Wow! Just Wow! Mrs. Edwards' 'editorial' just now on CBS Evening Newz

[Stinky The Clown]

Speaking about people .... service people ... the grocery store cashier .... the mailman .... the clerk at the MVA ...... how they all deserve our respect and support. How they support all of us. How we are all connected. How they're people too, people with families. How they're paid less but give more .....


WOW. Can anyone gind a link to clip of this?

She's soooo wonderful!

[Nite Owl]

1. I hope someone got a

video of her!

[Warpy]

2. CBS will probably put it up later

or at least offer a transcript. It hasn't shown on the west coast, so it'll be a while before anything appears.

[MethuenProgressive]

3. This is *news* to CBS?

Speaking about people .... service people ... the grocery store cashier .... the mailman .... the clerk at the MVA ...... how they all deserve our respect and support. How they support all of us. How we are all connected. How they're people too, people with families.

"The mailman, and clerks and cashiers are people too..."

Not exactly worth a "WOW" - unless it's news to you too...

[Stinky The Clown]

8. "Not exactly worth a "WOW" - unless it's news to you too..."

Do me a favor ..... reserve the snarky shit for where its deserved.

Unless its news to me???????

Up your newz.

The wow for her, cuz she's about as genuine a Democratic notable as I can imagine and for CBS for giving her the platform.

Jeeeez ..... some people ......

[xchrom]

10. you beat me to it.

you're really super dude -- and keep on rolling with the wow stuff please.

cause mrs edwards had it dead right.

[MethuenProgressive]

11. "She's soooo wonderful!"

"She's soooo wonderful!"

C'mon... "clerks are people too"?
This rates a "WOW"?
Jeeeez... some people are easily impressed.

[NC_Nurse]

12. A lot of people have forgotten that

service people are people too. Maybe you haven't gotten out much lately, but it's a message a lot of Americans could use reminding on.

[seashorelady]

49. She's soooo wonderful

I agree, Elizabeth is down to earth and a joy to listen to her.

[tbyg52]

68. The "wow" is

that a) it made the corporate media evening news and b) some people, especially those currently in power, do *not* see the middle class and below as "people."

[Bjorn Against]

69. How often do you hear that simple fact acknowledged on the nightly news?

While what Ms. Edwards said should be painfully obvious to everyone, the unfortunate reality is it is not. The people who are stuck in service industry jobs, particularly fast food, are constantly ridiculed by the media.

So does it make Edwards a "wonderful" person to acknowledge those who do the dirty work? Well in a sane world it would not, but in this insane world we live in we need people to go state these very basic facts on national television and I applaud Ms. Edwards for doing so.

[FARAFIELD]

23. I know take a breather

She mentioned mail carriers Im sure because Edwards Moms last job was in the Post OFFice and also because people like them seem to be the ones being squeezed. I cant believe you are so obtuse about her editorial. After letting RUSH and other freeptards do editorials you mock her. And just for the record it wasnt NEWS it was an editorial.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Thanks for the heads up, I'm on the left coast so will watch in a couple hours

That good, huh?

[Catchawave]

5. More details ! Was she talking to Katie?

Sounds like our Elizabeth :)

[Stinky The Clown]

9. No Katie ...... that's why I left it on after my local newz

[Catchawave]

13. Type slower.....:)

CBS Evening News No Katie, then who ? In what context? Free Speech Zone?

[Eric J in MN]

16. You can watch it here.

Visitor's right:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/freespeech/main500903.shtml

[Catchawave]

19. Thanks, that was easy

:hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Russ Mitchell was the substitute anchor

[stellanoir]

6. I heard an interview with her a couple weeks ago .

She is such a wise, funny, and caring soul. She was promoting her book "Saving Graces." She was refreshingly honest and had an abundance of REAL compassion.

She is someone for whom I have enormous respect and always will.

[wryter2000]

7. Youch

Not even for her can I watch LaCouric eff up Walter Cronkite's show. I hope someone puts up a video at youtube.

[flordehinojos]

14. i think katie couric is depressed ... her voice these days can put even the most rabid

insomniac to sleep. i don't watch her--but changing stations the other day i caught a whiff of her newscast and it was terrible.

[Eric J in MN]

15. The video is online.

On the visitor's right of this page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/freespeech/main500903.shtml

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Thanks for the link .......

My sad excuse for a summary doesn't do her words and her delivery and her sincerity any justice at all.

[spooky3]

21. Nothing wrong with your summary, and thanks for alerting

the rest of us who did not see it when you did.

[MelissaB]

52. Thanks so much for the link!

:hi:

[applegrove]

20. Instead of wedges... Dems talk of connection. How they win. Used to

be all parties in democratic elections were into that..the coming together that is democracy.

