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1. on Page 29: "... to hear all the nasty things people are saying about their daddy, but that has not stopped all the Kerry, Edwards , Lieberman, and Graham kids from hitting the trail on their dad's behalf All the candidates have their families out ..." 2. on Page 39: "... that bus?" That was the question of the day here in eastern Iowa. Today was day one of the John Edwards "Real People, Real Solutions" bus tour. Iowans came out to meet the junior senator from North Carolina, but all they ..." 3. on Page 40: "... When we arrived at Main Street, Mr. Edwards got off the bus, walked one block to the ice cream parlor, politely accepted some cookie dough ice cream from ..." 4. on Page 41: "... room. It's Saturday night in Ottumwa , Iowa. Where in the heck does he have to go?" On paper, John Edwards has it all: He's a handsome young senator from the South. But when I asked people at the party how ..." 5. on Page 60: "... Dean has Joan Jett, Melissa Etheridge, and Carly Simon. Gephardt has Barry Manilow, Michael Bolton, and Tony Bennett behind him. Edwards has Hootie and the Blowfish. Bush has Ricky Martin and Ted Nugent. Of all the musical endorsers, Moby prefers Willie ..." 6. on Page 104: "... candidate they love. One time a frustrated local who was sick of hearing the kids scream asked a group of Edwards supporters what in the hell they were doing. The head cheerleader told him, "We are doing visibility." (Visibility? You mean ..." 7. on Page 110: "... important to you?" or `Are you going to win ?" or "Senator Edwards, is America ready for another good-looking senator to be president?" This is why, in 2000, Bush denied the networks interviews ..." 8. on Page 111: "... Register Dean said, "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." John Edwards and Al Sharp- ton jumped all over Dean, calling him an elitist and a racist. Nowwe've Handling Howard - 111 ..." 9. on Page 114: "... Dean tells people that their government is lying to them, the less they are going to want to hear. John Edwards Is Hottt! But Boring West Ossipee, New Hampshire JANUARY 16, 2004 JOHN E D WA R D S DOESN'T FLIP ..." 10. on Page 115: "... cipline of a religious disciple spreading the word of salvation. As the political currents change, John Edwards is unflappable; he is consistent and on message, never deviating from his script. All of the candidates have their stump ..."
11. on Page 116: "... Whenever I am backstage with another candidate and Senator Edwards sees us, he says something like, "What are you doing here?" As if he does not approve of or understand ..." 12. on Page 117: "... him, I just don't get it. But maybe there's nothing to get. The day I decided to stop covering John Edwards was the day I followed him going door-to-door in Nashua, New Hampshire, to invite people to come hear him speak ..." 13. on Page 118: "... After the speech, a local who saw John Kennedy here over forty years ago said of Edwards, "He arouses nothing in me. I don't love him, I don't hate him. I have no opinion whatsoever. At least ..." 14. on Page 133: "... has all of his old war buddies by his side, reminiscing about their good old days at war; and John Edwards, aka the nice one, has what the New York Times called "the best hair in the business." The candidates have ..." 15. on Page 135: "... said of Gephardt, "He's a nice man, but nice people don't make good leaders." Another confessed that he voted for Edwards, even though "I don't know anything about him, but those other guys are all the old guard. I wanted to ..." 16. on Page 141: "... compared to the 71 percent of positive coverage of John Kerry's campaign and 86 percent of positive coverage that John Edwards got. Since the infamous event, everyone I have talked to who was there admits that they still don't know what ..." 17. on Page 171: "... a young lady wearing a T-shirt that she had made in honor of Valentine's Day: MY HEART BELONGS TO JOHN EDWARDS. She said she came to support John Edwards because "he is so dreamy." (When the results came in we found ..." 18. on Page 180: "... authority in favor of your idea). When reviewing the transcripts of interviews conducted with women of all ages at the Edwards rally in Hempstead, New York, I discovered that seven of them identified traces of propaganda in Edwards's speech. They came ..." 19. on Page 182: "... have a battle of the celebrities, let them fight it out, because all the candidates do is name- drop, like Edwards says, "My friend Glenn Close is with me 'cause she endorses my campaign" . AP: What's it like ..." 20. on Page 185: "... in to make it look really busy and crammed and it looks like there's hundreds of people there cheering for Edwards and the cameras are right behind. And it's set up. It's like a little stage with the American flag in ..." 21. on Page 186: "... S THE CROWD CHANTED "We want John, we want John," I couldn't help but ask, "Which one?" To which John Edwards lashed out, "You are so obnoxious." It seemed like a perfectly good question now that the race is down to ..." 22. on Page 187: "... sharing (a mysterious eye infection has been making its way around the Kerry plane). Kerry has the bigger plane, but Edwards has a mirrored airplane with'70s-style couches, Abba playing on the sound system, and a carpet in the pattern of a ..." 23. on Page 188: "... front-running campaign." As Edwards races back and forth to the Super Tuesday states that he hopes to win, huge crowds are coming out to ..." 24. on Page 189: "... reporters could not spy on the senator's activities in the front of the plane. In an attempt to look accessible, Edwards has press conferences on the airplane, but only right as the plane is taking off, to make sure they are ..." 