Kerry Spokesman Responds to Karen Hughes' Misleading Attacks Today on

[PfcHammer]

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Kerry Spokesman Responds to Karen Hughes' Misleading Attacks Today on Kerry's Record
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WASHINGTON, April 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today John Kerry Spokesperson Phil Singer issued the following statement in response to Karen Hughes' comments on CNN's "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer:

"Karen Hughes confirmed her membership in the right-wing smear machine today with her misleading attacks on John Kerry's record.

"John Kerry's courage on the battlefield clearly has Karen Hughes and the Bush team nervous about the fact that neither George Bush nor Dick Cheney (news - web sites) ever served in Vietnam. And while Ms. Hughes has every right to be proud of her father, her father is not running for President. George W. Bush is, and we will stand toe to toe with him on our military service any day of the week. It is unforgivable to take cheap shots at heroes like John Kerry, a man who put himself in the line of fire without thinking twice about it. She's wrong, they're wrong and they know it.

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[rumguy]

1. I want to hear him slam that shill for her statement

comparing the marchers to terrorists...

[Nancy Waterman]

3. She was a monster today

I only heard about 5 minutes or less, but it was more than enough. She very deftly turned any critique of shrub's military record into an attack on the Air National Guard. I am glad the Kerry campaign came right back on that one. But she really was very eloquent in her vicious attack on Kerry. There were many layers to it. I hate the fact that anyone saw it.

[PaDUer]

26. Her book isn't

selling that good..wonder why! She's a poor excuse for a woman. I pity her husband, unless he's like her, or, maybe he has a chic on the side, wouldn't blame him.

I think there's a lot of Texans in this group...does anyone know anything about these people? Who's got the "goods" on this POS?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. I too want to hear Kerry slam that MOFO for this.

FAT KAREN HUGE is a FACSIST.

It's good to see that Kerry is responding to these America Haters immediatly!

Karen HUGE should have been aborted!

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[PinkTiger]

16. OK OK, Karen sux, but there is no reason to attack her womanhood and size.

Attacking her size and calling her a c**t and other names that men call women are demeaning to other women.
I find that to be reprehensible.
Attack her message, yes. But leave her size and her sex out of it.

I am a woman of size and I find this offensive.

Call me a c**t if you want!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

19. I never called her a "c**t". Poster.....

"Nancy Waterman" made that comment.

[Misunderestimator]

61. No but you did call her:

FAT and HUGE. I agree with the poster who was offended by this. In addition, most average americans are the same size or larger than she? Also, using these adjectives to describe a woman is much more insulting in our culture than if we used them to insult a man. Men can be huge and be seen as leaders... they can also be fat. So, then, FAT becomes a very sexist insult. That's why the other poster was drawing the c**t allegory. There's not much difference there.

[Skittles]

23. thank you, Pink Tiger

I don't like it when Rush and Russert are slammed for their weight either. Like there isn't enough to find fault with, ya know?

[girl gone mad]

47. Let me just get in the middle of this..

Rush leaves himself open to attacks on his appearance because he makes statements such as "Feminism is really just a way for ugly women to have their voices heard in mainstream America", as well as statements criticing Chelsea Clinton's looks.

Once you start insulting the looks of others, I believe that makes you fair game for similar petty insults.

[Skittles]

48. I do not want to behave like Rush F***ing Limbaugh

nt

[trogdor]

41. I'm all for PC and all that...

...BUT, that doesn't detract one bit from the fact that Karen Hughes is a very ugly woman. Her ugliness goes far beyond mere physical appearance, even though she is a poster child for Carlin's Law, which states that most of the women who are against abortion aren't particularly attractive sexually to begin with. But I digress.

The point is, ugly is an attitude, not just a physical characteristic. Karen Hughes is particularly ugly.

[uncertainty1999]

57. only unattractive REPUBLICAN women are left untouched...

... by the media's misogyny! I don't advocate calling Hughes fat (primarly because she's not), but I do marvel (and admire the fact) that a woman so average looking gets so much respect from the media. I wish all average and less than average women would get that much respect, Democrat and Republican. If she were a Democrat she would be like Janet Reno - what a disgrace the way Reno has been portrayed by late-night comedy etc. because she's not a supermodel. Reno WAS fighting the 'war against terror' before 9/11, but - no! - let's not focus on her work but on her looks. Same with Hughes - calling her fat, ugly, average, feminine - whatever - all of those labels simply detract from the FACTS of what she is doing to undermine families and workers everywhere (overtime pay? ergonomics standards?)... while using her book to spread her story of the great family-friendly job SHE is lucky enough to have with Bush.

