Gibson radio producer called his Edwards comments "a poor choice of words" (Media Matters)

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Gibson radio producer called his Edwards comments "a poor choice of words"

==On the August 7 edition of Fox News host John Gibson's nationally syndicated radio program, the show's executive producer, known on air as "Angry Rich," described as "a poor choice of words" his August 3 statement -- documented by Media Matters for America -- that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards "whored his wife's cancer as a fundraising gimmick."

Angry Rich did not apologize for the remark and went on to say of Edwards: "That doesn't mean he's not duplicitous, which he is."

After Gibson asked him to "be specific about what meant," Angry Rich read from an April 5 New York Post article that stated, "Democrat White House hopeful John Edwards' team has been collecting email addresses from supporters who've sent his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, notes -- and using them for fundraising requests, aides acknowledged yesterday." Gibson said that Angry Rich's comment was "unfortunate," but then asserted that Angry Rich was nonetheless "on high ground" because his remark had come in response to the Post report.

During the discussion, Gibson never quoted Angry Rich's original "choice of words" -- that Edwards had "whored his wife's cancer as a fundraising gimmick." Rather, he said that Angry Rich had "made some offhand comment about Edwards and the way Edwards has, shall we say, employed his wife in the campaign," and later described the remark as follows: "ou said that Edwards was using his wife in the campaign in a certain way."==

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[TwilightGardener]

1. What he MEANT to say was that Elizabeth is a whore with cancer whose

john uses her as a fundraising gimmick. Just to clarify.

[provis99]

2. obviously another Republican sexual fixation

what is it with these perverts in the Grande Olde Pervert party who sexualize everything? Whore indeed. Such a choice of words is obvious compensation for Angry Rich's own sexual impotency.