Saturday, July 21, 2007

NBC's Jim Miklaszewski Calls Edwards A Loser

Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press-John Edwards

"America's political reporters don't like presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards (D-NC), and have tried to destroy him for free and for cash -- including the $30,000 NBC's Jim Miklaszewski received for a speech calling Edwards a "loser." If reporters dislike a candidate, that's their business. But when they wage a relentless and petty campaign to "bury" that candidate, that's our business."

There is a difference in the political reality: fairly or unfairly, a healthy chunk of the national political press corps doesn't like John Edwards.

Fairly or unfairly, there's also a difference in narrative timing: when the first quarter ended, the press was trying to bury Edwards. It's not so much interested in burying Romney right now -- many reporters think he's the Republican frontrunner

"Now, if reporters dislike a candidate, that's their business. But when they wage a relentless and petty campaign to "bury" that candidate, that's our business. All of us.

And we've been through this before."


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