David Shuster: You know who else deserves an apology from Edwards? The media
posted at 5:59 pm on August 8, 2008 by Allahpundit
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After all they did to suppress the story for him, it’s really the least he can do. Tip via TV Newser, which neglects to mention the punchline here: Upon pronouncing the media a hapless victim whose blind trust was so cruelly exploited by Edwards’s aides, Shuster then turned around and pulled rank on the one press outfit that actually bothered to do some reporting. This one’s for you, Kaus.
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You know who NEVER deserves an apology? The media.
Guess what chumps, politicians lie to you. It happens all the time. Your job is to figure out the truth, even when lied to.
e-pirate on August 8, 2008 at 6:03 PM
So Edwards should apologize for making them look like the idiotic shills that they are?
I’m good with that.
mesablue on August 8, 2008 at 6:04 PM
I’m shocked and surprised that Edwards had time for an affair between his hair styling appointments.
TooTall on August 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM
WTH? This makes me mad. Someone is going to get hit in doubles tennis tonight. I cannot control my rage anymore.
SouthernGent on August 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM
David Shuster is just pimping for NBC. Ha, remember that?
carbon_footprint on August 8, 2008 at 6:06 PM
so much for the 4th level of government. No longer a cheack or balance on power but in the tank with the left. Time to clean house.
unseen on August 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Oh yes, apologize and apologize and a……..
Sin not, but apologize and a……..
foxone on August 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM
I think the only question left to ask is: What’s next for Edwards?…Fox News contributor?
silenced majority on August 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Good Lord.
“Never mind what his cancer-stricken wife thinks, what about US!?!?!”
misterpeasea on August 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Democrats Lie? OH THE SHOCK!!!!!!!
Chakra Hammer on August 8, 2008 at 6:08 PM
If the media treated candidates in both parties the same way, I could understand Shuster’s anger… The press should be responsible and shouldn’t report garbage, unsubstantiated and tawdry stories. Here’s what I don’t like:
(1) The media did nothing to investigate the story back in Fall 2007 and nothing to investigate the story even when the Enquirer broke the story; and
(2) The media DID report tawdry, garbage, and unsubstantiated stories about both John McCain (”he had an affair with a lobbyist 8 years ago!”) and Rudy Giuliani (”he used NYPD resources to protect his mistress!”) — both stories that were completely false, misleading, and extremely poorly sourced.
It’s outrageous media bias. Just outrageous.
Outlander on August 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Shuster needs no help looking like a buffoon…he handles that very well daily.
d1carter on August 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
I’m aghast that not one of these MSM tools has bothered to check out Clay Aikin’s whereabouts during this whole mess, I hear he’s a baby-making machine these days.
bbz123 on August 8, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Maybe he can fill in for “The Week with George Stephanopoulos” while the host is vacationing.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Hmmm, maybe someone told her one time that the check was in the mail?
pedestrian on August 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
More egg on the face of MSM! Blacking out the Edwards story is yet another whopping confirmation of what the public is coming to realize: MSM is shilling for the Dems, especially Obama.
Far from deserving an apology, MSM deserves a swift kick in its arse.
petefrt on August 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
You mean…like Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan?
My collie says:
How much more bizarre can it get?
CyberCipher on August 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Exactly.
I get the feeling that they hated covering Sptizer, and now Edwards, but relished covering Craig and Folley.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Let’s see Larry Craig debate Johnny Edwards about who got the better deal from “the media.”
Shuster meet Monica. Both doing “jobs” for the Dems no one else will do.
viking01 on August 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Yeah, Outlander,
It’s not like the media reported anything about Bill Clinton and his adventures, did they?
Just outrageous…rube.
alphie on August 8, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Just think of this, what if Barack Obama had waited it out and it was between Clinton and Edwards. Say Edwards does well enough she wants to put him on the ticket, then this story comes out. What could have been, what could have been.
DanStark on August 8, 2008 at 6:14 PM
And both ended up with nothing more than a bad taste in their mouth.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:15 PM
I remember reading a story that John Kerry had some serious doubts about making Edwards his VP pick after Edwards told him a story about climbing up on the table with his dead son’s body at the funeral home, and promising the son that he would use the rest of his life to do good work. Edwards told Kerry that he had never before told anyone about that moment. Problem was, Kerry remembered Edwards telling him that exact same story about a year earlier (when Edwards had also said that he’d never told the story to anyone before).
Seems there are quite a few people who’ve known for a long time that Edwards is not the most truthful person around. It couldn’t have taken much digging for the MSM to discover facts pointing to Edwards’ true character — if they had wanted to know.
