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It Cost US Taxpayers At Least $250,000 To Repatriate A Bicycle-Challenged John Kerry
The somewhat farcical journey home from Europe for Secretary of State John Kerry continues. As we noted previously, after breaking his leg on an arbidged Tour de France'-esque accident in which he hit a curb, he was flown to Geneva in a helicopter where he was "stable and never lost consciousness," which makes sense (unless as many have suggested his brain lies considerably lower in his body than most humans).
But then the escapade got beyond unreal as The White House sent a massive "specially-equipped" C-17 airplane (used to carrying over 100 combat troops and equipment into battle) to fly him to Boston for surgery.
We assume he is covered by Obamacare, since the cost of this rescue mission - assuming roughly 10 hours flight-time - is at least $250,000... and all to avoid an Iran deadline no one expects to meet...
As The Washington Post reports,
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who broke his leg in a bicycling accident near Geneva Sunday, left for home Monday aboard a specially outfitted U.S. military aircraft.
The C-17 transport plane, dispatched from the U.S. base in Ramstein, Germany, was “staffed by additional military medical personnel in keeping with standard practice,” Kerry spokesman John Kirby said.
Kerry, 71, is en route to Boston, where he will be admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital under the care of Dennis Burke, the surgeon who operated on him for a previous hip replacement on the same leg.
He broke his right femur, near the site of the replaced hip joint, when he hit a curb with his bicycle wheel and fell at the beginning of a ride near the French town of Scionzier, about 30 miles from Geneva. He was flown by medical helicopter to a Geneva hospital, where he stayed until his medical evacuation.
He is scheduled to arrive in Boston on Monday evening.
Initial plans to fly Kerry aboard a commercial medical evacuation aircraft late Sunday were cancelled after physicians decided that he should remain in Geneva for further evaluation.
There was no indication of whether further surgery will be required.
So that's good then... though at a cost of at least $24,000 per hour, we have 2 quick questions:
1) Given the cost-conscious White House could they not have found a more comfortable (or cheaper) option - Warren Buffett's private jet? and
2) It's a broken femur!... not a brain aneurism, or heart malfunction, or any manner of considerably more complex health problems that might have required an arsenal of medical equipment to ensure survival
And for those cynics who see this as a timely 'accident' to avoid the looming Iran deadline, The White House has this to say...
While Kerry’s recovery period is unknown, State Department officials insisted that he will not be prevented from participating in the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, which are closing in on a deadline at the end of the month.
“The secretary is absolutely committed to moving with the negotiations, to proceeding with them on the exact same timetable as before his accident," State Department spokeswoman Mari Harf said today. "[It's] critical to stress that he is committed to doing so in the same time frame.”
So rest assured - if there any missed deadlines, it is not because Iran is 'dealing' with Russia for new nuclaer facilities or trying to slow-play America, it's just Kerry's recovery
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I think we just need to see what the DAILY RACING FORM has to say about this... I'm here to help...
http://www1.drf.com/help/help_howto.html
Your tax dollars at work for the American criminal elite. Too bad the Concorde no longer flies or Kerry would have ordered an empty Concorde to fly him home.
"his brain lies considerably lower in his body" He has a brain??????
Too bad they didn't drop his silly ass in the ocean like they did with bin Laden... Oh wait!!!
Interesting that the socialized medicine system of France isn't good enough for him. He wants AMERICAN doctors.
USA! USA! USA!
I understand they shoot horses that break a leg. It's considered a mercy for everyone.
let's just hope that he's ok.
thats harsh dude
Why didn't they just ambutate it, then he can claim he lost it in Viet Nam.
What else flew back on that plane? Is any country suddenly missing some gold?
We should have left him in France. But I like looking at his face. He resembles an elderly lizard.
Could they not just ship him back in a vat of Heinz?
NO missing gold, but they did get that shipment of 100 tonnes of heroin on board.
This is the standard of care for Obamacare bronze policy holders that end up breaking a leg, right?
