Elizabeth Edwards Responds
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Elizabeth Edwards posts on Kos:
John has spoken in a long on-camera interview I hope you watch. Admitting one’s mistakes is a hard thing for anyone to do, and I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame. The toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet unknown. But now the truth is out, and the repair work that began in 2006 will continue. I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.
As Digby notes, if John Edwards — who is not running for anything — deserves helicopters hovering over the house, why does the press consider John McCain’s involvement with Vicki Iseman to be undignified and untouchable story?
Many people, especially in the press, jumped to defend McCain against the evil New York Times on that one and there has been no follow up. But considering how everyone is excusing the flogging of this Edwards story on the basis of the fact that he lied to the press, I’m not sure it’s in the country’s best interest not to ask McCain about this again and talk to the women herself. What if it comes out that it was true after he’s president? Why surely the press will be as honor bound to obsess over it as they were about Clinton and now Edwards, right? It’s not about the sex — it’s about the lying, remember? (They’ve been saying on a loop that John Edwards was a breath away from the presidency, after all and he got about four delegates.)
Enquiring minds, as it were.
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