Disgraced Democrat John Edwards, Still Man Without a Party in New York Times
Returning to form, the last two New York Times updates from the Greensboro, N.C. trial of two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, charged with misusing campaign money to cover up an affair, contain zero mentions of Edwards's Democratic affiliation. The word doesn't even appear in either story.
On Thursday, Lizette Alvarez covered the testimony from Elizabeth Christina Reynolds, who was research director for Edwards during what the Times referred to only as his "2008 presidential campaign." As if the former Democratic senator wasn't running for president as a Democrat.
Alvarez also neglected the word in her Wednesday coverage of the testimony of Cheri Young, wife of Edwards' aide Andrew Young, the man who lied for Edwards by claiming he was the father of the baby of Rielle Hunter, Edwards' mistress, "so that Mr. Edwards, a former senator and vice presidential candidate, could continue campaigning for the presidency in 2007 and 2008."
So which party line did he run on?
By contrast, the Times eagerly trumpets the party identification of Republicans caught in scandal or controversy.
- Clay Waters's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
What party was Edwards a part
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 1:12pm.
What party was Edwards a part of?
slowboa
Submitted by MrShy on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 1:43pm.
"What party was Edwards a part of?"
The "stick it everywhere and be a dirt bag all you want because the left has no moral compass, and the media will let you slide until you're caught red-handed" DemocRAT (D) party, as I recall.
But it's been so long since I saw any party affiliation attached to this worthless shell of a human being, I can't be 100% sure about that.
- Moroccan Shy
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Seriously?
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 6:10pm.
You can't even do a 10 second google search?
Public Trust?
Submitted by vote24 on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 1:48pm.
It's just shocking to me the level to which all the media will go to bend the news always in favor of liberal and P.C. angles. And it just gets WORSE. Network owners and advertisers are very vulnerable right now. We need to find a way to take advantage of that.
I wonder...
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 2:44pm.
How many clueless automatons in NYC and it's surrounds (like our good freind balboa) are completely unaware that John Edwards is in fact a democrat and was concidered, until very recently, a leader of that political party?
One thing we can take consolation in...with the NY Time's dropping circulation, there will be a shrinking number of clueless automatons over the next few years.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Please. I know he's a
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 2:57pm.
Please. I know he's a democrat. My point is that everyone knows that.
Apparently not the NY Times.
Submitted by NC Cop on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 2:59pm.
Apparently not the NY Times.
And apparently not CNN.
Submitted by MrShy on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 3:32pm.
Apparently not CNN.
Apparently not _____ .
Apparently not _____ .
And so on...
Bal, why are you a deliberate idiot about the OBVIOUS deliberate omission -- or attempted burying at the bottom, or in small print under a photo, but NEVER in a lead paragraph or headline or subhead (I mean, never -- go google every outlet's article) -- of a major Democrat's party affiliation in a major scandal across so many news/media wires?
You're just here to be a knucklehead to annoy us. You do that job well.
- annoyed shy
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
"Exposing and Combating ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 5:39pm.
Liberal Media Bias" ---
is apparently waaaaaaaay over balboa's head.
You a midget, bal?
Or just vertically challenged?
MD
I have a great vertical.
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 8:58pm.
I have a great vertical.
Given your post contents, you must mean ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 9:55pm.
"vertigo".
MD
Clever.
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 11:13pm.
Clever.
Pithy---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 12:37am.
^
This trial is being covered
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 4:49pm.
This trial is being covered in more detail by our local media than the national media. I always knew that Edwards was a scum bag worthless POS. Now I can multiply that times 3. He is a lot worse than I first thought.
I am hoping that he winds up serving time but it probably is not going to happen. He has a team of slick lawyers.