(SARC)
in related news...
We are spending $275,000 to blow up one pickup truck that we can’t even prove is an enemy pickup truck, because we have no fucking idea who the enemy is
http://investmentwatchblog.com/we-are-spending-275000-to-blow-up-one-pic...
Has anyone actually seen Kerry Has anyone heard that Kerry was not injured on a bike but was in fact nearly assasinated and is gravely injured and nearly dead?
http://www.eutimes.net/2015/06/us-secretary-of-state-kerry-reported-grav...
You know the bicycle cover story is bullshit when you do not see a video clip of Kerry laughing about his mishap on a bicycle.
i know everyone is saturated with conspiracy fluff. but this kerry wounded story has a ring of truth, why send a c to pick him up, maybe it didn't go empty, because it is absurd on its face. turtle makes a pretty good point as well, anybody see any video of kerry laughing or anything else? my google fu hasn't found anything.
Look at that crowd around him. No one can see him. Its a broken leg. I was brought down off the ski slopes years ago is that condition and it hurt but it wasn't THAT bad. This is different. Something smells fishy.
If Lurch is absent from the public eye for more than a couple days, then I tend of believe the assassination story... He is far too narcissistic to stay out of the media....
This won't fit in a Gulfstream.
The source of this story (Sorcha Faal) is regarded laughable, but on the other hand this scenario makes sense.
What? It didnt take 7 yrs?
Fringe says he got shot ....?
Amatuer Cyclists (a.k.a. FREDS) = perfect terrorists. no license plates, and everybody averts their eyes at the sight of J6P in lycra.
They shoot horses, don't they?
Let the fucker pedal back to the US.
World peace riding on John Kerry's femur?
http://tinyurl.com/phz742l
Obscene. Kerry should be billed for this, a bankrupt nation cannot afford this...
I thought horses were put down when they broke their legs.
All of them?
In that case, yeah, definitely.
Fuck this pos. He should have been left on the side of the road to rot.
Sorry, but any POS must be cleaned up and disposed of properly.
Nobody had a plastic bag?
Well, he did have the foresight to sign into his on-line trading account & sell at the top on ObamaCare. That (by the standard of these times) shows great acumen on his part, worthy of moving up from mere old nag dragging the cart, to being dragged along in the cart.
Kerry falls off his tricycle and Reed falls off the treadmill....
What next? Al Sharptun choking on a chicken bone?
Or Sharpton choking on a watermellon seed...................
Call up the entire defence dept to attend to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That particular ac was used for gov mules
If Kerry had any sense he would have worn his crash helmet on his leg. And what is a 70 year old man doing wearing race gear while riding a hunch down bike?
Not many horses are worth this cost and effort. There's usually a different solution for a broken leg.
This is what you do to a horse, depending on its market value:
- Traction (expensive horses)
- Steak Tartare a la Cheval (if young)
- Glue Factory (dog food, gelatin, horse leather)
All seems suspicious! Fly to U.S. for broken bone? Why not fly doctor to Switzerland? Probably a poison dart from Putin or such.
How appropriate that he was injured in Geneva. He did order swiss cheese for his Philly Cheesesteak. That's how all Philadelphians knew he was a total poseur.
The CIA tied his shoelaces.
The CIA tied his shoelaces together.
Switzerland doesn't have veterinarians? WTF?
Man down! Man down! Medic! We need evac now!
He'll probably get another Purple Heart for this.
Are you kidding? Medal of Honor.
$250,000 to re-patriate Kerry -- I bet ZH readers could raise $500,000 if the French agreed to KEEP Kerry!
He could have used the French medical system (supposedly the best nationalized system in EU), and compared it to Obamacare.
No doubt the French nurses would have taken care of him real good. Maybe better than Mrs Kerry would like them to.
Except he was in HUG, Geneva, Switzerland which is neither in France nor the EU.
