this is what my friend in Colorado e-mailed me and about 1000 other people

[jay-3d]

>

>If true, this is disturbing......
>
>
>
> > I spent hours last night researching information about Teresa and this
> is all true, plus she is a HUGE contributor to Moveon.Org, , so please
> think twice when you go to vote., and please do vote., >
> >
> Mrs. John Kerry BEWARE
> >
> > Following is a brief background on Mrs. John Kerry .. She hates
> being
> > called that, by the way:
> >
> > Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry. Married Senator
> Kerry
> > in 1995. She only took his name eighteen months ago and she is an
> > "interesting" paradox of conflicts.
> >
> > If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his
> wife
> > Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry was born in
> Mozambique,
> > the daughter of a Portuguese physician, was educated in Switzerland
> and
> > South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United
> > Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a
> "handsome" young
> > American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He
> told her
> > his family was "in the food business."
> >
> > They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his
> family ran
> > the giant H. J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the US House
> of
> > Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of
> three
> > terms in the United States Senate. A Republican, he wrote a burning
> > diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member
> John Kerry.)
> >
> > Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided
> with a
> > Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb The senator,
> his
> > pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed.
> He was
> > survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons. Four years
> > later, having inherited Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married
> Senator John
> > Forbes Kerry, the liberal then-junior senator from Massachusetts.
> She
> > became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization
> was set in
> > motion.
> >
> > Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry
> to
> > sign a prenuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may
> not have
> > check writing privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but
> he is
> > certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it.
> >
> > A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking
> catsup,
> > mustard, and pickles has fallen into the hands of two people who
> despise
> > successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory
> > redistribution of wealth.
> >
> > So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money?
> >
> > Just one example:
> > According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of
> > WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4
> > million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what
> does the Tides
> > Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
> >
> > They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's
> > International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam
> Hussein when he's tried.
> >
> > They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the
> Tides
> > Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic
> > Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from
> "terrorist"
> > states.
> >
> > They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose
> leaders are
> > known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
> >
> > They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist
> front
> > during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has
> been
> > arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate
> with
> > terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993
> World
> > Trade Center bombing.
> >
> > They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose
> primary
> > goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas
> to
> > Mexico.
> >
> > These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the
> > anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of
> our
> > would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John
> Heinz,
> > and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the
> 44th
> > President of the United States.
> >
> > Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America,
> regardless of
> > your political views.
> >
> > If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real
> Teresa
> > Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra rich
> fairy
> > godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her
> laying
> > her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of
> the United
> > States.
> >
> > Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way
> these
> > two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved
> > invitation
> > in hand.
> >
> > Instead of deleting this, pass it on. Let everyone know these people
> are
> > unfit to represent this great nation The uninformed will never hear
> the
> > truth from the press, who wants Kerry elected!
> >
> > Those who buy the Kerry facade, beware what you vote for - - - you
> may
> > regret that you got it!
> >
> > In God We Trust
>
>
>
>
>
>


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[bryant69]

1. Conservatives hate strong smart capable women

Look at the number they did on Hillary. Frankly they had more success demonizing her than they did Bill Clinton, I have no doubt they are going to try the same strategy here.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[NYCGirl]

2. Same crap, different day...here's the debunking...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp

[redqueen]

5. DUers are so smart

:yourock:

Time for a 'reply all'!

[comsymp]

3. So, they doctored it up and stripped the outsourcing bit, huh?

Still Snopable- no biggie.

ON EDIT:

Points to your friend for including the "if true" part.


Would "reply all" with

Not True.
<snopes link>

[DarkHorse]

4. Her name isn't Kerry

From what I understand, her name isn't Kerry.
It's just Heintz. She never took Kerry's name
when they got married.

[goclark]

19. Why do they still keep calling her Kerry?

[Bunny]

29. She goes by Teresa Heinz Kerry.

n/t

[goclark]

6. This makes me respect Teresa

even more. What a classy act she will be as First Lady.

Now Laura Bush is a boring Stepford wife who is comfortable in Crawford.
She needs to go back there.

America deserves a real First Lady , Teresa!

[democrat_patriot]

7. What is up with all of these?

I have seen several email posts on this forum.

Listen up RNC cheneyers. The DU war room is officially open.

Thanks to everyone for responding quickly with the TRUTH!

I am now prepared....

[Kanary]

8. OMG!!! Some of her money goes to fund anti-war groups.....

Well, there you have it.

She *must* be a terra.... whateveritis....... y'know, those bad people......

:eyes:

Kanary

[lostnfound]

22. Yes, if she were a REAL American, she'd fund the Pro-War groups..

because War is Patriotic..

[DeadHead67]

9. Had that been true . . . . .

I WOULD HAVE LIKED HER EVEN MORE THAN I DO!!!!

[Ducks In A Row]

10. reply all and sent the snopes link

then tell us what happens.

unfortunately, the people I know who'd fall for stuff like this now know better than to email me with it, cause I will snopes it, and reply all.

{{sigh}} it's sad to all alone in the world.



:)

[Lex]

12. YES! I always hit "REPLY ALL" when I send the debunking site.

Makes the idiot think twice before sending out lies and smears the next time.

[CO Liberal]

11. That's The Sad Thing About Colorado

People like me are outnumbered by idiots.

[Selwynn]

13. If all this were true, I'd like her a lot more! :D

[leyton]

14. Well, I can debunk one part of that right now...

"A Republican, he wrote a burning
> > diatribe against some of the causes backed by young House member
> John Kerry.) "

John Kerry never served in the house. He started as a prosecutor and moved up to lieutenant governor and ran for Senate from there. That tells me that the rest of this is crap too.

