Check out this pile of crap from page 6 (NY Post)

[devilgrrl]

Get those air sickness bags ready... you're definitely going to hurl after this one.

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NY POST...PAGE 6

AT the same time they posed for pictures chomping down on fast food at Wendy's, John Kerry and John Edwards — the wealthiest presidential ticket of all time — had gourmet box lunches waiting for them in their bus.

The Kerry/Edwards photo-op campaign stop at Wendy's in upstate Newburgh, N.Y., last Friday included lots of blue-collar flesh-pressing and autograph-signing — but very little eating.

The reason? A member of the Kerry/Edwards advance team had ordered much fancier fare the night before from posh Nikola's Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club at a cost of about $200, the Mid-Hudson News reports.

The deluxe lunches were picked up at noon and were waiting on the bus as
Connoisseur Kerry ordered just chili at Wendy's and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, ultimately settled on just a Frosty.

Just because Teresa inherited a ketchup fortune doesn't mean she likes burgers and fries. "You could tell she wasn't familiar with the menu," Wendy's manager John Garrett told PAGE SIX's Lisa Marsh. But, "Mr. and Mrs. Edwards knew what they wanted right away," Garrett said. John and Elizabeth Edwards ate "a single combo and a single combo with cheese," a smallish meal of a single-patty burger.

In contrast, the box lunches on the bus featured shrimp vindaloo, grilled diver
sea scallops, prosciutto-wrapped stuffed chicken and steak salad. With such fare waiting for them, it's no wonder the candidates and their spouses ate light at Wendy's.

But Hollywood supporter Ben Affleck either didn't know there were treats on the bus or he has a voracious appetite — he ordered the double-cheese combo.

The stop at Wendy's also fulfilled a family tradition for Edwards and his wife.
They have a standing date there each year on July 30, their wedding anniversary. It was the way they spent their first anniversary as young lawyers in 1978.

Meanwhile, the candidates' entourage of press and supporters had to wait for their lunches. While the advance team had ordered 125 bag lunches from the Alexis Diner in Newburgh, the buses bypassed that stop to go directly to
Wendy's. The order was finally picked after the group left Wendy's.

The Kerry/Edwards campaign did not return calls for comment.

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Can you believe this shit????? So, what are you all saying?

Why that fancy-pants elitist!!!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I'll have what the Kerry's are having

and I'd like to send a nice shit sandwich over to Mr Garrett's table.

[dryan]

56. Page Six editor.....

the main editor for Page Six hates Democrats. This is a long-standing fact. Cindy Adams is pretty fair though. This is a big yawner anyway.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

60. Yes! But I'll have John Kerry for President

and THK as First Lady (thank you very much) no matter what their appetites.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

61. Yes! and I'll have John Kerry for President

and THK as First Lady (thank you very much) no matter what their appetites.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. utter crap

I bet they will then offer up articles of b*sh "down on the ranch" chopping wood and raking leaves like us ordinary folk.



Moreover, I would be lost in Wendy's myself - I never eat fast food - except MAYBE Subway if I am rushed or pizza if it is GENUINEly NY style. It is not a matter of elitism, but health. I like more adventurous spicy international cuisines myself, so I too will have what Kerry is having!

[joefree1]

3. Hello, Rupert Murdoch's yellow rag

Who gives a flying Cheney what they have to say.


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[Leilani]

4. This story has been out there for a while...

It was on Fox, on the Internet, & all over conservative places.

Fox said they called the restaurant to confirm the story.

Not my business what these people eat, but it makes them look like elitist phoneys.

[Tom Kitten]

11. No it doesn't make them look like elitist phoneys...

I don't eat that shit either! And I make less than the median income but there are alternatives to eating fast food even for a poor underacheiver like me!

[Leilani]

30. You missed my point!

They can eat fast food, or they can have a catered lunch from a yacht club. Just be honest about it.

Pretending to eat lunch at Wendy s, when another meal has been preordered is phoney.

I do not care if they eat Whoppers or Caviar...just be honest.