Having said that, HUG is one of the best hospitals around and probably deals with more broken bones a year (from skiers on the Alps) than Massachusetts General Hospital does.
f***in hypocrites i can't stand these two faced bastards. what's good for those they supposedly represent isn't good enough for these limosine liberal pieces of horse dung.
Fuck you Goy, unless you're a Shabbos Goy, and get back to work!
They decided to use a C-17 so they could ship his custom horse trailer over from Nantucket for him to rest in on the flight back...
Somewhere somehow in all of this Hoss is gonna get anudda medal for bravery.
Excellent observation. hadn't thought of that.
Purple Heart #4.
Two more and he gets out of his commitment as Secretary of State.
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"If kept in a French Hospital, secret ketchup formulas would have been at risk..."
i'm Jack's ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qGjb4NEVQ (0:37)
Just curious, I wonder if he'd have been flown back to the US, if he had broken his leg in Tel Aviv. It would say something about the medical system there, and if he'd had the nerve to offend by rejecting it.
Windsurfing only, please.
Tell me that plane didn't fly across the ocean Empty except for Kerry...
please tell me we are not total blathering idiots..
Ketchup is a poison and here is the living proof.
Broken femur!
I heard they just made a splint using french-fries and wrapped it in kotex, and everything was fine except he was whining like a stuck pig.....but they were just telling him to get off his horse's ass and walk back to his room.
Then outta the corner of someone's eye he was seen pulling a Heinz ketchup bottle out of his pants and squirting it on the kotex-french-fry splint, like he was bleeding....
That's when they got him the special C17 with all the trimmings....but of course while he was waiting for the C17 the Frenchie dogs were lickin' off his splint....
Should have flown him to India. Much cheaper than US medical care. I mean, it's John Kerry not some high ranking diplomat.
Exactly! Just another federal employee...
Cuba.
They should fly that POS back on one of those UN-sanitized Ebola charter jets.
If a kleptocrat breaks a leg, the entire army responds.
If you get kidnapped in a foreign country, "we don't negotiate with terrorists" and not a single soul helps you out.
Some country lol
I agree, so far as you go with your point.
On the other hand, if somebody travels to one of these shithole countries after being warned about the stupidity of such a plan, well, then I think they're on their own, sucka.
They want to get the story so bad that they end up in the middle of it, that's their lookout, not Uncle Sam's.
And all those American's Obama left in Yemen. Not a plane for them. But John Kerry?
If he had landed on his head we would be paying the French of the pothole repair
Needed the space for his ego.
Needed the space for 100 tonnes of heroin.
Guess no one told these folks Winter is coming.
Sorry ZH a broken femur is pretty complex. A broken femur will have him down for months. After surgery will come rehabilitation. He might be limping along by August.
at 28 I had an accident which pushed the ball of the femur into the socket of the hip. my leg was six weeks in traction and six weeks after that I was walking again.
your esimate of August is right on the mark.
unless all that botox complicates things
Hey, wait a minute. That's not blood on his leg, it's just a little ketchup.
Just looked at the ingredients I think he's in my pickle jar that I brought home from Trader Joe's tonight.
While, I am admittedly not a "Kerry Watcher", it is hard not to notice that the guy wearing the Kerry wig is not the Horse-Face that we have learned to ignore, as irrelevant, over the years.
One wonders if the real Kerry is still alive and if the bicycle accident is the opportunity to allow the Kerry imposter to go on to another acting gig, using a false-Phineas event ... devised by someone else who remembered some high school lit.
Oh, and start using spell-check dudes.
"arbidged" indeed!
Or is there some secret message in all of the typos we have been seeing on the ZH pages lately.
Peace! (Separate or otherwise)
Should have left his worthless ass there. Fuck that horse face!
Separated at birth?
https://www.google.com/search?q=herman+munster&tbm=isch&imgil=ddubwrr27s...
His name was John Kohn.
And yours was Sally Ann Finkelstein.
So what?
