Edwards’s campaign tries to have college journalist’s report suppressed
posted at 3:52 pm on October 26, 2007 by Allahpundit
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He’s the candidate of the common man, you see, heroically crusading against the Man’s abuses of power — “the Man” in this case being a grad student who dared offer a balanced report on why the champion of the poor has his campaign HQ in a relatively well-to-do part of town. They don’t call him Silky Phony for nothing:
A UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor said John Edwards’ presidential campaign tried to kill a student’s video story about his campaign headquarters.
Associate Professor C.A. Tuggle said two top staffers for the former North Carolina senator demanded that the school drop the segment from the student-run television program “Carolina Week.” They also asked to have the video removed from the YouTube Web site.
Tuggle said they threatened to cut off access to Edwards for UNC student reporters and other student groups if the piece aired…
“This is silly,” campaign spokeswoman Colleen Murray said in a statement. “We love all reporters, the problem is the feeling isn’t always mutual.”
Silky’s definition of a “problem”: When someone offers competing views, one of which doesn’t cut your way. To be fair, we’ve seen this tactic used before by other Democratic candidates. The GOP surely uses it too. But it takes a special kind of jackass to use it on a college kid, especially one who’s trying earnestly to be fair. You are that jackass, Silky. Take a bow.
They haven’t pulled the clip yet so click the image to watch it now while you can. And note the byline at link. Mary Katharine’s fans will want to be extra courteous with their comments; Jon Ham is her pops.
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Two things
1) She’s HOT!!!
2) I sense no bias in her reporting. It’s kinda refreshing in a way.
She reported both side and opinions and left it to us to decide.
I like that!
Kini on October 26, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Down the Memory Hole you go.
OhEssYouCowboys on October 26, 2007 at 4:06 PM
Jay Z is a poet????
sunny on October 26, 2007 at 4:09 PM
I don’t have a problem where he lives or has his HQ. Just wanted to point out that the Edwards supporter first said the location of the HQ indicates his representation of those outside of Washington, then later says the location of is HQ “is not emblematic” of his position on the issues.
mikeyboss on October 26, 2007 at 4:10 PM
I think that one of the guys on the report quoted “the poet, JayZ.”
Seriously.
nailinmyeye on October 26, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Fixt.
MadisonConservative on October 26, 2007 at 4:10 PM
I blame Bush.
Hollowpoint on October 26, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Yes, Colleen, it is silly, for you to think that all reporters should love you and your Silky Phony boss.
kooly on October 26, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Censor that? Wow.
Spirit of 1776 on October 26, 2007 at 4:11 PM
I got the feeling he had tongue in cheek. Pretty deadpan, though. Difficult to know if he was serious.
mikeyboss on October 26, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Carla……Fox4Dallas needs a new city reporter. Our last one got bitten by a lime-tic or something…….you’ll love North Texas. Oh….good report on PuffyPony too.
Limerick on October 26, 2007 at 4:11 PM
The countries finest minds…
“think about the words of the poet Jay-Z…”
Yeah, that kinda sums up the college folk right there.
Right Tracker on October 26, 2007 at 4:12 PM
haha, apparently we all noticed that at once :o)
Right Tracker on October 26, 2007 at 4:12 PM
I agree: it’s tongue-in-cheek. Wouldn’t be any good if he didn’t play it deadpan.
Spirit of 1776 on October 26, 2007 at 4:14 PM
I want to meet a Southern gal like her!
gmoonster on October 26, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Hey AP, the big breaking story right now is “the video Hillary doesn’t want you to see.”
jihadwatcher on October 26, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Heh. That’s what I found so funny. The location of his headquarters shows he is a candidate for those outside Washington DC, but the location of headquarters means nothing.
Orwellian doublespeak spoken like a true Silky supporter.
wardrobedoor on October 26, 2007 at 4:17 PM
I was about to blame it on global warming, but isn’t Bush to blame for that as well – thus making him the “root cause”?
Rick on October 26, 2007 at 4:19 PM
You have learned your lesson well, grasshopper.
