Every freakin' show on MSNBC is talking about Edward's mistress and

[WCGreen]

her GQ interview...

I just can't take it anymore...

Even Big Ed.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. There is a simple solution! N/T

[WCGreen]

5. I know...

I'm watching Law and Order...

[karynnj]

8. It would be really funny if when fleeing JRE,the case on law and order involved a sleazy politician,

his mistress and campaign funds.

[frazzled]

2. It's the price we pay for ...

elevating the phony Edwards to vice-presidential status and then falling all over him a second time.

You just couldn't convince anyone his charities didn't seem to be addressing poverty at all. Well, they weren't. They were paying for Rielle's lifestyle.

[Maat]

3. I am so glad I never jumped on the Edwards bandwagon.

Not that it matters much; but, it IS sad that that's all that's being covered.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Salacious sells and media is all about sales.

And media is all about sales. Be it Keith Olberman or Bill O'Reily

[WCGreen]

6. I can see once or twice but every show showing exactly the same thing...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

10. Doesn't surprise me. The M$M is a giant case of group think

[tom_paine]

12. If that was true, what about Ensign? Or Vitter?

Going back to 2001, the Corporate M$M circus around Condit vs. the 100% complete censorship of the Klausutis murder, even though the central facts of that story (crooked coroner busted in another state for falsifying evidence hides knowledge of bruise on Klausutis' skull) are MUCH more newsworthy and even salacious, had they been investigated.

I WISH the grotesque M$M was "just about sales", then there'd be some level of equivalence.

Whatever John Edwards was, he spoke out against the Corporate State, and will be punished disproportionately because of it, which is par for the course in our BushoCorporate Media (which is pretty much all of it).

He will be made an example of - Vitter got a standing O in the well of the Imperial Senate.

Am I condoning Edwards' actions? No. Just making the point that the Corporate M$M, especially the TV M$M, is about nothing more than making sure we sheep don't wake from our sleep. It is about protecting the Aristocracy of America.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. I think this one is more salacious than those you cite

- Narcissistic politician
- Stunning redhead wife with terminal cancer
- Hot blond mistress
- Secret trysts discovered by tabloids
- Love child

Much more salacious that middle aged men falling for another woman or going to hookers.

[tom_paine]

16. If I flip a coin 1000 times and it comes up heads all the time, I begin to suspect something

Even if I agreed your point was true, how does that explain Condit vs Joey Scar, or any of the dozens of similar Orwellian double-standards of this kind we have seen.

How about "former gay male prostitute gets 150+ passes to sit in front row of Bush's press conferences under a false name, spends 14 overnight stays at the White House"?

Salacious enough? Plus the national security angle of a person getting 150+ daily passes using a false name and sitting in the front row. Why, if that had been a Muslim Terrorist he could have killed the President!

And yet, absolute and utter silence across the Corporate M$M. They barely covered the story for a few days, let alone dug deeper into it and kept it going for MONTHS.

You can keep explaining why the coin flips "heads" every time. 1000 times flipping "heads" each time has more than convinced me that something is going on here beyond simple marketing of "the more salacious story".

How many times in a row does the coin flip have to be "heads" before you start questioning the coin?

[Bluebear]

7. They are out of "To Catch A Predator" shows

[ChicagoSuz219]

9. LOLOL n/t

[Kievan Rus]

11. Bread and circuses

[Cirque du So-What]

14. This restaurant is terrible!

And the portions are so small!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Of course they are

so what is happening that matters to your life and mine?

I mean the distraction is for some reason.

[spanone]

17. that's what media does. he did run for president after all....

[progressoid]

18. Yep - Just like Fox.

[Dunky360]

19. MSNBC SUCKS!

What the hell ever happened to journalism? You call this news? I am not the least bit interested in hearing about John Edwards and his opportunistic bimbo girlfriend! He is an idiot! Why would a politician do such a stupid thing like make a sex video? Hello! Didn't it occur to him that some nosy jerk would find out about the tape and try to sell it to the highest bidder? That is just dumb! Why didn't they have that guy arrested when he stole their sex tape? If I wanted to hear about this type of "news", I would watch Entertainment Tonight!