{"id":2830,"date":"2008-04-28T07:39:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2008-04-28T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T15:42:55","slug":"for-this-the-msm-ignored-the-rielle-hunter-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2830","title":{"rendered":"For This, The MSM Ignored The Rielle Hunter Story?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More on the John Edwards &#8211; Rielle Hunter story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/rielle_hunter.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2189635\/#mrsechutzpah\">Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>We<a name=\"mrsechutzpah\"> Ignored <\/a>the Rielle Hunter Scandal and All We Got Was This Lousy Op-Ed!<\/strong> Elizabeth Edwards has a bushelful of chutzpah <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/27\/opinion\/27edwards.html?ei=5087&amp;em=&amp;en=ee333fd6085ec821&amp;ex=1209441600&amp;pagewanted=all#\">chastising the mainstream campaign press for its &quot;shallow news coverage&quot;<\/a> after <strong>the mainstream campaign press cut her and her husband** a huge break <\/strong>on one of the great shallow stories of 2008&#8211;the mysterious <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/john_edwards_love_child\/celebrity\/64426\">Edwards Campaign Love Child<\/a> (see link for claim of an Edwards aide that he is the father of the child, and various other denials).. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.:<\/strong> The E.C.L.C. must have been born by now, no? Tips gratefully accepted. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.P.S.: <\/strong>What was so exciting about Joe Biden&#8217;s health plan (which Mrs. Edwards thinks we should all have been told more about)? Couldn&#8217;t she have spared a paragraph in her double-length op-ed to explain its unique, cruelly-ignored genius? It doesn&#8217;t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/page\/community\/post\/emedlicott\/CZ9C\">look so exciting<\/a> to me. She could have steered me right. &#8230; Or, like the MSM, was she worried about boring her readers to death, preferring to talk about process issues? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.P.P.S.: <\/strong> Mrs. Edwards also complains that in 1954 the Army McCarthy hearings were televised, &quot;but by only one network.&quot; Wasn&#8217;t one enough?<\/p>\n<p>***&#8211;She describes him as &quot;a former senator from the South standing loyally beside his ill wife.&quot;  When does chutzpah become <strong>heedless Gary-Hart like taunting<\/strong>? ..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the John Edwards &#8211; Rielle Hunter story here. Mickey Kaus writes: We Ignored the Rielle Hunter Scandal and All We Got Was This Lousy Op-Ed! Elizabeth Edwards has a bushelful of chutzpah chastising the mainstream campaign press for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,63,5859,5860],"tags":[5861,3927,5869,5862,5865,5867,3239,5871,5866,5864,31005,5868,5872,29883,5863,5870,5873,1486],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery","category-infidelity","category-john-edwards","category-rielle-hunter","tag-army-mccarthy-hearings","tag-chutzpah","tag-denials","tag-edwards-aide","tag-elizabeth-edwards","tag-gary-hart","tag-genius","tag-health-plan","tag-ill-wife","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-edwards","tag-love-child","tag-mainstream","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-mrs-edwards","tag-msm","tag-paragraph","tag-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}