Hollowpoint on October 26, 2007 at 4:24 PM
John Edwards, the selfannointed savior of the working class and the selfannointed champion of labor unions was not so prolabor when he ran for the US Senate in 1998. The C-Span cameras were rolling on the Edwards campaign stump one weekend when Mr. Edwards was asked if he supported “right to work” laws. And knowing that he is running in a conservative state, Mr. Edwards said that yes he did support the North Carolina right to work law. Candidate Edwards convincingly explained why “right to work” laws are good for North Carolina. And no lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers could have more eloquently expressed the promanagement view of employment law than did candidate Edwards. Now that he pretends to be the champion of the labor movement, Mr. Edwards would never take the promanagement position. Yet none of the media mavens who have gone through every C-Span tape of Romney or Guiliani attempting to find discrepancies would ever to the same for Mr. Edwards. But it is nice to know that back when he was a candidate, John Edwards took the same position as the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and textile industry lobbyists.
Larraby on October 26, 2007 at 4:34 PM
Hey all you haters. Jay-Z speaks TRUTH TO POWER! His girlfriend even stood up to islamofacists when they wanted her to alter her concert in Malaysia.
Jay-Z for PRESIDENT!
ThackerAgency on October 26, 2007 at 4:35 PM
DISSENT MUST BE CRUSHED!
CP on October 26, 2007 at 4:41 PM
It’s kind of hard to tell if the guy who said Jay Z was a poet was serious or being deadpan funny. Unless of course, he’s on RedEye and his last name is Levy. Or if it’s that reporter in Baghdad who we’ve been talking about – then I’m sure that article he wrote for the Sacramento Bee about the dumb soldier was “deadpan.” Because deadpan is the new “It’s just satire, you stupid redneck.”
Just like “I blame Bush” is the new “My dog ate my homework.”
Of course,just like Bush is to blame for all the ills in the world and Cheney is the new Hitler, perhaps Jay Z is what college students consider a poet. Because people in my college were just THAT stupid and that has to be a little bit universal.
mjk on October 26, 2007 at 4:42 PM
John Edwards not so secret any more MySpace entry:
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Hi. My name is Johnny Reid Edwards former Senator from the Great State of North Carolina. Actually I don’t think North Carolina is so great and never did, but my advisers have said that I should say that. You can just call me John if you want. I was born on June 10, 1953, although people tell me that I look at least 25 years younger.
I was the very first person in my dirt poor family to attend college. I earned my law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was a great accomplishment as I was so poor that I had towork 12 different part time jobs to pay for my tuition and just barely enough food to survive.
After getting my law degree I immediately went on my noble mission to save hundreds of victims of gross corporate negligence and gross medical malpractice. When necessary to win a case to help the poor victim that I was representing I would even feel the presence of dead people inside me, talking to me and through me to the members of the jury. If you don’t think that takes a lot out of a man, just try it sometime. I also split the settlement very fairly with my clients. I was VERY generous to them – 5% for them, 95% for me. More than fair. I mean I was the one who had to channel the dead, wasn’t I!!!
If I do say so myself I am so cute that you just can’t believe it! I have such great hair! I am also very boyish looking in a good way, not in a gay way at all. Did I mention that I have GREAT HAIR!!! Sometimes I think my great looks are almost a curse.
I sometimes like to chill out after a long day of campaigning to save America by eating at Wendy’s. I also like to spend some time at home sprucing up around my modest and humble house. I also like to spend hours in front of the mirror combing my hair. Wouldn’t you too if you had such great hair!!! Contrary to what some of my very few enemies say I never spend more than $399 on haircuts. That $400 on a haircut is a damn lie, as it included a very generous $1 tip.
I have even decided to have my various campaign headquarters in poverty stricken parts of America such as that low rent Southern Village shopping center in Chapel Hill. It is way beneath me of course but I have to show my simpatico to the less unfortunate.
I would like to think that I am open minded, honest, polite and a real man of the people. And I appreciate the same qualities in others.
Who I’d like to meet:
…other bloggers who grew up in poverty. Other people who like to
take advantage ofhelp thelow lifepoor. People with great hair so that I can comb your hair and you can comb mine. It’s going to be great!!!MB4 on October 26, 2007 at 4:44 PM
Karla Bab? She’s one letter away from the truth.
LIbs just hate 50/50 journalism. It makes ‘em look stupid. That was no hit piece, it was even handed.
