The Political Chase

John Edwards

I want to get this out before the media blitz takes off like it was covering Anna Nicole Smith again or Britney Spears today.

For two days I have been working on a piece about John Edwards that focuses primarily on lack of media coverage, and a recent positive increase in polls and voter perception. I have not finished my research and therefore, obviously I’m not ready to post. And I will not get it posted before a vicious slanderous rumor takes hold on a logarithmic scale.

I’m not going to dignify the rumor by linking to it or even stating what it is — many already know by now and for those that don’t you will soon I’m sure. I don’t believe it and find it to be reprehensible.

That said, John Edwards will be getting plenty of media coverage - the wrong kind and for the wrong reasons. And that is a basic point I intended to make in my yet-to-be written post. So for the record, I had no knowledge of the trash that is circulating until after I had developed the thesis and was well into researching.

Purveyors of political smut are no better than their product.