[aquart]

50. Marchers are terrorists? So the Patriot Act is to be used on marchers?

The Act that is only for "terrorists?" But marchers are terrorists?

I do think that statement should be played back every time someone asks for approval of the Patriot Act.

[maddezmom]

2. watched her and wanted to hurl

talking about her father being a VET and bush serving his country...she really wants me to say the "B" word.

[Scairp]

6. I had another word in mind for her

The "C" word, and yes, with a capital "C". I NEVER use that word towards another woman. But this "person" has given womanhood a black eye and I have no qualms about using it to describe her.

[maddezmom]

10. ya know, there is a time and place for everything

and I've used it to describe her and 2 others before....don't make a habit, but sometimes I can't control myself.

[Old and In the Way]

4. The RNC hiding behind women now?

None of the male chickenhawks could muster the courage to question Kerry's record. So they have women now making the smear attacks? How gutless of them....I'll bet they'll have some 6th graders questioning John Kerry's patriotism next week.

[Skittles]

24. I guess they think her service record cannot be questioned

I believe to be a warmongering asshole YOU BETTER HAVE SERVED. And that means MS. HUGHES TOO.

Susan
USAF Veteran

[Lefty48197]

5. I hate Karen Hughes

she's the worst of the worst. What is with this new breed of hateful Republican women? I mean Coulter, Hughes? If ever there was a time that the B word should be used, then this is clearly it. In fact, I can think of several other Letter Words that could be used to describe that bitch.

[Bluebear]

7. Bitch with a capital C. n/t

[DBoon]

12. Female dogs all over the world

take offense at your use of the word!

[saigon68]

8. PURE EVIL HAS NO GENDER Irma Grese

Irma Grese




http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgrese.htm


Irma Grese was born on 7th October, 1923. At the age of nineteen she began work as a concentration camp guard at Auschwitz. Known as the "Belle of Auschwitz", "Angel of Death" and "Blond Angel of Hell" she was in charge of 18,000 female prisoners at the camp.

Later she moved to Belsen where she worked under Josef Kramer. She developed a reputation for sadism and a fascination with medical experiments on inmates. She was said to have had love affairs with Kramer and Josef Mengele, the camp physician.

For guilty for war crimes Grese was executed on 13 December, 1945.

[saigon68]

13. EVIL HAS NO GENDER Maria Mandel

http://www.auschwitz.dk/Women/Mandel.htm

Maria Mandel



The sadistic SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel was born at Munzkirchen in Austria in January 1912 and joined the SS in 1938. From October 1938 to May 1939 she was Aufseherin at KZ Lichtenburg and then from May 1939 to October 1942 she was Aufseherin in KZ Ravensbrück. She was then transferred as an Oberaufseherin to KZ Auschwitz where she worked until November 30, 1944. She was moved on to KZ Mühldorf where she continued until May 1945

Her arrest came on August 10, 1945. She was reported to be highly intelligent and dedicated to her work. The prisoners however, referred to her as the beast as she was noted for her brutality and enjoyment in selecting women and children for the gas chambers. Soon she had become the feared chief-guard of Birkenau women's camp.

She also had a passion for classical music and encouraged the women's orchestra in Auschwitz. The women of the orchestra were kept busy playing at roll-calls, and they had to play when new arrivals were sent directly to the gas chambers. They also had to play during the selections when the less healthy and sick were separated from the healthier ones who were still capable to work yet another day.

The trial of the staff who had been captured took place at Crakow in Poland in the Autumn of 1947 and concluded on December 22 of that year. For her share in the selections for the gas chambers and medical experiments and for her torture of countless prisoners, Maria Mandel was condemned to death as a war criminal by the Supreme People's Court in Crakow and executed.

[bahrbearian]

15. Irma and Karen ,there is a similarity .

[Skittles]

25. Irma was only 22 when she died?

hate ages you too; makes one very ugly.

[saigon68]

27. PURE EVIL HAS NO GENDER Juana Bormann

Juana Bormann



Juana Bormann was a murderous SS woman, who served in the deathcamp Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She was known as The woman with the dogs, who took sadistic pleasure in setting her wolfhounds on prisoners to tear them to pieces.

Juana Bormann joined the SS as a civilian employee on March 1, 1938, because - as she later said during The Belsen Trial - I could earn more money ..

