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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (26044)	5/27/2004 11:52:43 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Media Ignore Teddy Kennedy's Mockery of Kerry Thursday, May 27, 2004 Imagine the screaming headlines and days of snickering remarks by TV "news"casters if Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist were caught ridiculing President Bush. Now consider the media establishment's roaring silence about Sen. Teddy Kennedy's mockery of John Kerry. The Boston Herald yesterday blew the whistle on Teddy's nasty jab, but other media refuse to report this news. The Boston Globe, which generally has had surprisingly semi-fair coverage of Kerry despite its extreme pro-Democrat bias, didn't like getting scooped by its Beantown rival. All it reported today was that Kennedy "had privately told friends that he opposed delaying the nomination because it might draw less media and public interest ... aides to the senator said he intended to support Kerry unconditionally in public, given that they are friends and allies and Kennedy serves as co-chair of the presumptive nominee's campaign." Kerry's chief cheerleader in the media, the New York Times, which issued a lengthy apology yesterday for not being pro-Saddam enough, didn't even mention Kennedy in its story today. A search of newspapers and news wires found no mention of Kennedy's ridicule of Kerry. The Globe's boring headline today: "Kerry rules out delaying tactic." The much more informative and entertaining Herald had this: "Sen. Flip-Flop does it again! Now Kerry will accept nomination in Hub." Ken Mehlman, manager of President Bush's campaign, noted that "only John Kerry could be for a nominating convention, but be against the nomination."

To: American Spirit who wrote (26044)	5/27/2004 11:57:26 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 81568

Kennedy Mocks Kerry; Daley Tells Kerry to Stop the Hatred You know that Sen. John Kerry is in trouble when even his close ally Sen. Teddy Kennedy is ridiculing him. Democrats are so furious over Kerry's waffling about whether to delay accepting the party's presidential nomination that "Kennedy privately mocked Kerry at a party fund-raising event this week for failing to consult him, pretending to take orders from the junior senator over the phone," the Boston Herald reported today. Massachusetts' senior U.S. senator pretended to be on the phone with his protege and said, "Yes, John. Whatever you say, John," one eyewitness revealed. One prominent Democrat lawmaker told the Herald: "People are kicking the [expletive] out of Kerry over this. I can't find anybody who thinks this is a good idea." Daley to Kerry: Stop the Hatred And you know Kerry is in trouble when a hard-core Democrat pol tells him to stop being so hateful and disrespectful. Earlier in the presidential campaign, Kerry made a comment to some union employees that the Bush administration was a bunch of corrupt liars. Oops! He's done it again. Kerry, in what he supposedly thought was an off-the-record conversation with reporters, said after President Bush's fall from his bike last weekend, "Did the training wheels fall off?" Five-term Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who had a similar injury years ago, jabbed Kerry for his sneering attitude toward the president. Daley reminded his party's nominee-to-be: "When someone falls ... you should not wish ill upon anyone. It's not right. ... You just don't do that. Let's have some respect for one another." President Bush, of course, made no ugly comments after Kerry recently suffered falls while bicycling and while snowboarding. "To Daley, Kerry's remark symbolized a hate-filled brand of politics the mayor has long despised," the Chicago Sun-Times reported today. Hizzoner said: "The thing I worry about in politics is all of these people hating one another: 'I hate Kerry', 'I hate Bush.' I wish the former presidents - Carter and Ford and Clinton and Bush - would all get up and tell people, 'You may support candidates, but don't hate the other candidate.' "You see too much hate. And I'll tell you one thing - hate will turn on people. ... When hate gets in politics, it's a very, very dangerous aspect." No word yet on whether Democrats around the country, including members of such hate groups such as Moveon.org, have hung their heads in shame.