AZCoyote on August 8, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Idea for Edwards movie=Shampoo 2008
saved on August 8, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Edwards’ enablers lied to the press, but the evidence that the denials were lies was clear. This is such a lame attempt to divert attention for the MSM incompetence…
Right_of_Attila on August 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Did you just arrive from Mars? They tried to spike that story too. And the leak was not about some hotel tryst, it was about depositions being taken.
pedestrian on August 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM
I’m actually happy to hear David Shuster admit that they were content to not report a story based on the lies of Dem operatives they trusted.
MayBee on August 8, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Ace aced it!
The media doesn’t need, nor deserves an apology from anyone. Their derrières are exposed completley naked, and they know it.
David Shuster’s indignation is a riot.
You stripped yourself bare, and it’s yours to cope with, and the media has exposed their big fat derrières and have no place to hide. Oh, how delicious it is for our ‘masters’.
I’m more thrilled about the media’s nakedness than Mr. Edwards’ at this point. The National Enquirer deserves a medal. The media deserve the Enquiror’s usual trash.
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 6:18 PM
His last line is the important one. You don’t report the story based on the “trust you have in the campaign sources.”
I wonder, are there people in Republican campaigns that David Shuster would trust? My guess is they wouldn’t get the same benefit of the doubt.
Jim-Rose on August 8, 2008 at 6:20 PM
The motherload on Edwards.
http://www.thestate.com/warthen/story/139273.html
DanStark on August 8, 2008 at 6:23 PM
If I recall correctly, that was another attempt to besmirch Bill Clinton’s good name by operatives of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.™.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:27 PM
“Hey, Mr./Ms. campaign operative, did your candidate have an extramarital affair? No? OK, that’s what I thought.”
mikeyboss on August 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM
David Shuster is full of crap.
JonRoss on August 8, 2008 at 6:28 PM
.
I think MSM incompetence is a misinterpretation – more like MSM connivance
Think_b4_speaking on August 8, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Considering that Edwards endorsed Obama, I wonder what Hillary’s reaction is to all of this.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:29 PM
I may have been wrong when I told all of you that “it’s ALL tabloid journalism”.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Thanks to the tireless work of the person who challenged Dan Rather’s Bush National Guard AWOL story, the MSM’s credibility has already been lowered to the National Enquirer’s level.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:33 PM
prophetic.
silenced majority on August 8, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Indeed my friend, indeed.
silenced majority on August 8, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Still wondering why Edwards should apologize for the making the media look like the bunch of brainwashed clowns they are. I think George (phallic symbol) Herbert of the NYT should apologize to the German people for saying their Victory Column in the NcCain ad on Obamba looked like a penis.
volsense on August 8, 2008 at 6:36 PM
The guy who digs through my garbage said the same thing to me once.
- The Cat
MirCat on August 8, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Let us recall that Shuster was, for weeks, pushing the “my sources have told me Karl Rove will be indicted” story.
Apparently, then, his sources burned him meaning that any confidential agreement was broken.
So, why hasn’t Shuster revealed who his sources were?
Hmmm?
Somebody – per Shuster’s standards – deserves an apology.
SteveMG on August 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM
From now on I may buy the Enquirer instead of reading it in the supermarket line. They deserve this.
jeanie on August 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Love the lady telepromter news reader who jumps in to do the ‘How do you feel now, David?’ victim interview.
Bwahahaha. The MSNBC news business is a freakin’ JOKE!
Dusty on August 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Edwards is a dirt bag but an apology from the press . . . I think not. One of these days the press might learn that shilling for left wing politicians is not the best course of action.
rplat on August 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM
FoxNews.com has some interesting stuff on Lisa Druck/Rielle Hunter on its web page now. Seems like she’s an even bigger skank than she originally appeared to be. Wouldn’t it be funny if she left him with something to remember her by (other than a baby) — like a scorching STD?
AZCoyote on August 8, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Will this make him Keith Obama-man’s worstt perrson of the dayyy?
TroubledMonkey on August 8, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Oh, absolutely.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 6:42 PM
You know……….. this is all fine and well, but when you are dealing with Politicians, who can legislate laws that directly effect or take away your freedoms, increase your taxes, and set policy to disable the security of the nation and your family…………..
……. and our “Free Press” that has been charged by the Constitution with the power to hold these ass-clowns accountable……….
……. and when they fail to do their jobs, and the truth comes out, and all of a sudden,
because it is a Democratic politician, makes it OK?……….
I call Bovine Excrement!!!!!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on August 8, 2008 at 6:42 PM
I’m sure the Edwards’ campaign managers denied the story to the National Enquirer folks too.
The difference is that the NE folks smelled a story, stuck with it and scooped the MSM.
JadeNYU on August 8, 2008 at 6:43 PM
The media is now decrying itself as the victim, good grief now I’ve heard it all.
Maxx on August 8, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Kaus asks:
2) Obvious question: Why visit Hunter in the early morning hours if he does “not love her” and is not her child’s father?