After World War 2 Juana Bormann was found guilty and convicted of war crimes and the execution was set for December 13, 1945. In his book of memoirs, Executioner, the English hangman Albert Pierrepoint described Juana Bormann's last hours. The afternoon before execution each prisoner was weighed so the correct drop could be calculated for them:

"She limped down the corridor looking old and haggard. She was forty-two years old, only a little over five feet high .. she was trembling as she was put on the scale. In German she said: I have my feelings

[saigon68]

31. PURE EVIL HAS NO GENDER Herta Bothe

Herta Bothe



The blonde on right w/smirk

In April 1943 the Nazis created Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony near the city of Celle as a transit center - Bergen-Belsen was never officially given formal concentration camp status. But the second commandant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer, completed the transformation of Bergen-Belsen into a regular concentration camp.




The notorious Herta Bothe became a camp guard and soon acquired a reputation as a sadist who beat prisoners without mercy. She had a good time shooting at weak female prisoners carrying food containers from the kitchen to the block with her pistol. And she often beat sick girls with a wooden stick

Arrogant and noisy, she storms into the hut accompanied by a soldier and the Jewish camp leader (the "Judenältester"). The "grey mouse" gestures exaggeratedly, provocatively throws her body around sharply and utters theatrical, calculated, horrified cries whenever she sees badly washed dishes or a bed that has not been made carefully enough. She excels in slapping people in the face so as to produce a loud crack, impulsively, quickly and suddenly, without taking her glove off. Without any reason she daily punishes at least seven or eight prisoners in each hut by canceling their bread or meal. Her only aim is to bully, to torment and to humiliate. Her visits serve no other purpose. Diary Notes of Hanna Levy-Hass, September 1944 - April 1945

[scarface2004]

51. omigod.....

its karen hughes....mengele cloned her not hitler!!!

[NMDemDist2]

17. good book on them "BushWomen"

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

18. If I found dirt on KKKaren's children, you bet that I would sell....

it to the public. Yes, I would embarass her children in order to hurt this POS!

[IconoclastIlene]

45. her "children"

she got one boy what needs braces from texas type folk; that's why she says she went back to Texas after 9-11....its called yeller. old yeller.

[jobycom]

32. This would be good

Background: Remember the debate tape scandal in 2000? Someone sent Gore's camp Bush's debate training tapes, and Gore turned them over immediately. The tapes were traced back to a woman who worked for someone who worked for Bush. She was videotaped at the PO mailing the tapes, and claimed it was actually a package for her boss, who was mailing pants back to the Gap. Her boss, who works for Rove, supported her story. When the story fell apart, she was convicted, but not the boss who backed her up.

Go back a decade. Rove and the woman's boss are running rival gubernatorial campaigns, and Rove suddenly announces he has found a bug in his office, and blames his opponent. The FBI investigate, and conclude the bug was probably planted by Rove, and they drop the case. Notice two things: One, the bug echoed Watergate from a decade before, and the tapes echoed Reagan's debate notes theft from 1980. Rove likes to historical parallels like that.

Now, when the tapes were turned over by Gore, Bush's camp tried to claim that Gore had done it somehow, anyway, even though he had turned them over immediately. Remember, they were trying to keep Bush off the debate stage with Gore. The press didn't buy it (Some did, not all).

So, at a conference with Hughes, they are asking her about the tapes, and she is doing her usual routine of deflecting answers and trying to blame Gore, and it gets too much for some reporters, who start asking "Did you know about the tapes before they were mailed? Was anyone in Bush's camp behind the mailings, etc?" Hughes is getting flustered, and repeating each time with more assertiveness that they knew nothing about it, and no one was involved.

AND THEN: one reporter asks "Would Bush's staff be willing to take a lie detector test?" Karen Hughes went white as a sheet. Her eyes did that little bit where they focus just a few feet from her face, and she looked like she was about to collapse. I had never seen her lose composure like that. For a few seconds, she looks scared to death. Then, you can see on the tape, her eyes sort of look around, and she remembers she is being taped, and realizes that she's just given it all away, and she snaps back to attention, and says "Yes, yes of course we would."

Someone find that tape of that conference, bring that issue up, and push her for a lie detector test. She was busted. If someone could find a way to revive that issue, it could be amusing.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

54. Great recounting there

'interesting' how that story just 'went away'. The dots were never connected back to the highest level. Too bad. Be nice to bring it up again 4 years later.

[keithyboy]

14. The Kerry camp needs to make Karen out to be the only one slamming

the National Guard. No one has made those statements except the Bush camp. These people are the lowest of the low. If Americans elect Bush to his first term, they deserve him.

[demnan]

20. I'm glad I was out protesting

I got to miss the Sunday shit shows.

Guess I'm a fat feminist terrorist c**t!

