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John Kerry Goes Biking In France, Hits Curb, Breaks Leg; Will Fly Back To US In "Specially Outfitted Aircraft"
Over the years, many have tried to prevent John Kerry from inserting his foot in his mouth and failed. Today, none other than Kerry himself achieved just that, both literally and metaphorically. America's Secretary of State went biking in the French Alps when he hit a curb, and broke his femur. Not to worry: he is expected to make a full recovery and was in good spirits, according to John Kirby. And just to make sure of that, US taxpayers will be invoiced a little over a million so that a specially equipped airplane picks up the SecState "to ensure he remains comfortable and stable throughout the flight."
The accident took place in Scionzier, France, some 40km (25 miles) south-east of the Swiss border.
The Dauphine Libere, a local newspaper, said Kerry fell near the beginning of his ride to the famed mountain pass called the Col de la Colombiere, which has been a route for the Tour de France more than a dozen times.
It appeared Kerry is just as biking challenged as he is at negotiating international politics: according to the AP, he broke his leg after striking a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group.
"Paramedics and a physician were on the scene with the secretary's motorcade at the time of the accident," the state department said.
"The secretary is stable and never lost consciousness, his injury is not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery," Kirby said in a statement.
This is not the first time the 71 year old Kerry has seemingly risked his life by going on a bike ride: Kerry's cycling rides have become a regular occurrence on his trips. He often takes his bike with him on the plane and was riding that bicycle Sunday.
During discussions in late March and early April between world powers and Iran, Kerry took several bike trips during breaks. Those talks were in Lausanne, Switzerland, and led to a framework agreement.
Even better: the "threat" of loose gravel had been telegraphed prior to Kerry's big ride:
Right around the time of his fall, a Twitter feed about local driving conditions warned of the danger due to gravel along the pass. But U.S. officials said there was no gravel on the road where the accident occurred. According to the newspaper, some Haute Savoie officials were with Kerry at the time, including the head of the region.
The top diplomat, however, was above such petty warnings. And now, US taxpayers will have to shelve out a couple extra million because the banged up SecState is now has to fly back to the US aboard a specially eqipped plane "to ensure he remains comfortable and stable throughout the flight," Kirby said. "Its use is nothing more than a prudent medical step on the advice of physicians."
Why the need to spend millions more? Because Kerry's regular plane was returning to the United States carrying much of his staff and reporters who accompanied on the trip. And now, that plane too will have to fly back again. One way trip cost to US taxpayers: a little over $1 million.
As a result of Kerry's dramatic self-inflicted injury, the world just may be clueless how to defend itself against the persistent, ubiquotous threat of a US-created ISIS.
The prospect of a lengthy rehabilitation could hamper the nuclear talks and other diplomatic endeavors. Even if Kerry does not need surgery, it was not immediately known when he could fly again after returning to the United States.
Kerry has been the lead negotiator in several marathon sessions with Iran going back to 2013. The injury could affect other potential trips, such as one to the Cuban capital to raise the flag at a restored U.S. Embassy.
As for the current trip, Kerry had planned to travel to Madrid on Sunday for meetings with Spain's king and prime minister, before spending two days in Paris for an international gathering to combat IS.
He will participate in the Paris conference remotely, Kirby said.
At least the Iran "nuclear deal" which was going nowhere fast, and was certainly not going to have a conclusion by June 30, will have an official excuse to be extended indefinitely once again.
As for the added expenditures from the cost of the Kerry emergency "airlift" which the US government could have used to actually benefit humanity in a myriad of other ways, just consider it a boost to double-seasonally adjusted GDP.
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Somebody should've told him to "Break a Leg".
Wow that fuckers in the club
check out what john Kerry confessed about 9/11 in this article.
I hate his politics, but a broken femur is not something I'd wish on anyone.
I hope he gets better soon.
"The secretary is stable and never lost consciousness"
You can't lose what you didn't have to begin with...
You know, I saw a scene similar to this when that guy went jogging in Central Park, you know, in the movie The Devils Advocate.....
Didn't he just recently, couple or 6 months ago or so, have another bike accident outside of Geneva that required medical attention as well?
I hope the bike is okay.
Failed assassination attempt?
"The Russians sabotaged his bike and made the road slippery with gravel" in 3...2....1....
Schadenfreude is an oddly liberating and binding emotion all at once, innit?
Sound painful, stupid. can happen to anyone and in a schadenfreude way, should happen to certain cretins...