Mojave Mark on October 26, 2007 at 4:45 PM
started off with a bang with the hot babe walking around. lost interest after that.
RW Wacko on October 26, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Yes, she is hot. But where is she going? She keeps walking forward like she is going somewhere, but she never seems to get there.
Harpoon on October 26, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Surely these two top staffers have names, have been photographed, and have an interesting past. They’ve undoubtedly worked for other Democrats; they’ve probably worked to suppress information before. Identifying them by name and presenting all the available, relevant information about them may produce leads to more information and stories. I’m thankful that C.A. Tuggle, Jon Ham, Ryan Teague Beckwith, and Allahpundit have made this story available at all. Still, it seems that a little more aggression on the part of one or more of them could lead to these staffers having to find work to which their talents are better suited than the politics of free people.
Kralizec on October 26, 2007 at 4:51 PM
The Pony’s flunkies think this sounds like a “Republican press release”? Cry me a river. Do they ever listen to NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, the NYT, MSNBC, the WAPO, or CNN? Those sound like a DNC talking-points feed 7X24. You doofuses are so used to hearing your own campaign jingles played on air like top-40 hits that you think broadcasting something that you disagree with must be illegal. You are such a sorry bunch of twits – sooo brave, but yet sooo vulnerable! HAHAHAHA. Pathetic.
drunyan8315 on October 26, 2007 at 5:08 PM
Hmmm, a repoter does a piece, a balanced, fair, down the middle piece, and who tries to CENSOR her? Why it is a DEMOCRAT!How can this be? Liberals claim to be the defenders of free speech and dissent.
Once more they talk the talk, but do not walk the walk.
If the Republican did this, the media would jump all over it too. Wanna bet they leave this story about a Democrat alone?
Gatordoug on October 26, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Seemes pretty fair to me. If girly-maaaahhn can’t stand the heat, he ought to get out of the kitchen.
csdeven on October 26, 2007 at 6:11 PM
OK, hotness aside (and she is…)
That was actually a better report than I have seen on any local news, and as good or better than national networks or the cable guys.
I hope she – and the other production troops – get a decent job out of this. She’d be wasted doing 5:00 AM traffic reports in East Overshoe.
darkpixel on October 26, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Sigh! Another Brecking news story. Beats a Bill Clinton news flash, however.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on October 26, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Does Edwards on pick fights with blonde women?
I mean there’s really no ‘news’ in that piece that makes it worth while to begin with. So the campaign HQ’s is in a rich neighborhood, big deal.
Thanks to this ham handed idiocy more people are going to see it than they would have before. Now he’s going to have to give her an interview to make nice and blame it on some over zealous staffers and that’s only going to draw more attention to it.
Sheer stupidity.
Drew on October 26, 2007 at 7:17 PM
I wouldn’t say the girl is hot, unlike you some of you guys, 21 year old blonde chicks aren’t out of my age range, and thus due to the scarcity principle, I have no need to exaggerate the hotness. Personally I prefer brunettes anyway.
Edwards just (further) proves he’s a paranoid idiot with that whole “sounded like a Republican press release” crap.
BKennedy on October 26, 2007 at 7:29 PM
On MTV News ! Can’t be . . . Just can’t be. Can it ? ?
Very Pretty lady.
Texyank on October 26, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Eh- Can’t watch the whole thing,,,
I am pretty much sick of Edwards.
I don;t really give a damn where he hails from anymore, like that should make a difference when I vote for president.
Light all your lamps in the palatial palace and turn up your air conditioning. Yeah, that will get my vote. While you are at it, I think the swimming pools have been running a bit too cool lately. Might want to increase the heat on them (while I freeze to conserve heat). You slimy bastard.
We are now coming into the oil heat season. Don’t expect much sympathy for Edwards, or Gore for that matter, while we figure a way to keep our houses warm at $90+/barrel heating oil… I am down to 3/8ths of a tank and I dread calling the oil co.
Babs on October 26, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Question: Why do all liberals have that stupid smirky smile???
Claimsratt on October 26, 2007 at 10:32 PM
In Bill’s case, breaking news was described as a “squirt.”
Texas Nick 77 on October 27, 2007 at 8:45 AM
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