Cynical Nation

...why we're still talking about this? I may not be president of TeRAYsa's fan club, but the fact that she stood up to an annoying reporter goes in the "credits" column of my TeRAYsa ledger, meager though said column may be.

Teresa Heinz Kerry's "shove it" phrase to a Pittsburgh editor was the most cited Kerry campaign message in the press last week -- mentioned 381 times in American publications, according to Factiva, a Dow Jones/Reuters company that tracks daily press mentions.

But the two words also brought death threats, insults and accusations upon Colin McNickle, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial-page editor who vexed Mrs. Kerry by asking her to explain her claim that "un-American traits" were emerging in politics.