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"Unamerican activities" has McCarthy Era commie hunting behind it.
It can be used as a slur.
Remember that this the Tribune-Review is a Pittsburgh newspaper, and Teresa is a local.
Scaife used his paper to punish her moderate/liberal husband (She was married to Republican Senator John Heinz, now dead) when he didn't tow a conservative line, which was often. After she married Kerry the paper became outwardly vicious to her. Early on in their relationship the paper started writing stories about John cheating on her with no substantiation whatsoever. They ran the stories again this year when another baseless "cheating" story came out.
The organizations that Scaife heavily and outwardly funds have been used to accuse Sen. Kerry of lack of patriotism, distorted his voting record and questioned his military service. And a Scaife group made a "report" saying Teresa was using the Heinz company to secretly fund Islamic extremists.
Teresa hates Scaife for the relentlesness he has pursued her and the shove it was meant for that editor to take back to his boss.
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