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John Edwards Says Don't Take Murdoch Money -- But He Took 800 Grand?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2007/08/03/john-edwards-says-dont-take-murdoch-money-he-took-800-grand ^

Posted on 08/03/2007 7:28:45 AM PDT by chessplayer

In Friday's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports that the new John Edwards campaign against any Democrat accepting Rupert Murdoch contributions has a slight flaw:

"John Edwards will never ask Rupert Murdoch for money -- he won't accept his money," said a statement e-mailed to supporters. Not so fast, Murdoch's people say. His publishing unit, HarperCollins, paid Edwards a $500,000 advance -- and $300,000 in expenses -- for his 2006 book "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives."

"We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance," News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; ailes; barnes; democrats; edwards; fnc; hannity; hume; johnedwards; lackies; oops; oreilly; roger
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1 posted on 08/03/2007 7:28:55 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Why is Murdoch giving money to commie, leftis, jihad-loving traitors?


2 posted on 08/03/2007 7:32:35 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: chessplayer
Read in another version of this story that he gave it to charity. Conveniently, no records could be produced for this. Still, for him to come out and tell all the Dem candidates to return money from NewsCorp when he KNOWS he got money from NewsCorp is very telling.
3 posted on 08/03/2007 7:32:37 AM PDT by Sulsa (Duncan Hunter in '08!)
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To: chessplayer

Q: What do you call 100 sky-diving lawyers?
A: Skeet.


4 posted on 08/03/2007 7:34:35 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: Sulsa
...when he KNOWS he got money from NewsCorp is very telling.

Damn right. Right there are your "two Americas": Forrest Gump's America that he lives in with just his dopey tangerine-wife and Everybody America, who should get down on their knees and thank God that we're all just so blessed to share a planet with such a brilliant, brilliant...ahem..."man".

5 posted on 08/03/2007 7:37:00 AM PDT by kromike
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To: chessplayer

The fundamental question that must be asked is WHY would ANYONE pay for the vapid printed word of this guy?


6 posted on 08/03/2007 7:37:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: chessplayer

Too bad it wasn’t HUSH money!!!!1


7 posted on 08/03/2007 7:37:50 AM PDT by FlatLandBeer
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To: chessplayer
"We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance," News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.

ROFLMAO! Now that's a great spokesman.

8 posted on 08/03/2007 7:38:03 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Dems '08 choices are a Manly woman, a Womanly man, or an naive Senator)
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To: samtheman
Why is Murdoch giving money to commie, leftis, jihad-loving traitors?

He's not. He's expecting to make money off of commie, leftist, jihad-loving traitors.

9 posted on 08/03/2007 7:39:36 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: chessplayer
As the old saying goes,,,,

"If it wasn't for double standards,,,,

liberals wouldn't have any".

10 posted on 08/03/2007 7:41:16 AM PDT by stockstrader (We need a conservative candidate who will UNITE the Party, not a liberal one to DIVIDE it!)
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To: samtheman

Because he is a capitalist (a good thing) and knew there would be enough idiots out there that would plop down their hardly earned dollars for Edward’s drivel.

Side benefit, well, this story. Now Edwards looks like a moron...

Again...


11 posted on 08/03/2007 7:44:20 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Two Words:

Daily KOS...

They can use their Barnes and Nobel employee discounts, the money their mommies gave them for a haircut and deodorant and buy it off the 50% rack...

Thought we had been over that...

12 posted on 08/03/2007 7:46:59 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: chessplayer

Republican politicians can’t stand it when they learn that good Democrats like Senator Edwards and MurryMom earn their money honestly, unlike Jack Abramoff and other politically juiced donors to the Republican Party.


13 posted on 08/03/2007 7:50:44 AM PDT by MurryMom
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Honest and the name of a big time tort lawyer in the same sentence...

Damn you are good, see why they keep you around.

You owe me a Cafe Mocha from the spit take..

Now I have to go down the hall and deal with the KOS kids again...


14 posted on 08/03/2007 7:56:57 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: chessplayer

Obama won’t use nukes, Edwards is being a moron, Hillary is Hillary and reminds men of their ex-wives, Romney reminds me of one of the claymation “Thunderbirds” I used to watch as a kid, etc etc. “None of the above” is looking better every day


15 posted on 08/03/2007 7:58:11 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: MurryMom

“Republican politicians can’t stand it when they learn that good Democrats like Senator Edwards and MurryMom earn their money honestly, unlike Jack Abramoff and other politically juiced donors to the Republican Party.”

Oh, I get it, Murry Mom. Republicans earn their money dishonestly.

Actually, you entirely missed the point. It’s the hypocrisy of Edwards being discussed here, not his profits on his side of the Two Americas.


16 posted on 08/03/2007 7:58:31 AM PDT by rightazrain ("Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. " -- Ernest Hemingway)
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To: Bladerunnuh
Romney and the Thunderbirds..

Thanks, now every time I see him I’ll be looking for his lips to move out of sync with his words

Fitting since his words are often out of sync with his positions...

17 posted on 08/03/2007 8:02:48 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: ejonesie22


18 posted on 08/03/2007 8:07:04 AM PDT by Bladerunnuh
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To: Bladerunnuh
IT’S HIM!

Now I know where Mitt got his early money, royalties on T-Bird merchandise and reruns!

Little did I realize my Dinky die cast T Bird 1 was carrying a possible future president! (not)

19 posted on 08/03/2007 8:11:29 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I just play one on Free Republic. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: chessplayer

Edwards is such a PHONEY!! It is so hard to see how easily people are taken in by this Elmer Gantry.


20 posted on 08/03/2007 8:14:25 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
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