http://bit.ly/6MoJwI Wow, a whole chapter online from "Game Change," this one focusing on John Edwards' disastrous and lightening-fast descent from prominence into irrelevance. There are so many gems in this piece, or rather lumps of coal to be more metaphorically correct about it, I could probably spawn a half a dozen or more threads on different aspects of it. Yes, that's a threat. ;)
For now, suffice just a few quotes. First, this amazing paragraph on virtual page 8: - - - The thought was occurring in the minds of many old Edwards hands, in Iowa and farther afield. The mainstream media, yet again, was determinedly ignoring the Enquirer. If that trend continued, there was still a chance that John could win the nomination—and thus deliver the White House to the GOP on a platter when the story eventually, inevitably, was proved true. - - - In other words, the mainstream media was eager to ignore the Edwards story, and the players behind the scenes who knew damn well what the truth was only started caring when the awful truth about Mr. I'm Too Sexy clearly became a liability to the party. Otherwise, everyone went along knowing the whole thing was a farce and milking it for the job (though now of course they claim shock, horror, courage, outrage etc.). All confirmation of accusations I made at the time. (For the record: I had that shameless ambulance-chasing, candle-stick dipping self promoter pegged a long, long time ago, even before he became Kerry's running mate, and knew it would eventually, inexorably come to this. And even his malignant Jeckle/Hyde narcissism plays a distant second or third fiddle to Obama's dangerous sociopathic and messianic delusions. You wait and see. If we're all still alive when THAT disaster plays out. At least in Edwards' case, national disaster was averted -- twice -- and his metamorphosis into the monster he became was gradual enough to play out for all to see, even with today's utterly dysfunctional media---whereas Obama's got all the power in the world right now as his monstrous ego only beginning really to take flight.) That the Enquirer was doing the mainstream media's job was a big clue to the true state of journalism these heady days of the "fundamental transformation of America" by President Hussein. And now the punchline quote, the last paragraph of the last page: - - - As for Elizabeth Edwards, she is reportedly now urging John to accede to Hunter’s demands and take responsibility for his paternity of Frances Quinn—a dramatic and no doubt painful turnabout from her position eighteen months ago. Confronted then with the Enquirer photo of her husband cuddling Hunter’s baby, she insisted to Palmieri that she still believed he was not the father. “I have to believe it,” Elizabeth said. “Because if I don’t, it means I’m married to a monster.” - - - Honey, your married to a monster. Moreover, so is he. After reading virtual page 3 I object to the title of the chapter: - - - During the 2004 race, Elizabeth badgered and berated John’s advisers around the clock. She called Nick Baldick, his campaign manager, an idiot. She accused David Axelrod, his (and later Obama’s) media consultant, of lying to her and insisted that he be stripped of the responsibility for making the campaign’s TV ads. She would stay up late scouring the Web, pulling down negative stories and blog items about her husband, forwarding them with vicious messages to the communications team. She routinely unleashed profanity-laced tirades on conference calls. “Why the fuck do you think I’d want to go sit outside a Wal-Mart and hand out leaflets?” she snarled at the schedulers. - - - Some saint, she. Two Americas, indeed. Both of them were, and are, lunatics. And he almost became Vice President. This is America's ruling class, God help us. And as for tabloid journalism, I'll take it any day to the utterly false, totally surreal and unreal "mainstream media," which is inadvertently exposed even in this "mainstream" expose as callous to the truth, calculating, and hopelessly broken beyond repair, as an organ of democratic process. Oh, they can do post-mortem analysis with the best of the forensics experts, but a rot this deep, this foul, should have been exposed long before the primaries were winding down. That was the most amusing aspect of the chapter---were they even aware of the picture of their own profession they were painting? I somehow doubt it. They probably expect Pulitzers. And if they'll bury rot this deep over a petty, self-absorbed dork like Edwards until it no longer matters, imagine the unbearable stink they are suppressing for the One, while it does still matter. We'll find out what a monster Obama is, alas, too late. - Publius P.S.....AFAIK, the book only exposes Obama's understandable contempt for Biden's demonstrable and shockingly reliable stupidity, another story by itself... but The One comes across as a smart, somewhat ruthless, and sqeaky clean, which cannot possibly, in a million years, be anywhere close to the truth of the matter, when you look at the carnival of the absurd with which he's surrounded himself. -- "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. 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