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To: PROLIFE who wrote (387134)	4/7/2003 1:33:23 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Boston's Carr Rips 'Liveshot' Kerry While presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., received the kind of oh-so-serious treatment he no doubt thinks he deserves during Sunday's hourlong "Meet the Press" campaign commercial - er - interview, some of the folks back home in Boston are bursting out in laughter at the thought of "President Kerry." WRKO radio talker Howie Carr, for instance, shared a Kerry anecdote or two last week with the readers of his Boston Herald column; tidbits "Meet the Press" apparently just didn't have time to squeeze in. "John 'Liveshot' Kerry stories? I got a million of 'em," the no-holds-barred host began. "Liveshot was the first male politician I ever saw wearing makeup outside a TV studio," recalled Carr. "It was during his first Senate campaign, at a hotel fund-raiser, and I was there to do - what else? - a live shot." "John,'" I asked him, "are you wearing makeup?" "Why yes," he sniffed. "I have a bit of a cold." According to Carr, Kerry isn't above throwing his political weight around when it comes to even the most minor annoyances. "He has so much clout, the city moved a fire hydrant from in front of his wife's Beacon Hill mansion," reports the WRKO talker, before adding yet another wrinkle to Kerry's presidential profile. "The man is a gigolo's gigolo. How many guys could dump a first wife from a blueblood family worth $300 million, and end up on the rebound with a second wife worth $600 million?" In between the first and second Mrs. Kerry, Sen. Liveshot apparently managed to keep himself quite busy. The would-be president's recent admission in The New Yorker that, "I knew how to have a lot of fun, sometimes too much. There were plenty of times when I was disengaged, frivolous, four sheets to the wind," prompted Carr to recall a Liveshot story he says he heard from a Boston nightclub owner who had "a luscious young gal pal." "One night, they're all getting down, and among the guests is a four-sheets-to-the-wind Liveshot. The girl, who's up on current events, starts tearing into Kerry for his weathervane-like voting record, telling him he needs to make a 'commitment.' "'Baby,' he finally says, swaying ever so slightly in the breeze, 'I am ready right now to make a commitment. To you.'"