Edwards shamed, Seifert still an idiot

 

In her statement Friday, Elizabeth Edwards said it wasn’t easy to find out about the extramarital affair in 2006. She called the affair a “terrible mistake” but said the healing process was “oddly made somewhat easier” after her diagnosis of breast cancer in March 2007.

“This was our private matter, and I frankly wanted it to be private because as painful as it was I did not want to have to play it out on a public stage as well,” she said. “Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private.”

Mrs. Edwards said her family has been through a lot and pleaded for privacy.

“I am proud of the courage John showed by his honesty in the face of shame,” she said. “I ask that the public, who expressed concern about the harm John’s conduct has done to us, think also about the real harm that the present voyeurism does and give me and my family the privacy we need at this time.” 

 

No link as the comments (and how many of those are the RNC paying for?) at the Strib are beyond loathesome as the McCainiacs crow that no one proved McCain an adulterer despite ample proof that his involvement with his current wife obviously overlapped his previous marriage. And, needless to say, fuck Brian Ross.

That, and what Digby and Al Giordano said.

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Dan Kennedy thinks a newspaper engaged in foul play when they revealed that dozens of posters were using the same computer address: the mayor’s.

Dan thinks they shouldn’t have exposed the mayor, but that makes no sense to me at all. Astroturfing should be illegal, it’s obviously immoral and newspapers try to spot it and ignore it. A one-man astroturfing campaign is not only self-serving, it’s lying to the people. The mayor in question was creating a phony groundswell of opinion on his own behalf, and if that doesn’t deserve “outing,” what does?

And yes, I think it would be hilarious if the Strib IDed and published the identities of their anonymous commenters who use multiple accounts.

UPDATE: It’s looking like Amy Chozick’s anonymous bulletin board commenter that she quoted regarding Obama being too skinny was, in fact, Amy Chozick. If so, I think Dan Kennedy’s premise is even more damaged than I thought. If reporters are manufacturing comments for use in their stories, maybe we’ll have to abolish anonymous newspaper comments altogether.

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John Boehner and the House Republicans have been acting like idiots, camping out on the House floor making speeches they they b’cast to their slavering following. 

But the wingnut representatives got a little too full of themselves this week.

 

    Responding to questions over whether Pelosi could call a special session – which Democrats insist won’t happen – and vote on other issues that Republicans may not want to face, such as an expansion of childrens’ health insurance programs, which President Bush and GOP congressional leaders have opposed.

    “She’s gonna bring us back and not deal with it? The American people are gonna hang her,” Boehner said. When pressed further, Boehner said it would “be fine, as long as we get a vote on our bill.”

 

One of these days some whacked out liberal is going to take serious exception to the right’s eliminationist language, and what follows will be nothing more than self-fulfilling prophecy come home to roost.

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Meow.

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The Kossacks behaved unbearably towards John Edwards yesterday, unloading sanctimony in their comments until hell wouldn’t have them. Which is why, after reading this, I’m coming to really have some issues with the Big Orange Satan community of happy campers and fucking hypocrites.

And the local angle.

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[waving my arms frantically seeking to volunteer]

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Running out the clock on Constitutional crimes. The majority of the House of Representatives should be indicted as accessories after the fact.

And Bush is going to have to throw someone overboard or the Suskind book excerpts alone will get his ass impeached.

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Another reason not to ride bicycles.

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Hollywood B-listers applaud Paris.

As of about 18 hours ago her video response to McCain had gotten 6 million views, which is about what Ferrell’s last movie grossed.

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Bob Herbert rips on Nikki Tinker’s Jew bashing in Memphis.

The primary vote was Thursday. And in that Ninth Congressional District of Memphis, a district that is predominantly black in a city that has had its share of racial trouble — the city in which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed — Mr. Cohen won an astonishing 80 percent of the vote, sweeping all demographic categories and destroying the disgusting (yes, stomach-turning) campaign of Nikki Tinker.

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Wingnut bloggers force Tyson to reinstate the Labor Day holiday? What the fuck is going through their minds? Labor should scare them a hundred times more than the Muslims.

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Ever since Bob Collins pointed out that welfare debit cards can be used for online purchases, this map has come to look ridiculously silly.

And the non-adjacent states with the highest numbers are exactly the states you would expect. There is a huge connection between the Minnesota and California Hmong communities. Mn-based Katrina survivors have strong links to Louisiana and Texas (where the Bushies all but forcibly relocated the former black population of New Orleans). The Pacific Northwest — gosh, you don’t think those could be Amazon or Microsoft transactions do you? Arizona? Gosh, I’ll bet those 3,898 transactions are 100% due to white retirees. Ditto Florida and Arkansas.

You know, I’m starting to hope that someone really digs into this, because this could be one hell of a teaching tool for reminding Minnesotans that the biggest welfare gits are white, and long-standing Minnesota residents.

That or Marty “what a cunt” Seifert’s going to have to start explaining to us why it’s so fucking evil to have inner city minorities buying books from Amazon.

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Election Protection. A good thing to have in a world filled with cunts (some of whom are female, but most of whom are named Von Spakovsky, Schlozman or Seifert).

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1,500 dead in Georgia. This isn’t the Duchy of Grand Fenwick vs. Lichenstein.

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Bernie Mac, R.I.P.

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America’s first Olympic gold comes courtesy of Mariel Zagunis, the new women’s saber champion.

I hope I’ve shared with you before the fact that I once finished 5th in the Iowa saber finals back in the ’70s.*

Check out Buzz Bissinger on the Olympics if you’re too political to appreciate the pageantry. (My favorite part was midway through when 10,000 Chinese dancers wearing spiked heels danced on a living carpet of Tibetans chained to the stadium floor.)

And don’t forget to read the obligatory stories about NBC’s getting screwed by fans going online to avoid waiting half a day for the results.

 

*Six competitors all total, and I beat my elderly instructor after he pulled a muscle in the match before ours. [Stopped for a moment and realized that I'm now older than Ivor was back then.]

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