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Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story?
Slate Magazine ^ | July 23, 2008 | Jack Shafer

Posted on 07/23/2008 5:49:48 PM PDT by Kleebo151

Everybody had a good laugh last August when Roll Call broke the story about Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, getting arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for playing footsies in a toilet stall...

...But if Edwards had an affair and lied about it, shouldn't he suffer scrutiny akin to that of Craig? At least three-dozen daily newspapers in the United States published the Craig news the day after the Roll Call scoop, according to Nexis, but this morning not a single U.S. daily mentioned the Enquirer piece.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doublestandard; edwards; johnedwards; larrycraig; mediabias; riellehunter; scandals; slate
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To: Kleebo151

What’s the difference between the Edwards story and the Larry Craig story?

Well aside from the trivial facts that Edwards is a former VP nominee for the Demagogue Party and a recent “top 3” Presidential candidate...... the Edwards story would seem to have far more ‘there’ there (if it can be substantiated), since a mistress and a love-child while your wife dies of cancer is a far far bigger deal than some toe-tapping in an airport restroom.

The fact that the MSM goes wild over the Larry Craig story (which was indeed legitimate) while refusing to approach the Edwards story shows how extreme their biases really are.


61 posted on 07/23/2008 8:26:26 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMESSIAH: "Pay no attention to that pitiful little man behind the curtain!")
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To: Kleebo151

I don’t usually post on threads like this, but the National Enquirer story looks lawsuit-proof from a legal standpoint. Placing bets on whether Edwards sues for libel.

Now..... why now? Who benefits?

The NE is owned and run, and legally vetted, by Clinton crony David (Jiminy Cricket) Kendall. Edwards is (was) being seriously considered as Obama’s Veep pick.

Connect the dots


62 posted on 07/23/2008 8:28:49 PM PDT by Cincinna
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To: Kleebo151; Stephanie32; All

Wow, he sure is cold. He does this to his wife when she’s terminally ill, they have small kids, they’ve already lost a child. I had heard he was supposed to make a statement on tv today about it, guess that was a rumor. I cannot BELIEVE the way nothing is on tv about this. As far as MSNBC, they wouldn’t cover it if he did it with one of their wives, they’re so OCD over the Dems.


63 posted on 07/23/2008 8:30:06 PM PDT by Stephanie32
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To: Kleebo151

‘cuz they are all overseas sucking up the O’basm???


64 posted on 07/23/2008 8:32:22 PM PDT by maggief
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To: reefdiver
Look’s like a chick from a beer and shot joint in Buffalo, Same look you get from them when you tell them “get in the truck”

More like "get in the trunk".

65 posted on 07/23/2008 9:01:34 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: reefdiver

“Look’s like a chick from a beer and shot joint in Buffalo, Same look you get from them when you tell them “get in the truck””

oh my!
definitely the funniest post of the day!


66 posted on 07/23/2008 9:15:12 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Kleebo151
Edwards, too, may be a sex hypocrite...since the affair has been going on long enough to produce a "love child", it was probably at least in its early stages about the time Edwards was standing with his wife, who does have cancer, and talking about how much he loved her and was going to help her fight her illness - sounds like hypocrisy to me.......
67 posted on 07/23/2008 9:23:43 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Kleebo151; All
Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story?

*cough-cough*

Please refer to my tag line.

68 posted on 07/23/2008 11:02:19 PM PDT by OnRightOnLeftCoast (If not for double-standards, the Left would have no standards at all.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
She kind of looks like Hugh Laurie (as Bertie Wooster) wearing a wig.

Wait until Aunt Agatha gets them ... I don't think even Jeeves could help.

69 posted on 07/24/2008 12:14:54 AM PDT by lkco (Go Dino!)
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To: Laptop_Ron
I don’t like Edwards and I think his wife is a Grade A B*tch, but even she doesn’t deserve this. Neither do their kids.

I agree.

70 posted on 07/24/2008 2:07:36 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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To: Kleebo151

only about sex, right hillary.


71 posted on 07/24/2008 3:32:43 AM PDT by Waco
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Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story?

It's the same game plan that worked to sanitize the John Kerry/Alex Polier mess.
72 posted on 07/24/2008 3:40:05 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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