[pschoeb]

53. Read some non spun stories on the event please

Newburgh was not a planned political stop and was added at the last mniute, they were just grabbing food at various places in Newburgh for the trip. The Newburgh stop was for Edwards mostly and the Wendy's stop was for Edwards anniversary tradition. The Press didn't even eat at Wendy's so I don't know why they complain, they ordered food from Alexis Diner. The advanced orders were placed the evening before, possibly before they decided to do the Edward's Wendy's stop there, I mean there are plenty of Wendy's, and they could have originally planned to go to Wendy's later in Scranton.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5561407 /

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=2113550

If they had all eaten at Wendy's, the right wing spin would have made some other spin up. For example there was a story about Kerry not stopping in Connecticut on his way through, even though it was late at night, is this news? no

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=2111903

The so called posh meal were $10 a piece, hardly cavier.

[Leilani]

64. I have read & heard the different versions...

& I do not read the N.Y. Post...

you are still missing my point...

campaigns are about appearances, not reality...

many people who are not political junkies think Kerry is an elitist...

This incident just feeds the stereotype....

[olddem43]

5. Next, the NYP will be checking everyone's excrement

to see if they really ate what they ordered, or even if they traded with someone. What does Bushco eat on his bus tour?

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. LMAO!

The Post is a rag - I wouldn't line my rabbit's cage with that.

[aquart]

6. I would definitely have gone for the food in the bus.

Cute, portraying fast food as the real American food.

It ain't.

[Zen Democrat]

7. Never believe anything you read in the NY Murdoch Post!

FoxNews and the NY Post???? They say and write lies, lies, lies.

Saw on the news today that the NY Post mentioned someone dining with Brandon Tartikoff this weekend -- and he DIED two years ago.

[ArkDem]

28. seven years

[Manix]

8. I wouldn't use the NY Post to **** my butt!

[pbg]

9. John Kerry got his money in the best way possible

From the pockets of a dead Republican.

[Journeyman]

10. I don't eat Wendy's. They cut corners. . .

Me? The shrimp and scallops, chicken and steak seem like a much better meal. And with a wallet like Teresa Heinz Kerry 's, that's what I'd have chosen to eat, too.

A political stop is a political stop. Nobody truly believes Bush-baby eats the rubber chicken at those fundraising events of his, do they?

[CaTeacher]

12. Yeah--I don't eat there either--

and neither do they. This was just something cooked up to make them appear like blue collar folks--it was a really stupid idea from the very beginning.

I know plenty of people who do eat fast food on a regular basis--but even these people DO NOT do it on their anniversary. Even the most average Joe knows that he better do something special on his anniversary or he is toast. And most people really want to do something special--something that is a treat to celebrate a special occasion.

I never believed the lie about "always celebrating their anniversary at Wendy's"--it was always a stupid ploy--it was geared at people who are gullible--I don't know anyone who ever really believed it. The person who made up this lame lie should be fired from the campaign--but ultimately the Edwards are responsible for spreading the story and publicizing it to the hilt that was a dumb thing to do.

[saracat]

13. How do you know this is a lie?

John and Elizabeth Edwards were poor when they were first married and all they could afford was Wendy's. Now of course they can afford better but have made it a family tradition much like the Dean family's Mother's Day bike ride.They only eat lunch at Wendy's to remind themselves of how far they've come.Nowhere does it say that they don't have a lovely dinner or celebrate in a another manner in the evening.I think you are unduly judgemental about this. I am certainly not gullible but I found the tradition charming.But I may be biased because my parents were also struggling young lawyers who met in law school.And yes, they too had a cheap restaurant they patronised on their anniversary to mark the progrss of their life.There were no Wendy's in their day but they went to the corner pub in the bad section of town where they first lived.

[JI7]

16. Edwards couple DO eat at Wendy's on their anniversary each year

it's not a made up story. it's something they do because by coincidence they ended up eating at wendy's on their first 2 anniversaries and then they just made it a tradition .

[Zorra]

14. Yankees lose! Kerry chooses Gephardt for VP!

Ah, yes....the good ole NY Post.....spreading misinformation ever since Rupert Murdoch bought it.

Pffft...bwaaaahaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaa!!!!!!

If it is in the NY Post, it's a lie!

The NY Post is a national joke.

[DaveSZ]

15. It's the NY Post man

It's not even worth wiping your ass with.

