Edwards' Protectors

IBD Editorials ^ | August 4, 2008

[Kaslin]

Media Bias: So what if it took a "gutter" tabloid to expose a major Democratic presidential candidate scandal? So, the establishment media's shielding of John Edwards likely determined the party nomination.

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The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and the other hallowed institutions of the old print media just had their reportorial clocks cleaned by the "sleazy" National Enquirer on the John Edwards extramarital affair story.

You can smell the double standard.

While the New York Times aggressively pursued questionable allegations of an affair between Sen. John McCain and a lobbyist, it refused to sully its hands with the Edwards business.

Edwards being a Democrat and McCain the pending Republican nominee for president is mere coincidence, we're supposed to believe.

The Gray Lady's excuses were rolled out by the paper's public editor, Clark Hoyt.

Richard Stevenson, who directs New York Times campaign coverage, remarked: "We have finite resources." So says the newspaper with more than 35 news bureaus, well over 300 full-time reporters and hundreds of freelancers and stringers.

Executive Editor Bill Keller's defense of printing the dubious McCain allegations is that the newspaper's interest "was not in his private romantic life" but "in his relationship with lobbyists."

[AZLiberty]

Edwards won just a sliver under 30% of the Iowa caucus vote this year. Clearly, had the major media by that time broken open this story — concerning events taking place back in 2006 — Edwards would have been out of the race. Hillary Clinton, who finished 8% below Obama, probably would have won Iowa, then won New Hampshire as she did, and finally the nomination itself.

No wonder Hillary's folks (at the National Enquirer) are still going after him.

[EagleUSA]

While the New York Times aggressively pursued questionable allegations of an affair between Sen. John McCain and a lobbyist, it refused to sully its hands with the Edwards business.
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Is anyone surprised by the radical leftist bias of the pinko lapdog MSM??? Protecting their chosen criminal friends, the radical left of America. Same ole S&*$.

[kbennkc]

Does any one think we have heard the last of the McCain and the lobbyist story ?

[Holicheese]

So what is in Obama’s background that they are shielding?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4509885.ece

“Hillary Clinton camp blames John Edwards for ‘lie that laid them low’”

It’s all about her...and another cheatin’ rascal messing up her plans.

[Bahbah]

They want special legal protections because of the important work they do in bringing “truth” to the populace. One wonders how they look at themselves in the mirror.

[right wing]

My favorite absurdity is that Howard Wolfson came out publicly today denouncing the Main Stream Media for covering up the Edwards/Mistress/Baby story, claiming that if it had been exposed, Hillary would have won the candidacy.

How rich is that? The Clinton's slamming the MSM for covering up a dem scandal? Hell must have definitely frozen over!

[NonValueAdded]

The Gray Lady's excuses were rolled out by the paper's public editor, Clark Hoyt.

Why does the image of an unwinding roll of toilet paper spring to mind after reading that sentence?

[Texas Songwriter]

Hillary's Speech at Denver

My fellow democrats. Earlier this year you gave this country the privilege of presenting to me a majority of votes from the people. It would have been much more, but that Florida and Michigan's votes were abregated to adulteration. I, for the life of me, do not know why the Chairman Dean would disenfranchise two major states making it impossible to win this year,...but he did. I will not raise the issue of the Vast Leftwing Conspiracy of the MSM who, with forethought and malice, did obfuscate with intent to defraud the people of a clean, informed election, but rather chose to collude with Mr.Obama and Mr.Edwards in a rank coverup just long enough to prevent the will of the people from being expressed in electing me as your candidate. Yes that is water under the bridge and I only remind you for reasons of historicity. You are the people. You are democrats worthy to be heard. You decide whether this deception deserves to remain unaddressed by the voters of the democratic primaries. That you were manipulated to vote against me by an Indonesian and a man who is fondly known as the Pony is a perception we all have to deal with in our own way. But we must all be together with this election to get our candidate elected.

[Revolting cat!]

No question, the election was stoled from Eva Braun’s darling daughter!

[the anti-liberal]

"Deep-rooted liberal media bias thus may very well have been the deciding factor in whom one of the two major parties ended up nominating.(Maybe both parties. Sen. John McCain has himself long been a media favorite, so who's to say?)"

Hear, hear!!

[amesj]

The Democrats may not realize it yet, but they have found a VP candidate - John Edwards. They just have to figure out how to utilize his newly uncovered qualifications...mistress, love child, etc. All that’s missing at this point is his headline comment “I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN” and he’s in!

[Verginius Rufus]

The problem with the Wolfson/Hillary theory is that a poll taken in Iowa showed that a substantial majority of Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice, not Hillary. If Edwards had been forced to drop out before Iowa, Hillary would have been a distant second.

[HenpeckedCon]

Poor little Hildegard Schickelgruber!