Comments on: Did media silence on Edwards cost Hillary the nomination?

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:37:58 +0000

This is just too good. It’s the demo whiners wringing their hands about ‘what could have been’. Well, there couldn’t be a better scapegoat…Come to think of it, the Clinton goons shoulda put a goat head in Silky’s bed back in November. Lost opportunities don’t come ’round twice.
pueblo brings out the facts, the truth, but if we submitted all that to Wolfson, he would have talked over all that logic until the end of the segment.

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:11:22 +0000

I would’a won but for…….

So Silky Pony should have pulled out when the tabloid story first broke out, and let Queen Hillary take Iowa, even though he had spent a year or two in Iowa trying to win….

By: pueblo1032

pueblo1032 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:17:28 +0000

You gotta be kidding.. HILL won how many in a row, 12 maybe 13… EDWARDS didn’t lose the race for HILL. She lost it all by HERSELF… could not CLOSE THE DEAL…

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:07:02 +0000

Did media silence on Edwards cost Hillary the nomination?

Yes, the media had the tingle for Obama right from the very start. They still think they can install whoever they want as president.

By: jeanie

jeanie — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:04:48 +0000

Just possible there’s some truth to this. Several people I know have told me that they had switched to Edwards from Hillary during the primary season but would not have considered Obama. Small potatoes I know, but if these did it there might have been a lot more?

By: benrand

benrand — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:16:56 +0000

Yes, the media never noticed Edwards publicly flirting with a well-known party girl with no skills whatsoever who just managed to get a cushy job with the Senator, they just dropped the ball, nothing to see here, everyone makes mistakes, etc etc etc.

By: sabbott

sabbott — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:07:07 +0000

Democrats will lose an election they should have won.

Just like the Wellstone funeral in 2002. Leftists can’t help themselves! It’s like they know they’re unfit to lead. If I didn’t know better, I’d think an insider on the left was sabatoging their elections, time after time!

jeff_from_mpls on August 11, 2008 at 9:51 AM

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By: sabbott

sabbott — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:53 +0000

This cuts it! Hillary supporters should start a riot at the DNC convention and DEMAND that a vote be taken! This gender based inequality by the media is simply not acceptable! Chaos!

By: volsense

volsense — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:54:08 +0000

When Edwards was literally caught with his pants down he ran. Now that he is trapped, he carries on the playground mentality that dims seem to all have. He mentions McCain’s from over 30 years ago to add “credence” to his predictament. Edwards says, “I did it, but McCain did it too.” Blaming someone else in order to detract from adultry is like a child blaming another child for misbehaving. How do people with minds so shallow they have a grammar school playground mindset reach this level of power in a national party? This is a nightmare we can’t wake up from.

By: adamsmith

adamsmith — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:48:10 +0000

The MSM is in the tank for all Democrat Socialists. This is a newsflash???

By: fogw

fogw — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:07 +0000

The slash and burn Clintons are upset over the MSM’s treatment of Edwards?

Why didn’t they just send out their cast of accomplished bloodsuckers to do the job the MSM wouldn’t do?

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:28:05 +0000

Obama must win ’cause he’s SOOOO weak as a candidate. I would NOT want to see McCain vs Hitlary. That would be a tough fight. We’ve all figured out that BHO is a douche and America will soon, but AFTER he’s nominated please.

By: moxie_neanderthal

moxie_neanderthal — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:12:57 +0000

We was robbed!

Darn right wing media! Hillary needs to take her fight to the convention!

(I smell a messy divorce coming and I don’t mean the Edwards)

By: SuperCool

SuperCool — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:01:30 +0000

The Media sat on this because it is corrupt. It never would have sat on this if the person was a Republican.

TheBigOldDog on August 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM

Give the man a ceegar.

Kinda funny, and a little bit sad though. If someone had told me 5 years ago The Enquirer (The Tabloid of Record) would be scooping the MSM on major stories, I’d have laughed hysterically and told them they were cut off for the night.

Now that it’s actually happened…

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:52:11 +0000

Did media silence on Edwards cost Hillary the nomination?

Duh.

OBVIOUSLY, by noting their selections, Democrats vote according to their gut, not according to any research. Hillary’s verbal gaffs or shortcomings are nothing compared to Obama’s, you must admit if you’ve researched and followed carefully the DNC campaigns. Had Edwards been out of the picture, ALL OF THOSE VOTES would have gone elsewhere, and likely are the former devotees of Bill Clinton, Esquire who harbor antipathy for Obamarx.

