Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy - John Edwards, Politics

Sunday Times (UK) Tweaks American MSM for Remaining Mum on Edwards Scandal
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... today. The Sunday Times story set the tone with this catchy headline, "Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy," followed by this subtitle, "Gotcha: Senator John Edwards, whose wife has cancer, has been caught in a sex scandal that ends his vice-presidential hopes." The Sunday Times story itself goes where the American MSM fears to tread (emphasis mine): ...

Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy - Edwards
USS Neverdock — Sunday, July 27, 2008 Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy - Edwards His love child isn't the scandal here, the cover up is. Labels: Democrats , Edwards Link posted by Marc @ 8:50 AM [image] [image] Main Page | Digg This! | | This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Sunday Times runs Edwards-Mistress-Love Child story, rips off blogosphere
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... alleged mistress and their love child . [image] While the mainstream media was curiously silent on the well-sourced story, the most recent episode in the affair appears to be wending its way into the mainstream, albeit slowly. Fox News appears to have confirmed the Enquirer's recent report that Edwards visited mistress Rielle Hunter and their love child in a Los Angeles hotel. Although the mainstream media blockade of the story has barely started to crack, reputable papers abroad have caught on . [image] Scratch John Edwards off the list of ...

London Times calls it like it is
PoliPundit.com — London Times calls it like it is Sometimes an outside perspective gets it exactly right. The Times on the silence of the media on the Edwards scandal: The New York Times has not deigned to touch the story, although it recently ran thousands of words on a relationship between McCain and a female lobbyist, which appeared to be based more on innuendo than fact. The L.A. Times refuses to cover this hometown story. Editor Tony Pierce even sent an e-mail to staffers ...

Bits and Pieces 7-27
QandO — ... The John Edwards story hasn’t been deemed important enough for the major media here in the US, but it did make The Sunday Times in England, where they noted: ...

Journalistic passive resistance
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Journalistic passive resistance I don't think 99% of the American press is trying to cover for John Edwards just because he's a Democrat. But they're certainly not in as big of a hurry to report on his second family as they'd be if he were a Republican. I've always been skeptical about cries of liberal media bias, but if this isn't evidence of it, I don't know what is. Here we are a week later, and they've let a bunch of limeys beat them to the story. Who would have thought a lightweight, blow-dried ambulance chaser like Edwards could make the entire mainstream media tie ...

Murdoch Hunts Dem Dirt
Newshoggers.com — ... hunted down one Obama half-brother living in China who exports goods to the US. It had a piece by the neocon's favorite London Times shill, Sarah Baxter, today on the National Enquirer ...

The MSM Starting to Talk About Edwards' BabyGate?
blonde sagacity — ... ) Mickey Kaus, a blogger for Slate magazine, leaked the memo. He noted: “This was a sensational scandal that the Los Angeles Times and other mainstream papers passionately did not want to uncover when Edwards was a formal candidate and now that the Enquirer seems to have done the job for them it looks like they want everyone to shut up while they fail to uncover it again.” (source) ...

The New York Times Didn’t Run “Sleazy” Edwards Story, But Did Run “Sleazy” McCain Story
Say Anything — The Times of London takes a shot at the New York Times: The New York Times has not deigned to touch the story, although it recently ran thousands of words on a relationship between McCain and a female lobbyist, which appeared to be based more on innuendo than fact. Just so we’ve got this straight: A story about an affair involving a Republican politician that is based on no evidence and a lot of innuendo gets front-page treatment from the New York Times. A story about an ...

Edwards: Already Caught in Blatant Lies as the Media Ignores it on purpose
The Discerning Texan — ... the story but to “Keep rockin’” (how sophisticated). No matter. There won’t be anybody left working at the LAT in a few years anyway. In fact, the absurd see-no-evil reaction to the Edwards Affair will be seen as a benchmark in know-nothing journalism by the MSM and one of the last nails in their coffin. Too bad most of their soon-to-be unemployed reporters are not good enough to get jobs at the National Enquirer. [What about PJM?-ed. No comment.] Even the Times of London has noticed the US media being completely out to lunch--on ...