{"id":3622,"date":"2008-07-31T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2008-07-31T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:10:10","slug":"mid-level-players-in-msm-touch-john-edwards-love-child-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Level Players In MSM Touch John Edwards Love Child Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2196224\/\">Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Rebellious nibbling from mid-rank players who are harder to coopt than the New York and Washington elites:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/politics\/story\/1160048.html\"><strong>North Carolina <em>News &amp; Oberver<\/em><\/strong><\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>&quot;Facing Questions, Edwards Evades Reporters&quot; <\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Edwards apparently ducked out a side area used by the kitchen staff in the fourth-floor ballroom of Washington&#8217;s historic Hotel Monaco. Edwards emerged from a lower-level handicap ramp near the rear of the hotel with two men. When approached by a Charlotte Observer reporter, Edwards said, &quot;Can&#8217;t do it now, I&#8217;m sorry&quot; and quickly walked past.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he was doing at the Beverly Hilton last week, Edwards said &quot;sorry&quot; and got into a waiting car with the other men.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/columns\/ledger\/mulshine\/index.ssf?\/base\/columns-0\/121747907040810.xml&amp;coll=1\"><strong>Newark <em>Star-Ledger<\/em><\/strong><\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are simply a lot of good questions. Edwards already squirmed out of one such query at a press conference, but his political career appears to be over unless he can talk his way out of this one.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s time the major media picked up the story. It&#8217;s not merely the stench of liberal bias that bothers me but the unfortunate reality that we in the MSM are giving up a good story to the internet. And if we in the major media continue to cede such stories to the internet, we won&#8217;t be major much longer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_10048465?source=most_viewed\"><strong><em>San Jose Mercury News<\/em>:<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So far, there has not been a denial from either Edwards or the woman, who once produced videos for the Edwards presidential campaign, about the alleged escapade in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p>And if it&#8217;s all a simple misunderstanding, if John Edwards was dropping by a hotel suite at 2 a.m. to say hello to a former campaign worker, then maybe someone should suggest to the politician that he come out and say that. Maybe it was his $500-a-cut hairdresser, for goodness sakes! In which case, money well spent. In any case, it doesn&#8217;t seem like this is the kind of story that is going to fade into the mists of time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus writes: Rebellious nibbling from mid-rank players who are harder to coopt than the New York and Washington elites: North Carolina News &amp; Oberver : &quot;Facing Questions, Edwards Evades Reporters&quot; &#8230; On Wednesday, Edwards apparently ducked out a side &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3622\">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":[225,5859,20,160],"tags":[10896,10897,5445,29883,10895,10898],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adultery","category-john-edwards","category-journalism","category-mickey-kaus","tag-goodness-sakes","tag-handicap-ramp","tag-jose-mercury-news","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-newark-star-ledger","tag-north-carolina-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","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=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}