Tuesday, August 12, 2008
An Affair To Dismember
So, I've said nothing about the revelation that John Edwards had an affair. Well, where the hell do I start? First of all, I'm immensely disappointed. First of all, from a moral standpoint, I find it disgusting. At least Elizabeth know about the affair, but still, cheating on your wife when she's dealing with cancer? I don't care how fucked up your home life is, some things should not be done.
Second of all, from a political standpoint, this was incredibly fucking stupid. Not the affair; that was stupid on its own merits. Edwards went into the primary knowing this affair was a buried secret -- did he really think it wouldn't be dug up at some point? Did he really think that, if he became the candidate, it would just lie quietly? It's a good thing he dropped out.
But, despite all this, Edwards is a great advocate for the poor, and I'd hate to see his career destroyed over the same bullshit that Newt Gingrich was able to get away with on multiple occasions.
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For me the whole scandal was a nice reminder why I watch broadcast news on PBS and nowhere else. When they had a few pundits on to discuss it, the whole affair was actually a sane, reasonable discussion of why coverage of the affair matters and what it means that the mainstream media was relatively slow to report on it. It was like being in a parallel world where our culture and media didn't go completely insane.
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: 5:09 PM
I'd love to enter this new world. With my luck, though, it would be Earth-3, and I'd have to deal with the Crime Syndicate.
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