Elizabeth and "some critics"

[sandnsea]

Who.

I want names.

How can we do this? How can we make the media either name names, or shut up.

THEY are exploiting Elizabeth's cancer by making anonymous claims that the Edwards are exploiting it. See?

I want to know WHO. If we can't join together and get this one thing done, we're fucking worthless.

I don't know how. But somebody does.

Ideas please.

I'm so mad I'm shaking.

[napi21]

1. Well, one name is Limpballs! H said that on his show the day after

John abd Elizabeth made their announcement. I'msure if you want more names, all you have to do is go to FOX NEWS!

[sandnsea]

2. The New York Times?

You think the "some critics" this article refers to is Rush Limbaugh? I don't. I think if it were him, they'd say so. I want to know WHO is saying this shit. How do we get the media to go on record with names.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/us/politics/26edwards.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[CTyankee]

3. So Katie's in the company of Rush Limbaugh?

What a big sh*t stain Katie Couric is!

I don't blame you for shaking with anger. Couric is so far gone she is a huge embarassment. She oughta be strung up, IMHO.

[gratuitous]

5. Rush was one of Katie's early guests

Because you know, he hardly ever has a chance to speak his mind and get his own message out, so it was vital that Ms. Couric give Mr. Limbaugh several minutes of uninterrupted, unrebutted air time on the national nightly news her first week on the job.

[spooky3]

4. She deserves Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World "award" for that.

[sandnsea]

6. Has DU ever made that happen?

If a bunch of people email, can we get him to ask "who" the critics are? Or better, name them if he knows.

[spooky3]

7. I suspect Keith or someone on his staff visits DU regularly

Heck, everyone who posts on the Keith Olbermann forum here at DU believes his broadcasts include "shout outs" to him/her! :-)

To answer more directly, I don't know whether any DUer's emails have ever made anything happen, but a lot of people here do send him email.

[Skittles]

8. that tactic is journalistc cowardice at its worst

I am disgusted too

[sandnsea]

9. Here's one email

Warren at the Chicago Tribune - he's on Hardball saying all his co-workers were expressing "concern" - well yeah, after the media planted that anonymous concern in the first place.

mailto:[e-mail]

[Skittles]

10. LOL

that's pretty shabby evidence - I am reminded of Matt Lauer, who in reference to Limbaugh's despicable comments about Michael J. Fox, said, well, wasn't Rush just saying what a lot of us were privately thinking? Well, NO, MATT, it never even occurred to DECENT PEOPLE/

[sandnsea]

11. yep, privately thinking

That phrase has been tossed around today too. Disgusting.

[glitch]

19. Exactly! They are vile, loathsome people and they only hang out with each other

I don't even think they realize how vile they've become.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. [e-mail]

Tucker said he "winced" at Katie's questions, but it was okay to ask them because the Edwardses opened themselves up to public scrutiny by having a press conference.

[ddeclue]

13. What if Caesar Rodney had "stayed home"?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3183263

[VOX]

14. Various RW blogs & columns are using the "nothing is more important than family" angle of attack...

The vile Rush L. is dancing all around a phony theme of ruthlessness without saying so --as if that drug-addled jerkwad knows anything about family. :grr:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_032607/content/01125112.guest.html
RUSH: I must admit, I am still struck, even as Katie Couric was taken aback when the Edwards said that, "Well, you know, as far as spending time with our kids, you know, bird's got to learn to fly sometime. They have to be able to fly by themselves." And Katie said, "Look, they're six and eight. They're still baby birds," and Elizabeth Edwards said, "They're still baby birds." Then John Edwards himself chimed in, "Well, but they've gotta start learning to fly and they're not ready to fly on their own yet, but they've gotta start learning to fly." I tell you, as I said mere moments ago, that evokes in me a tremendous amount of sympathy. I'll just go ahead and tell you why, because it appears to me that there's one thing in this guy's life, and that's running for president. Without that, it doesn't seem he has a life or nothing in it that's worth spending some time on, anyway. It's sad. It's just very sad, to me.


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879171689&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Putting family first
By SHMULEY BOTEACH
<snip>
Take John Edwards. He has an opportunity to inspire America with exactly that message by terminating his presidential campaign and helping his wife recover from her second bout of cancer, this time a metastatic stage four in her ribs.

Staying in the race, as he has vowed to do, sends the message that being president is more important than being a husband, and leading the country is more important than supporting one's spouse.

Edwards might make a fine president. But right now he has to be an even better spouse. We dare not be so ambitious as to allow professional goals to run roughshod over the most precious things in life.

RUNNING FOR the US presidency is the most grueling undertaking in the whole world. Candidates clock up millions of miles, and are forever on the move. The fundraising alone can kill you. With all this, will Edwards really have the opportunity to tend to his wife's needs?
<snip>
- - -

And so on. This is a familiar RW ploy -- exactly what Anne Coulter did with the 9/11 widows -- blame *them* for whatever.

[sandnsea]

15. Are they quoting bloggers then?

Because when they refer to radical freak left wing naked in the basement bloggers - they sure don't refer to them as "some people".

"Some people" is code for SOMEBODY. I still want to know WHO.

[ddeclue]

16. Don't get mad...Get even... donate to his campaign... call it "Katie" dollars..

:)

[ChiciB1]

23. I ALREADY DID! Can't Say My Budget Is Better For It... But I Felt

a need to be supportive!

[roguevalley]

17. my dad beat cancer twice by deciding not to let it be his life. god

bless her and her family. I know their fears and hopes and I wish them all the best in the world. We love you, Elizabeth.

[glitch]

18. Not naming them implies everyone's doing it, which gives the vile ones cover.

It's insulting to the rest of us.

[karynnj]

20. It could even be the author distancing himself from a POV that

he has but fears is politically incorrect.

[yardwork]

21. "Some people say...." That's what the right-wing always says.

"Some people say" that John Kerry faked his injuries to get his Purple Hearts. "Not me," said the commentators. "I'm not saying it, but some people say..."

Tweety, in a rare burst of humanity, actually called Michelle Malkin on this b.s.

[ChiciB1]

22. Just A Thought.... But MAYBE This Could Be An Awakening To Some

extent. I doubt people like LIMPBALLS will ever get it, or even many in the Administration... but it could make "some" see those of the BFEE for what they truly are!!

But then, some will NEVER understand and perhaps in the end "karma" will exact it's revenge! Who knows???

[sandnsea]

24. We have to make them

Candidates can't really confront this kind of stuff because they just get attacked for whining. It has to come from the pundits, but when the pundits are all for one particular candidate, they're more than happy to stand back and watch someone else's character be destroyed. That leaves it to activist groups, and there doesn't seem to be one that has really stayed on this.