Edwards, Clinton, Spitzer: Betrayal album

Yup, marital problems and outright adultery are bi-partisan. (Funny I haven't seen any women politicians caught this way, at least yet.)

But the "rogues gallery" left out a few names: Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Vito Fossella, and John McCain among them.

These photos are political pornography. To think you look down your nose at the Enquirer.

Giuliani and FDR married cousins.

What's that expression about politics and bedfellows?

All of these guys have paid a huge price for a piece of _________. What a way to go, guys! Who's next in line?

Yes, it's 'journalism' like this that explains why Americans don't know that 9/11 was a false flag attack,, that all our energy needs could be met by wind OR solar power, that GM and general tire killed mass transit in the 50s and made suburbia possible.

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

My marriage ended because John McCain didn�t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.�
McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.

�Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
�This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.�
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel � even by the standards of modern politics.

�McCain is the classic opportunist. He�s always reaching for attention and glory,� he said.

�After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.�

How will the same newspapers that covered up the Edwards scandal, try now to spin the story to help their fellow Democrats?

Two such spin techniques are in evidence above. First, the journalist minimizes what the Democrat did, continuing the cover up. Here, the journalist censors any mention of the hush money the Edwards campaign paid Hunter. Then, the journalist drags out the "everybody does it" excuse.

Edwards lied for years. His lies were known to the media, who aided the Democrat in the cover up. The only media outlets that deserve to be believed are those few media outlets that were honest enough to pursue this story.

So Bruce,

You trust the Enquirer?!!

Figures.

Hey RNC Bruce,

Just when in the Trib's entire history did it ever endorse a Democrat for President. I'll give you a hint...NEVER!

So Bruce,

You trust the Enquirer?!!

Figures.

Posted by: Kenny Bunkport ☯ | August 9, 2008 4:50 PM

Of course he does. He will champion any media that gives him a warm fuzzy feeling. Stay tuned for his next story from the Enquirer......Martians land and are part of the "surge". He has that..."inquiring mind" mentality.

Hussein, I trust the Enquirer a lot more than I do Edwards, who lied to the American people about this for at least a year. They were right. They had the story. And you and the media shamelessly tried to ignore Edwards' affair while he was running for president. You have zero credibility.

The person attacking McCain above is human garbage. Carol McCain has endorsed her ex-husband for every office he's run for since the end of their marriage and endorses him for president.
I hope someone takes this person and tortures him or her daily for 5 years, as John McCain was, and we can then see how he behaves after tasting freedom for the first time in 5 years. Many POWs and everyday soldiers came back from vietnam different people than when they left.

And you and the media shamelessly tried to ignore Edwards' affair while he was running for president. You have zero credibility.

Posted by: Jeff | August 10, 2008 5:35 PM

I'm sorry...of course you are right....i just put it out of my mind when John told me about it, and those silly media people....why didn't they believe a reliable sorce like the "Enquirer"? Heck...I believe all those abductions by martians too. Keep on top of these fine media outlets and try Marvel also next time.

Actually, Hussein, if you knew what you were talking about you'd know that the Enquirer broke the story on Michael Jackson's most recent child molestation charges, scooped the national media on Britney Spears' first pregnancy and also the Lisa Marie Presley and Jackson marriage.
Gossip might be tawdry but even the stuffy old Libune has a gossip column. And that's all that the enquirer covers, too. Gossip. You erroneously attribute stories about martians to them. That's more the Weekly World News' territory. And who wouldn't have fun photoshopping an old looking Elvis into a Burger King?
The media world isn't full of charlatans for you to skewer (the Enquirer) and white knights to help you and your liberal friends (the libune). It's more grey. Some pubs are right most of the time and others aren't nearly as credible. Paying sources and using axe grinders as sources does give me pause about believing the Enquirer most of the time, but on this story you can't deny they were right WAY before the rest of the pack. That's the difference between the MSM and the rest. They won't do the investigations that the Enquirer will. We used to call that doing the legwork and actual reporting. You may have a low opinion of the Enquirer as a "sorce," (sic) Hussein, but I and most Americans rank its credibility WAY above "leaders" like Edwards, who has made two careers out of lying.

Here's ABCNews' opinion of the Edwards reporting. As usual it disagrees 100% with Mr. Hussein R., here.
Enquirer 95 to 96% right on Edwards
That's what ABC News' Brian Ross says. He tells Michael Calderone that his investigative team began looking into the John Edwards story back in October. http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0808/Edwards_admits_affair_Nightline.html?showallPhil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco, also had this wrist slap for the MSM and its Hussein enablers: "Of course the New York (City) Times said they were "looking into it" but certainly not printing a story. Oh, no. On journalism sites, the finger-pointing, self-loathing, self-righteousness and tut-tutting was massive. Don't touch that dirty tale! Don't trust but verify! Why are we ignoring this?"

Jeff,

It seems you're spending WAY too much time in check-out lines.

John Edwards: "I will gladly take a paternity test."
Rielle Hunter's sister: "Step up and give the blood sample right now, jerk."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5546813&page=1

Actually, Hussein, if you knew what you were talking about you'd know that the Enquirer broke the story on Michael Jackson's most recent child molestation charges, scooped the national media on Britney Spears' first pregnancy and also the Lisa Marie Presley and Jackson marriage.
Posted by: Jeff | August 10, 2008 8:26 PM

Yes...and I sat on the edge of my seat for each of those world changing issues. There are also a few bathroom stalls that have some great dittys and I have no doubt that would be why "wide stance Larry Craig" was busy copying them down. I can only hope you find the fortune cookie with the answer to our gas addiction ends up on your plate. Your defense of the Enquirer is only fitting with the way your party runs a campaign.

Jennifer Rubin in commentary magazine nails it:

"The Edwards mess is the most recent and visible, but hardly unique, example of the mainstream media’s hear no evil/see no evil approach to newsgathering. How many other stories has the MSM missed, denied or avoided? From Rathergate to Reverend Wright to the success of the surge, the pattern is the same: MSM stalls, shuffles its collective feet, and doggedly ignores information for as long as possible until they can no longer do so with a straight face. The fact that these stories without exception work to the detriment of Democrats is apparently a grand coincidence.

And the notion that they are upholding some “journalistic standard” is rendered absurd. Edwards’ story wasn’t important on Thursday, but it was on Friday because he confessed? No, the level of proof changed, but the story’s relevance did not. If it wasn’t worthy of investigation before the ABC interview then it was unworthy of mention afterwards. Their explanation for their editorial decision-making is no more credible than . . . well than Edwards himself.

There is a reason why the news media’s trustworthiness is rated so low."

I actuall don't read them at all, Kenny. Although I do here Mike Walker on the Howard Stern Show play the "gossip game." That's the whole basis for my belief that they're more into gossip than aliens and the kind of stuff in the WWN. That and glancing at them, yes, in the checkout line.