[lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child

Gar Lipow the.typo.boy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 23:35:10 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Tue Jul 22, the National Enquirer was cited:
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>> <http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sen_john_edwards_caught_with_mistress_and_love_child_in_la_hotel/celebrity/65193>
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>> or <http://tinyurl.com/627m9s>
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> and by Thu Jul 24, it had made it into late night talk show host jokes:

Yeah, for anyone who believes it, (and the late night talk show joke you quoted sounds like they don't), sure the National Enquirer staked out the hotel room and forgot to bring a camera - no pictures. For Doug who posted about how "entertaining" this was: slander is a nasty weapon, and thanks to double standards most of the time a more useful weapon for the right than the left. Chortling at its successful deployment by a bunch of right wing liars strikes me as a really bad choice. I'm really shaking my head especially when in between the chortling Doug describe the Enquirer as "accurate" . I mean Waddafuck? As I said in another post, they won't stop at the truth to sell papers, but they don't hesitate to make stuff up, or print guesses as solid fact.



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