All this and Biden losing a son though...strange times...
different timings..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk1TSBW_368
...and thusly the horse man had to be put down...
Also...this: http://internetslug-archive.tumblr.com/post/116768498403/a-centaur-thats...
DAMN YOU curb... DAMN YOU TO HELL!!
You had ONE simple job to do: take out horseface... and you blew it.
Brian Williams foiled the assassination attempt by blocking the car with his body.
I hope he gets 'Ron Browned' on the return flight
adverse outcomes like a fall and a broken leg serve to remind us all:
1. cyclists should be required to take written and on-road driving examinations before being permitted to use the roads that we, that taxpayers, have constructed
2. cyclists shoudl be required to wear safety belts
The Tour de Lurch ground to a halt.
The whole incident represents a fitting parable for the entire American Foreign Policy of late...
They were just trying to curb his behavior.
How often does a bike spill result in a severely broken let? Other bones yes--arm, rib, tooth, jaw, maybe even the knee--but the whole leg? Something doesn't add up.
Lurch is a creepy, old, spastic mafia capo who stole the Heinz estate after Sen. Heinz had an accident as he was about to go to war with The Fed.
Doctor: My God, we need a plastic surgeon. This man's face has been horribly disfigured.
Security detail: No, Doc, his face always looked like that. It's his leg that's broken.
I doubt it's a 'broken femur' since a 71 y.o. does not usually "make a full recovery" after this. Unless it's a "full rekovery" of the type this economy has made.
My guess it's moar like a 'stubbed toe' they blew out of proportion so he can get a note from his doctor to miss his negotiations since he has no clue how to proceed.
or maybe goldman sachs faked this whole thing as an excuse to put in a new point man for foreign policy
Climate Change claims yet another victim!
Apparently, even Kerry's and Reid's exercise equipment hates them.
Reid was given a serious tune-up. Had nothing to do with exercise except the guys poundin' on him.
Reid must have really stomped all over the wrong ingrown toenails. Does anyone know what really happened? The attacking equipment story doesn't wash.
You shoot horses when they break a leg
You have to snicker when Kerry and stable are mentioned in the same sentence.
They should have put him down and flown his bike back for repairs.
He broke his leg but why the long face?
Let's bake him some cookies and make him a 'get well' card as he wishes eternal slavery upon you from his million dollar flight.
Broken leg, horse-faced, put him down.
I have a great recipe with glass shards & BB's.
What, no Polonium?
> I hate his politics, but a broken femur is not something
> I'd wish on anyone.
>
> I hope he gets better soon.
>
> 3 up votes
> -33 down votes
Awesome! The ratings make a better statement than the comment,
Haus-T Stick to your EU analysis and your credible back and forth with Ghordo. Regarding Kerry; may a torpedo hit his yacht and wipe out his family , friends and any other welfare recipients.
I think Haus previously revealed that he is a government worker.
dt
Leave him in France.
Horse faced people look almost normal there.
They eat horses in France
Soylent Kerry Green, a traditional Irish Jewish Snack.
knuks, please, there's nothing Irish about HorseFace except his stolen name and phony identity fraud to confuse the MassHoles. He was born John Cohn.
An insult to the French hospitals to not recoup over there, and the food's probably better.
Instead U.S. taxpayers shell out $$$ for a "special plane" for Lord Kerry.
Quite an insult, seeing as the French system is consistently regarded as the best in the World (Best outcomes, all specialities).
Oh yes, the food IS better. One of the reasons why Patients's recover faster - excellent (and very attractive) nutrition, including wine with your meals.
Haha he went immediately to some private clinic in Switzerland for the first treatment, so no France, that's just where the accident happened!
"Best outcomes, all specialities"
are you French ?
On C-Span a few minutes ago, Senator Leahy, after commenting how easily the Patriot Bill could have been extended, went into a eulogy about Beau Biden, another member of the elite like Kerry. One of the elite dies and that is important. Biden's other son, Hunter, allies himself with the Nazis who overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and Leahy, a senile and delusional old man, is silent. Leahy is a liar who knows full well that the federal government was taken over by criminals after 9/11, criminals who have profited in the hundreds of millions of dollars each in some cases (e.g. Senator Feinstein) as tens of thousands of families suffer the consquences of death and disablement of family members who were sent to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan for multiple tours of duty. What a monster Leahy revealed himself to be in his smarmy comments on C-Span today.
