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To: E who wrote (650558)	10/23/2004 8:20:08 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Heinz Kerry's "Real Job" By Cliff Kincaid \| October 21, 2004 The comment reflected liberal elitism and feminist disdain for the stay-at-home mom. USA Today editor Ken Paulsen reportedly sent a memo to his staff saying that he wants to see more original stories. "We're looking for stories that have not been reported before or that can be told in a distinctly different way," he said. He wants people to say, "I saw it in USA Today." Paulsen hit the jackpot on October 20 but he didn't realize it. USA Today published the interview in which Teresa Heinz Kerry dismissed Laura Bush as never holding down a "real job." It was near the end of the interview and USA Today editors didn't seem to realize what a blockbuster they had. The next day, when Heinz Kerry apologized for the remark, USA Today once again failed to grasp the significance of the comment, relegating the story to page 4. All of this was deliberate, of course. Liberal journalists know full well that the comment was dynamite. The comment reflected liberal elitism and feminist disdain for the stay-at-home mom. It was deeply offensive to those of us who know how demanding and stressful it is to take care of children and a home. It's not an accident that the Heinz Kerry statement got buried or dismissed. For the liberal media, the exercise of attacking Laura Bush, a former teacher, librarian and full-time mother, as never having "a real job," was not a gaffe. A headline over a Los Angeles Times story referred to the comment as creating a "small stir," which was true because liberal journalists as a whole, especially feminists, did not regard this slur as that significant or newsworthy. The Heinz Kerry apology made things worse, but the media, once again, chose to ignore the fallout. The Heinz Kerry "apology" said that "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a schoolteacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as first lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past." This "apology" was misleading. She may have forgotten that Laura Bush had "worked as a schoolteacher and librarian," but how could she have forgotten that she was a mother of children? Mrs. Bush's daughters haven't been hidden away. The answer is that she did not forget. The apology demonstrates that she does not regard being a mother and homemaker as a "real job." So what "real job" does Heinz Kerry hold? USA Today identified her as a "philanthropist." Does giving away her late husband's money constitute a real job? And what kind of job is it? A recent report from the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee identifies the Heinz foundations as being among the "environmental groups and their supporting organizations" engaged in blatant partisan political activity. Heinz Kerry is either chairperson of the board of trustees or a member of the board of at least three Heinz family-affiliated foundations that contribute millions of dollars to radical environmental causes. That's her "real job." In releasing the report, Senator James M. Inhofe, chairman, said that "Environmental organizations have become experts at deceptive activity, skirting laws up to the edge of illegality, and burying their political activities under the guise of non-profit environmental improvement. These reports demonstrate this interconnected 'environmental family affair' of non-profits and their benefactors." The reports are available on the website of the Inhofe committee. One would have hoped that the major media would have conducted such an investigation. But that might be embarrassing to Heinz Kerry and throw into question the claim that her "job" consists only of doing good for others—real philanthropy. Ironically, Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes on October 10 had aired a story about women leaving the career world to stay at home with their children. "Census bureau statistics show a 15-percent increase in the number of stay-at-home moms in less than 10 years," Stahl reported. Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen, a lawyer who clerked at the Supreme Court for feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, explained, "I was afraid that if I was working, there would be no parent there with the children. And I wanted to experience getting to know my children, being there in a consistent way." It seems that the job of being a wife, mother and homemaker can not only be a "real job," it can be rewarding to a woman to have a positive impact on children and families. That's real philanthropy.

To: E who wrote (650558)	10/23/2004 8:21:45 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Vietnam Atrocities By William Fielder \| October 20, 2004 Investigative Service also conducted a query, which came to the same conclusion as Burkett—that most of the testimony was either pure deceit, or heresay. In June 1988, Dan Rather of CBS News hosted a special TV program entitled "The Wall Within," which featured a psychologically damaged supposed Vietnam veteran who committed so many "atrocities," and experienced so much guilt, that he had completely withdrawn from society. The Vietnam veteran was an imposter who was later exposed, but the program was unchallenged in the "mainstream media" probably because it reflected the widely held view that many veterans were social outcasts or drug crazed ne'er-do-wells who were unable to cope in normal society. This popular myth was a result of the efforts of an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), which was the brainchild of current Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, himself a veteran of the war. VVAW was financed initially by well-publicized anti-war activist Jane Fonda. VVAW held a convention called "Winter Soldier" wherein an assemblege of campus activists, and a few Vietnam veterans, met to create an urban legend concerning the Vietnam experience. Scenarios depicting various atrocities were devised, and impersonators were coached to subscribe to them as personal experiences. In a film or video of the period, one bandana-clad participant, when reminded of a "personal experience," smirkingly comments...."oh yeah, how could I ever forget that one..." The co-chairman of VVAW, Al Hubbard, represented himself as a US Air Force pilot who had "napalmed villages." Hubbard had been in the Air Force, but was not a pilot, and had never been to Vietnam. Steven Pitkin, who was actually an infantryman in Vietnam, participated in the charade. In mid-September 2004, he appeared on the Hannity and Colmes TV program to reveal the deceit behind his testimony, and to state that Kerry and others had "coerced" him into lying about his Vietnam experience. He apologized to his fellow veterans whom he had slandered by implicating them in phony charges. Investigative journalist B.G. Burkett, recontacted many of the Winter Soldier participants and wrote a book, "Stolen Valor," which details these findings. The Naval Investigative Service also conducted a query, which came to the same conclusion as Burkett—that most of the testimony was either pure deceit, or heresay. Yet, in April 1971, John F. Kerry appeared before the Congress of the United States and testified regarding hideous atrocities committed by member of the US Forces in Vietnam—attributing the concocted stories from the Winter Soldier event as the basis. He called our troops "murderers"..."rapists"...and "monsters," and said that leaders..."at all levels of command"...allowed these outrages to take place. No war is free of atrocities, but in the US military, such outrages are normally quickly ended, and the participants brought to justice. To suggest that this activity was normal and sanctioned in Vietnam is a deceitful and false statement that slanders the troops in the field and their commanders. Regardless of the purposes of this conspiracy, it adversely effected morale, to the benefit of the communists. Vo Nugyen Giap, communist forces commander, wrote in his 1985 memoir that the anti-war movement in the US kept hope alive in North Vietnam. Colonel "Bud" Day, a prisoner in the "Hanoi Hilton," also writes that Kerry's efforts probably lengthened his ordeal, and provided the communists with "evidence" of atrocities that adversely effected POW treatment. The real atrocity was the communist victory that many Vietnamese risked their lives to escape. Jane Fonda eventually apologized to veterans for her part in the 1970's guerrilla theater. Yet, to this day, John F. Kerry has never apologized to the veterans he falsely accused of murder, rape, and mutilation. In contrast, Kerry has assumed the mantle of honor he has denied the veterans he holds hostage, by characterizing his Vietnam service as "heroic" to further his presidential ambitions, and through his "reporting for duty" charade. To seriously consider him as commander-in-chief, Kerry must free the hostages by apologizing to the families of the 58,000 dead that he deceitfully besmerched—and make amends to the thousands of us still living that he smeared, maligned, and left behind.

To: E who wrote (650558)	10/23/2004 8:27:21 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

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