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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Because everything is good news for John McCain and bad news for Barack Obama
Posted by Jill | 10:35 AM
Would somebody please put David Gregory back out on the dance floor with Karl Rove where he belongs and put Rachel Maddow in that 6 PM slot?

Gregory:

Welcome to Race for the White House on a busy Friday. I'm David Gregory -- happy to have you here. It's your stop for the fast pace, the bottom line, and every point of view in the room. Tonight, more on Edwards and the fallout from his admission today about a sexual affair: Is this another skeleton in the Democratic closet that Barack Obama must struggle to overcome? Will Edwards appear at the Democratic convention? All of that ahead.


"Another skeleton in the closet?" Uh...is there anyone anywhere in the country who has not yet heard by now that John Edwards has an affair? I hate to tell you this, Dave, but it's not in the closet anymore.

And are you SURE you want to talk about closets in the context of Democrats?

Because two can play this game:

Larry Craig:





South Carolina Sen. and McCain lackey Lindsey Graham.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist:




Former Florida state representative Bob Allen.

California Congressman David Dreier.

Do I need to go on?

And why should John Edwards' infidelity hurt Barack Obama, when John McCain's infidelity seems to be off-limits to John McCain's own candidacy? Forget for a moment about Vicki Iseman (who seems to have been disappeared since the story about her alleged romantic relationship with John McCain appeared in the New York Times), though if simple denial of an affair sufficed for John McCain it should have sufficed for Edwards, especially since no one followed up to determine if there was an affair, certainly not the National Enquirer. I'm talking about John McCain's adultery with Cindy Hensley when he was married to his first wife, Carol Shepp, whom he had decided was no longer attractive. But of course in Republican-land, as long as you marry your mistress and your ex-wife keeps her mouth shut, it's all perfectly OK.

I'm not defending infidelity here, not Edwards' nor McCain's nor anyone else's. Cheating is about the most hurtful thing you can do to a spouse, and frankly, if you want nookie elsewhere, at least have the decency to get a divorce BEFORE dipping your wick elsewhere so that at least your spouse is spared that humiliation and is playing on an even playing field where SHE can find someone else too. But when you have a Republican NOMINEE, not someone who dropped out months ago, about whom similar rumors were swirling not that long ago, and who is married to the woman with whom he cheated on his first wife, and who represents the so-called "family values", "sanctity of marriage" party, it seems to me that trying to pin John Edwards' adultery on Barack Obama is a stretch. Or a Stretch, since we're talking about David Gregory.

But given how David Gregory, like just about everyone else in the media, is so firmly in the tank for McCain, and how he's bound and determined to play the guilt-by-association game, let's send him back where he belongs -- at teh Starlight Lounge, dancing cheek-to-cheek with his best buddy, Karl Rove:



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Blogger Jayhawk said...
And by all means, let's spend 45 minutes of the one-hour show (which is supposedly about the presidential campaign as it's entitled Race to the White House) discussing this, and then the rest of the show on an interview with a McCain staffer. What a nicely impartial effort.

See my post Saturday at On My Mind.
8/10/08, 11:07 AM  
Blogger J said...
I'm glad I don't watch that kind of TV, but I also know that the world confuses me more than it should because I don't. Because I don't see how someone can get from point A to point 75 in a reasonable fashion, but if I had been watching stupid fake news shows, I would know when and how the rules changed.

The first thing I saw about Edwards, actually, was on Slate, and they were talking about how this thing, if it hurts either of the candidates, will probably hurt McCain more than Obama. You know, unless it turns out that Obama has also had an affair, and I've seen nothing on that one. And the reasons they gave were the same as yours. So at least the discussion is out there.
8/10/08, 12:24 PM  
Blogger Steve said...
Each session of Gregory's Race Fo' TheWhiteHouse, makes it more abundantly clear that Scott McClellan should get a Pulitzer for his assessment that The WH Press Corp wasn't doing their job when he was Press Secretary.
A charge that DG claimed,"had no merit".
Still waiting for DG, or anyone else from WH Press Corps, to ask Bush: Why did you want to get into Iraq 10 days after you took office, Mr. President?
After 4 years of waiting, I guess there must be a statute of limitations involved.
8/10/08, 3:07 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
Nonody switching to McCain because of Edwards. As sex scandals go, this one isn't even salacious. It isn't Larry Craig in the men's room or Clinton's compulsions. It's just sad. It's not "hypocritical" in the context of the policies Edwards was promoting & no one was hearing anyway. Edwards had fallen off the political radar. What's hypocritical for me is when media asks, "How will this affect his message on poverty?" Well, it won't hurt if we now know he has a "message on poverty."
8/10/08, 4:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
See who the first wife of John McCain is working for now and who she contributed to

http://webofdeception.com/index.html#carolsheppmccain
8/10/08, 7:45 PM  
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