The very publich lynching of Teresa Heinz

Mike Signorile talked on his show yesterday about how the media is out to get Teresa Heinz, and I think he's right. There has been report after report panning the woman, and I admit, when she appears on TV, she's not all "Laura Bush warm milk and cookies." But you know, not all women sit there silently with pretty smiles on their faces all day long standing by their man. Some women actually have brains and fortitude. Not that Laura doesn't have brains, she seems like a nice lady and seems smart enough. But Teresa is a corporate CEO type whereas Laura is a very nice librarian. When did it become the rule that only librarians could be first ladies?

I mean, you read crap like this and you'd think the lady is a monster. Then you actually go and attend a meeting with the lady and she's something totally different. She's warm, funny, beautiful, and appears to have an incredibly loving, empathetic soul. Is she all milk and cookies? No she's not. She's the kind of mom who would probably slap you upside the head (well, at least metaphorically) if you mouthed off, came home drunk, etc. But so what?

If any of these journalists actually sat down with Mrs. Kerry in a more private setting, when she's not in front of the entire country under a microscope, they'd see that she's a hell of a lot more than what they're making her out to be.

And to those journalists who are too blind, too partisan, too jaded, or too lazy to see Mrs. Kerry for the class act she really is: Shove it.