Wash Post: Kerry Dressed for an Out-of-This-World Trip!!!!!!!!!!!
The New York Post's front page Tuesday featured a huge picture of the
Democratic presidential nominee-to-be in a blue spacesuit, crawling
out of the shuttle Discovery at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Next to the
headline ("BOSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM") and a description of Kerry's
"ridiculous outfit," Rupert Murdoch's paper ran a smaller shot of
Woody Allen dressed as a human sperm from the movie "Everything You
Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask."
The same Kerry photo ran in the Boston Herald, whose front page this
week has been devoted to Kerry-bashing, with the story comparing his
donning of the "clean suit" to 1988 nominee Michael S. Dukakis's
infamous flub of riding around in a tank. (The Herald's banner
headline, "TERESA'S TED K TIRADE," spotlighted some remarks that
Kerry's wife made in a 1975 book.) The in-your-face pictures landed
like a meteor, with cable networks showing them throughout the day.
Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said the candidate was required to wear
the suit. "Given the challenges facing our nation today, you'd think
these papers could find something better to write about," he said.
Campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill, asked by Fox News whether NASA's
release of the picture was a dirty trick, said: "Well, what do you
think?" No photos were supposed to be taken, she said.
But Kennedy Space Center spokesman Mike Rein said a video was
routinely made of Kerry "as we have done for the last 40 years." He
said NASA takes such footage because Kerry was in "a very confined and
hazardous area" and that the pictures are always made public.
New York Post Editor in Chief Col Allan said he was just having "a bit
of fun" before Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed the
convention Monday night. "The candidate as a sperm lasted exactly one
edition" on the front page, he said. Asked if he was trying to make
Kerry look silly, Allan said: "He needs no help from us."
Transcript Sunday, August 31, 2003 Meet the Press
Oct. 9, 2002 MSNBC
MR. RUSSERT: I went back and re-read your speech on the floor of the
Senate October 9, and I want to share that with you and our viewers...
SEN. KERRY: Absolutely.
MR. RUSSERT: ...because you repeated many of exactly the same claims
and concerns that President Bush did.
SEN. KERRY: Correct.
MR. RUSSERT: Let's watch.
(Videotape, October 9, 2002):
SEN. KERRY: Iraq has some lethal and incapacitating agents and is
capable of quickly producing weaponizing of a variety of such agents,
including anthrax, for delivery on a range of vehicles, such as bombs,
missiles, aerial sprayers and covert operatives which would bring them
to the United States itself.
In addition, we know they are developing unmanned aerial vehicles
capable of delivering chemical and biological warfare agents.
According to the CIA's report, all U.S. intelligence experts agree
that they are seeking nuclear weapons. There is little question that
Saddam Hussein wants to develop them.
In the wake of September 11, who among us can say with any certainty
to anybody that the weapons might not be used against our troops or
against allies in the region? Who can say that this master of
miscalculation will not develop a weapon of mass destruction even
greater, a nuclear weapon?
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