Now you see him...now you don't. Stalin's grandchildren are busy as ever.
Posted on 08/03/2008 10:23:48 AM PDT by maccaca
Digg this The John Edwards/Rielle Hunter story continues to, as they say, develop. You might even say it’s gestating. Whether the “legitimate” news likes it or not:
Lee Stranahan, who posted the first (only?) serious, thoughtful analysis of the whole mess at the Huffington Post, has been banned from the Daily Kos for daring to talk about it there. Some Wikipedians keep trying to add the forbidden name “Rielle Hunter” to thoroughly relevant entries, and other Wikipedians keep taking it out. In the Wiki entry for the 1988 Jay McInerney novel Story of My Life, one brave soul has added some information that seems pretty well-sourced, considering Hunter herself put it up on her site, Being Is Free: the fact that Hunter directly inspired Alison Poole, the main character in the novel. For some reason, certain people don’t consider this fact relevant to understanding the novel, or to be of any interest to anyone whatsoever. The two sides are now battling it out. (I haven’t been keeping track of Edwards’ Wiki entry, after the same thing happened there last week, but I think they’re finally starting to acknowledge Hunter’s existence.) Incidentally, if Google Blog Search is any indication, Deceiver was the first blog to post anything substantial about Being Is Free. Sam Stein at the Huffington Post noted last year that the site had been deleted, but it looks like we were the first ones to note that there’s a mirror site, let alone to look at it in any detail. (And I’m still not done with it.) But of course, Wikipedia can’t cite us because we’re just a silly blog with a hot pink logo. (Update: Deceiver reader Kris, who originally tipped me off to Being Is Free, has the provenance of that information. The Stranahans are on the case!)
If I had to sum up my past week of posts (and at this point you probably wish I would), one thread runs through this story: People taking down stuff they had put up on the Internet voluntarily. The Edwards campaign videos that Hunter made: deleted. Hunter’s whole site: deleted. The resume and contact info for Bob McGovern, Hunter’s friend and alleged hotel hookup-enabler: deleted. And that’s just what we know about so far. It sure does look like somebody’s trying to cover their tracks. To put it into perspective: Last month, a blogger named Xeni Jardin went through the archives of the group blog where she posts and deleted — or as she insists, “unpublished” — every single post that so much as mentioned a particular person she didn’t like anymore. Within a week this made national news, all the way up to the hallowed New York Times.
Now we have a past and potentially future candidate for Vice President of the United States apparently scrubbing lots of possibly damaging information from the Internet, and two weeks into the story, only a handful of people are talking about it. Even if you don’t care about the more lurid aspects of this whole debacle, you have to admit that the Edwards camp has a very poor grasp of Netiquette.
Just to end things on an up note, I’ve got “John & Rielle” running through my head to the tune of “Johnny Ryall” by the Beastie Boys. What, me obsessed?
I would just think that ‘scrubbing the internet’ might be as possible as putting jello into a balloon.
KOS, as free, open and democratic as Nancy Pelosi
Even if this were true, to the typical Democrat, it’s “a private matter and nobody’s business” when it comes to their beloved politicians. - Oh, it might affect Edwards’ Presidential ambitions somewhat adversely if proven - but Bill Clinton lowered the bar so low that sexual escapades are deemed a badge of honor - for Democrat fat cats, that is.
Twinkie
That is too cute, I can hear them over at KOS ..now “out , out damn spot!” Such silly nillies.
“Freedom of speech should only apply to the left. It is wasted on the right.”
Herbert Marcuse a commie scumbag from the 60s. ‘nough said?
I don’t think it counts as a cover-up when it’s Kos.
It’s not like Kos has ever been a source of free thought.
Consider how “private” it was that the NYT published a story that McCain was having an affair [with no proof] the week it was apparent he was the presumptive nominee for the GOP.
sexual escapades are deemed a badge of honor - for Democrat fat cats, that is.
The fact is that no Republican would act so callously. To engage in a sexual affair while his wife battles cancer is the kind of despicable act only a Democrat would perform. After this revelation, Edwards should be totally barred from political life. He is not worthy of the trust of the American people.
Two words: Newt Gingrich.
However, Republicans to have two qualities that separate themselves from Democrats. 1. Shame 2. A base that will usually not let them get away with blatant immorality. It was conservatives, not Democrats, that ended Newt's career, when the Democrats would have rallied around him.
Now you see him...now you don't. Stalin's grandchildren are busy as ever.
That sounds easier than nailing jello to a tree.
Yeah, that was my thought too. Newt.
Is John Edward’s love child discussion about as welcome as Larry Sinclair’s magical limo ride discussion?
Well I think it is safe to conclude that there is something to this since they are trying so hard to cover for Mr Edwards.
You mean other than Newt Gingrich?
This seems more than just the expected “circling the wagons” to protect a fellow traveler. The threats made to the press on the bus, the (almost) complete blackout by anyone other than bloggers, even sympathetic sources shoveling this down the memory hole.
Edwards has done nothing to deserve this “over the top” kind of protection.
The Sinkmeister has though...
Excellent, great comparison.
We’re beset on all sides, by people who don’t care what the truth is, they only ‘feel,’ and their feelings seem to change by the moment.
I think the only way to combat it is to streamline Conservatism, distill it to it’s essence, and never waver. Shout the truth as loudly as you can, and never anything else. We get mired in so many issues that its just depressing.
We need to say, WE, are America. America is JUST FINE. And we need to hold that line to the last man, and let them have their screeching cacophony of insults and turd flinging...for every insult they have for America, bring up what we’ve done for the World. Yin for Yang, tit for tat.
It seems the lines are blurring and we’re fighting so many people that we’re losing focus of what we’re battling for.
Democrats version of free speech.
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