The Edwards standard and John McCain

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

June 27, 2008
Media Matters for America

During John Edwards' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, media regularly treated his personal wealth as a key to assessing his policy proposals -- a standard that is not being applied to John McCain.

It often seemed as though the news media was incapable of running a story about Edwards' anti-poverty proposals without noting his own wealth. The Washington Post, for example, ran a 203-word blurb about Edwards' eight-state poverty tour, opening it with a 28-word reminder of the candidate's fortune: "John Edwards is battling back the 'three H's' that have dogged his campaign -- expensive haircuts, a lavish new house and a stint working for a hedge fund."

That was nothing new for the Post, which spent much of 2007 in an apparent bid to become the nation's leading source of haircut journalism (four separate articles in the paper's December 11, 2007, edition mentioned the Edwards haircut, many months after it first made "news.")...

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120002#1

[jules1962]

1. You got that right

The media fails to mention McCain's 7 homes. Now we find that he hasn't paid the taxes on one of those homes in the past 4 years. There is no excuse why the media should not cover this just as heavily as they covered John Edwards' home. At least JRE did not renege on his taxes. To think, that the repugs still use the phrase "liberal media". John McCain's wife has millions of dollars in assets, yet Obama is an elitist? Go figure. :eyes: