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| Tue, 09-21-2004 - 9:57am |
© 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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Of course most of the black community will forgive her this b/c she is the wife of a democrat and they have been brainwashed into thinking that the dems will "help" them and they cannot succeed on their own efforts!
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
I can't remember the university, but I remember a story about a white "African-American" (she had South African citizenship) winning a scholarship based largely on that label and the NAACP sued the school to get her scholarship revoked.
African American does not technically mean black although that's what it means to everyone in today's PC environment. It was a term originally coined by Jesse Jackson and accepted by people to mean people of colour living in America. Africa is not the only country with high concentrations of people of colour (who may have come from any number of countries going back many generations). Also, African-American and African American (note the hyphen) mean two slightly different things. Charleze Theron (coming from South Africa) for example, is African American but not African-American.
Technically, she is more "African" American than many people of colour living in the US today most of whom have been in this country for countless generations or who came here from countries other than Africa and have never stepped foot on African soil, much less lived there.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2106753/#ContinueArticle
From many reports, I have heard that Bush has a reputation for using quite colourful language when pressed. Maybe that's why they take such care to shelter him and screen people that take part in his rallies and press conferences. If someone who hasn't been screened as a loyal Bush supporter pushes him too far, perhaps a naughty word or two could slip out?
HA!
Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board
Thanks the great laugh. I almost blew my morning coffee all over the computer screen, but fortunately I had enough grace to prevent that from happening lol!
No one is perfect.
The term is relatively new to refer to people of colour in the US. It's too bad your friend has to deny her heritage because of political correctness.
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