You guys of course realize this used and exhausted more carbon than most of us will use in our lifetimes...................
Just saying..................
Let's see.... Kerry fell off his bike when, upon noticing some reporters, he began throwing away someone else's war medals.
Then this hater of the military boards a military flying crusie ship for a private ride home to Boston.
And where was Theresa Heinz during all of this?
Kerry is becoming as imbecilic as Joe Biden.
Whoever roughed up this douchebag forgot to break the other leg. How unfortunate...
Maybe Kerry and Senator Reid can share a room just like they share an enforcer.
It seem like with all the money he and his wife have, he could afford a car
At least this Obama administration is consistent. They have no clue how to balance a budget so why should a bicycle be any different?
Amazing. Being a politician is the quickest and easiest way to get your PRIVATE FLEET OF AIRCRAFT was to become a politician and not a capitalist. Guess I missed that class in B-School.
did he go over the handlebars?
is there a video?
You asked the right question--where is the video or at least a picture of Kerry on the pavement asking for momma Hillary--I think this never happened and is a stall tactic (maybe to let the 6/30 deadline pass with no agreement)--maybe to stall the Isrealis from military action that we are aware in their plans?--who knows besides the NSA
who was riding with him?
what color spandex was he wearing?
Either State Department security or Secret Service would have been tailing on his bike ride. Were there other bike riders? Was press present? Who were the reporters? Was there press video? Why not? Exactly where did the accident happen? I wanna see on Google maps if it was a good place for an ambush. Were there US tactical or other drones in the air? Why can't reporters get answers to real questions?
You didn't build that!
What wasnt reported was Kerry wanted to stay in France away from the missus, but the French govt took up a collection from local medical personnel and diplomats to hire the Clintons to dispach a plane to fly Kerry home to NOT France, the Fench govt even gave Kerry a medal.
Apparently Kerry was too tedious and boring for the French medical staff to tolerate, after every nurse heard the "did I mention I fought in Nam" tale for the 3rd time on their 1st shift they raised the white flag and transferred some money from their own political fund for relief, something the French never do even for Somali immigration.
Mrs Kerry was not amused when advised of her husbands desire to remain in France and called her transfriend Caitlin for advice in this trying time, she suggested Trope and Trope and testerone.
he forgot to buy travel insurance...
These clowns fucking sent a bleeding ANTONOV-like cargo plane to repatriate ONE DUDE. Waw.
Thankfully, they couldn't lay hands on time on a NASA space shuttle.
WTF
I thought when a horse breaks its leg, they just shoot it on the spot?
+ 1000 up votes.
what a dumbass! a70+ year old trying to be macho man screwing around while on a mission (so to speak) don't you just know the iranians are laughing there asses ofat this bumbling fool.
I thought Europe's Socialist Health Care was the model goal for team Obama. Why didn't he stay there and enjoy the finest Socialist Health Care on the planet? Line too long? 50 immigrant babies getting their 20th checkup of the year in line ahead of you? Death Panels saw how you are? What?
don't be silly. Europe's single-payer healthcare is good, but mediocre in comparison to what the US offers if money is not an issue at all. And Kerry for sure belongs to that category
Though if you really want to get the best, in some fields, you have to go to South Africa
I doubt that C17 flew across the pond-against the wind-in just 10 hours.
Bicycle accident? Didn't I just read somewhere that it was a "personal message" sent to keep him on-agenda, on account of a recent error in his ways--whatever it was, ... like Iran.
They're dropping like flies. First Harry Reid fell off his treadmill and broke his face then, Kerry fell off his bicycle and broke his leg. What next? As the three Stooges of American politics continue their farcical antics, will Obama be run over by his own golf cart? While America holds its collective breath and the world laughs, only time will tell.
Wasteful government spending is the actual cause of Global Warming...
Even the presidential dog gets better treatment than you:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10236302/First-dog...
Be happy it took only one plane to fly Kerry home
Now back to work peons