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1. #1
   On August 2nd, 2004 at 9:36 pm, Martin aka Blogbat said:

   Maybe he should ask Nelson Mandela’s wife of “Necklacing” fame to petition “Ter-AY-za” for him.

2. #2
   On August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 pm, angrywhtman said:

   I have a friend that gets French TV at home. Kerry speaks to reporters in French all the time. I think it would make a great campaign commercial to lift footage from his conversations with the French.

3. #3
   On August 2nd, 2004 at 11:12 pm, JO said:

   She is such a total biyatch. She thinks she’s a Hillary, but at least Hillary would smile while she ripped out your heart.

4. #4
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 1:08 am, Martin aka Blogbat said:

   angrywhtman,
   I have been all over France and have yet to “get” French TV.

5. #5
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 2:57 am, Carolus said:

   Chillie and Frosty (to borrow from the amazing Mark Steyn) – the candidates of the “little people.” They’d best put those masks back on in a hurry just in case us regular po’ folks start to get the wrong idea about them.

6. #6
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 6:19 am, meep said:

   Little HTML-screwup note:

   please close your tags from the post above (“Not New”) – it seems the indent and italics are still on, and it’s screwing up the rest of your page.

7. #7
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 7:34 am, GsOuPx said:

   A) While the first amendment guarantees both his rigth to ask a question and to publish the question, he has no such right to an answer.

   B) Would you – Michelle – please stop exhibiting your overt bigotry by sardonically charaterizing the pronounciation of Teresa Heinz’s name? Thanks.

   C) Hey McNickle…two words: Whoppi Goldberg. Get over yourself.

8. #8
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 8:19 am, GsOuPx said:

   [Maybe he'd have better luck if he asked her in Portuguese, French, Italian, or Spanish.]

   Maybe he would have. Or, he would he have been chastised by the “right” [sic] for doing so?

   [President Bush's exchange with NBC News correspondent David Gregory over anti-American protests in Europe attracted widespread attention. Bush ridiculed the reporter, who asked Bush a question about the protests and then tried to ask French President Chirac a question in French. "The guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental," said Bush. "Sir, if I could just follow," the reporter began. "Thank you," Bush shot back, as he answered the questions and then silenced Gregory. As Bush stepped away from the podium, he called to Gregory. "As soon as you get in front of a camera, you start showing off." ]

9. #9
   On August 3rd, 2004 at 8:33 am, Marshall said:

   GsOuPx –
   Wow, you have been really busy this morning. Welcome to MichelleMalkin.com!

   But I must say, you have to do better than that if you’re gonna win anyone over.

   Theresa Heinz deserves to be made fun of for the pronunciation of her name because she is the one (along with her gigilo husband) who insist on that goofy Te-RAY-zah pronunciation!!

   David Gregory is a show off who thinks of Bush as some simpleton from Texas, who probably thinks to himself, “how dare he challenge me! A White House correspondent for NBC!”

10. #10
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 8:56 am, GsOuPx said:

    She insists on having her name [which, by the way, is NOT spelled with an "h"] pronounced in the manner in which it has been pronounced all of her life and which is a common pronounciation thereunto outside of the US?

    What a bitch!!!!

    /sarcasm

    Thanks for your warm welcome. I ahve been posting here for a couple fo weeks. I like reading blogs and Michelle, while rabidly and blindly partisan, provides some pretty good links with her stuff.

11. #11
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 8:57 am, GsOuPx said:

    [David Gregory is a show off who thinks of Bush as some simpleton from Texas]

    Boy is he WRONG!!!!

    Bush is from Connecticut.

12. #12
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 9:56 am, epman said:

    Why doesn’t that *itch use some of her millions to get an XXXXXXXXXtreme makeover. We don’t want such mean spirited and classless woman as first lady . Do we????

13. #13
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 10:42 am, Jill said:

    “Theresa Heinz deserves to be made fun of for the pronunciation of her name because she is the one (along with her gigilo husband) who insist on that goofy Te-RAY-zah pronunciation!!”

    that “goofy” pronunciation? that’s how her name is pronounced. this may come as a shock, but elsewhere in the world they pronounce words differently, and it’s generally considered respectful to pronounce others’ names correctly. if john ashcroft went to spain, for example, you wouldn’t hear the spanish complaining about the “goofy” pronunciation of “juan’s” name. teresa was not born “ter-REE-sah.” she can hardly be qualified as a “bitch” for asking that her name be pronounced correctly.

    epman wrote, “Why doesn’t that *itch use some of her millions to get an XXXXXXXXXtreme makeover. We don’t want such mean spirited and classless woman as first lady . Do we????”

    you’re calling her a bitch, you’re saying she needs to get plastic surgery to improve her looks, and SHE is the one who’s classless and mean-spirited? she is 65 years old, and she looks great. even if she didn’t look great, since when is that a requirement of the first lady position? i don’t hear anyone critiquing the less-than-attractive men in politics (and there are a lot of them) for their poor physical appearance; only the women are subject to such scrutiny. you’re disgusting.

