(2004-03-03) — Sen. John Forbes Kerry today refused to accept Sen. Hillary Clinton’s support for the Democrat presidential nomination because the former First Lady issued her endorsement first in an interview on Japanese TV.

“I will not accept Sen. Clinton’s Benedict Arnold endorsement,” said Mr. Kerry. “By outsourcing coverage of her announcement to the Nippon Television Network Corporation, Sen. Clinton has cheated the major U.S. networks out of crucial content. I’m for American jobs on American news networks because they generate American tax dollars.”

Sen. Clinton issued the following statement: “No one can prove to me that Nippon TV is any less American than CNN or ABC News.”