John Kerry Broken Nose - The Globe uncovered the news after inquiring why Kerry was sporting two nasty black eyes today at a White House ceremony in which President Obama feted the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins.
It turns out he got whacked playing hockey. And his sporting position might come as a surprise to the constituents who elected the senior Democrat from Massachusetts to his fifth term in 2008.
Kerry’s office said the pair of shiners were the result of a busted nose that the 68-year-old politico sustained on the ice when he was smacked in the face with a hockey stick during a game with friends and family over the holidays.
“A broken nose, two black eyes,” his spokeswoman Whitney Smith confirmed in an e-mail.
Of course she couldn’t resist taking her own partisan slapshot in this highly competitive political season.
“He must feel like Mitt Romney after South Carolina,” she quipped, referring to the former Bay State governor and now-embattled GOP presidential contender.
Kerry is apparently used to the rough stuff. He has been playing the sport for decades, Smith said, including as a veteran member of the Congressional Hockey Challenge, a charity event to benefit the Fort Dupont Hockey Club in Washington.
Source: boston
