Hmm. Just when I was praising Teresa Heinz Kerry, along comes this story:
Teresa Heinz Kerry urged home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention to restore a more civil tone to politics, then minutes later told a journalist 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 Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) told fellow Pennsylvanians on Sunday night at a Massachusetts Statehouse reception.
Minutes later, Colin McNickle, 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 station WTAE-TV.
Heinz Kerry said, “I didn’t say that” several times to McNickle. She 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.”
Well, we know she can’t be vice president — her language isn’t rough enough.
