The confrontation with Colin McNickle, editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, took place Sunday night after she addressed delegates from her home state of Pennsylvania.
******************************************************************** Heinz Kerry's remark came after she told the delegates that "we need to turn back some of the creeping un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics." *********************************************************************
As she was leaving, McNickle asked her what she had meant by her use of the word "un-American."
She argued with him, insisting she hadn't said "un-American."
He said he thought she had used the term "un-American activity."
"I did not say activity or un-American," she responded.
She then turned to someone nearby and said, "You know what the question is? Say that I called this an 'un-American activity.' I did not."
After stepping away and speaking briefly with Democratic organizers of the event, she returned and asked the reporter if he worked for the Tribune-Review. He said he did.
"Understandable. You said something I didn't say, now shove it," she told him.
So, is it a requirement to say something, then deny having said it? Isn't this what the Left has been complaining about with the Bush administration? Or are the rules different when you like someone?