Comments on: Why don’t the mainstream media cover the trashy stories found in the National Enquirer? http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/ Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Ross Calloway http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4457 Ross Calloway Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:06:00 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4457 Well,considering that he was in the room from 9:45pm Monday until 2:40am Tuesday, they might have just been watching Keith Olbermann on TV. What do you think was going on? His leaving the hotel was more like an escape. Edwards did not leave through the lobby. He went down a stairwell and into a bathroom, possibly to comb his hair. Or maybe to call hotel security to escort him out of there without the reporters all over him. Security did go down there and he was escorted out. Coincidence? A google search on "John Edwards" + "Rielle Hunter" turns up only the undernews media, blogs, and your article. Not a peep from CBS, NBS, ABS, CNN, pMSNBC. Not a word from NYT, LAT, WaPo, etc. What is amazing to me is the media blackout on this story. Obama visited Edwards at his southern mansion a few months ago. This morning, NBC discussed possible running mates for Obama. Curiously, Edwards was not among them. The Breck Girl was, until last week, a potential running mate for Obama, and the MSM is dutifully protecting him. THAT is a story in and of itself. Well,considering that he was in the room from 9:45pm Monday until 2:40am Tuesday, they might have just been watching Keith Olbermann on TV. What do you think was going on?
His leaving the hotel was more like an escape. Edwards did not leave through the lobby. He went down a stairwell and into a bathroom, possibly to comb his hair. Or maybe to call hotel security to escort him out of there without the reporters all over him. Security did go down there and he was escorted out. Coincidence?
A google search on “John Edwards” + “Rielle Hunter” turns up only the undernews media, blogs, and your article. Not a peep from CBS, NBS, ABS, CNN, pMSNBC. Not a word from NYT, LAT, WaPo, etc. What is amazing to me is the media blackout on this story.

Obama visited Edwards at his southern mansion a few months ago. This morning, NBC discussed possible running mates for Obama. Curiously, Edwards was not among them. The Breck Girl was, until last week, a potential running mate for Obama, and the MSM is dutifully protecting him. THAT is a story in and of itself.

]]> By: Menlo Bob http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4385 Menlo Bob Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:42:49 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4385 Your commitment to the news is heartwarming. Wonder why newspaper circulation is in a death spiral? Your commitment to the news is heartwarming. Wonder why newspaper circulation is in a death spiral?

]]> By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4375 Pat Cunningham Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:05:37 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4375 Keep us posted, Bob. As if anbody but you and Matt Drudge gives a s--t. Keep us posted, Bob. As if anbody but you and Matt Drudge gives a s–t.

]]> By: Menlo Bob http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4367 Menlo Bob Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:11:58 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4367 Hey look, reporting going on over <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391426,00.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. "The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door. "What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked. "His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child." Hey look, reporting going on over here.

“The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men’s room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.

“What are they saying about me?” the guard said Edwards asked.

“His face just went totally white,” the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.”

]]> By: Menlp Bob http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4356 Menlp Bob Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:19:04 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4356 Mike knows his biology. Mike knows his biology.

]]> By: Mike Carroll http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4351 Mike Carroll Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:46:37 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4351 Pat- there is evolution and then there is mutation. Daily Kos is the latter, not the former. Pat- there is evolution and then there is mutation. Daily Kos is the latter, not the former.

]]> By: LD http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4348 LD Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:43:53 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4348 Dear GOP, Your clock is a bit off...by about 920 days.... http://gop.com/ Dear GOP,

Your clock is a bit off…by about 920 days….

http://gop.com/

]]> By: LD http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4346 LD Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:14:33 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4346 I'm waiting for the story that says John Edwards love child with the filmaker turns out to be Batboy. I’m waiting for the story that says John Edwards love child with the filmaker turns out to be Batboy.

]]> By: Pat Cunningham http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4342 Pat Cunningham Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:25:21 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4342 Daily Kos seems to have evolved in the three years since the story to which you've linked. Hey, we all evolve. For example, I used to think that John McCain was an honorable and classy guy. Now he's in bed with the same sleazeballs who slimed him in South Carolina eight years ago and the same theocrats he denounced eight years ago as "agents of intolerance." Apparently, there are no depths to which he won't sink in his effort to become president. Too bad. As I say, he used to be a decent guy. Daily Kos seems to have evolved in the three years since the story to which you’ve linked. Hey, we all evolve. For example, I used to think that John McCain was an honorable and classy guy. Now he’s in bed with the same sleazeballs who slimed him in South Carolina eight years ago and the same theocrats he denounced eight years ago as “agents of intolerance.” Apparently, there are no depths to which he won’t sink in his effort to become president. Too bad. As I say, he used to be a decent guy.

]]> By: Menlo Bob http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4341 Menlo Bob Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:10:48 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/07/25/why-dont-the-mainstream-media-cover-the-trashy-stories-found-the-national-enquirer/#comment-4341 If I follow your logic you've just established one of your favorite websites, the Daily Kos, as contemptible. See the link. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/21/155837/813 If I follow your logic you’ve just established one of your favorite websites, the Daily Kos, as contemptible. See the link.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/21/155837/813

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