look at what came out of Teresa's mouth

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look at what came out of Teresa's mouth
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Tue, 09-21-2004 - 9:57am
Look at the trash that just came out of Teresa's mouth. What a role model she is.Posted: September 20, 2004 5:00 p.m. Eastern


© 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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Registered: 04-01-2004
"Manners count and grace is a necessity" in the south. You sure don't know the same southern redneck Bushies that I know. Any one of which would have done worse than say "Shove it." to a reporter whose paper had made a crusade of hounding them or their families. Sciaffe, a rabid right winger, has spent a reported $2-8 million dollars "investigating" Democrats and uses his right wing rag as a political tool against Democrats.

"I'm just an old fashioned Southern girl." Shades of Miss Scarlett! How are things at Tara?



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Registered: 09-16-2004


Name me a politician that did worse than say "shove it" as Teresa did, who has survivedl the maelstrom of politics. This is NOT something one does when they are in a bid for are are in publicly held office. Again as a previous poster to this thread said, manners and class are what's important here. Teresa is no such thing. She may be a "billionairess" but that does not excuse her from common decency. This is just uncalled for behaviour, and if it were Laura Bush that said this, i'd be "ticked off" at her too....

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Registered: 08-28-2004


Teresa isn't a politician.

However, let's see...I believe Dick Cheney did worse than say "shove it" and he's worshipped by the people who are fainting over Teresa's behavior.

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Registered: 04-01-2004
Only one? Okay. Bush called a NYT reporter a "major league a**hole".

"This is NOT something one does when they are in a bid for are are in publicly held office." Don't be foolish. Teresa Heinz Kerry is not a politician. She's never run for political office and is not now. First Lady or hopefully someday First Gentle/man/husband is NOT a political office.

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Ditto! nt
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Cheney hasn't made an identity for himself that is graceless, tactless, and rude.

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Welcome liberal_idiot!

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Registered: 05-21-2004
No, it's not a politcal office. But the First Lady has obligations as an ambassador of this country. Do you think she will keep her mouth shut if she becomes First Lady???

I think she would be an embarassment to the country. Liberals have been so preoccupied with the U.S.'s international "image" they should be a little more concerned about her behavior. I'ts not flattering.

Yeah, Cheney told a backstabbing, gladhanding, fellow politician to f*** himself. Republicans have been slammed by the dems for 4 years. EVERY move the Rep.'s make, even if it is to pass legislation that they AGREE on, they get obstructed. I'm surprised he lasted this long. He was NOT talking about the American people (..."idiots") or the press (..."shove it") trying to do their job.

As for President Bush being OVERHEARD (mike was still on) confiding in Cheney his feelings about a particular press member. That was an accident. And the guy had been an ***hole to Bush, like 95% of all of the liberal press!

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Seems to me that no matter what the context Mrs. Kery should realize that she is in the public eye and is being considered as a representative of our nation to others around the world. She ought to be able to conduct herself and her use of the English language with a bit more dignity, IMO.



There's a big difference between a public news interview and a private conversation, however Cheney should have kept better control of himself as well.

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Registered: 02-23-2004


Whoever wrote that ad is the nice liar-the president has no power to "raise Medicare premiums"-that increase was mandated years ago by a long term Medicare bill that John Kerry voted IN FAVOR OF.