[Shopaholic]

22. Dead man dines out in Beverly Hills says the NY Post!

It's true--according to the NY Post. They ran a gossip item earlier this week that said the head of some studio was dining with Brandon and Lily Tartikoff when Slyvester Stallonne dropped by their table. That's a real neat trick considering Brandon Tartikoff (former head of NBC) has been dead for about 6 or 7 years now!

On edit--ooops-I missed where someone else had posted this up-thread.

[NewJeffCT]

34. and, don't forget

Their classic headline:

Headless Body in Topless Bar

[VoteDemocratic2004]

17. They need to roll the tape back

I will swear on my Mothers grave that they had hamburgers in their hands and at one point Elizabth took a bite of her hambuger and grabbed a french fry.

I would prefer to eat the other food that was mentioned also.

I wonder what little boy Bush was eating at the time...i am sure it was a pretzel or his PB & J sandwich that we hear so much about.

[JI7]

18. and both Teresa and John Kerry had Chili in front of them

kerry also got a frosty. the article claims only one of them got chili and only one got frosty. when both had chili and teresa also had either a drink or frosty with her.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

19. Wouldn't it be funny

If they had a receipt that showed what they had purchased.

God I hate the corporate owned media.

[quinnox]

20. My take is "Who cares"

I don't like too fancy, spicy food or seafood so I would have taken the Wendy's, but really who cares what the Kerry's like to eat.

Everyone knows they are super-rich, and so is George Bush.

This story is just a slime piece.

[Surf Cowboy]

47. Ordinary people who eat at Wendy's, that's who.

[area51]

21. NY Post

I love how the NY Post would like to pretend that rich @sshole nazi elitists GW Hoover & Tricky Dick F'n Cheney don't eat fancy-@ssed food.

[democratreformed]

24. Petty.

Sometimes, I just can't believe the attention given to petty crap.
I agree with you.

[lostnfound]

25. So impressive that the media actually is double-checking a story..

Now if only they would do that with something a bit more important than what the Kerrys have for lunch.

[timdoodle]

26. I just don't like them spending my contribution on lunch at all

I can't afford to give much, but I don't like hearing about $200 lunches on the bus. As a former Hill staffer, I know they pay for food out of the campaign coffers.

Other than that, suck it Post, what a waste of time story.

[pschoeb]

38. It was $200 for 19 people, not $200 a piece, get a grip

Could people please look for sources other than the Post before slamming Kerry?

So your upset because they had $10 lunches?

[timdoodle]

41. Yes.

I don't like spending campaign money on sustenance. Do you get free lunch at work?

[pschoeb]

55. Yeah, when I'm travelling on the road for work, they pay for my food

My job is a piddly $24,000 salary, but when I'm on the road traveling for them they cover my food and hotel. You do realize all the President's ultra posh White House private chef cooked food is paid for with your taxes don't you?

[timdoodle]

63. Good Point

Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Have a good one.

[THUNDER HANDS]

27. eh, it's Kerry's loss

Wendy's is definately the best of the fast food places.

Edwards knows what the deal is.

[AngryAmish]

43. Culver's - Fast Food Burgers of the Gods

[KurtNYC]

29. Shrimp vindaloo? They should have said Coquilles St. Jaques

They are losing their creativity over there. They didn't make much of the fact that the Wendy's meal includes french fries either (Cheney: "Biggie time french fries!")

{this was sarcasm}

Gotta love the ultra wealthy knocking the not-as-wealthy.

[librechik]

31. must be awful tough to find ANY dirt on our candidates

LOL

informing the public is a whole different game nowadays--what can they say without saying anything that would help or give knowledge or perform any service at all? Not much. All they can do is destroy and tear down. Are people really going to accept this forever?

[Surf Cowboy]

32. To be honest,

I'm wondering what in the hell his campaign staff is thinking, letting this happen. You don't pose at a fucking Wendy's 5 minutes before you eat a five-star box lunch. It's stupid, and it's somewhat probative to those who think of Kerry as a slick-willie type.

Just plain stupid on the part of the Kerry team. Fucking stupid. Can you believe they get paid big $ for ideas like that?

Next time, maybe they'll have him pose at a Honda lot with a hybrid car, maybe test drive it, then shuttle him home in a Hummer limo.

AAARRRGGHHH!

It's stupid shit like this that costs us independents.

They need to get their fucking act together. This is not amateur hour. This is the big leagues and we are playing an away game.

[prolesunited]

35. The tradition was the Edwards, NOT the Kerrys

The whole reason they were there was not a blue collar photo op, but to stay true to the Edwards' anniversary tradition, which I think is a very charming and romantic one.

The Edwards, for which this event held meaning, DID have a full meal. Why should the Kerrys, who just happened to be there, feel obligated to eat there. Maybe they didn't want to horn in on the Edwards' tradition by eating a full meal.

As for the $200 price tag, does it mention how many people those lunches were feeding? I'm sure it was more that John and Theresa.

It amazes me that when a RW rag points out something this trivial, we have a whole chorus here agreeing it was some horrible mistake. No matter WHAT Dem candidates do, the RW media will find fault with it.

Just yesterday there was an article saying O'Bama's education was a problem for him. Who knew being smart could somehow be turned into a negative. In this case, attacking the messenger is a more appropriate response.

[Surf Cowboy]

45. It was stupid, plain and simple.

They must have forgotten that they are in a horserace campaign where every gaffe will be illuminated before the electorate. And it's a gaffe. Are you telling me this wasn't foreseeable?

Fine, it's the Edwards' tradition, and they pulled it off. That's because they're two middle-class folks who ate at Wendy's their whole lives, but who have lately been blessed with great wealth. Kerry and Teresa cannot pull this off. Sorry. It's too obvious of a reach.

"As for the $200 price tag, does it mention how many people those lunches were feeding? I'm sure it was more that John and Theresa." Oh, and I'm sure that's going to make the working poor independents feel better about the guy. Unless they were feeding 40 (and you know as well as I do they weren't), this statement doesn't hold water. To ordinary people, it looks like Kerry and Teresa and their elite friends are too good for Wendy's, or at the least, that Wendy's is not good enough for them.

Very, very shortsighted and stupid, and just the kind of ordinary person experience that resonates. Remember GHWB not knowing that they had scanners at the grocery store? Remember how that went over like a fart in church? This is in the same vein.

[pschoeb]

57. It's a cheneying $10 lunch, get a grip and stop spinning

A fricken Wendy's meal costs about $5, even when I eat lunch at decent Diner I'm paying like $7 for a meal.

$200 divided by 19 = $10.50 roughly

A $10 lunch is hardly "elite" or "posh" quite with your spin

[Surf Cowboy]

58. It's not spin, hotrod, it's reality.

You may not like how stupid and superficial the majority of our electorate is, but if you want to win elections, you'd better start figuring out how they think. When they see a very very rich candidate eat like a bird at a restaurant most of them frequent, then hear that, immediately after leaving, he sat down to:

"...shrimp vindaloo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto-wrapped stuffed chicken and steak salad."

The vast majority of the populace doesn't even know what "vindaloo" shrimp are, or what a "diver" scallop is, or even what prosciutto is. They don't see this as a non-issue, completely off-point of whether he is qualified as a leader. They see this as another example of how Kerry is not like one of us. And all he had to do was eat a hamburger for lunch one day.

His handlers botched this. Hopefully it won't get too much play, and they'll learn from it. Shit like this in October will cost us dearly, whether you like it or not.

[pschoeb]

37. There was a stop at Wendy's

But they also were planned stops at other restraunts in Newburgh as well, were they supposed to eat something at all of them? They were actually running late in their schedule when they arrived at Wendy's, and had to consolidate their stops in Newburgh. But that's what happens when you just read Post's spin. The reason these places are chosen are becasue there along the highway and have parking lots, I'm sure other towns they stopped at restraunts were they ate nothing at all, because they had already eaten in Newburgh. Also Newburgh was not an originally scheduled stop and was supposed to be just a quick stop, not a political stop, I believe it was Edward's that wanted to stop at Wendy's, because it was a tradition for their 27th annual wedding anniversary.

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/KerryEdwards_Nbrg-31J...

