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[jebbypal]

And the big media hit pieces on Democratic candidates continues...

Just from my memory, first came Bill Clinton and every single scandal surrounding him. Though he managed to rise above and become named the Come-back Kid.
I guess Gore only got stuck with "boring" while the media ignored most of the past scandals of Bush. I mean, remember how big a deal it was for Clinton to say he'd inhaled? Yet, Bush is someone that it's well known he's had issues w/ alcoholism, if not more, and that wasn't an issue because he's "sober" and a born-again christian (which should be another issue all on it's own).
Then Kerry gets swift-boated to cover up Bush's own very real National Guard issues.

Now we have Edwards, the one candidate continually calling the current adminstration out on the carpet, and the NY Times publishes a front page article stating that he's the sole benficiary of the anti-poverty organization. Except wait, there's this from Greg Sargent:

But if you are going to put such lines on your front page -- if youare going to publish an enormous story alleging that a person's antipoverty program was set up mainly to benefit the person who set it up -- then basic journalistic fairness would dictate that you make agenuine effort to see how the program fulfilled its "stated" purpose ofhelping people. Surprisingly, no mention of how the programs actually impacted people appears until the story's 18th paragraph -- and at that point it comes from the mouth of an Edwards spokesman. There's noindication that the reporter made any genuine independent effort at allto discover whether the programs helped anyone.

Such an effort might entail, you know, speaking to such people, among other things. Yet no such people are quoted in the story.

So we checked in with the Edwards campaign. And yep -- the campaign confirmed that the paper had turned down the chance to speak to anypeople directly impacted by Edwards' programs.

And if it was published on the front page of NY Times today, you better bet that almost all major newspapers will be carrying it this weekend.

I hope Edwards has studied how Bill Clinton fought back against Republican and news media smear campaigns.

If nothing else, this says that he's scaring someone in power despite being third in the polls.