[Cronus Protagonist]

15. So registering as a Democrat is a "radicalization"?

Yeah, right.

Choose Kerry Lose Bush - FUCK BUSH - Drop Bush Not Bombs!
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. I didn't know Teresa Heinz

was running for president?

If the repugs want to criticize family members, then let's talk about Laura, oops I ran him over, Bu$h and the demonic duo, Jenna and Barb?

From there would could dust of Neil and the SNL scandals, or Jeb and his coke dealer friends in Miami.

[xxqqqzme]

17. my mother

sent me this. I gave her the snopes link again and told her, again, B4 she sends out this RW crap check snopes first.

Sheesh have raving, rabid rong wing parents is a PIA.

[Ivote]

18. Check out transcripts

of her interview from Larry King show.
She said she left the republican party after what they did to Max Cleland which was two years ago because she was appalled by what they did to him.I beleive this is the link:
www.cnn.com/larryking

[SOS]

25. Exactly Ivote

Teresa was a registered Republican until 18 months ago. It was the disgraceful, vicious treatment of Cleland that got her to switch to Democratic.
These morons are whining about eleven years of REPUBLICAN stewardship of the Heinz trust.

[Lisa]

27. and on the CBS Evening News too

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-14-heinz-kerry-party_x.htm

Heinz Kerry, in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday on the "CBS Evening News," says Cleland's status as a triple amputee is enough to prove his patriotism.

"Three limbs and all I could think was, 'What does the Republican party need, a fourth limb to make a person a hero?' And this coming from people who have not served. I was really offended by that. Unscrupulous and disgusting," she said, her reference being an indirect one to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

[tom_paine]

20. REPLY ALL! make sure you point out

1) That ALL the Bushevik lies and half-truths are unsourced AS IS CUSTOMARY FOR BUSHEVIK BLAST E-MAIL PROPAGANDA.

2) Make sure your own cites are carefully sourced to provide contrast

3) Keep bringing it up "Well, as I have said, the Lying Bushevik Blast e-mail NEVER cites sources (gosh I wonder why). In contrast to that, here is a credible link with the truth."

For a start...

[msmcghee]

21. What a farce!

He says, "Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views."

If the Muslims are our enemy, why has the Bush* administration spent the lives of almost 900 Americans in an effort to "bring them freedom" as he claims?

Of course, he only claimed this as a justification for war after it turned out there was no working link between SH and the terra'ists and after no WMD have been found.

Stupid pukes!

[merh]

23. Okay - petty comment - but I can't stand these

righteous pieces of Sh**! -- At least she didn't slam her car into her boy friend's/fiance's car resulting in his death.

I typed it -- there, I typed it --

we know pickles did.

[pathansen]

24. If Theresa Heinz Kerry used to be a Republican and was married

to a Republican, why should Republicans feel so threatened by her?
She does not appear to be a radical liberal at all from what I have heard about her.

[Lisa]

26. they know it wouldn't look good to slam the 9/11 families' group ...

"Peaceful Tomorrows" pays for administrative support which the Tides Center provides -- and someone's been spreading ugly rumors about them, which they recently had to debunk. See how selective that document is, picking on supposed "radical" groups in order to make the Tides people look like they're supporting terrorists! But they left the Peaceful Tomorrows group out ... they know it's far easier to ostracize them as an "anti-war" organization, than as the families of 9/11 victims!

http://peacefultomorrows.org/


I'm sorry that jay-3d has been spammed by that friend. I hope that the person is able to accept criticism gracefully, because I had a similar situation a few months ago with someone who got all bent out of shape after I debunked some jingoistic glurge.

I noted a couple of particularly disturbing things in that piece of spam. First, see the way in which the writer manages to dismiss Mrs. Heinz's background and accomplishments simply by implying that she is "scary". S/he drags in all sorts of details which appear irrelevant to the argument ... until one considers the xenophobic tone. Being born and educated outside the US, speaking several languages, working for the UN -- is it just me, or is the author trying to imply that these are BAD things that make Mrs. Heinz untrustworthy? And why the quote marks around "handsome" like that? A slam at both her and Mr. Heinz?

The piece then moves from implying she is a golddigger, spendthrift, and subversive to boot (through supporting the aforementioned "radical" groups) -- to a not-so-veiled accusation that she is up to no good. A Lady Macbeth type who picked a husband she could manipulate? Sheesh.

And that Snopes link posted by NYCgirl showed a variant on the piece, which makes a VERY weird statement at the end. I can't think of many reasons why anyone would want a healthy 50-ish guy to change his will. There is an awful implication that it was dangerous of the Senator to be married to Theresa ... why? If it's delicately hinting that she had something to do with the crash, that's quite unpleasant.

A very educational document, jay-3d. Thanks for sharing, because it does suggest that some of Bush's people are so paranoid and xenophobic that they make some of the DU "tinfoil hat" speculation look moderate by comparison!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

28. Any friends or family who would even think

to send stuff like that to me got the message months ago that I don't welcome it, that I will debunk it and hit reply all. I embarrassed the crap out of one woman when I researched her story on snopes (it was the one about perfume samples knocking people out and then they were robbed). The woman actually claimed it happened to HER and when I sent the debunking to reply all she got REALLY pissed.

Another friend made the mistake of sending me a "rush says" email and she never did it again.