MUST the NYTimes cast THKerry as a mob boss?

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Anyone see this article in the Times this weekend?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/politics/campaign/09TERE.html

I thought I was reading about Tony Soprano rather than a person giving out lots of money to good causes. Notice the choice of words in the headline.

The article questions whether having control over so much money could influence her husband's politics. Why didn't they write this same article about Bush's connection to the oil industry? It's funny that they can turn GIVING into something that soundds dangerous for democracy. Lord! Shouldn't this be what wealthy first ladies do? GIVING to the NEEDY!


In Vast Philanthropy, Kerry's Wife Wields Sway


By STEPHANIE STROM

Published: May 9, 2004


When the newly widowed Teresa Heinz took over the stewardship of one of the country's largest philanthropic organizations more than a decade ago, all she had to guide her was a soggy, charred legal pad of handwritten notes that had been found in the debris of the plane that crashed in 1991, killing her husband, Senator H. John Heinz III.
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Mrs. Heinz Kerry says that she does not have political ambitions like Hillary Rodham Clinton. At the same time, she has made it clear that she intends to carry on her philanthropic activities should she get to the White House. "I checked it out with lawyers before the campaign began," she said in a recent one-hour interview about her philanthropy. "There is nothing that says I cannot do it."

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1. She has been doing this YEARS before she married John Kerry.

They really do try to twist her philanthropic goals into something seedy.

This is not journalism, it's push style propaganda.

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2. Military service, philanthropy, intellectual curiosity & intelligence...

The list of activities and attributes abhorred by the right continues to grow.

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3. Night is day. Black is white. Thomas Jefferson was the antichrist.

That's what it's like to read the news descend into a desperate effort to prop up this absurd state of government which strives for even greater concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer people.