"Leahy is a liar who knows full well that the federal government was taken over by criminals after 9/11"
The fedgov has been full of criminals for years, decades or even centuries.
Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the constitution.
John Kerry walks into a bar .. and the bartender says ... "Why the long face?"
A Muslim, a faggot, a liar, and Kenyan walk into a bar. The bartender says "What will you have Mr. President?"
racist not to mention the jewish president old bean.
i would say more psychic ramming of meme than joke would you not agree moshe?
If he was really cool he would volunteer to take a military transport along with several hundred soldiers who are always traveling back and forth from the US. Lay on a fucking gurney and man up you baby. It would buy a lot of respect but he doesnt know how to do that. He commands respect, never earns it.
They can command all they want. I don't give respect until it's earned. The US political traitors can go fuck themselves & their 6 figure income + bennies.
Please let this 'Specially Outfitted Aircraft" be the famous Ebola plane used to transport sick patients. Please, Please, Please.
Dunno. Is this good enough for a Purple Heard?
It's not a neck, but I'll take it.
If he can't stand on it soon, they'll have to blindfold him and put him down. Then it's off to the glue factory.
Heinz dog food.
Those damn ISIS bikes!!
US Taxpayers might be willing to pay even more than his specially outfitted aircraft cost if the hermann munster look alike would stay in France forever.
fuck that guy. i want to break his other leg.
I hope the curb gets the recognition it deserves.
The curb has probably been interned in Gitmo.
Sadly, the curb did not survive the massive hit it took from Kerry's chin.
Don't they usually just shoot them when they break a leg?
Don't they eat horse in France?
Shoot the horse.
Putin jabbed a stick into his spokes.
It was probably the clothes pin with the eight of hearts that did him in.
Heinz got his medical covered right?
This bum... is always vacationing at his french 'jewish' homestead!
On-- Taxpayers Dime to putin insult to insult via Heinz Ketchup for French Chips?!?
Surely,... this can only help USSA's foreign policy going forward...
Usually they put down horses with broken legs.
Pity he didn't suffer a tragic boating accident.
At least Kerry doesn't have to worry about smashing his nuts on the bike frame "bar".
Off to the glue factory
thank you god, i will pray today
He'll break more than his leg when he hits the brick wall that Putin's built
American Exceptionalism .... means we can beat the clever dictators .... with jerks like Hillary, Biden, Obomba and Kerry .... and it drives the left MAD !
All said, Kerry looks much better on a bike than Obama. Obama belongs on a pink tricycle with white wheels, wearing a pink hello kitty helmet.
I wonder how long Barry had to use training wheels.
You have just denegrated pink tricycles, white wheels and Hello Kitty helmets ... shame on you.
Medal of Freedom .... to go with his .... rice grain shrapnel in the buttocks .... Purple Heart .... where do we get people like this ?
Jeezooo! We wouldn't want him to be "uncomfortable." Tell me? What has this fucker ever done besides marry a rich woman and milk the public? Really.............. WHat has he ever done to help the citizenry? "A special plane?" WHat a scumbag.
Agree. Aside from milking Teresa Heinz, he's done a good job of dodging taxes and parking the ketchup yacht in a neigboring state. So he's got that going for him. And that head of his...fucking Boone and Crockett...a headhunter's dream.
Scumbags are what makes DC...well, DC.
Break a leg? Not an incurable ebola or something that France or Swiss or EUrope can't handle?
GIVE ME A BREAK! fIX HIM RIGHT WHERE HE BROKE!
Something does not sound right here? So, he broke a leg while doing his personal thing and the taxpayers ended up paying over a million?
NO WONDER US OF A IS BROKEN!
I'm sure that bicycle ride wasn't on official business, so that yacht-owning fuck wad had better pull out the check book.
Yep, it was private business so he should have claimed on his travel insurance like any other normal mortal.
Politicians in the US and Europe are acting more like 18th century French nobles, no wonder they need constant around the clock security, it isn't just to protect them against ISIS!
I wonder if his plane will park at a tax-friendly place.
Never heard of a bycyling horse? Talk to Mr. Ed.
It must be difficult for him to keep those hooves on the pedals.
I think all that foie gras and escargots sapped his vitamin D...poor guy.
"Specially outfitted aircraft". More money spent. More misery for the taxpayer. No way will he pay for it himself. They voted all this in for themselves years ago. It says: "If we screw up, it doesn't cost us anything". Welcome to US.
