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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
In her latest outburst against her political enemies, Teresa Heinz Kerry called her detractors "scumbags" during an interview with a Pittsburgh TV anchorwoman.
Name-calling has become frequent behavior for the wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
According to a report in the New Yorker, Kerry campaign advisers have struggled with Teresa's off-the-cuff remarks in the media.
"There are these bizarre moments that make you shudder," a Kerry adviser told the magazine. "Like calling herself African-American to black audiences."
Earlier this month, Heinz Kerry said voters who don't agree with her husbands health-care plans are "idiots."
Writes the New Yorker's Judith Thurman:
I doubt that she knows the literal meaning of "scumbag," but perhaps, after 40 years in America, nearly 13 of them as a political wife, observing how the flaws and contradictions of a personality as complex as hers are melted down for ammunition by the other side, she should have learned it. Close friends attribute her lapses of discretion to "naïveté." Heinz Kerry says that they are a form of resistance to enforced conformity. "I don't like to be told, for told's sake," how to behave, she says, "because I lived in a dictatorship for too long."
Heinz Kerry was born and raised in Mozambique, which was ruled by the Fascist government of António Salazar while she lived there.
As WorldNetDaily reported, in July Heinz Kerry told a journalist from a Pittsburgh paper to "shove it" after he questioned her use of the term "un-American" in a speech.

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The funny thing is now when Kerry Teresa are out on the road, and he sees her stopping to talk to reporters, he comes back to grab her arm and usher her away...even he knows she is poisoning his campaign.
Edited 9/21/2004 11:00 am ET ET by debateguy
New Yorker Magazine Quotes Teresa Heinz Kerry Out Of Context
POSTED: 8:05 PM EDT September 20, 2004
UPDATED: 9:50 PM EDT September 20, 2004
PITTSBURGH -- The new issue of the New Yorker magazine contains a detailed profile of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.
One comment getting attention in the article is a claim that Heinz Kerry called her detractors "scumbags" during an interview last April with Channel 4 Action News anchor Sally Wiggin.
A check of that tape shows that while Heinz Kerry did use the word, it came in the context of discussing what her son Chris called the "noble art of public service."
"I believe there is a nobility in public service. I believe every citizen can be a public servant. And should be," said Heinz Kerry.
Sally Wiggin asked, "Do you think some of the nobility has gone out of public service?"
Sally Wiggin's Interview With Teresa Heinz Kerry, April 2004
More Video From April 2004 Interview
Heinz Kerry said, "Oh, there is a lot of scumbags everywhere. Not just in politics. In everything. There are a lot of immoral people everywhere."
The author of the New Yorker article was allowed by Heinz Kerry to observe the original interview as it was taped.
The magazine did contact Channel 4 Action News to confirm the quote, but the context in the final article gave different shading to the meaning of the remarks.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3746644/detail.html
You have to admit, she certainly has an interesting command of the English language. Calling opponents to her husband's socialist health care plan "idiots"...Telling a reporter who was questioning a comment of hers to "shove it"...
Very classy indeed! Can't wait to see what she would say at a White House dinner with foreign dignitaries. (Oh wait, she won't EVER live in the White House!!!)
I expect more from a first lady. But then again, I'm just an old fashioned Southern girl. Manners count and grace is a necessity in leadership positions.
So is character!
Thank God we've relearned and/or remembered what character means after that dearth of it for much of the '90's.
I'll never forget trying to explain why the President was in "trouble" to inquiring 4th graders. It was truly sad to know that that was their first impression of what a President was.
I was a lucky 4th grader. My first President (or at least when I understood what that meant) was Ronald Reagan. I guess my standards for what a President and a First Lady should be are pretty high!
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