Pat Peale, the band-aid poster girl, was just "jesting"

[mrbill]

From the article:

Peale said she does not apologize for her comments or for the bandages, but that she did not mean to insult Purple Heart recipients.
"I'm not apologizing for what I did. It was in jest," she said.

Peale said her behavior pales in comparison to the antics of crowds of liberal protesters outside the convention center.

"There were certainly a lot of things coming from the protesters that were not in jest," she said.

She said along nearby 42nd Street, there were several demonstrations that took pornographic themes. Other protesters, according to Peale, rode bicycles and attempted to run delegates off of the sidewalks. Many were anti-war but shouted angry rhetoric about President George W. Bush.

"It's not fair for the police and the city of New York to pay to protect us from the protesters," she said, adding she believes in the right to protest but that many of the demonstrators have acted "belligerent."

http://gainesvilleregister.com/articles/2004/09/02/news/news2.txt