Fucking break his neck!
Flown back in HorseBox 1?
Everyone pray for a fat embolus!! Hopefully it'll be a rough plane ride back and he'll get jarred around.
At 71 a man should only be riding a one speed Schwinn beach cruiser slowly on a level sidewalk, or one of those tricycle bikes with a metal basket in the back.
Kerry riding a tour de France 20 speed with skinny tires as a senior citizen = STUPID.
I have always called him John "the clod" Kerry. This guy is an oaf....mentally and physically.
Ssssssshhhhhhhhh!
I just hope he wasn't wearing Spandex. The only thing uglier than is face would be his other end.
Isn't this the same guy that threw his undeserved military medals over the White House fence? The same guy that made up radical Vietnam stories during testimony in front of Congress? The same guy that denied lying under oath in front of Congress?
FUCK YOU JOHN KERRY
Does everyone forget already? The same HorseFace that made up his own ethnic affinity so the MassHole would think he was some kind of uglier version of a Kennedy instead of an Eastern European Jew. He was born John Cohn. He's been a BeltWay fraud perpetrated on the American people from the get go.
In Eastern Europe "kohn" literally means "horse".
He needs to pay for his own medical costs. Wha the fuck was he doing riding a bike instead of working.
The elite, such that he is, socialize their fuckups and bill the taxpayers.
"The secretary is stable"
sounds like something from chairman Mao's communist party doesn't it.....
The secretary is IN the stable with feed bag on.
I just had a retinal tear repaired at the VA hospital .... they strapped me onto the gurney .... why, is it going to hurt that much .... no, said the nurse .... it's in case you get any ideas .... about helping the surgeon !
Don't they shoot horses if they break a leg?...
And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about it is the horse, not the bike but the horse and what he might be trying to do during impact.
I keep seeing this huge flailing head, kissing the ground in slow motion.
its chained mouth gasping and drowning in the damp clod clammy earth.
What desires in this beast of burden could be left in the decaying husk.
broken hind leg yet still a lizard brain need to breath.
what use is sorry sorrow what use is grief
to a horse.
You see, I'm lost in this.
and what of dr assad of syrizia the cause
yes the cause of equus decent to hell.
for the fallen and the broken assad and his people must pay.
israel must be avenged.
equus son of heintz kohn cohen of caaanannn bike riding horse
nose bag this
your arab enemies will scatter to avenge your earthly fall.
tony, you are usually superb, this one is out of the park, over the fence AND far away...
This whole thread has me doubled up laughing...
ORI, FYI, your youtube link to guitar playing, up thread doesn't load, hence the down votes. Too much traffic up thread to convey the point.
Must have been a glitch in the matrix CB, it's working now. Thanks though :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk1TSBW_368
Yup, working now. That's you playing. Nice. Respect. Bookmarked it.
Superb!
There goes Kerry's chances of a surprise upset in next Saturday's Belmont Stakes...
you dont have to search nor speculate
under personal and family life on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry
quote:
"Kerry's paternal grandparents, shoe businessman Frederick A. "Fred" Kerry and musician Ida Lowe, were immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Fred was born as "Fritz Kohn" before he and Ida took on the "Kerry" name and moved to the United States. Fred and Ida were born Jewish, and converted to Catholicism together in Austria. His maternal ancestors were of Scottish and English descent,[8][153] and his maternal grandfather James Grant Forbes II was a member of the Forbes family, while his maternal grandmother Margaret Tyndal Winthrop was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family. Margaret's paternal grandfather Robert Charles Winthrop served as the 22nd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Robert's father was Governor Thomas Lindall Winthrop. Thomas' father John Still Winthrop was a great-great-grandson of Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop and great-grandson of Governor Thomas Dudley. Through his mother, John is a first cousin once removed of French politician Brice Lalonde."
btw he hid his jewishness untill around 2004 or 2006
"btw he hid his jewishness untill around 2004 or 2006"
Just like Madeleine ('all those thousands of dead kids were worth it') Albright.
Wonder how much more nonsense like this We the Plebs are going to take?
He obviously isn't covered by Obama's 'affordable' Care Act. Or is he?.... Definitely affordable where he's concerned.
I am so tired of watching these new twenty first century lord wannabees robbing the treasury... making fools of us and the nation.
His Obamacare should cover it.
As I read thru the thread, I was wondering if/when the ACA would surface.
