By PETER JACKSON, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry urged her home-state delegates to the Democratic National Convention to restore a more civil tone to American politics, then minutes later told a newspaperman to "shove it."

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Vice President Dick Cheney recently came under criticism for using a four-letter obscenity in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the Senate floor. He later was unapologetic about the remark, saying: "I felt better after I said it."

Oh, yeah, a candidate's wife telling a reporter to "shove it" is the same thing as the sitting Vice President telling a veteran senator to "go fuck yourself." Exactly the same thing. Ask the MPAA.

I thought Peter Jackson was working on King Kong, anyway.

Update: Kevin Drum points out that the "reporter" in question is really the editorial page editor of the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and his editorial page has been attacking Theresa Heinz Kerry and the Heinz Family endowment ever since - wait for it - her husband started running for President.

Somehow, the AP managed not to mention any of this. How shocking.