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http://199.249.170.220/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000660420'Hometown' Paper Cited by Cheney is a Small One in Southern Pines
By Erin Olson
Published: October 06, 2004 3:00 PM EDT
NEW YORK In last night's debate, Vice President Dick Cheney seemingly scored points when he referred to a nickname for his opponent coined by what he called Sen. John Edwards' "hometown newspaper." The paper, he said, had called Edwards "Senator Gone," a barb aimed at the senator's absence from a number of Senate floor votes.
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As it turns out, Cheney's quote source is a small paper published three times a week in North Carolina's Moore County, called The Pilot.
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Bouser admitted that when he heard Cheney's comment, he did not realize at first that the vice president was referring to the Pilot. "I thought maybe the Republicans, knowing that Edwards had moved to Washington from Raleigh, maybe thought that was his hometown," he said. Bouser assumed (along with many others, presumably) that Cheney had seen the editorial in The News & Observer.
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The June 25, 2003, editorial also included the following: "Members of the senator's staff point out that Edwards' attendance record this year has been better than the other three Democratic senators who are campaigning for president -- Joe Lieberman, Richard Gephardt and Bob Graham. And the aides also say none of the votes Edwards missed was close, so his presence on the floor would not have changed the outcome."
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