digby: Kicking Them When They're Down

[babylonsister]

Props to digby; I agree 110%. This is getting ridiculous. Leave them alone-the damage is done and it's nobody's business but theirs at this point.


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/kicking-them-when-theyre-down-by-digby.html

Kicking Them When They're Down

by digby


She's baaack:

In a report on TODAY Thursday, NBC investigative reporter Lisa Myers called Young’s book “salacious, full of tawdry details, betrayal and countless lies. And as brutal as it is about John Edwards, it’s also tough on Elizabeth, who, the book says, became intoxicated by power, and sometimes looked the other way.”

And then she licked her chops and declared it "delicious" and went on to spent a half an hour detailing every salacious, tawdry allegation in technicolor detail on MSNBC.

Myers is a tabloid journalist who specializes in sex scandals, although they keep pretending on NBC that she is a political reporter. But I really think that allowing her to use the details in this trashy revenge book (which sounds about as credible as Dick Cheney insisting that waterboarding isn't torture)as a source for a "news" story is a bit much.

The Edwardses are a tragic couple, nearly Shakespearean in their weaknesses and human errors. But they are not currently in politics and the sordid details of their marital problems have not been political news since everyone found out months ago that the country dodged a bullet. This is gratuitous.

I noticed earlier today that one of the nasty Gore reporters from the 2000 campaign, Sandra Soberaj, appeared on NBC dishing on Edwards as well. At least she has finally found the appropriate employer --- People Magazine. Myers should join TMZ or E!. Or maybe she should just become a paparazzi peeping Tom. It's where her talent really lies.

[OHdem10]

1. These reporters are beginning to look as if they work for the

Grocery Store Tabloids. John Edwards is no longer a politica;
figure. His stock crashed when the first report came out.
Piling on by supposed Mainstream Reporters makes them look
sleazy.

[monmouth]

2. Says far more about the so-called "journalists" than the Edwardses...n/t

[tonysam]

7. +1,000

Halperin and that other guy are just horrible to capitalize on the Edwardses private matters.

[malaise]

3. I'll read her books on Ensign and Sanford

Until then... :puke:

[Captain Hilts]

5. BINGO. nt

[merh]

8. Don't forget about Newt Gingrich, #6 on the GOP's potential candidates in 2012

He left his first wife and two kids because of the affair he was having with a Secret Service personnel clerk, he just walked out on her. Then, while his first wife was in the hospital recovering from surgery for uterine cancer, he appeared at her bedside with a yellow legal pad outlining the details for their divorce.

Then he had an affair on his first mistress/wife #2 with his 2nd mistress, his present wife (#3), who was a congressional aid when he was in the house (and while he was the speaker and while he was damning Clinton).

He is a serial adulterer.

And the GOP and the conservatives still love him.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Like Stewart Taylor of The National Journal, Myers pretended to be a real reporter

during the Lewinsky fracas.

Ugh! Round two.

[tonysam]

6. The people trashing the Edwardses are sick

fucks, really and truly sick fucks.

And anybody who cheers it on is just as bad. Leave them alone.