Edwards didn't make any friends with Network types by telegraphing the

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fight that the ticket will take to Pharmaceutical advertising industry.

If is no wonder that the Network pundits are touting the 'gravitas' of the mumbling Vice President (the one who can't level with the American people)...the Networks take a look at their list of advertising dollars and begin shouting into the earpieces of the chattering class like it is the end of the televised world.

How can anyone who is not using a Network meal ticket think that Cheney annihilated Edwards? Pharmaceutical $$$$$$ can make thinking a secondary reaction, I suppose.

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1. maybe I read too much into it -- lol

[William Seger]

2. Even worse: How many people who control the media...

... make more than $200,000 a year? Virtually all of them.

[AP]

3. Seriously. He attacked MSNBC's advertisers. So they attacked him.

[dumpster_baby]

4. I do not remember any particular attack on Big Pharma

Maybe he mentioned something in passing....

[NewJeffCT]

5. In his closing comments

He twice mentioned Bush/Cheney came down on the side of Big Pharma companies instead of the American people (also mentioned Big Insurance once as well...) - once in relation to drugs from Canada and another to the excessive advertising on TV.

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6. Edwards did give us a lot to chew on--but the point regarding advertising

got my attention.

See this link to the transcript:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6187803/

Following Cheney's response to this question, Edwards responds below:

Whichever one of you is elected in November—you mentioned those three electoral votes in Wyoming and how critical they‘ve turned out to be.

But what they‘re a sign of also is that you‘re going to inherit a very deeply divided electorate, economically, politically, you name it.

How will you set out, Mr. Vice President, in a way that you weren‘t able to in these past four years, to bridge that divide?


IFILL: Senator, there‘s 90 seconds.

EDWARDS: Thank you.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider.

Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

The reality is it is not an accident. It‘s the direct result of the choices they‘ve made and their efforts that have created division in America. We can do better than that in this country.

Now I want to go back to the whole issue of health care, because we touched it, but I think the American people deserve to know what we would do different.

I mean, 5 million people losing their health care—everyone who‘s watching this knows health insurance premiums are through the roof.

We need to talk about what we will do that they haven‘t done.

First, we‘re going to make the same health care that‘s available to members of Congress available to all Americans. We‘re going to cover all kids.

Not only that, we‘re going to bring down costs by pooling the catastrophic costs so we bring down premiums.

And we‘re going to give tax breaks directly to families, save them up to $1,000 a year, and to businesses—the vice president talked about that a few minutes ago—so that they can provide health care to their employees.

And we‘re also going to finally do something about the cost of prescription drugs.

They‘ve blocked allowing prescription drugs into this country from Canada. We‘re going to allow it.

They would not allow the government to use its negotiating power to get discounts for seniors. We‘re going to allow it.

We‘re also going to stand up to the drug companies and do something about these drug company ads on television which are out of control.