[Misskittycat]

22. It was really lovely. I almost cried. n/t

[alfredo]

24. Go here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/freespeech/main500903.shtml

on the right side and down a bit.

[durtee librul]

26. Now imagine if you will

Ms Pickles attempting to give that talk.....

[alfredo]

28. I wonder how many decades it has been since she has

been forced to actually interact with a commoner in an unstructure, unstaged situation?

[venable]

33. you clearly know very little

about Elizabeth Edwards if you don't think she has an 'unstaged' life. She shops at Costco, eats at drive-ins, puts gas in her car, drives stuff to Salvation Army, all (shocking to you maybe) outside of any press or camera. She purposely hides from the press, except when campaigning or promoting her beautiful, amazing book. Blame someone else for having a managed, life, but not that woman.

She does every single thing that any non-public-figure American does. She always has, and you can check it out with any Washingtonian, North Carolinian, anyone who knows her, all of whom marvel at the fact that she made a decision the moment she moved to DC that she would not change her life in any way, and she hasn't. She's just famous now, that's the only difference.

Do some research before you write something so patently wrong. Peace.

[Laurab]

37. Um - just for the record, I think the poster was referring to "Pickles"

a/k/a the first lady, not Mrs. Edwards....

I have no idea why she's called pickles, but it does suit her better than first lady IMO.

[alfredo]

40. I was replying to statement about "Pickles" Bush, not Elizabeth.

the poster asked if Pickles could deliver such a statement.

[venable]

54. my apologies

I suppose I should follow the thread lines a little more closely - sorry

[alfredo]

62. No problem. I should have been clearer.

[ultraist]

35. I spoke with Elizabeth last week

I am just a "commoner" and I spoke with Mrs. Edwards last week, after Senator Edwards' book signing in Raleigh. She was down to earth, relaxed and honest. I felt very comfortable approaching her and speaking to her, although my husband was a bit star struck. lol. (Probably, in part, because he knows how much I admire and respect her).

She's very open to talking to regular folks, such as myself and is gifted at connecting with people.

[Pachamama]

36. Would interacting online with us here on the DU count as interacting w/ the "Commoners" in an

unstructured, unstaged situation???? :shrug:

Because in case you didn't know it, Elizabeth Edwards is a DUer and posted quite a bit before her cancer treatment....

[ultraist]

38. Good point

Eizabeth Edwards also liveblogged on DailyKos last week.

[alfredo]

41. See post 40 to clear up any misconception.

I was refering to Laura Bush "Pickles" not Elizabeth Edwards.

[Trajan]

47. Mrs. Pickles is too busy ....

Hmmmm .... Why do they call her Pickles ? ....

http://www.ironhymen.com/boysprivates.asp

10 Things Every Girl Should Know About Boys and Their Private Parts

By Mrs. George W. Bush



"Take it from me, girls – there's no good reason to rush into S-E-X. That's why I hope these scientific facts help you choose abstinence, so you need never know the heartbreak of being trapped in a loveless marriage just because you drank too many margaritas one night and gave up your honey pot to a pushy young cokehead from a so-called 'good family.'"


1. Unlike your girly privates, which are internal, boy privates are external. God knew that nobody wanted to see all our lady mess, so He pushed everything up inside you. What in tarnation He was thinking when he came up with that nasty, dangling, squishy flesh on boys beats the heck out of me, but I suspect it was so it would be easier for Him to keep an eye on what they're up to. Because trust me: that grotesque grab bag of horror and disappointment is always up to something, gals.

2. Boy privates are often said to resemble hot dogs, although if you ask me, the ones I've seen always called to mind something like those cute little Austrian cocktail weenies they sell 8 to a can. But I think famed author Lynne Cheney described the male unmentionable best when she recalled recoiling at "an old Frankenstein's monster bratwurst that looked like it had rolled under the couch for a month and got covered in dust bunnies and would make you spit up if you even so much as halfheartedly nibbled the tip of it."

3. Though erotically sensitive just like girl nipples, boy nipples are NOT privates – yet. But my husband and I are working hard to instill a sense of sexualized body shame so acute, that one day soon boys will learn that their nipples are dirty little things that will get them – just like you! – arrested when they strut around topless at Myrtle Beach. America is not some big, old licentious San Tropez and it's time all of you out there realized it!

-more-


See ? .... Saving the world from evil S.E.X. keeps her from worrying about unimportant things, like homeless families and the unemployed ....

Why waste her beautiful mind ?

[Sparkly]

25. Elizabeth Edwards is one GREAT woman. nt

[Sparkly]

31. Husby?... I wrote that without seeing it.

I just watched it.

And yeah, I still say she's a GREAT woman (based on the townhall forum I saw her do late in the campaign, and her overall grace and intelligence), and I still like her better than her husband...

