New Yorker Magazine Quotes Heinz Kerry Out Of Context

[Kadie]

New Yorker Magazine Quotes Heinz Kerry Out Of Context

POSTED: 8:05 pm EDT September 20, 2004
UPDATED: 3:37 pm EDT September 21, 2004

PITTSBURGH -- The new issue of the New Yorker magazine contains a detailed profile of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.


One comment getting attention in the article is a claim that Heinz Kerry called her detractors "scumbags" during an interview last April with Pittsburgh TV station WTAE News anchor Sally Wiggin.

A check of that tape shows that while Heinz Kerry did use the word, it came in the context of discussing what her son Chris called the "noble art of public service."

"I believe there is a nobility in public service. I believe every citizen can be a public servant. And should be," said Heinz Kerry.

Sally Wiggin asked, "Do you think some of the nobility has gone out of public service?"

Heinz Kerry said, "Oh, there is a lot of scumbags everywhere. Not just in politics. In everything. There are a lot of immoral people everywhere."

more...
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/politics/3748236/detail.html

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040927fa_fact

[glitch]

1. This is beneath the New Yorker. I hope they apologize. nt