[jobycom]

21. "and they know it" is a private slap at Hughes, I think

Karen Hughes favorite phrase when avoiding a question is "I think the people of (wherever) know that (whatever)." When she was asked about Bush's failed record on education as governor, for instance, her answer would be "I think the people of Texas know that Bush has a great record on education." Fill in your own blanks.

Kerry's spokesperson caught on, and he's spinning it back at her. Kinda cute, in that little inbred spinmeister sort of way.

[kskiska]

52. Another of her favorite lines

is, "Well, I disagree." Someone might ask, "…but the 9/11 families are upset that their remains are being politicized in a campaign ad," and Karen will say, "Well, I disagree…" as if that settles the whole thing to everyone's satisfaction.

[jburton]

22. Be sure and rate it a 5

It has very few votes so far...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20040425/pl_usnw/kerry_spokesman_responds_to_karen_hughes__misleading_attacks_today_on_kerry_s_record108_xml

[mike1963]

29. Um, I just gave it a 5 and it sez mine was the first rating............???

??

[AlinPA]

40. Mine was after yours and it was listed as the first. ?? n/t

[sandnsea]

56. Uhuh, mine's the first!!!

Something to add to cnnboycott.com. Nothing there yet, just bought it today. Grrrrr.

[sniffa]

30. i rated it

so far the onLy one in the worLd who has.

[cally]

36. LOL...I thought I was the only one who had

rated it. Must be a glitch.

[maddezmom]

38. cally...GREAT PIC!!!

[cally]

44. I got it from a thread

started by another DUer, but I love it. I'll keep it for a few days as my sig line.

[Lindacooks]

49. Yep, definitely a glitch - I rated it and came up as

the first one. Freeped, maybe?

[booksenkatz]

34. I rated it at 9:19pm EST and it claims that I was first!

WTF is going on with the ratings tonight?
:mad::tinfoilhat::mad:

[maddezmom]

37. same here

You have given the news article Kerry Spokesman Responds to Karen Hughes' Misleading Attacks Today on Kerry's Record a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 5.00 with 1 vote(s).
Back to article

9:24 ET....what's going on at yahoo!

[Crunchy Frog]

58. Same thing with me just now.

About 4:30 am ET.:shrug:

[LynneSin]

28. Here's a picture of me reading the Hughes comment

Of course I grew a mustche and went bald minutes before it happened

[jobycom]

33. Nothing wrong with having a mustache and being bald

IMHO.

[sofa king]

35. I swear that somewhere I read that she ditched the White House

...In part because her husband Jerry was having trouble finding a job in Washington, DC.

He's a lawyer.

[kskiska]

53. He's also in his 60s.

I read that, too. He had nothing to do there.

[maddezmom]

62. heard somewhere he is now running a youth ministry

or something in TX.

[symbolman]

39. I offered Kerry

this ad ARMY OF ONE.. time to use it..

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/onearmy.html

anyone knows him or his wife tell them to contact Take Back the Media.com and we'll give them the 30 and 60 sec version that's been vetted and run on cable tv 3000 times..

Kick their asses!

Sending a woman to do what Gillespie and all the rest of the chickenhawks can't do...

here's another for them ChickenHawk Hall of Shame

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/chickenhawks.html

[sampsonblk]

42. Can the Kerry people say the word LIE ???

"...with her misleading attacks on John Kerry's record."

When are the Kerry people going to get some balls and fight back for real? For 8 years, I had to listen to what liars Bill and Hillary Clinton were. The Bush people lied constantly about Gore, and he responded like a confused sissy. How about John Kerry sending his surrogates out to say "the Bush people should start telling the truth - it will be a big improvement." Or "If they'd stop lying long enough to talk about the issues, maybe we would make some progress."

Wsup??

[IconoclastIlene]

43. like her alter egos....Harris and Coulter

there is a special kind of ugly for "women" like these and its got nothing to do with fat....its coyote ugly from the outside, in.

I hope there is a special place in hell for she wolves like these.

[amber dog democrat]

46. Nothing Good ever comes from her.

Pure Evil

[Cronus Protagonist]

55. forget it

I forgot about the lack of humor here.

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[democrank]

59. Listening to Karen Hughes is like

listening to fingernails grate on a chalkboard.If Blitzer had any interest in fair and balanced journalism, he would have stopped Hughes in the middle of her canned sound bites and challenged her with a few probing questions.

You`ve got to hand it to the Republicans....they certainly stay on message.

[RoyGBiv]

60. On Message

Of course when your message has the intellectual depth of a kindergartner detailing the value of cookies, this isn't hard.