Geez, Chris Dodd should have been the DNC Nominee! Blue Dogs are no longer welcome in the DNC–Obama shoots them on sight or knifes them in the back when too close for comfort. Imagine, Obama actually drafting Senator Dodd as his VP. Suddenly there’d be the leveling effect on McCain’s “age and wisdom” image. But evidently the Democrat voters gave Dodd the POTUS boot long ago, as they have no interest whatsoever in utilizing EXPERIENCE in the Oval Office. And Obama would have egg on his face every moment of every day with VP Dodd showing America some common sense AND dignity, contrary to Obama The Idiot.

By: jeff_from_mpls

jeff_from_mpls — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:51:18 +0000

Democrats will lose an election they should have won.

Just like the Wellstone funeral in 2002. Leftists can’t help themselves! It’s like they know they’re unfit to lead. If I didn’t know better, I’d think an insider on the left was sabatoging their elections, time after time!

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:43:52 +0000

I think it is time to end sexism in the Democrat Party. Vote for Hillary.

By: flashoverride

flashoverride — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:41:14 +0000

Well ladies, we need to stand behind Hillary getting a floor vote at the Demo convention is what it sounds like. Trumpet the line that the MSM sat on the Edwards thing, trumpet the half-azzed statement on Georgia that Barry O conjured up, and see if the Demo party doesn’t change horses midstream. We need to get the Hill to cough up a tough campaign style statement about the Georgian conflict on par with what she said about Iran.. Of course, with only a few months of campigning, a massive debt and a divided party – the Hill doesn’t stand a chance in hell of winning. But if she does, well… I’d rather have the Hill in office than Obama. Something about known unknowns and all that.

By: Typhonsentra

Typhonsentra — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:32:36 +0000

The final results for Iowa were roughly 40 Obama 30 Clinton 30 Edwards with Edwards slightly ahead. So she’s saying Edwards’s vote would split by at least 20-10 for her? There’s no evidence to back this up and runs against what actually happened in the caucuses after he dropped out. If anything, Obama would’ve won in Iowa by more.

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Edwards could now become the poster child for “SAFE SEX”. It’s a natural.

By: Wade

Wade — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:25:03 +0000

Yes it probably did. It is called Karma. Least we forget Monica.

By: Outlander

Outlander — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:24:42 +0000

The National Enquirer took 7 months to get proof of the Edwards story because they don’t have the same access to D.C. insiders (i.e. leakers) the MSM does. My understanding is that a -lot- of people in Democratic circles were obliquely aware of this affair. Had the MSM invested any time in this story at all, my guess is they would have cracked it wide open a long time ago. The “media spiked the story to help Obama win” angle should be fully investigated.

By: reaganaut

reaganaut — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:22:59 +0000

Let them keep thinking that until Denver.

By: wise_man

wise_man — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:22:05 +0000

Edwards himself was trying to beat Hillary by letting Obama take votes from Hillary. I don’t think there is any question about the impact of Edwards on this election.
Like volsense said, Perot got the Clintons into the White House, but Edwards kept Clinton out of the nomination. . . that’s politics.
ThackerAgency on August 11, 2008 at 8:48 AM

And half a year from now, if Obama wins and is setting up his cabinet, all of this will have blown over and Obama might just pick Edwards for Attorney General. What? Republicans oppose Edwards? Why, they are just being partisan hacks and shilling for the extreme right wing hate machine. Those evil republican smear merchants. Don’t they know that Edward’s wife stands by her husband, and has CANCER! Heartless bstards, those republicans. Edwards gets the vote.

That’s politics.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:05:43 +0000

They wanted Obama from the get go! Hence we witnessed the patronizing way Brian Williams questioned Obama about internet rumors, in that same segment, we witnessed Brian Williams answer the questions for Obama! The fix was in from the get go! For my sister, who would vote Democrat, no matter who it was, to notice that the media was telling her who the nominee would be before the primaries we barely underway, you know that the press was too obvious! She will not vote Democrat, nor does she watch Williams anymore. Do you know how hard that is for a person with as severe a case of OCD as my sister suffers from!