A $1000 haircut for John Kerry?!?

[Atlanteax]

$1000 for a "touch-up" before being shown on TV for "Meet the Press".

Oi.... :rolleyes:

http://www.drudgereport.com/rcig.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE APRIL 27, 2004 12:59:04 ET XXXXX

$1000 HAIRCUT? KERRY FLIES IN HAIRDRESSER FOR TOUCH-UP BEFORE 'MEET THE PRESS'

**Exclusive**

On the Friday before his MEET THE PRESS appearance, Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Pittsburgh for a touch-up, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Cristophe stylist Isabelle Goetz, who handles Kerry's hair issues, made the trek to Pittsburgh, campaign sources reveal.

"Her entire schedule had to be rearranged," a top source explains.

A Kerry campaign spokesman refuses to clarify if Goetz flew by private jet on April 16 or on the official Kerry For President campaign plane.

The total expense for the hair touch-up is estimated to be more than $1000, insiders tell DRUDGE.

One source suggests the hairdresser was flown to Pittburgh on Teresa Heinz Kerry's 'Flying Squirrel', a Gulfstream V private jet.

[The 'Flying Squirrel' is worth about $35 million. A deluxe model; plasma TV, two bathrooms, fancy mahogany and burlwood paneling, gold-plated fixtures.]

"Senator Kerry thinks Isabelle does a superb job," a campaign source said.

Goetz grew up in a small town in eastern France. She also does Hillary Clinton's hair.

Developing...

[DeV]

Damn... what did she have to do make love to his hair. :O

[peam]

So?

[Tendarian]

He did look a lot better in that show than i had seen him. If it was the haircut than it was probably worth it. I thought it was cause he seemed tanner and less old.

[DeV]

It's good to see that he cares about his personal appearance. 1k is alot, but like Peam said, who cares? If its not the tax payers money, then its not a big deal.

[Latrinsorm]

Of all the things Kerry was involved in on Meet the Press, a haircut seems to be pretty low on the importance factor.

[Parkbandit]

His rich wife probably paid for it anyway.

PS - Nice metals you threw away Kerry.. oh wait, not metals, ribbons... oh wait, not ribbons or metals? Which is it? Either way, it's disrespectful attitude from someone that wants to be the Commander In Chief of our armed forces.

Bush: 51%
Kerry: 43%
Nader 5%

[crazymage]

dont forget he earned those medals.

[peam]

And not by guarding Texas.

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by crazymage
dont forget he earned those medals.

I have no issue with his service.. I take offense with what he did when he came back.

Or wait.. what he didn't do. I mean what he did. Didn't.

[Trinitis]

To quote one of my fav actors of all time -


"Texas? Holy shit! Only Steers and Queers come from Texas, and you don't look like cattle to me!"

[Tendarian]

Originally posted by LordAdredrin
To quote one of my fav actors of all time -


"Texas? Holy shit! Only Steers and Queers come from Texas, and you don't look like cattle to me!"

The only saying i know about MA is this -

"Masshole!"

[Ilvane]

Massachusettes is a great state, I've lived here all my life.

Unfortunately, the Republicans have nothing to talk about in the campaign, or they avoiding the failures of this administration by talking about John Kerry and his hair cut, and whether he threw metals or ribbons 30-odd years ago.

How about talking about the issues, buddy?? :wtf:

-A

[Tendarian]

I lived in MA for a 2-3 years and i just couldnt get used to the people.


What issue was being discussed when the democrats were making a big deal about Bush's military career? Its the exact same one the repubs are trying when they say he lied about the medals.

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by Ilvane
Massachusettes is a great state, I've lived here all my life.

Unfortunately, the Republicans have nothing to talk about in the campaign, or they avoiding the failures of this administration by talking about John Kerry and his hair cut, and whether he threw metals or ribbons 30-odd years ago.

How about talking about the issues, buddy?? :wtf:

-A

First of all... let's really hear Kerry talk about his plan or plans. All I've heard was how bad the current administration is doing everything.. and nothing on what he is going to do.

