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Now that John Edwards has admitted that he lied about his extramarital affair liberals who ran from the story are strangely silent.
Note this HuffingtonPost piece by John McQuaid.
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the National Enquirer? Is it exhibiting a double standard by giving blanket coverage to Larry Craig’s bathroom antics, and ignoring Edwards’s bathroom bunkering?
Oh, please. Edwards is a politician, which automatically puts him in the public eye. But, frankly, this is a tenuous pretext at best for covering his personal foibles right now. He is a private citizen. He is not running for president. He doesn’t hold office, as Craig did — still does! He didn’t cop to committing a crime, then absurdly try to weasel out of it as Craig did.
It sure looks like Edwards is a hypocrite who misrepresented himself by showcasing his wife and kids so prominently in the campaign. But his campaign was unsuccessful. Voters didn’t buy his arguments or his life story as reasons to elect him. In short, nobody cares about this now, except as celebrity gossip. And that’s how it’s going to play when the media picks it up, as it probably will.
The better question is, should the media have gone after this story more aggressively back during the campaign? Sounds like the answer is yes. It’s not clear, though, that this would have made a difference: with everybody denying it, and no eyewitness evidence a la Gary Hart, or physical evidence a la Bill Clinton, it’s very hard to sift the credible story from the hearsay in a situation like this.
An even better question: hasn’t the National Enquirer heard of video cameras? This is the era of TMZ, man.
Liberals didn’t want to believe it and it was made easrier for them by the fact that the story was broken by the National Enquirer a tabloid that is often dismissed by the mainstream medis. I think McQuaid and the entire liberal media owes the Enquirer an apology for ignoring the story and not doing their job. But I won’t hold my breath for that to happen.
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Don Irvine is Chairman of Accuracy in Media. He is active on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow him @donirvine to read his latest thoughts.
2 Comments for Liberals Get A Black Eye Over Edwards Story
How much more must we endure? When will one honest man step forward? We are all well aware there is a whore on every street corner. I realize a good looking female can turn a good man’s head. If she rubs it in his face, sooner or later he will fall.
Media had no interest in a negative expose on golden boy Edwards; but now any headlines are needed desperately to cover up the Obama campaign’s implosion at his own hands (or mouth). Edwards will now be thrown under the Obama bus in the hopes of distracting the American public’s attention from the dismal, toxic conditions a few feet above, giving the Obamessiah a breather in which he is expected to be able to recompose himself.
Of course the media should have covered the story when it was a story; but obviously American media has never been in the business of reporting negative news about a progressive, let alone a golden boy, without an overwhelmingly significant ulterior motive.