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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Article On John Edwards Never Once Mentions ‘Democrat,’ But attacks
Republicans Five Times
April 17, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Curiously, the same Atlantic article that rightfully points out that the Old
Media was “late to report” on Democrat candidate for President John
Edwards’ extramarital affairs an corruption makes its own strange omission
from the storyline by somehow forgetting to mention even one time that
Edwards was, indeed, a Democrat. Yet five times the piece mentions “
Republicans” in order to lead the reader to question motives and cast
aspersions on the Grand Old Party.
This one can be chalked up to one of our favorite games, the “name that
party” game, where one can read an entire story about a troubled or
criminal politician without once being told that the subject is a Democrat.
In his piece headlined, “Why the John Edwards Trial is a Bigger Deal Than
You Think,” for The Atlantic, blogger Hampton Dellinger goes into detail
about Edwards’ prosecution and tries to tell us what it is all so unusual
about the situation.
But it is strange that Edwards is never fully identified as a former
candidate for the Democrat nomination for President. On the other hand,
Dellinger spares no effort to name Republicans in order, perhaps, to provide
mitigation for Edwards.
While Dellinger never uses the word “Democrat,” he goes for the throat of
any Republican he can connect to the Edwards case, even if tangentially.
First off, Dellinger smacks around Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess for
spending “tens of millions” in the 2012 Republican presidential primary
due to the left’s most hated Supreme Court decision, Citizens United. Then
he spends a dense paragraph scoffing at “Republican U.S. Attorney General”
George Holding who Dellinger says is trying to make a personal political
career out of his involvement with the Edwards case.
I suppose one might imagine that everyone knows who John Edwards is, but
making such an assumption violates good writing for one thing, especially
when a large portion of the article is used to cast aspersions on the
opposing party.
Further, with all the swipes at Republicans and the subsequent lack of the
word Democrat appearing anywhere at all, one might think that in the little
bio of Dellinger posted on the page The Atlantic might have felt obliged to
let its readers know that Hampton Dellinger is himself a former Democrat
candidate, he a failed candidate for North Carolina Lt. Governor. Were
readers to be made aware of this they might understand why Republicans come
under special scrutiny in a story about a Democrat’s indictment and trial.
As Doug Ross quips, “There really are two Americas: the Democrat-media
elites who think they are our betters, and the rest of us.” |
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