Well, except he wants to create 10 million jobs for the 9 million people out of work.

Second of all... it was ABC news that actually broke the story about how Kerry did, didn't, did, didn't throw his metals away.

Personally, I think the commander in chief should be proud of the service he gave for his country.

That barber better have been sucking him off WHILE cutting his hair, giving him a pedicure and doing his taxes. Holy fuck.,

[DeV]

Originally posted by Parkbandit



Personally, I think the commander in chief should be proud of the service he gave for his country.
How old was he when he threw the metals?

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by DarkelfVold

Originally posted by Parkbandit



Personally, I think the commander in chief should be proud of the service he gave for his country.
How old was he when he threw the metals?

Well, he was old enough to earn the metals.. so I suppose he was old enough to know the repercussions of his actions.

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by Parkbandit
First of all... let's really hear Kerry talk about his plan or plans. All I've heard was how bad the current administration is doing everything.. and nothing on what he is going to do.

You mean something like the monthly debates that Kerry challenged Bush to? I'd like to hear those too. If only Bush would pick up the gauntlet and debate the issues instead of minutae.

Raven

[Hulkein]

There will be a debate.. Bush doesn't need to debate him every month until November.

[Tendarian]

I would have liked to hear the Edwards - Kerry debates to when the primaries were still being decided. Its hard to get the guy in the lead to want to risk anything.

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by Ravenstorm

Originally posted by Parkbandit
First of all... let's really hear Kerry talk about his plan or plans. All I've heard was how bad the current administration is doing everything.. and nothing on what he is going to do.

You mean something like the monthly debates that Kerry challenged Bush to? I'd like to hear those too. If only Bush would pick up the gauntlet and debate the issues instead of minutae.

Raven

Being a fan of Bush's.. I really hope he chooses NOT to debate Kerry. I will give you the fact that Kerry is a better orator than Bush.. but certainly not a better human being to become president.

[Wezas]

Originally posted by RangerD1
That barber better have been sucking him off WHILE cutting his hair, giving him a pedicure and doing his taxes. Holy fuck.,

Celebrities pay thousands of dollars to their stylists. Kerry is running for the leader of our nation and, lets be honest, some people on voting day are going to be making their decision on looks. Is it the right way to vote? No. Is it a smart move on Kerry's part if he's got the money? Yes.

It's been said many times that Kennedy won against Nixon because of the way he looked to the 45 million households watching him.

[DeV]

[i]Originally posted by Parkbandit

Well, he was old enough to earn the metals.. so I suppose he was old enough to know the repercussions of his actions. I'd still like to know his age at the time of throwing the metals, does anyone have this info?

[Parkbandit]

An Opinion On John Kerry's Service In Vietnam Subject by Leo Thomas W Jr 1959: "I was in the Delta shortly after he left. I know that area well. I know the operations he was involved in well. I know the tactics and the doctrine used. I know the equipment. Although I was attached to CTF-116 (PBRs) I spent a fair amount of time with CTF-115 (swift boats), Kerry's command.Here are my problems and suspicions:

(1) Kerry was in-country less than four months and collected, a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three purple hearts. I never heard of anybody with any outfit I worked with (including SEAL One, the Sea Wolves, Riverines and the River Patrol Force) collecting that much hardware so fast, and for such pedestrian actions. The Swifts did a commendable job. But that duty wasn't the worst you could draw. They operated only along the coast and in the major rivers (Bassac and Mekong). The rough stuff in the hot areas was mainly handled by the smaller, faster PBRs.

(2) Three Purple Hearts but no limp. All injuries so minor that no time lost from duty. Amazing luck. Or he was putting himself in for medals every time he bumped his head on the wheel house hatch? Combat on the boats was almost always at close range. You didn't have minor wounds. At least not often. Not three times in a row. Then he used the three purple hearts to request a trip home eight months before the end of his tour. Fishy.

