July 26, 2004 - Theresa Heinz told a “reporter” from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review to, “Shove It.” You would have thought that the world came to an end as the chorus of shocked indignation flowed from the Bush Administration internet flacks. Admittedly Mrs. Kerry lacked the simple elegance embodied in the Vice President’s advice to a Senator to perform an anatomically impossible act of autoerotic intercourse but it might just be useful to identify the target of her so scandalous outburst. It was Colin McNickle, the paper’s opinion editor and occasional columnist. Here is an example of his non-partisan reporting from the paper’s web page:

Weather indicative of the Dems
Posted July 25, 2004 6 :53 PM
Saturday's Boston weather dawned rainy and unseasonally cool -- fall-like. Oh, Democrats are in town.
Sunday, it was still cool with sun but with sometimes-threatening skies.
Kind of like those Democrat programs that offer sun but, and as the Law of Unintended Consequences dictates, usually rain on just about everybody's parade.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/conventionalwisdom/
Mrs. Kerry’s comment indicated that she believed the “reporter” had misquoted her. It is hard to believe that such an obviously neutral representative of the liberally biased media would or could be guilty of such a journalistic sin. Obviously Mrs. Kerry must have been incorrect in her belief and her high dudgeon is misplaced.
The incident has already hit Drudge and will undoubtedly be featured on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program tomorrow and in Novak’s next column. You can count on a Fair and Balanced ™ account being repeated and repeated and repeated on Fox News.
I do have a suggestion for the Bush flacks…
SHOVE IT!