CNN’s Alina Cho: Mrs. Edwards 'One of the Most Beloved Women in America'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 8/12/2008 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

CNN correspondent Alina Cho gushed over Elizabeth Edwards, the cancer-stricken wife of the former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, during a top-of-the-hour breaking news segment about possible new details in the John Edwards affair story on Tuesday’s American Morning: "Now, [John] Edwards, as many people know, has admitted he made a ‘serious error in judgment’ when he had the affair with Hunter, that he told his wife about it long before it became public. Elizabeth Edwards, of course, one of the most beloved women in America, is battling cancer right now."

That superlative might be news to many Americans, since there are plenty of women who could earn that description, ranging from Oprah Winfrey to Laura Bush. When the news initially broke that Mrs. Edwards had cancer, and later that it had reemerged, she might have been the one woman who was receiving the most sympathy in America.

[Pyro7480]

More media hype of a Democrat...

[pgkdan]

LOL! Since when???

[Oratam]

CNN’s Alina Cho: Mrs. Edwards 'One of the Most Beloved Women in America'

I couldn't pick out either in a line-up.

[The KG9 Kid]

You beat me to the exact same thought.

Don't really even know what she looks like, except that she's fat and got cancer.

[dforest]

Geesh, I never thought of her as beloved. Apparently John doesn’t either.

[the invisib1e hand]

victim as hero.

[The KG9 Kid]

Oh, SNAP!

[Malone LaVeigh]

Elizabeth Edwards, of course, one of the most beloved women in America, is battling cancer right now."

Pitiful yes, beloved, no.
I have sympathy for any woman who is married to such a jerk. But that doesn't translate into any other emotion.

[Hoffer Rand]

Come on, everyone, clearly she’s talking about the OTHER America.

[prairiebreeze]

Somebody should inform Alina that Edwards was simply acting “presidential”.

That would make her feel better.

[DGHoodini]

Say *what*?...I wouldn’t recognize her, if she was seated next to her husband on a stage.

[princess leah]

“If my people, who are called by my name, will Humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, Then will I hear from heaven, and will FORGIVE THEIR SINS, and will HEAL their LAND.”

I don’t seem to hear too much about sins or asking for forgiveness or nothing about humbling himself...Guess what, John, you’re done! God will not hear your name period...

[Oratam]

Great minds think alike. She’s a generic, heavy-set, middle-aged white woman. She’s beloved in the same way Mrs. Butterworth is or Hazel, the character played by Shirley Booth about half a century ago.

[chris_bdba]

That is news to me!

[doodad]

I hear you; if she kicked me in the shin I would not know her. LOL, pitied is the new beloved.

[musicman]

I "borrowed" this from pookie18:

"Mrs. Edwards 'One of the Most Beloved Women in America'."

[ClaudiusI]

Who?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Me thinks she is confusing compassion and pity for genuine affection.

[PGR88]

I thought John Edwards was the most beloved woman in America?

[clintonh8r]

I read the headline and threw up in my mouth a little.....