Posted on 08/08/2008 2:32:37 PM PDT by SmithL
John Edwards. There, I said it.
I guess it's too late to be dramatic, now that Edwards has talked to a MSM outlet (ABC) about his affair. I really meant to say something earlier, when almost every daily newspaper, including The Chronicle, was not touching a story broken by, gasp, the National Enquirer, but I was tied up.
Most MSM in general had stayed away, picking at it with their noses held, as if looking for something valuable in a moldy dumpster. Of course the New York (City) Times said they were "looking into it" but certainly not printing a story. Oh, no. On journalism sites, the finger-pointing, self-loathing, self-righteousness and tut-tutting was massive. Don't touch that dirty tale! Don't trust but verify! Why are we ignoring this?
It's the same old problem when the most scandalous of the tabs breaks an actual story. It happened a lot with Bill Clinton, and Edwards now seems a little Bill lite-like ("I had sex with that woman but she meant nothing to me." I'm sure Rielle Hunter feels as good as Monica Lewinsky did about that.) The perp is a little ashamed but leave it to the Mrs. to take the real humiliation hit.
As always, the most interesting thing (OK, to me) about this are the cultural currents and implications. Is it worse when a darling of progressives betrays you than if it's Newt Gingrich? Better? The same? Was there a conspiracy to out Edwards hatched in a political brain? Will the MSM ever figure out the journalistic etiquette following a big tabloid scoop? Does anyone really think that a story splashed in the tabs and debated on blogs like a powerful fire back draft is somehow...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
For what it’s worth, Bronstein was once bitten by a Komodo Dragon and was married to Sharon Stone.
The MSM didn’t drop the ball, they hid it, or so they thought.
The MSM didn’t drop the ball, they hid it, or so they thought.
MSM shredded the ball and hoped no one noticed.
“For what it’s worth, Bronstein was once bitten by a Komodo Dragon and was married to Sharon Stone.”
Given a choice, I’d take the dragon.
How can the MSM drop a ball they don’t even touch?
They never had the ball....they never even showed up for the game.
Its like clinton all over again, someone even threw out the "this is old news" line. I wonder how long till someone mentions 100,000 new police and 20 million new jobs LOL.
Very dumb question (thread title). The answer is obvious.
what still doesn’t make sense is if the affair is over and the kid isn’t his, why is he visiting the woman in a hotel room?
Don’t they both inject a load of lethal germs into your bloodstream?
I would think that someone from SF would be applauding Edward’s sexually indulgent behavior!
Precisely. They never had the ball in the first place.
Reportorial Bias? Nope, not here, not once, not ever. Time to move on.
Did the MSM drop the ball on John Edwards?
They did not drop the ball, they tried to hide the ball under the carpet.
If Edwards had been a Republican on the VP list, you can bet they’d be airing him more than ESPN and Brett Favre!
Well, maybe not THAT much...
Ha Ha Ha. Wasn’t going to the Komodo Dragon petting zoo his birthday gift from Sharon or something? What Morons we have telling us how to live our lives.
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