy, that guy was a a-hole". (referring to a reporter).

[sonofbarcelonabob]

ItsAllAboutMe said:

She said "Shove it" Wow...Oh-my!!!! BFD. It's not like she said F@#$ off or something really nasty.

One must ask "Is this news"?

I say good for her, some of these reporters need to be put in their place.

Now it would be anothing thing if she said "F#%#-off to a the first lady or say a congressman.

Or she could have said what GW said while campaigning for President. When he said to one of his aids "Boy, that guy was a a-hole". (referring to a reporter).

I can see the whole point of the story went right over your head. So let me break it down into really simple terms that you can understand:

1. Mrs. Kerry said something in a speech.

2. Reporter asks her what she meant by it.

3. Mrs. Kerry denies what she said.

There, do you understand it better now?

[itsallaboutme]

Now, so you understand it. The reporter, "Mr.McNickle", who works for a conservative rag has for sometime hounded Mrs Heinz. If the reported had used the term in the context the Mrs Heinz said it I'm sure would have replied but he took it out of context which in her case she is right in saying "I didn't say that"

That is how I understand it. I'm sure you do not because you want the idiot GW to win again.

[Gorf]

At least she didn't tell the reporter to do something that's anatomically impossible.

[sonofbarcelonabob]

ItsAllAboutMe said:

Now, so you understand it. The reporter, "Mr.McNickle", who works for a conservative rag has for sometime hounded Mrs Heinz. If the reported had used the term in the context the Mrs Heinz said it I'm sure would have replied but he took it out of context which in her case she is right in saying "I didn't say that"

That is how I understand it. I'm sure you do not because you want the idiot GW to win again.

And, what context is that? Here is the exact quote from her statements, along with the question that was asked:



"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."




Take it in whatever context you want. It was a simple question that deserved a straightfoward answer.

If Mrs. Kerry cannot stand up to the pressure of the media constantly badgering her, then she shouldn't be out campaigning for her husband.

[itsallaboutme]

I think she handled the situation just fine. Infact' I say, "YOU GO GIRL". I like her & I like her style, much more entertaining & good for the country then our current first lady "June Cleaver", who is probably baking a bundt cake as we speak. I'm sure she is there at the end of the day to bring GW his slippers & newspaper...oops!!! I forgot, GW claimed he doesn't read the paper, ok just his slippers.

[sonofbarcelonabob]

ItsAllAboutMe said:

I think she handled the situation just fine. Infact' I say, "YOU GO GIRL". I like her & I like her style, much more entertaining & good for the country then our current first lady "June Cleaver", who is probably baking a bundt cake as we speak. I'm sure she is there at the end of the day to bring GW his slippers & newspaper...oops!!! I forgot, GW claimed he doesn't read the paper, ok just his slippers.

She still hasn't answered the question. What DOES it mean to be "un-American"?

I'm sure her vast and experienced political coaching staff are huddled with her at this very moment, telling her that the term "un-American" is on the DNUIWGYIT* word list. LOL.

DNUIWGYIT = Do Not Use It Will Get You In Trouble

[Gorf]

Perhaps she ought to consult the conservatives since calling anyone that disagrees with them is one of their hallmark retorts.

[sonofbarcelonabob]

{ said:

>-(Gorf)-<[} link=board=news&thread=1090830769&start=8#0 date=1090866691]Perhaps she ought to consult the conservatives since calling anyone that disagrees with them is one of their hallmark retorts.

What are they calling them?

P.S. Don't forget, the hallmark retort comes with the obligatory sticking-out-of-the-tongue and a "Nyah! Nyah!"

[Gorf]

OMG!

That's what GWB has been doing all thsi time?


At least he's done a good job of passing it along to his daughters.

[sonofbarcelonabob]

Well...at least she's better looking than Chelsea.

But, yes, the Bush twins are brats. They need to be whooped upside the head with the discipline pickle.

[Deleted]

Hey! Have YOU ever had your tongue glued to a car window?

If not, please don't judge.

Did you have sex with that woman?

[Gorf]

The woman standing beside the car or the one sticking her tongue out inside the car?

[Barefoot In Kailua]

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com |

With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed – financially – with the radical Left.

Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed the secretive Tides Foundation to the tune of more than $4 million over the years. The Tides Foundation, a “charity” established in 1976 by antiwar leftist activist Drummond Pike, distributes millions of dollars in grants every year to political organizations advocating far-Left causes. The Tides Foundation and its closely allied Tides Center, which was spun off from the Foundation in 1996 but run by Drummond Pike, distributed nearly $66 million in grants in 2002 alone. In all, Tides has distributed more than $300 million for the Left. These funds went to rabid antiwar demonstrators, anti-trade demonstrators, domestic Islamist organizations, pro-terrorists legal groups, environmentalists, abortion partisans, extremist homosexual activists and open borders advocates.