Clearly it's working & all will be covered to the same extent as well.
Perish the thought he might have to endure...
Mmmkay, sorry, wrong leg. Your deductible is $20K.
Fucking Lurch "Frog" Kerry the whiny little bitch should just move to France!
Sadly his neck didn't break.
Oh the health excuses are endless, the same thing happened to Clinton, so what happened after Clinton?
Libya invasion!
What happens after Kerry?
more importantly did james taylor sing to him on the plane? pussies
There will be "costs" to cycling while looking like an idiot. Maybe someone with a brain might take over the role.
Biden loses son, Kerry breaks leg. karma is a bitch,. stop being Nazi aggressors.
He was cycling between bouts of threatening other countries and spewing LIES.
Mr, Karma says ''This is just a little wake up , call John''.
Change your ways.
like this ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_on_the_Way_to_Damascus
Buybull fairytales??
Maybe a very large bag of Dorito's in his fully reclining plane seat with about 12 Ativan w/ a triple Grey Goose martini will do the "honors"?...
Too bad it didn't work when G.W. had his little event!!!!
Should be an easy kidnap target for ISIS ; a horse riding a bike.
Should be an easy kidnap target for ISIS ; a horse riding a bike.
No I actually believe James Cameron came up with the idea for the "Alien" monstor in his movie when he saw Kerry flying around Boston promoting one of these state-of-the-art aerodynamic helmets way back in 1978!
Tip of the iceberg, what do you think it costs to keep him and his staff at the Beau Rivage Palace?
I'll bet he wears those little pussy bike riding outfits too.
Says the pussy that probably weighs 300 lbs and hasn't seen his pecker in 30 years.
Pussies are guys who need to wear padding and helmets to play ''football'.
Real men play rugby,
Real Men don't Play.
Real Men Lift Heavy; and practice Martial Arts.
Lets see you bike thru the Alps for 200 miles without stopping, ya little ignorant asswipe.
Kerry is our Inspector Closeau with one important difference - Closeau usually accidentally bumbled his way into a successful conclusion.
Remember his idiotic promise of an "unbelievably small" attach on Syria.
And then there was the time he was busy yachting off Nantucket when all hell was breaking loose in Egypt.
What an ignoramus. He is such a buffoon he makes the Hildebeast look borderline competent as Sec State. . .
Look at the bright side, because there is always a bright side... The Biden family has lost a future politician to fuck with the next generation of Americans, and Kerry's daughters aren't exactly prize material...
http://payload68.cargocollective.com/1/7/241864/3661509/00002957.jpeg
The blond, Vanessa, is sporting some serious man hand's in that picture. Perhaps that can be forgiven in that she is a physician...(so someone in the family had to get the brains apparently) Married already w /1 son, Wikipedia does make a good read about what money and influence can get you in today's world.
Alexandra, the brunette is a "documentary film maker" and not very successful at it judging by the Wikipedia bio. She's still single, so this is the one you go after for the inheritance money.
Future politician...JAG.
Nuff said...JustUs.
Eye wash please. They look like coiled up Komodo Dragons.
Why the plane? The guy's got money and he's on Medicare and SS. Why do we have to pay for this? Unreal.
Has anybody made a put the horse down joke yet?
umm, do France and Switzerland not have hospitals capable of setting a broken bone and putting on a cast? why in the world would he need to get medivac'd across the Atlantic Ocean for a broken bone? giving that he was in the Alps there's probably dozens of top notch emergency centers at the base that deal with skiers/climbers/cyclists every single day.
Most emergency hospitals in the alps are specialized on humans
And they don't serve the patients ketchup with meals.
They could have taken Mr. Ed to Clinique Vétérinaire des Tuileries - it's right by the airport and offers emergency services (they even have a picture of Mitch McConnell on their website). Alternatively, they could have taken him to Cabinet vétérinaire de Vandoeuvres which specializes in horses and is even closer and would have avoided the nightmare traffic jam at the Mont Blanc bridge before the airport.
Or the Secretariat of State simply could have telephoned one of his buddies from the ISIS finance convention and asked to borrow one of these.
Give Kerry a couple bottles of Russian vodka and tell him to shut the fuck up.
What a pussy,I broke my leg and crawled out to my car.I didn't need anything special.
I break my arms just for something to do. Thurston Heinz Kerry is a pussy
Watch ol' John 'Swiftbike' Kerry weasel another fucking Purple Heart out of this one...