(3) The details of the event for which he was given the Silver Star make no sense at all. Supposedly, a B-40 was fired at the boat and missed. Charlie jumps up with the launcher in his hand, the bow gunner knocks him down with the twin .50, Kerry beaches the boat, jumps off, shoots Charlie, and retreives the launcher. If true, he did everything wrong. (a) Standard procedure when you took rocket fire was to put your stern to the action and go balls to the wall. A B-40 has the ballistic integrity of a frisbie after about 25 yards, so you put 50 yards or so between you and the beach and begin raking it with your .50's. (b) Did you ever see anybody get knocked down with a .50 caliber round and get up? The guy was dead or dying. The rocket launcher was empty. There was no reason to go after him except if you knew he was no danger to you just flopping around in the dust during his last few seconds on earth, and you wanted some derring do in your after-action report). And we didn't shoot wounded people. We had rules against that, too. (c) Kerry got off the boat. This was a major breach of standing procedures. Nobody on a boat crew ever got off a boat in a hot area. EVER! The reason was simple. If you had somebody on the beach your boat was defenseless. It coudn't run and it couldn't return fire. It was stupid and it put his crew in danger. He should have been relieved and reprimanded. I never heard of any boat crewman ever leaving a boat during or after a firefight. Something is fishy. Here we have a JFK wannabe (the guy Halsey wanted to court martial for carelessly losing his boat and getting a couple people killed by running across the bow of a Jap destroyer) who is hardly in Vietnam long enough to get good tan, collects medals faster than Audie Murphy in a job where lots of medals weren't common, gets sent home eight months early, requests separation from active duty a few months after that so he can run for Congress, finds out war heroes don't sell well in Massachusetts in 1970 so reinvents himself as Jane Fonda, throws his ribbons in the dirt with the cameras running to jump start his political career, gets Stillborn Pell to invite him to address Congress and Bobby Kennedy's speechwriter to do the heavy lifting, winds up in the Senate himself a few years later, votes against every major defense bill, says the CIA is irrelevant after the Wall came down, votes against the Gulf War, a big mistake since that turned out well, decides not to make the same mistake twice so votes for invading Iraq, but oops, that didn't turn out so well so he now says he really didn't mean for Bush to go to war when he voted to allow him to go to war. I'm real glad you or I never had this guy covering out flanks in Vietnam. I sure don't want him as Commander in Chief. I hope that somebody from CTF-115 shows up with some facts challenging Kerry's Vietnam record. I know in my gut it's wildly inflated. And fishy. "

[TheEschaton]

I think the second last sentence sums it up best: "I know in my gut...."

Yeah, okay. Guts are often and usually wildly wrong.


-TheE-
P.S. Folks, it's meDals, not meTals. Sheesh. And I believe he was something like 23 or 24.

[Nakiro]

Lets be honest.

There are no good presidental canidates. The democratic system has failed us all.

The only thing it has done correctly is fail us all equally.

[Parkbandit]

Originally posted by TheEschaton
I think the second last sentence sums it up best: "I know in my gut...."

Yeah, okay. Guts are often and usually wildly wrong.


-TheE-
P.S. Folks, it's meDals, not meTals. Sheesh. And I believe he was something like 23 or 24.


I was hoping for so much more TheE... maybe refute the guy with facts or something. He wrote quite a bit there and all you have is that he used the term "guts" and decided that it's all hogwash?

[TheEschaton]

I have no knowledge of the military, nor do I know the standards for their awards. I wouldn't claim to.

Edited to add: And what it sounds like you're saying is that Kerry used some sort of influence to shorten his stay/get medals for little-to-no reason. My response is thus:

A) Was Kerry in a position to influence people? He isn't from a famous family like the Kennedys or the Bushes, is he? What influence does a Yalie have in the military?

B) In the worst case scenario of him influencing his early departure and extraneous medals, I cannot see it to be worse than the Bush influence in G.W.'s life, from getting into Yale (and Harvard) and getting out of Vietnam.

-TheE-

[Edited on 4-27-2004 by TheEschaton]

[Ilvane]

Here you are Parkbandit. This is on snopes.com. Please check out this information, as it does in fact refute the information you posted.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/service.asp

-A

[TheEschaton]

Damn, you got served.


-TheE-