In all the hoopla about John Edwards admitting he fathered an illegitimate child by his mistress, while his wife was undergoing treatment for cancer, something to ponder:
Do we understand how close we were to having this gentleman as the Vice-President of the United States in 2004? A few votes in a few precincts in a few states swing the other way, and the Second In Command is the world's most prominent blackmail target.
Problem is, a lot of people within the Democrat Party knew this guy was a clown. An empty shirt. Unfit for office.
And they said...nothing.
The press, who rode on buses with him, talked with him, asked him simple questions he could not answer, saw that he never read even a newspaper.
And they said...nothing.
And, now the Great Ass-Covering begins in earnest.
This is Chris Matthews, spending almost eight minutes of airtime trying to let the world know that he hadn't been fooled, etc. etc. and changing the subject to Sarah Palin.
(Sarah Palin? What's she doing in a conversation about John Edwards? No matter what your opinion of the lady, she has nothing to do with John Edwards.)
If he knew, he said...nothing.
John Edwards is a sociopath, a serial liar, a moral cipher. He almost came within a heartbeat of the Presidency.
But that's not the scary part. It's that the press, who insist we listen to them, follow them, trust them, and vilify us as stupid yokels if we don't, knew about this man.
And said...nothing. Edwards wasn't the only moral cipher of this sordid episode.
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