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Jon Keller perfects the art of the slime
By adamg on Fri, 03/23/2007 - 8:50am
I hope we never learn that there were ratings considerations behind yesterday's awkward, invasive blog post on the press conference by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and his wife to discuss her recurring breast cancer. Because as someone who's lost relatives to that awful disease, the notion that some slick commentator on the make might exploit it for ratings gain is way off the scale of acceptability.
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i dont trust ANY politician
i dont trust ANY politician not to use a horrible event for political gain. i dont think his comment was that offensive. a lot worse has been said in the last 24 hours. i have not heard the actual press conference yet, but was told that it sounded a bit suspicious.
I wonder what Edwards is
I wonder what Edwards is supposed to do other than what he did. The press conference seemed genuine to me and a good and honest way to get the news out.
Bad logic
The fact that there are more vile scum than Jon Keller does not mean that Keller himself is not vile scum. Politician hating (especially directed at a man who is in his third campaign of his political life) is just an easy hatred for people who like following the crown. Its like hating lawyers. (Hey, Edwards is that, too!) Doesn't matter if its fair, but it does absolve the absolute scum of the pundit class when they wallow in the muck of their own making to score political points. Shame on Keller and everyone else who is trying to use a man's wife's cancer against him. We haven't seen Edwards trying to exploit his wife's condition, but we've sure seen Keller and others eagerly exploit it.