And yeah, I know there's an issue around "classism" -- "blue-collar" and "pink-collar" vs. "white-collar." You and I are right there when it comes to that! (DUers, believe me -- if I do errands without H2S, everybody I encounter asks where he is!)

But I don't see what's so great about this byte. She's reading a script, and the notion that "Americans" should recognize labor kind of separates things in a way that presupposes the laborers aren't "Americans" themselves. (Only we who tender cash to them are.)

So I like her, but this spot didn't really help. :shrug:

(Besides, we need to fight about something. )

[Jai4WKC08]

27. Yeah, well, call me cynical

But I don't see why she gets prime-time network coverage for this sort of thing. :P

[Stinky The Clown]

29. Okay .... you're cynical.

Actually, when you go the link provided elsewhere in this thread by one of the responders, you'll see that this is apparantly a standard piece for CBS Newz. A visual OpEd of sorts, I guess. The web site linked has links to similar pieces by people from Elizabeth Edwards to Sean Hannity.

[benny05]

30. And Why Not

Considering Elizabeth's book, "Saving Graces" in which she addresses the same thing.

No envy allowed here. It's a nice service spot for anyone to do. I'm certain Mrs. Clark will get her opportunity.

[vikegirl]

43. What does Mrs. Clark have to do with this?

:shrug: Dear lord. :eyes:

[Sparkly]

44. Good question.

:eyes:

[benny05]

51. Because the commenter is a Clark Supporter

The Clarkies say that the Clarks get very little MSM attention, and often are the first to point out something about the Edwardses if there is something nice they do or get some MSM attention (which doesn't happen very often). In this case, they wonder why this is a big deal. Maybe it's not, but I think it's great that Elizabeth is pointing out something from her book, which is the connections we as humans make and don't know it, but also to treat a growing working population--those in service industries--with respect during a busy holiday season.

[vikegirl]

73. The commenter is a Clark Supporter so I can attack is wife.

Okay.

Mrs. Clark isn't openly commenting to the MSM....so she shouldn't be subjected to the same spotlight that Mrs. Edwards is, now that she *is.* So Mrs. Clark should NOT be spotlighted. Unfair, and uncalled for.

So for those of us working in the service industry...yeah, since when did the Edwards? They can talk the "I'm so the working class" but when did they pay for a mortgage just to survive?

Well, I am, and don't appreciate their insincerity, not to mention hypocrisy.

edit: damn typos.

[Inspired]

32. Why shouldn't she?

The message was lovely, especially at this time of the year. Now, maybe if Gert can get 'this sort of thing' you'll see it in a different light.

[vikegirl]

45. Seriously, who brought 'Gert' into it?

You have an Iowa avatar....As someone how grew up there, HUH? What's your point? Usually Iowans articulate themselves better.....???? :shrug:

edit: typo. GAH! I know, irony re: what I just said ;)

[Inspired]

59. Did I say something offensive about her?

I don't think so.

I articulated my exact thoughts when I started seeing some of the snarky posts about Elizabeth's lovely comments on the CBC Nightly News.

[vikegirl]

72. You didn't answer my question.

Who brought 'Gert' into it?

[wisteria]

34. She running for something? n/t

[Lasher]

48. First Lady, I think (EOM)

[venable]

55. I wish she would run

for Dole's Senate seat.

but, alas, she's not.

[spooky3]

65. an excellent idea--health permitting!

[Mr_Spock]

39. Her NPR interview a couple weeks ago was great

I find her very inspiring - she's plain-spoken & what I would consider "right" on most all issues she discusses. A breath of fresh air in a horribly political climate in this country.

[Straight Shooter]

42. "It is the first step in civility, to acknowledge our fellow citizens."

Amen to that. It doesn't take long to put yourself in someone else's shoes, and just speak nicely to them, "Hi, how are you?"

I usually ask the cashiers if they've got much longer to go on their shift, has it been a long day, that sort of thing. I don't want them to think that I look at them as a machine.

Thanks for sharing this with us, H2S. John Edwards is certainly a lucky man. Elizabeth strikes me as a very kind-hearted woman.

[sandnsea]

46. Okay - weird thread

Acknowledge our fellow citizens? You mean y'all aren't FRIENDS with grocery checkers and mail delivery people and mechanics? Who do you socialize with anyway?? What would you do with a *gasp* maid or fruit picker???

Some days. :crazy:

[venable]

56. you're missing the point, I think

She is not delivering earth shattering news, she's just doing what any one of countless fine people would do, if asked to comment on the season's message - which is point out that the people that you see all day long deserve civility, and that it is a matter of fact that service people are too often just invisible parts of one's day. this is not earth shattering, but it is important to remind. Her message is civility and community. that's all. small but important. and very consistent with the simple message that Elizabeth brings to all of her friends and strangers, by her actions and her words.