Hey, maybe we have this all wrong. Maybe Rielle was just acting as a beard for his meeting with Bob McGovern (the Helpful Dude).
Buy Danish on August 8, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Bill Clinton: “I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.”
Bill Clinton: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”
Monica Lewinsky: “Yes, I did blow the president, but I didn’t inhale”
Bill Clinton: “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
Yes, buba, indeed. The French are indignant at our male lot.
In addition, they seem to ‘love’ and ‘hate’ women, since they can’t have sex with them, when in fact they do.
I’d love to investigate our media hordes.
The children, all of them, Clinton’s, Edwards’, and all other, and the wives are the victims.
But the media are the biggest whores of them all, especially when covering up for the leftie hypocritical philanderers.
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 6:45 PM
I…did not…have sex with…that woman…Miss Hunter.
jgapinoy on August 8, 2008 at 6:49 PM
The NY Times would not touch this story yet went hog wild with a story of John McCain’s supposed affair. The Times had no evidence of any physical contact between McCain and the lobbyist. Nobody had seen them together in anything other than a group setting. And the Times used sources that it would not name but Mr. Ruttenberg and team of investigative reporters at the Times said “Trust us” we know the people we used as sources are credible. Yet when the candidate is Edwards and Edwards has a good receommendation from Paul Krugman, the Times takes a nose dive.
Larraby on August 8, 2008 at 6:50 PM
On Youtube all the liberals are saying that Edwards had the affair during Elizabeth remission, so that make’s it OK.
Also what Edwards does is his personal business and has nothing to do with politics.
Typical liberal reasoning.
The man is a lieing scumbag.
He is sooo totally OVER!
Thank you God!
Conservaboomer on August 8, 2008 at 6:51 PM
alphie on August 8, 2008 at 6:13 PM
I’m getting very tired of you alphie. What kind of a person are you? Notice how we jump on the conservatives when they do something like this. You sure sold your soul, your brain, if you ever had one, and your conscience, for cheap politics. I wonder what did this to you. I feel sorry for you, actually.
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 6:51 PM
If anyone should be apologizing its the media. THEY could have found this out, THEY could have told the people about Edwards, THEY chose not to, THEY chose to cover it up, just like they chose not to report the truth about Iraq, the economy, the Congress, or just about anything that has happened in the past 8 years.
johnsteele on August 8, 2008 at 6:51 PM
johnsteele, indeed. Thank you for summing it up so clearly.
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Ummmmmmmmm…………… a troll?
Seven Percent Solution on August 8, 2008 at 6:56 PM
I so love you, dear….for your brain…… :)
Patrick S on August 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
They are so heavily invested in the Democrats that when the Dems look bad the MSM looks bad.
It is a loss “for the team.”
EJDolbow on August 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
The timing is fantastic. After Obama gets back from Hawaii, having fully reconnected, and taken pictures with his 50% white background, the media will claim “see, he’s a family man, who love his wife and children, and his grandmother…”, by implication a better man than Edwards and Bill Clinton, and “we chose well for 2008″. Watch if this is not going to happen!
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Unbelievable, isn’t it? If I was as incompetent and biased as the MSM, I’d have already been fired — but they want us to believe that they are the victims here.
My collie says:
Way longer than any dog has been alive, for that matter. If it was ANY other discipline, the competition would have already put these guys out of business.
CyberCipher on August 8, 2008 at 7:00 PM
It should be abundantly clear by now that the MSM is nothing but a cheer leading organization whose sole purpose is to advance their own personal agendas and personally hand picked political candidates by boring into your head and implanting what they want you to see and hear… it has nothing to do with actual reporting of news, nor truth. Well, other than a smattering of news that is irrefutable, as demonstrated in this case.
Report the truth? No.
Report their version of the truth, or ignore it altogether when it suits their needs and desires? Yes.
National Enquirer bested the so-called best of the best. And they did so big time.
Sweet.
SilverStar830 on August 8, 2008 at 7:02 PM
In an earlier, less ridiculous age a journalist would have been reluctant to admit to being completely and totally had.
Bravo, Dave. Bravo.
Infidoll on August 8, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Dearest Patrick S, you made me laugh out loud, due to Edwards’ “but I don’t love her” :) I know, I have a sick sense of humor.
One day we’ll meet, maybe here in California, when we hold an HA convention. Hopefully you can then like me for more than “just my brain” – maybe, my silly personality…just don’t claim that you didn’t afterwords :)
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 7:03 PM
Oh, yes, and for what it’s worth, alphie is indeed a troll.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on August 8, 2008 at 7:05 PM
BIG PIMPING want an apology? That’s rich! HA! HA!
RMR on August 8, 2008 at 7:05 PM
You have to have done something pretty despicable to apologize to media for it.
