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jjmalonejr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:40 PM
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Need help debunking a hit piece on Teresa Heinz Kerry
Any help debunking this piece of crap I received in my e-mail box:

Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry

Married Senator John 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-60s 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 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!

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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:42 PM
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1. from Tides foundation
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:42 PM
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2. Visit either the Heinz Foundation or Tides Foundation websites.
They both have press releases debunking this.
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LosinIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:45 PM
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3. Also on Snopes.com
good place to check every one of these nastygrams
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:53 PM
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7. And This One is Debunked on Snopes.com
Edited on Wed Jul-14-04 12:54 PM by Labor_Ready
I received that same e-mail from someone I didn't know from Adam. In addition to the same text as that described above was a paragraph at the beginning of the letter, supposedly from the sender. The sender claimed to have checked the story at Snopes.com, and their research showed the validity of the letter was 'inconclusive.'

I didn't believe a word of the story, and decided to visit Snopes.com on my own. Sure enough, the story was thoroughly debunked.

I sent a reply to the sender of this e-mail with a link to the Snopes.com story - making sure to 'reply to all,' which amounted to 32 people in the case of this e-mail.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:47 PM
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4. This gets posted every other day at DU. A debunking archive might
be a great way to provide info for these questions.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:51 PM
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6. What an EXCELLENT idea!
Mind if I post it in Ask the Admins?
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:54 PM
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10. Please do! Thanks.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 03:22 PM
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13. The DBunker
http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/all.html

Lots of stuff in here, although I don't see the debunk to this Teresa nonsense. I know it's been addressed before and I sometimes wonder about the motives of people who post it when it's been addressed over and over and over again.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:51 PM
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5. False
These little snipes at Theresa just dont cut the Mustard
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jjmalonejr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:53 PM
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8. You don't have to convince me.
Help me convince others who may read this and have concerns about Kerry.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:53 PM
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9. I got that in an email.
An abbreviated version of it.

I treated the sender as if she was letting me know what the bad guys were doing and not like she was trying to spread the hate.

I told her "This was a perfect example of how the right wing hate machine is out there slinging mud. It is full of half truths and inuendos to try to make this intellegent woman out as an evil person. I just can't vote for anyone who is so full of hate that they aren't rational. I want to know what the candidate wants to do for me and for this country, not how much they hate smart women."

I wrote, "Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I had no idea the mudslinging had gotten that dirty."

I also reassured her that there were liberal mud slingers who would probably strike back.

That was all I could think of at the moment and I felt it needed an immediate response.

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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 01:14 PM
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12. The above was to sender. This was my reply to all.
Edited on Wed Jul-14-04 01:17 PM by Virginian
I always take internet chain letters as something that needs fact checking.

Here is information from the Tides foundation:
http://www.tidesfoundation.org/press_rel_04.cfm

This memo has been going around for a while, here is what Snopes.com (the debunker of Urban legends) has to say about it.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp

It bothers me that some people are so afraid of smart women that they have to launch smear campaigns.

Vote in November and vote your conscience, just don't let this smear campaign influence your decision because it is full of false and misleading statements.


on edit: Thanks for giving me info to pass on to my aquaintances.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 12:56 PM
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11. Snopes link:
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ncteechur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-14-04 03:34 PM
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14. My mom sent me this cup of swill last night...
I responded paragraph by paragraph until the thing about the Tides foundation and then I just pasted in the letter from the tides foundation to the NY Post. I then told my mom that first ladies should be off the table because of the dirt on Mrs. Bush or Mrs. Cheney that may come out.

I am still hopeful that she will vote Kerry--it is a hard sell.
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