14. #14
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 11:14 am, Davi Rodrigues said:

    How about we protest Senora Heinz by not having catsup on our food for the duration of the campaign. When you are at the restaurant, and the server asks if you need catsup, tell them to “shove it”. At Mcdonalds, “Do you need catsup for those french fries sir?”, “Shove it”. Wait a minute… Should we even be eating french fries?

15. #15
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 11:26 am, Marshall said:

    GsOuPx – “…while rabidly and blindly partisan…”

    Something no one would ever accuse you of, right?

16. #16
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 11:31 am, GsOuPx said:

    [Something no one would ever accuse you of, right?]

    We all have our lenses. So? Does it make “truth” less so – especially in the face of falsehoods?

17. #17
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 11:32 am, GsOuPx said:

    [How about we protest Senora Heinz by not having catsup on our food for the duration of the campaign.]

    Putting aside the moronic aspect of this suggestion, Heinz manufactures “ketchup” not catsup.

18. #18
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 1:21 pm, Marshall said:

    [Putting aside the moronic aspect of this suggestion, Heinz manufactures "ketchup" not catsup.]

    I agree with you 100% GsOuPx! There is no need to punish a hard working, good old American company that since 1869 has been providing an excellent product. Besides, the only attachment Te-RAY-zah has to it is by a marriage, to a Republican senator. Oh, and the $1 billion he left her. The company has even gone out of it’s way to show the public that John Kerry’s wife has nothing to do with the company.

19. #19
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 1:31 pm, Brian said:

    Teresa is quickly becoming Kerry the poodle’s biggest liability. Now watch them try to turn Teresa into Hillary Clinton.

    Teresa is a political novice, and apprently didn’t know that when you stand up in front of a crowd these days and you give a speech for your husband who is running for president, somebody is going to have a video camera.

    She just did not want to explain herself to this man. She threw the word ‘unAmerican’ out there carelessly as a rhetorical tactic and when he asked her what she meant she got hostile because she knows if she tries to rationally explain it she’s going to look foolish.

    No matter how the far left spins it,she got caught on camera speaking carelessly and then denying she said what she did in fact say.

    i have a hard time picturing Laura Bush doing something that classless.

    Brian

20. #20
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 3:42 pm, j_dunn said:

    One question, how does one go from being a mover and shaker in conservative circles, and being a staunch conservative and Republican to the complete opposite overnight? Doesn’t any of these defenders of Heinz-Kerry question that? Hrm… Married to John Heinz and the entire time loves and praises the conservative party, marries John Kerry shortly after her husband’s death and suddenly does a 180…. Doesn’t make alot of sense to me, unless it’s just about the power. But then maybe I’m wrong for not being able to support someone that would so quickly and easily sell out their convictions and beliefs.

21. #21
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 4:50 pm, Martin aka Blogbat said:

    What’s with the digression in English I’m seeing here?

22. #22
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 5:34 pm, Aaron said:

    Jill,

    I disagree with your statement that only women in politics are criticized for their looks. Ted Kennedy, for example, looks like a bloated, rotting corpse in many of his pictures. Sort of like he’s been floating face-down in a river for the past 30 years or so.

    Bill Clinton is constantly made fun of because of his weight. George W. Bush is constantly made fun of because he looks like a monkey. John Kerry’s legendary horse face earns him countless jokes.

    It’s not just the women. Politics is a cruel sport regardless of gender.

23. #23
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 6:22 pm, Erik said:

    To respond to a much earlier post, no one criticized Ms. Heinz on first amendment grounds. People criticized her for:

    (1) lecturing people about the need for civility and then, hypocritically, responding to a perfectly reasonable question by telling the reporter to “shove it,” and

    (2) denying that she used the term “un-American” when she clearly did. Now, the only defense of Ms. Heinz that I can think of is that, if I’m not mistaken, she referred to “un-American tirades” while the reporter asked her what she meant by “un-American activities.” If that’s her defense (that she said “tirades” not “activities”), then I think the “civil” thing for her to do would have been to make that distinction clear to the reporter rather than simply tell him to “shove it.”

24. #24
    On August 3rd, 2004 at 10:05 pm, ForNow said:

    Lost in the sauce indeed has been the original question: what DID T-Rez mean by “unamerican”?? Why aren’t reporters doing their JOBS & ASKING HER?

    She seems so continually drunk or hopped up on pills or who knows what, I wonder whether anybody in the GroupSnoot Kerry campaign has even dared try to tell her High-as-a-Kiteness that she did, in fact, say “unamerican.”

    Certainly her public behavior has been so embarassing & weird that T-Rez, a politically high-spending billionairess actively seeking & asking for First Ladyship & White House occupancy, owes it as a categorical moral imperative to disclose her complete medical records to the American public.