Media ignoring "shove off"

For all of the angst we have had here about Mrs. Kerry telling the reporter to shove off, there is exactly one hit in news.google.com about it and that is from the CBS Early Show who mentioned it in an interview of Hillary Clinton. (asked Hillary about advice for Mrs. Kerry). The issue is dead...

Randy

•  Washington Journal

  The moderator, whose name I forget, asked Rep. Stephanie Tubb Jones (D-OH) about the comment this morning, quoting one of the morning papers.

  by JenAtlanta on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:00:29 PM PDT

•  It was a small story in the WaPo

  n/t

  by yellowdog on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:02:09 PM PDT

•  I am not concerned

  but it certainly is being covered in the picture box cartoon world.  CNN profiled it early this morning as did MSNBC. Why would FOX skip it?  I don't even have to check. I am guessing they will repeat as the day wears on...

  by Marisacat on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:04:21 PM PDT

  •  yup

    I'm not concerned either but the incident opened all of the morning programs today, including on the networks. I guessing it will be over after some snarky editorials tomorrow.

    by lapis on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:06:11 PM PDT

    •  O yeah... the RNC

      war room there will keep it going.  Legs, born with them.

      by Marisacat on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:13:53 PM PDT

•  I must agree, though....

  I saw mention of it during a segment on:

  • CNN during an interview with Tad Devine
  • MSNBC during the Imus show
  • Fox on Fox & Friends, which to its credit, one of the anchors said, "That wasn't so bad. I hope she felt better afterwards."

  But there was no major attention given to the episode. It should blow over easily.

  by John Campanelli on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:05:35 PM PDT

•  ive seen it a couple times

  pittsburgh post-gazette (the non scaife newspaper) article is about THK being Pittsburgh's star at the DNC

  and NYT  this one was about Hillary and how talking about THK took up half her time on CNN when she could have been talking up Kerry.

  by juls on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:05:53 PM PDT

•  don't be so sure

  it's now a headline on yahoo news. It could have legs. I hardly think it's a problem, though. She's considerably more polite than Dick "Go F Yourself" Cheney.

  by Hollywood Liberal on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:07:14 PM PDT

  •  it'll pick up steam

    It's exactly the sort of story the media loves.  A video clip of a prospective first lady telling a reporter to "shove it", of course they are going to replay it to death.  John Kerry should ask his wife not to get confrontational with the media while cameras are rolling, but I'm guessing she wouldn't listen to him anyway.  She's her own woman, that's for sure.

    But this will pick up momentum and be the day's story, at least until the speeches begin.  I hope Al Gore, Hilary, and Bill give us something meaty to chew on.  That way, the "shove it" comment will be buried in tomorrow's papers.

    by existenz on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:14:00 PM PDT

  •  Super Dick

    wasn't on camera, she was.

    :-(

    by Redst3 on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:17:16 PM PDT

•  Local CBS

  Station just did a brief segment during the first 7 minutes of their noon broadcast.  Gee, is it that newsworthy to be before the commercial break?

  by JenAtlanta on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:09:16 PM PDT

•  and

  They played it on CNN just now. "You said something I didn't say, now shove it. "

  by Hollywood Liberal on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:15:35 PM PDT

•  CNN isn't ignoring it.

  Wolf and Candy just did a "free spirited Teresa" piece.

  To give them credit, they did mention the Scaife connection.

  by Jon Meltzer on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:20:52 PM PDT

•  137 hits on google news.

  Perhaps you typed in "shove off," while THK said "shove it." I got 137 stories for one article detailing the incident and 59 more detailing an identical article.

  by Smedley Hirkum on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:26:37 PM PDT

•  Not Fox

  Look how outrageous Fox News web coverage is. Check out their home page -- here are the stories they're pumping:

  Democrats descend on heavily fortified Boston as four-day convention kicks off
  Related Stories
  *Heinz Kerry to Reporter: 'Shove It'
  *Bill, Hillary May Overshadow Kerry
  *Protesters March on FleetCenter

  by pontificator on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:28:52 PM PDT

•  WTOP-AM in DC mentioned it this morning

  but, since this is DC, I guess that is to be expected.  

  by LionelEHutz on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 01:50:20 PM PDT

•  Enough

  Pick up steam?  How exactly?  Much ado about nothing at dKos.  not anywhere else.

  by Armando on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 02:34:51 PM PDT

•  It's all over AOL,

  and Sully's blog (of course), and as others have said, all over every network.

  This will pick up steam over the next few days, and be used to dog her and her husband every time they talk about their marriage, or she talks about herself. It will be used to paint an image of her as unstable and kooky and "un-American", an image that the media has wanted to paint of her for a long time. She just gave them the ammo they were waiting for.

  And of course Hillary defending her makes it an even bigger issue for the media.

  I think that people are underestimating how bad this may make her and Kerry look to the rubes out there, and even if it doesn't, how much this will be used to drown out any message of substance from the convention.

  The media would have created a distraction anyway, but now they don't have to. They got just what they wanted. Good job Teresa.

  by JamesB3 on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 03:05:40 PM PDT

•  methinks the bloggers doth protest too much

  the story just disappeared from yahoo.

  by kwyzkl on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 03:26:35 PM PDT

•  Perhaps the bigger issue is...

  Perhaps the bigger issue is Heinz-Kerry denying to have said "un-American."  

  The media reports I've seen show her condemning Colin McNickle with "...you said something I didn't say.  Now shove it."  Of course the very next clip is the section of her speech where she indeed says "...some of the creeping unPennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics."

  by c on Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 05:10:16 PM PDT