n Teresa Heinz-Kerry kept her mouth shut as long as she could… and choking back all the bile that she is used to spewing gave her a tummy ache. Now, she’s back on the warpath, doing everything she can to raise the wince-factor associated with her husband’s campaign. I’m starting to wonder if THK might actually be a GOP mole, tasked with the burden of spewing rhetoric designed to drive people away from her husband. Her latest missive is the notion that only an idiot would oppose her husband’s health-care plan. Forget the notion that there might be legitimate, intellectual reasons to oppose Kerry’s plan. Forget any grand ideas you might have about areas where Kerry’s plan falls short. If you oppose it, you’re an idiot:

Teresa Heinz Kerry said Wednesday that "only an idiot" would fail to support her husband's health care plan. "Of course, there are idiots," Heinz Kerry stated. If Kerry is elected, Heinz Kerry predicted that opponents of his health care plan would be voted out of office. "Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she said ... I don't have to sell it - the people want it," Heinz Kerry said of the health plan. "The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch. I talk about what I see. It has always been so. You judge people not by their pocketbook but by their actions. Walk the walk."

n I am a fan of the Fox News Channel. Yes, I think that they do put a right wing spin on the news, and I like that. Nonetheless, they’ve fallen in line with CNN when it comes to downplaying Bush’s post-convention bump. Other news sources, like Time, called the bump a double digit lead… but Fox calls it “razor thin.”

n Kitty Kelley’s new book full of sensationalist charges against the Bush family is already unraveling. Kelly’s source that Dubya used coke at Camp David was, supposedly, estranged former sister-in-law Sharon Bush… but not so fast:

"I categorically deny that I ever told Kitty Kelley that George W. Bush used cocaine at Camp David or that I ever saw him use cocaine at Camp David. When Kitty Kelley raised drug use at Camp David, I responded by saying something along the lines of, 'Who would say such a thing?' Sharon Bush then added, “Although there have been tensions between me and various members of the Bush family, I cannot allow this falsehood to go unchallenged."

n I’ve heard Michael Moore called a lot of things this year… and I’ve called him many of those things myself… but who’d have thought that there were movie makers out there who are so dishonest that Moore might be called honest by comparison? Yikes:

Michael Moore, watch out: The left- wing sister-brother act of Robert and Rory Kennedy has a new propaganda piece set to air on HBO tonight about the "dangers" of the Indian Point power plant — and it's likely to make Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" drivel seem a model of objectivity.

n And speaking of movies, there is a film festival I might actually enjoy. While I’d probably go into spasms trying to keep myself from punching people at Cannes and Sundance, I think I’d actually enjoy myself at the American Film Renaissance:

At the upcoming American Film Renaissance film festival you won’t find Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine, but Michael Moore’s presence will be writ large as two Moore-bashing documentaries, Michael Moore Hates America and Michael and Me, which will have their world premieres. A third movie premiering at the festival, George W. Bush: Faith in the White House, “will serve as an alternative” to Moore's anti-Bush Fahrenheit 9/11,” David W. Balsiger, the producer and director of the film told WorldNewsDaily.com. American Film Renaissance -- which will screen more than a dozen other films made for and by conservatives -- is geared toward taking “the offense” in America’s forty-year-old culture wars, says festival organizer Jim Hubbard.

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