25. on Page 190: "... a southern gossip, he tells us things we aren't supposed to know about other people. In his off-the-record mode, John Edwards tries to act natural, likable. Some find it totally phony; others who have not spent as much time around politicians ..." 26. on Page 191: "... issue once the courts get a hold of it. Edwards said, "If you look at what George Bush is doing, he is trying to make it a political issue, he ..." 27. on Page 192: "... this guy think he is going to get if he doesn't face issues head-on? After spending a week on the Edwards campaign, which cost HBO over $12,000, I still have not gotten one good scene that will ever make my movie. ..." 28. on Page 195: "... were performing some street theater without an audience. It was a mock debate, with one man dressed up like John Edwards, the other like John Kerry. A pretend moderator asked them each the same question and while the puppeteer hovering over ..." 29. on Page 197: "... gift bag loaded with campy'70s items, including Breck shampoo, which I brought back to give to my friends in the Edwards traveling press corps, since John Edwards's nickname is "the Breck boy." Back at the Century Plaza hotel bar, where the ..." 30. on Page 211: "... back on the bus since Super Tuesday, I am reminded of how much time and money I wasted following John Edwards . If only I had known. That was a news paradise compared to the Kerry campaign. Even though the election ..." 31. on Page 241: "... he's going to give parking instructions to that dry-cleaning van," Ms. NBC noticed. "Maybe that's a decoy. Is that John Edwards getting out of the back of that dry-cleaning van?" the CNN producer joked. "No, that guy is Chinese." 9:05 A.M.: ..." 32. on Page 253: "... him to do. Deep down we all knew that this was going to be the ticket, but many speculated that Edwards would never get the job because of the animosity between the two men. But then again, who else was there? ..." 33. on Page 255: "... ELIZABETH EDWARDS: I thinkwe are in for-we need to start looking right now for silver anniversary gifts. This is a marriage that's ..." 34. on Page 256: "... the TV executive tells him, "That was quite a show" Who does this remind you of? When I saw John Edwards's traveling staffer Miles Lackey (yes, that is his real name), I asked him if he plagiarized the McKay speech and ..." 35. on Page 259: "... one hour, my boyfriend counted three Kerry-Edwards posters and twenty-eight animal rights signs (not including the one that asked, WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? because that could ..." 36. on Page 269: "... mouth, but of course everyone had to spoil this moment by jumping all over Bush for being defeatist. Mr. Sunshine Edwards was sent to the cameras to say that this war is "absolutely winnable." Who is responsible for perpetuating this conflict, ..." 37. from Index: "... airplanes, 20-21, 129, 227-30 author kicked off, 223-24 of Bush, 227, 228, 229,234 caste system and, 227-28 of Dean, 48 Edwards on,187,189-90 of Kerry, 187, 222, 223-24, 227, 229-30,234-35 zoo, 227 airports, 18-21, 215, 242, 243 alcohol, 221-22 Alexander (nephew), 232-37,236 ..." 38. from Index: "... term, 254,256 Drudge Report, 173-74,218 Dukakis, Michael, 10, 68, 208 economy, U.S., 211 Editors, The (TV show), 142 education, 217 Edwards, Elizabeth, 39, 255 Edwards, John,111,114-18,141, 180-92,192,269 appearance of, 116, 133, 135, 171, 195 as "the Breck boy," 197 children of, ..." 39. from Index: "... 198, 199 Flynt, Larry, 121 Ford, Gerald, 34 foreign policy, 75 anger and, 79-80 Dean's inexperience with, 60, 71, 106,112-13,142,177 Edwards's inexperience with, 191 in election of 2000, x, 71 in election of 2004, 60, 71, 106, 112-13,142,177,191 40/40, 64-66 Fox, ..." 40. from Index: "... TV, xiii-xiv white, 102,131,13-91 176,226 see also media jury trials, 142-43 Kay, David, 152 Kennedy, John F., xii, 9, 80 Edwards compared with, 116, 118 speeches of, 17 Index - 291 ..." 41. from Index: "... helping of, 146, 178 in debates, 70-71 demise of, 90-94,105,144,146 Drudge Report and, 173-74, 218 as early favorite, 9-11, 272 Edwards vs., 186-89 electability of, 72 endorsements for, 10, 59-61, 166 family factor and, 29 fund-raising of, 232-34, 237, 242-43 "fun" ..." 42. from Index: "... media (cont. ) at conventions, 261 Dean's coverage by, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51-52,83,86,87,98,112,118, 119,122-32,13-91136-43,154-55, 164-66,168-70,176-79 Dean's criticism of, 177,179 Edwards's coverage by, 141, 180-82, 184-92,189,211-25 Edwards's problems with, 114-17 front-runner and, 203 Gephardt's lack of coverage by, 15-16,118-20,166 Kerry's relations ..." 43. from Index: "... in South Carolina, 164 Super Tuesday, 190, 198-202 in Wisconsin, 166 privacy, 230, 239, 241 propaganda: devices of, 180 in Edwards's speech, 180-86 protests: at Bush's second inauguration, 275-76,277 at Republican Convention, 258-60 public's right to know, the, 77 Puff Daddy, ..." 44. from Index: "... 232 scream speech, of Dean, 136-43, 146 Seattle, Wash., Dean in, 164-65 Secret Service, 69, 194-95 Bush and, 3-4, 5 Edwards and, 188-89 Kerry and, 188,196, 212, 233, 235, 241 security, 236, 245, 257 at airports, 18-19 media and, 188-89, 194-95, ..." 45. from Table of Contents: "... Is Done .................90 AcT II The Invasion ...................................97 Not Ready for Prime Time ...................... 105 Handling Howard ............................. 110 John Edwards Is How! But Boring ................ 114 Gephardtpalooza .............................. 118 Everyone Says Kerry Is Surging .................. 121 The Deanies Versus the ..."
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