An overnight post from ABC's Political Radar: "ABC News' Raelyn Johnson reports...All day the blogosphere has been buzzing with the question, 'Did Elizabeth Edwards really say that?' Finally tonight there is an answer as the Edwards campaign confirms the remarks to ABC News."
Ed Cone reports to ABC News' Raelyn Johnson: Bullshit.
There was a lot of buzz, but little if any of it was about the veracity of the quote. In any case, you could have done what other media outlets, and the Edwards campaign, did: contact me for details of the interview.
CNN's post about speaking with the campaign was up before yours, too.
Da-zang! Snap.
Posted by: word_worker | Aug 08, 2007 at 04:42 PM
"The author of the article who apparently blogs here, says he successfully reached Elizabeth...
APPARENTLY?? As in, "we couldn't be bothered to check out the blog or email the author, because we had a mani-pedi appointment, so here's the link you go do it."
I'm at work behind a big filtery firewall, so I can't use the language I would normally employ to describe such lazy, unprofessional conduct.
Posted by: Richard R | Aug 09, 2007 at 02:06 PM
Why can't they make John a woman?
Posted by: Dan Collins | Aug 09, 2007 at 02:26 PM
For the same reason they cannot make Raelyn Johnson into a reporter
Posted by: Don Surber | Aug 09, 2007 at 02:31 PM
Technically, of course, there are those with the snippage skills to make John Edwards a woman, and I suppose there are treatments that could deal with the pigmentation deficiency as well.
If Keith Richards could afford his Jiffy-Plasma Swiss-clinic blood changes, certainly one of America's more successful ambulance chasers could afford the physical tweakery to get him into the White House if he thought it'd help that much.
Posted by: JEM | Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50 PM
She couldn't make Edwards a woman?
Could have fooled me.
Posted by: Peter | Aug 09, 2007 at 09:30 PM
John Edwards is a man?
Posted by: jows | Aug 10, 2007 at 01:44 AM
Can anyone clue me in; who is John Edwards and why should I care? It's not like he's running for president or doing anything noteworthy.
Posted by: RWBlack | Aug 10, 2007 at 06:54 AM
RWBlack: John Edwards would be an ambulance-chasing lawyer from Charlotte. After several unsuccessful attempts by the Charlotte populace at-large to foist him off on someone else, there is currently a last-ditch effort to deport him to Washington for a period of no less than four years. Political insiders are skeptical that this will succeed, as the desire of New Yorkers to get rid of Hillary Clinton far exceeds the desire of North Carolinians to get rid of John Edwards.
Posted by: AM Edition | Aug 11, 2007 at 02:43 AM