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=2113550

This is total right wing spin, if Kerry had all eaten big meals at Wendy's this would have been spun in some other pathetic way.

[Surf Cowboy]

46. It's one thing to stop and eat nothing at all, then get back onto

your bus. It's another entirely to stop, eat like a bird with the common people, then get back onto your bus to eat a $200 lunch from the yacht club.

Couldn't they have just eaten Wendy's for one day, since the Edwards were going to?

Just politically short-sighted, big-time.

[pschoeb]

54. Stop with the spin already

The meals were not $200 a piece, but $10 for 19 people. There are planty of posts here that point that out.

You obviously didn't read any of my post, It's not even clear when the Wendy's stop was planned, they ordered the food the evening before. The Press preordered at Alexis, my guess is that all that was planned was a general pit stop at Newburgh, not a political stop, no one at Wendy's was even expecting them.

[Surf Cowboy]

59. Well, if it wasn't well-planned,

then his handlers need to learn to think on their feet better. The single biggest gulf between Kerry and most independents is money. W, for all his shittyness, does seem to understand that with regard to himself, and he goes out of the way to court the stupid vote. He gets it. I'm not saying Kerry go too far out of the way to get the stupid vote, but he sure should be careful about pissing it off.

[pschoeb]

33. Nikola's restraunt isn't really that posh

Here's link
http://www.nikolasbistro.com/IndexFramePage2.htm

Dinner entrees are from $16-20, dinner entrees even at cheap crappy restraunts(that aren't fast food) are at about $7. A restraunt with $16-20 dinner entrees hardly qualifies as posh, maybe nice, or if the food is excellent, a great deal(in reviews the restraunt gets 4-5 stars, i'd say it was a good deal)

$200 for food for a bus load of people seems real cheap. It was 19 meals, which means $10 a piece, a craptastic Wendy's meal is gonna cost you around $5, though with the added possible benefit of a bad case of diarrhea.

I Would rather give money to locally owned restraunt that pays living wage.

Post is worse than Weekly World News which at least is humerous in it's manufactored stories.

Also the Press wasn't even intersted in eating at Wendy's they all made advanced orders for Alexis Diner. Dinner entrees at Alexis run from $7-16.

[jmowreader]

36. John Kerry obviously taught Teresa the First Rule of Mess Halls

"Always ask what it is, even when it's labeled."

I figured the "liberal media" would play this one to the hilt.

Apparently, the Post's editors figure no one who reads that rag ever ate at Wendy's before: a "Classic Single Combo," which is what the Edwards' got, is not exactly a "smallish" meal; it's a quarter-pound hamburger and perfectly suitable for lunch. If they'd have eaten the "Classic Triple with Cheese," the article would have told the Post readers that Elizabeth Edwards is a fat sow because she eats 3/4-pound hamburgers all the time.

[JohnLocke]

39. "The wealthiest presidential ticket of all time"?

Adjusted for inflation?

[DS1]

40. I'm voting for Bush. Any man that fucks up vindaloo by adding shrimp

ain't gittn' my vote!

[JohnLocke]

42. I don't care if Kerry eats cavier and escargot for every meal

None of my business.

[killbotfactory]

44. calling somthing from the nypost "crap" is redundant

[TWiley]

48. Ass holes do have a vested interest in the digestive tract

That is why the republiKKKlan's are so fascinated.

[jackstraw45]

49. A nice meal on their anniversary?!?!?! SCANDAL!

Man, I thought Plamegate was serious......now THIS!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

50. The trivialization of politics. Right up there with underwear and hair.

The really sad thing is that there are people who actually decide who to vote for based on this kind of nonsense.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

51. i spent $800. to go to Boston for 3 days hoping to meet Kerry/Edwards.....

friday afternoon my daughter calls me from Newburg and says, "hey mom guess who I met today in Wendy's? I was there at 1:30ish with the kids and in comes Kerry and Edwards and Ben..."

LOL she lives 1/4 mile up route 300 from the Wendy's

"isn't it ironic"...it's like winning the lottery and dying the very next day"

oh wait...she loves me ....she did get me his autograph and pictures

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

52. Um - its the NY Post

what do you expect?

[toddzilla]

62. what?? nobody ordered a plastic turkey??