If Elizabeth knew about the affair in 06 or even 07 that means she pushed him to run for the Presidency in spite of understanding the implications.
Speakup on August 8, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Hear, hear. Exactly.
Bonus photoshop: e.p.t.
2 tests, one for each America!
Gilda on August 8, 2008 at 7:08 PM
They have competition now and are going out of business, or at the least diminishing in importance and degree of market control. This ain’t their father’s oligopoly.
Better late than never.
Dusty on August 8, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Remember when Shuster was made to apologize for his Chelsea Clinton sound byte? Well he does:) I think he would like to see some else held to some kind of standard. Still it won’t happen.
Dr Evil on August 8, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Well, I guess he won’t have to apologize to the National Enquirer the newest, most reliable, major media source in the U.S. doing the reporting the major media used to do before they became tools of the DemoRat Party!
dhunter on August 8, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Gilda, great job!
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM
I thought reporters were supposed to be inherently distrustful – of everyone?
This allowed them to maintain some objectiv…
Oh, never mind.
catmman on August 8, 2008 at 7:17 PM
“I have been stripped bare” ~ ~ John Edwards
What a silly thing to say for this man!
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Maybe Ann was right last year. After finding out about his tryst Liz took him to Chinese for a sampling of an
.
Speakup on August 8, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Breaking news…Edwards is a slimeball. Who would have thought….
tommuck on August 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM
unseen on August 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Absolutely!
Cindy Munford on August 8, 2008 at 7:29 PM
McCain had many affairs, too, tommuck.
Is John McCain a “slimeball” too?
alphie on August 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM
Lots of politicians lie. Some lie more disturbingly.
Edwards is the guy who told a jury that, well, he didn’t plan it but he felt a deceased baby speaking through him. Oh Edwards cared so much.
Did the media think about that at all?
The result was reduced quality of medical care in that state. Did the media look into it at all?
Bob Shrum reported that Kerry told him that Edwards told him that he had never told anybody before about an emotional promise to Edwards’ deceased son, and that Kerry said that it was disturbing because Edwards had told none other than Kerry before.
Did the media think about that?
ForNow on August 8, 2008 at 7:39 PM
alphie, stick to the topic of this thread.
Clue, moral equivalence is not the topic.
Entelechy on August 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM
To many people here?
Absolutely!
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 7:43 PM
I don’t expect people to be perfect but the double standard that goes on is just so annoying. Do you think Bill Maher is going to call Sen. Obama a coke head like he has done to the President. No of course he won’t, although the drug use is rumored for one person and admitted in the other.
Cindy Munford on August 8, 2008 at 7:53 PM
I’m surprised Shuster hasn’t tried to blame Karl Rove and his secret Adulter-ray machine. That seems to be the old Liberal media behavioral pattern.
Ample credit to whoever posted this quote here or at L-com in late July. It certainly seems appropriate for Shuster today.
“And THIS reporter places the blame where it belongs: squarely on YOU, the viewer!”
- Kent Brockman, TV newsman, “The Simpsons”
viking01 on August 8, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Sleaze on sleaze. They deserve each other.
RobCon on August 8, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Obermann’s reporting of the story is so solemn, you’d think Mr. Russert passed away again. Had this been a republican presidential candidate, he’d be jumpin’ for joy.
Rovin on August 8, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Well,it appears in the other America,that they are stunned
and shocked that one of their own,a Liberal pretty boy,
Silky by name,who put on such a front,conned the best and brightest in the drive-by media,and now oh my,the MSM have
been caught up in the colateral damage of been lied to by
the trust worthy John Edwards who belongs to the coniving
Liberal Democratic Party!
Did I say theres a Presidential election on the go,and do
the Liberals think that guilt by assocation is going to leave them unscathed during this campaign!
canopfor on August 8, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Thanks for taking one for the team and letting us know what bathtub boy is up to. I was wondering what his take would be, but I’m watching the olympics.
wise_man on August 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Must be embarrassing to be scooped by the Enquirer.
iam7545 on August 8, 2008 at 8:45 PM
What’s it all about alphie? Is it just moral equivalency that you seek?
Why mention John McCain alphie? When it’s about John Edwards that we speak?
Seriously, what’s it all about alphie? HA! HA!
RMR on August 8, 2008 at 8:55 PM
What else would we expect from trial lawyers?
wepeople on August 8, 2008 at 8:58 PM
If David Schuster, “know(s) more about politics then any them,” no wonder they are circling the bowl!
David
LifeTrek on August 8, 2008 at 9:14 PM
My mongrel says:
Damn, that’s one smart collie. Ruff ruff!!
Giving a clue to Alphie is as productive as giving a blind man binoculars.
—-love ya, E.
hillbillyjim on August 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM
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