During the years 1995-2001, the Howard Heinz Endowment, which Heinz Kerry chairs, gave Tides more than $4.3 million. The combined Heinz Endowments (composed of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment) donated $1.6 million to establish the Tides Center for Western Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh office of the San Francisco-based Tides Center. Since that time, the local branch has tirelessly pushed an anti-business agenda in the name of “preserving the environment.” However, it is the Tides Foundation’s national organization whose connections are most disconcerting.

The Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. Tides allows donors to anonymously contribute money to a host of causes; the donor simply makes the check out to Tides and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money. Tides does so. The Tides Center will even manage a left-wing project, for a nominal fee. Drummond Pike told The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Anonymity is very important to most of the people we work with.” That becomes understandable when one views the list of Tides grant recipients. And who are the beneficiaries of this money?


The Antiwar Movement

Senator John F. Kerry has gone far with his nuanced view of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He voted for the war resolution but specified a litany of conditions the Bush administration must meet before he would support combat, then proceeded to vote against funding troops already in harm’s way – then claimed he had always supported the president when Saddam Hussein was captured. The grant recipients of the Tides Foundation, to which Kerry’s wife has steered millions of dollars in “charitable” funds, understand no such nuance.

Tides established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund to fund the antiwar movement. These projects fueled such hysterical protest organizations as MoveOn.org, the website that recently featured two separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolf Hitler. (Howard Dean, not Kerry, won MoveOn.org’s “virtual primary.”)

The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the radical website Indymedia provided them “alternate media coverage.” Indymedia, an enormous news and events bulletin board with local pages in most of the world’s major cities, provided a vital link for radical activists often with violent agendas to coordinate their protests. Indymedia received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation.

The Institute for Global Communications is another leftist communications facilitator that received Tides grant money. IGC, which during the 1990s was the leading provider of web technology to the radical Left, links to “recommended sites” such as the War Resisters League (a group whose purpose is enabling peaceniks to refuse to pay taxes) and the leftist American Friends Service Committee. Most disturbing is the link to Ramsey Clark’s International Action Center, which has supported Slobodan Milosevic and North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il. The IAC is the force behind International ANSWER, which sponsored the major antiwar (and anti-Bush) rallies before the invasion of Iraq. When ANSWER was outed as a Communist organization, United for Peace and Justice, headed by longtime Communist Party member Leslie Cagan was created as a "moderate" alternative. UFPJ is also a Tides grant recipient.The Tides-funded “A Better Way Project,” which opposed war in Iraq, also coordinated efforts of United for Peace and Justice and the Win Without War Coalition. The celebrity-laden Win Without War Coalition, along with the Bill Moyers-funded Florence and John Schumann Foundation, ran full-page ads in the New York Times opposing the War on Terrorism. This will not be the last overlapping of far-Left causes.


The Islamist Front

Immediately after 9/11, Tides formed a “9/11 Fund” to advocate a “peaceful national response” to the opening salvos of war. Part of the half-million dollars in grants the 9/11 Fund dispersed went to the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project to protect the rights of homosexual Arabs. The Foundation replaced the 9/11 Fund with the “Democratic Justice Fund,” which was established with the aid of George Soros’ Open Society Institute. (Currency speculator and pro-drug advocate Soros is, like Teresa Heinz Kerry, a major contributor to Tides, having donated more than $7 million.) The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration to the United States, particularly from countries designated by the State Department as “terrorist nations.”

Tides has also given grant money to the Council for American Islamic Relations. Ostensibly a “Muslim civil rights group,” CAIR is in fact one of the leading anti-anti-terrorism organizations within the Wahhabi Lobby, with links to Hamas. CAIR regularly opposes and demonizes American efforts to fight terrorism, claiming, for instance, that Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in “hate crimes.”

CAIR officials have reason to fight Bush’s anti-terrorism measures: all too many CAIR officials are on the record supporting terrorism. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad openly stated in 1994, “I am a supporter of the Hamas movement.” Community Affairs Director Bassem K. Khafagi has been arrested for visa and bank fraud. Randall Royer, a Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator at CAIR, was arrested along with a group of Islamic radicals in Virginia for allegedly planning jihad. CAIR has defended terrorist “charities” shut down by the Bush administration. Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested for aiding and abetting terrorism.