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Saturday, Jan 23
Olbermann Whines about Mainstream Media’s Lack of Outrage over SCOTUS Campaign Finance Decision
The "Countdown" host then lamented how much political reporters covered John Edwards so-called love child, which has hardly gotten a lion's share of attention, even though he droned on with ad hominem attacks against Carrie Prejean and Mark Sanford night after night.
Friday, Jan 22
WaPo's Kurtz Cops Out on Press's Failure to Follow Up on Enquirer's Edwards Affair Story
In the summer of 2006, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards commissioned a series of web-based documentary shorts for his pre-announcement leadership PAC, the One America Committee. Within political circles, the videos were regarded as innovative, having successfully paint...
Buried: Edwards Admission Hidden in Four out of Top Five U.S. Newspapers
If you're totally reliant upon print media, some of the major newspapers that is, you might not have noticed the news about former Democratic Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John Edwards' admission that he was indeed the father of his campaign mistress's daughter.
Thursday, Jan 21
ABC Fawns Over Elizabeth Edwards as an ‘Adored,’ ‘Passionate’ ‘Heroine,’ Downplays Negative Portrayal
On Friday's Good Morning America, Claire Shipman gushed over Elizabeth Edwards as a “smart, passionate, sometimes fierce woman with many different sides to her personality.” She lauded the wife of John Edwards as a complex “heroine” who is “increasingly hard to define.” At the same time...
Irony Alert: Ex-Clinton Aide Stephanopoulos Wonders How Edwards Thought He Could Cheat and Run for Office
With a complete lack of irony, Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Thursday commented on the revelation that John Edwards had fathered a love child. The former top aide to Bill Clinton marveled, "How did he ever think he was going to get through a presidential campaign sittin...
Monday, Dec 28
Open Thread
Will this be treated like Tiger Woods, or the National Enquirer story on John Edwards? Will it be covered, or will the networks find experts to challenge the photo's authenticity? Regardless, it's clear that a photo like this surfacing in 1960 certainly could have changed that near-tie...
Saturday, Dec 12
SNL Mocks Media's Adultery Coverage, Ignores Boycott of Edwards' Affair
Instead, on stage were Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), played by Jason Sudeikis, Sen John Ensign (R-Nev.), played by Bill Hader, and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), played by Will Forte. FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS (R-N.C.): I had a love-child. [...] EDWARDS: Isn't he Puerto Rican?
Thursday, May 7
HuffPo Blogger Gives Detailed Financial Advice to John Edwards' Mistress
The chances of John Edwards doing the "right thing" for anybody else is somewhere between nil and none. As for Rielle losing her "leverage" because Edwards is not the father of her daughter, that possibility is even more remote than Edwards doing the right thing.
Wednesday, May 6
John Edwards Flashback: Praised by Rolling Stone as the 'Real Liberal'
Flying below the radar, the former vice-presidential candidate is pulling off a feat that Democratic consultants have long considered impossible: staking out the most progressive platform among the viable candidates while preserving an aura of electability...
Tuesday, Sep 2
Podcast: NYT: Daughter's Pregnancy Fair Game, Asks How Palin Can 'Juggle Those Responsibilities'
I also think that it raises questions about John McCain's qualities as a chief executive, his decision-making. The vice-presidential pick is a very important decision for any candidate. It's the first real decision that the candidate makes, and it gives insight into how that candidate w...
Sunday, Aug 10
Opinion: CNN's Yellin: Edwards Story Unimportant -- He Wasn't a Contender
KURTZ: Wait a minute. I'm not buying that. So what? Exactly, especially since the Enquirer broke this story last October WELL before the Iowa caucuses. As such, claiming that you ignored this story because Edwards wasn't a top contender is either the height of ignorance, or the height of gal...
Friday, Jul 25
Opinion: LAT Muzzles Staff On Edwards Story, Trumpets Obama (Again) with HUGE Photo
Kaus reminds everyone that while the L.A. Times and the MSM have been pretty silent on this Edwards story, the New York Times was unafraid in running a front-page article last February that strongly insinuated an adulterous affair between John McCain and a lobbyist. Double standard? Absol...
Monday, Apr 28
Opinion: NYT Invites John 'Two Americas' Edwards to Take a Bow in Life Expectancy Story
In a silly political stunt, Sack claimed the findings validated former Democratic presidential candidate (and wealthy trial lawyer) John Edwards' left-wing ranting about "two Americas," even bringing in the failed candidate to explain how he was right all along.
Saturday, Feb 9
Today's Unbalanced 'Real-People' Panel
As I wrote about at the time, two timid Republicans were pitted against two partisan Dems. In November, one of the "Republicans," Susie O'Neil, claimed that the country is in decline due to the war "and because corporations are totally influencing our Members of Congress and the Senate." C...
Thursday, Jan 31
Opinion: FNC Notes AP Hails Edwards: ‘Scrappy Underdog...Steered Rivals to Progressive Ideals'
Pickler suggested Edwards’ far-left platform had become mainstream and accepted, crediting Edwards with promoting “themes” that were “eventually adopted by the other Democratic presidential candidates -- and even a Republican, Mitt Romney.” But Pickler only named one “theme” tha...
Wednesday, Jan 23
Podcast: David Letterman, John Edwards Bash Fox's O'Reilly
The exchange came in a jovial January 22 interview in which Edwards joked about having Letterman as his running mate, or at the very least as a celebrity endorser a la Oprah Winfrey. Former Sen. JOHN EDWARDS (D-N.C.): Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. EDWARDS: Most of what he says is crap.
Friday, Jan 11
Podcast: To Snow's Astonishment, Maher Suggests GOP Stole NH for Hillary
Insisting he's “not a conspiracy theorist,” Bill Maher, on the Friday night season debut of his HBO show, suggested that because Republicans prefer to run against Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama they engineered her victory in New Hampshire's Democratic primary. Later on Real Time wi...
Thursday, Dec 20
Podcast: ABC's Cuomo to Obama: 'America Inherently Racist'
Does "Good Morning America" mean "good morning all you racists"? Co-host Chris Cuomo seemed to suggest that on December 20. (Hat tip: Howard Mortman) Upon interviewing presidential candidate Barack Obama Cuomo inquired about Obama’s biggest obstacles.
Tuesday, Dec 18
Podcast: CBS’s Smith Gushes Over Obama: ‘A Candidate for Change, Particularly on the War’
Just yesterday, in an interview with Hillary Clinton in Iowa, Smith referred to Bill Clinton as her "attack dog" against Obama. Here is the full transcript of the segment: BARACK OBAMA: Hey, guys. OBAMA: Hey, Harry. OBAMA: You know -- OBAMA: No. BILL SHAHEEN: This is Hillary Clinton!
Wednesday, Oct 31
Podcast: Chris Matthews Agrees 'With the Sentiment' of Disruptive Protestor
It is no secret that Chris Matthews is a shill for the Democrats and adamantly opposed to the Iraq War. The former Democratic staffer, who the previous night wrote a speech for Obama attacking Hillary Clinton from the left, endorsed "the sentiment" of a disruptive protestor.
