Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Hey JR! Mickey Kaus says you're WRONG about the Edwards scandal

Mickey Kaus says people like JR, and the Edwards sycophants over at Cone's reasons for their "no coverage" lattitude regarding the Edwards scandal don't hold up under scrutiny.


Kaus:

"The only legitimate reason not to cover this scandal, it seems to me, is simple sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards--and I've gotten enough emails from anguished and angry members of the MSM to conclude, with Estrich, that it's the prime reason for the MSM blackout. True, I also suspect that if Mrs. Edwards were a conservative Republican, or even an unbeloved Democrat, the MSM might somehow find a way to overcome this compassionate sentiment."

However, it's pretty clear that the legitimate reasons FOR covering this story outweigh the sole weak legitimate reason for NOT covering the whole thing.

In JR's case, his reasoning that he "didn't have anything from a credible source" on the story is just not true.

We won't even begin to discuss the N&R's editorial stance on this subject, will we?



12 comments:

  1. "In JR's case, his reasoning that he "didn't have anything from a credible source" on the story is just not true."

    What information from a credible source does JR have that he's lying about?

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  2. "What information from a credible source does JR have that he's lying about?"

    Leave it to Roch to put words in someone's mouth.

    His remark deserves and will get no further comment.

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  3. Let's recap:

    Bubba says that N&R editor John Robinson's claim that his paper did not have anything from a credible source.

    Bubba says that is not true.

    Bubba is asked what credible source JR has that would make his statement untrue.

    Bubba belches the mother of all dodges.

    Bubba leaves his readers aware that he really doesn't know what he is talking about.

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  4. Roch, I'd rather trust the NE than the NYT.
    JR is just following the liberal party line...deny, deny, deny until absolutely irrefutable evidence surfaces, and then downplay it as much as possible. We saw the same thing from the MSM when Clinton was imploding.
    It's a shame the N&R didn't worry about printing unsubstantiated rumors when they were bombarding us with the highly inflammatory and as-yet unproven allegations against Chief Wray.

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  5. "It's a shame the N&R didn't worry about printing unsubstantiated rumors when they were bombarding us with the highly inflammatory and as-yet unproven allegations against Chief Wray."

    Indeed.

    Two first person eyewitness accounts of Edward's little escapade as published in several places apparently don't qualify as "credible sources".

    However, Lorraine Ahearn's severe slant against David Wray, concocted out of whole cloth by Ahearn herself, apparently formed all the credibility JR needed to run with a story the fit the meme he wanted to promote.

    The meme was quickly picked up by the Mitch Johnson enablers in the blogosphere, and the rest is history.

    Regarding our little buddy Roch, I find it's best to just ignore him, jaycee.

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  6. Boys, boys. As I alluded at Allen Johnson's, this thing is easy enough to solve.

    And if you don't think that, in this country where three different versions of CSI dominate the TV ratings, someone else in tabloid (as opposed to "real") journalism hasn't thought of doing just that . . .

    . . . then you're drinking some of the stuff they're legally selling now in Asheboro.

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  7. "Two first person eyewitness accounts of Edward's little escapade as published in several places..."

    Who and where?

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  8. "Roch, I'd rather trust the NE than the NYT."

    No doubt you would.

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  9. Roch, on the big stories I believe the NE gets it right more often than the NYT.
    Wasn't it he NYT that had a big front-page expose on an "affair" involving John McCain that turned out to be totally false?
    NE broke the story on Jesse Jackson and his love-child, which turned out to be totally true.
    At the end of the day John Edwards' political career is as dead as Teddy Kennedy's brain, so this whole issue really only serves to give us ammo with which to argue amongst ourselves. So I guess it has some value...:)

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  10. "Roch, on the big stories I believe the NE gets it right more often than the NYT."

    Yes, yes. I know that you do. I believe you.

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  11. Having your aides lie and cover up for you while you paint the image that you are a great family man taking care of your sick wife is down right despicable. I wonder how much he is paying in hush money and child support?

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  12. Johnny Reid ought to own up to the little kid if its his. I'm afraid he's disappeared because his wife has already castrated him.

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