bostonherald.com - 10/24/2008
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S en. John F. Kerry defended his controversial joke suggesting the GOP s John McCain wears Depends adult diapers, saying today it s the type of ribald humor you hear at the South Boston St. Patrick s Day roast or on late-night TV. Kerry, appearing before the Boston Herald editorial board, ...
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[image] « Hostage Crisis Off The Record Photo Kerry’s smart, savvy new sense humor: He keeps it to himself. Boston Herald w/ vid: S en. John F. Kerry defended his controversial joke suggesting the GOP’s John McCain wears “Depends” adult diapers, saying today it’s the type of ribald humor you hear at the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day roast or on late-night TV. Kerry, appearing before the Boston Herald editorial board, bristled at the suggestion his jab was not senatorial. He even started to repeat another joke lobbed at McCain on “Leno or Letterman,” but he stopped and asked that a video camera be turned off. The camera was not shut off, so Kerry told the Herald ...
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Previous | Main Today's ‘Freak Show’ News October 24, 2008 3:11 PM Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., defends his "Depends" joke about Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. The chairwoman of an Otero County (New Mexico) Republican women's group wrote in a letter to the editor in the Alamogordo Daily News that Sen. Barack Obama is ''a Muslim socialist." And that McCain volunteer who claimed to have been attacked by an Obama supporter who carved a "B" in her cheek (a B that was backwards, as if it had been done in a mirror, a la Morton Downey Jr's infamous San Francisco airport bathroom attack by neo-Nazi skinheads)… well it turns out it was a hoax, the police say . Wow, who ...
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