A Liberal Entrée of Media Dish

Thomas F. Roeser is the chairman of the editorial board of The Chicago Daily Observer, and a regular columnist there of some considerable talent.

He has served up a generous course of media dish with his latest column, "How the Liberal Media Stonewalled the Edwards Story." (h.t., Newsalert, here).

Roeser simply left no large stones undisturbed. None.

Addressing the general and perennial accusation of "progressive" bias in the media, as manifested by to the failure to pursue this story, Roeser pegged that right off with two equally harsh and unequivocal diagnoses, each one having spilled, scent and all, right from an offending source:

Two journalistic liberals now attest to the fact. Howard Kurtz, media critic for The Washington Post last week blasted his mainline journalistic colleagues for trying to snuff out the truth because Edwards is a fellow liberal. He wrote, "the widespread allegations…were an open secret that was debated in every newsroom and reported by almost none." He was joined by Clark Hoyt, ombudsman for The New York Times whose job is to determine how impartial his newspaper is. He wrote, "The John Edwards 'love child' story finally made the national news media and made the front page of yesterday’s Times. For weeks, Jay Leno joked about it, the internet was abuzz and readers wondered why The Times and most of the mainstream media seemed to be studiously ignoring a story of sex and betrayal involving a former Democratic presidential candidate who remains prominent on the political stage."

Hoyt harshly condemned his employer: "Before Edwards' admission, The Times never made a serious effort to investigate the story, even as [The National Enquirer] wrote one sensational report after another."

Funny Comment of the Day

Here it is, on a post at Hot Air by Allahpundit, noting that even HuffPo is implying that Edwards lied to ABC's Bob Woodruff about the timeline regarding when he began his affair with Rielle Hunter, and when she was hired by the campaign to produce the video.

No real elaboration needed for this funny comment:

I donated $2,300 to the John Edwards campaign and all I got was six months of pampers for his "love child" .…

SaintOlaf on August 9, 2008 at 8:57 PM

Well . . . except to say that at least it's a better deal than those other early contributors got -- the ones who paid for a few $400.00 haircuts!

Blah, blah, blah . . .

Chapter One, "Plane Truths" . . . (h.t., Newsalert, Edwards on Morality, here)



In the credits at the end of this first chapter in the "Webisode Series, Following John Edwards," note the Director, and also one of the two on Camera.

Yep. "Rielle Hunter."