[sandnsea]

70. They're not invisible to me

They're my friends and neighbors. I don't need to be reminded to be civil to people whose children play with my children or grandchildren, who come to my home for various events, who I sit next to at the football games and fireworks. I'm stunned that anybody would organize their life in such a way that they're completely detatched from people who do manual labor for a living. If she thinks people have to be reminded to be civil to the grocery clerk, then I'm sorry but this is a reflection of her that I just don't see where I live.

[Carolina Voice]

50. Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a jewel by anybody's standards. I met her once and had a quick exchange of a couple of sentences. The one thing that I recall is the tender, loving look that she gave to everyone. What a classy lady! That's Elizabeth.

[Mass]

53. paid less than whom? Her and her husband may be. But not less than many many

other people.

This is sick. We do not need her pity. We need her to consider us as her equals, and this is not what she is showing here.

She is a lot richer than I am, but I feel offended by what she just says. She feels so superior to me, obviously.

[benny05]

57. Whoa

I don't think it is a message of pity at all. It's speaks more to reaching out and making connections everywhere. And it's one of the main themes in her book, Saving Graces.

[venable]

58. sorry you have that reaction

because I can tell you, from experience, that she does not believe she is superior to anyone. She just doesn't.

I suppose it's understandable that you hear it this way, but it is possible, also, to hear it in the exact opposite way - which is that she is warning others - even decent, kind people - to not make the mistake of rendering others invisible.

It is a fact that some treat service workers as parts of a faceless machine. She is saying don't do that, don't fall prey to that easy simplifying or disregarding of other's lives.

If she went to see a CEO, and was let in by a maid or security guard, she would speak to both in exactly the same way - NOT because she is having pity on the service worker, but because she does not elevate the CEO above the service worker. This equality that she sees is not intellectual, it is exactly who she is. She is the least 'entitled' person you could ever meet.

[Carolina Voice]

74. I doubt that anyone can feel offended by Elizabeth

If you don't like her husband's politics, that's one thing, but absolutely nobody can really feel offended by Elizabeth. She is the most precious and genteel woman I've met in a long time. If you haven't met this fine lady, then you should do yourself a favor and find out when she will be in your area and meet her. I can guarantee that you won't honestly feel that way once you have met her. She is a class act and one that won't be followed for a very long time.

[Stinky The Clown]

60. I'm really struck by some of the rancor I see in this thread

Disclaimer first:

I'm not a big Edwards supporter, booster, or fan.

This thread was about some very inspiring words spoken by a wonderful woman who happens to have gotten the soapbox by dint of being married to once (and future?) presidential candidate. The fact of who she is has NOTHING to do with the message.

While I'm not a booster of another run by John Edwards, neither am I working against it. But that's neither here nor there.

What I **am** is an admirer of Elizabeth Edwards. I find her very empathetic to the common person. I find her very wise. I find her very caring. I also happen to think she's one of the better spokespeople we have for things that are important to virtually all of us.

This thread had no purpose other than to call attention to something she said. The fact that some chose to bash the message (connecting with other people), the messenger (Mrs. Edwards), and the messenger's husband (obvious) is beyond sad. Shame on those of you who did.

[venable]

63. Alex Cockburn

has written that in his view he esteems her so highly as to deem her the ONLY Democrat worthy of the presidency.

I think there are a few others worthy of the job, but I get his point.

By the way, I think it very unlikely,unfortunately, that she would ever run for any office, for the following reason:

This is a woman that during the campaign was in Ohio one night, and was due to be in Massachusetts the next morning. It was late, but she rented a car, drove all night to NC by herself so she could see her kids when they woke up, then took a flight to MA, and campaigned all day and evening.

[OzarkDem]

64. She's a great person n/t

[Inspired]

67. First to say

shame on me. I am also an admirer of Elizabeth Edwards, and truth be told, her husband as well. I apologize for my part in this. Sincerely.

[ChiciB1]

61. THANKS SO MUCH... For Calling Attention To Her & Her Message!

ELIZABETH is one of the BEST reasons why many of us support JOHN EDWARDS for President. She has ALWAYS impressed me, as much as he does!

We could do a LOT worse!

Go, Johnny, Go! And Elizabeth too!

[JNelson6563]

66. Thanks to those who posted the clip!

I thought it was a lovely message by a lovely lady. I had the pleasure of putting together an event for Mrs. Edwards here in northern MI back in 04. She did a forum on health care. She was smart, informed, pleasant and did a wonderful job of getting everyone engaged in the discussion.

Of course we see a few haterz come out on this thread. No good deed goes unpunished. EE has spoken up on bahalf of the many that are practically invisible in our society. Thank you madam for reminding the masses of our shared humanity.

Julie

[Booster]

71. You were right to say "Wow". That was one of the best editorials

I have ever seen on TV. We could use more "just common sense" editorials. Thanks for posting. I love Elizabeth.