Kerry's wife tells editor: 'Shove it'

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”.

“We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics,” the wife of Senator John Kerry told her fellow Pennsylvanians last night at a Massachusetts Statehouse reception.