Edwards has an affair and the media goes nuts

[nadinbrzezinski]

here are some news items that actually may affect your life...

1.- Russia invades Georgia... tanks and everything...

2.- We have a smoking gun that we engaged in preemptive, expansive war... a war crime

3.- We are still at war

4.- The economy has been contracting

5.- more evidence of energy manipulation for those paying attention

Oh wait, a man no longer running for anything engaged in the national sport nobody speaks off... QUICK HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN! that will actually have an effect in my day to day life!

The country needs to grow the fuck up... sex happens, sex outside the family happens... and Edwards is no longer anywhere where it would affect you. And given US History of sex while in office, it is only a recent phenomena where the media has used it to malign ONE party over the other... connect some dots.

On the other hand, the stories I listed... may \will in some cases, directly affect your life.

[Bright Eyes]

1. Clearly, this is the most important thing to happen to America in centuries.

Oh, and the US just sent 2 carriers to the Persian Gulf. But that's not news.

EDIT for spelling. Getting tired

[MrModerate]

2. The MSM is in the entertainment business . . .

Sex is the most important entertainment that people get up to. Is the connection so surprising?

They snuffed the last journalist years ago. All we have left is news readers and agony aunts. Depressing, perhaps, but absolutely expected.

From a selfish point of view, this is exactly why I'm glad I'm not in the States right now. It's much less aggravating for me to observe America without actually being there.

[underseasurveyor]

3. But.. But... But

You're right on the money.

Fuckin' MSM:mad:

[my2sense]

4. It's ridiculous - I personally don't give damn about

Edwards and his indiscretions....he is NOT the candidate.

:crazy:

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. ...which is entirely predictable and Edwards should have known it would happen.

This is why this whole thing shows a complete lack of judgment on his part.

We need to cut him loose. He is not worth defending anymore.

[silverweb]

6. Don't forget the other current event no one's covering:

_Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran_.

:banghead:

[Selatius]

9. Gee whiz, you'd think that would be story number 1 in a nation that supposedly has a "free press."

[silverweb]

20. Right?

With rare exceptions, what we have now are corporate lapdogs owned by the military-industrial complex. x(

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Good point...

thanks

[Selatius]

7. Hey, at least we're more sophisticated. In the 1930s, the Nazis simply reported a bold lie as truth.

Today, in order to nullify the masses, we report on Britney Spears instead to keep them pre-occupied from the fact that the government is destroying their very freedom.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. In my view, same diff... different decade

it's 'bout keeping the masses distracted.

Read around... mission fucking accomplished

(Perhaps the only way to get people's attention is to use sexual innuendo from now on... lord knows the fish did byte today after the water was filled with some chum)

[Kazak]

8. Yeah, it's ridiculous!

:puke:

[fascisthunter]

10. Any Opportunity to Distract Attention from Real Issues

is anyone else sick of this corporate media/propaganda? I know I am....

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. It has become an exercise on how to do propaganda

the other day (the only thing they have at Mickey Ds) I ended up actually paying attention to O'Reilly

Oh wait, but why?

It was masterful

He was talking of them damn brown illegals... and throughout the whole thing he had rolling silent tape of Obama in the background

As use of propaganda that was ... masterful

[fascisthunter]

39. did he really do that? Jeezus....

[Subdivisions]

11. DU too. Right into their hands. As if we don't have enough to worry about. And by

our actions we validate their playing of it.

I can't believe this shit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. I can.. this place is as mainstream, with a slight or heavy bent to the right.

as you can get... the bent depends on the day. With that comes that prudishness that I go... grow the fuck up and start connecting dots...

You have, I have... but this does not matter... yet it leads Countdown

[Endangered Specie]

12. More like the global sport nobody speaks of...

Escort business always skyrockets whenever a political convention comes to town.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. True, or foreign VIPs

come to another country

True story... twenty years ago my dad took us to the home country (Poland) while staying at the Warsaw hotel he was accosted by the local ladies... especially if alone, or semi-alone.

It was funny to watch... I got what was going on. and he at one point screamed to them in Polish to buzz off, or he'd call the cops

They did

[blue neen]

13. And John McCain suggests his wife should enter the Miss Buffalo Chip Contest.

Where was the media flap about that?

...Why isn't the media talking about how John McCain left his first wife and married darling Miss Buffalo Chip?

:grr:

[Triana]

15. lame$stream

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/07/usa.uselections2008

[prairierose]

21. The US is both childish and incredibly hypocritical..

about sex but this makes a great distaction from the real news that is more important and it somehow will roll back on Obama and make him look bad too because he is also a Dem. None of this type of news or worse sticks to the repugnant party but by damn it sticks like glue to all Dems. Because the corporate media makes sure that you can not forget about it when it runs 24/7 for who knows how long?

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. BRAVO

[gordianot]

23. McCain campaign has possible financial irregularities.

Of course no mention.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6611872&mesg_id=6611872

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. Of course, I mean he is a republican

and free and clear

[cliffordu]

24. Kicked and Recommended. THIS needed to be said.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Celebrity sex sells a lot of products for advertisers.

[TornadoTN]

27. BINGO - which is why Edwards should have been up-front about this from the get-go

Pretty disgusting and disturbing, since this is going to be wall-to-wall, focusing on the lies. This could have wide-spread consequences across the party and the election.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. And it should not...

by the way that georgia frackas may involve US troops...

Nice shooting, hot war...

Oh wait. SEX............

And it will only have an effect if people take the bait

Oh wait, they already did

[SunDrop23]

26. This is a prime example of why the empire formerly known as the United States...

is well into its decline.

Maybe we now know how the Brits must have felt.

Best country in the world?

Puh leaze.

Damn shame all those people are buried in France for us to become this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. We are in decline but actually it is one more sign of our walk into the

warm embrace of fascism

[earth mom]

28. When Edwards commits a REAL crime, let me know. Because this spin is total b.s.

I can't believe that such a big deal is made of this when Jeff Gannon spent what-a couple hundred nights?!-at the White House and the press barely reported the story!

Here's some late breaking news: The corporate media sucks! :grr:

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Sadly that is not news, but well know fact...

:-)

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Bread and circuses! And if a Dem does it, it's real bad and we fall for it...

EVERY DAMN TIME! :banghead: Meanwhile, bu$hco is stealing us blind! And if we think for one moment, that the corprat media and the GOP won't find dirt on Obama, we need too think again! They are just getting started! Meanwhile, Edwards, an ex-presidential candidate, * a man of the people* had a affair , cheated on his sick wife. Hello, Newt Gingrich! et al! x( We are stupid!

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. Reminds me of pavlov's experiments

doesn't it?

SEX

Hey he was a bad boy... DESTROY HIM!

[ladjf]

35. I don't think the media frenzy about the Edwards affair is going to

last very long. The affair was in 2006. He has admitted it, taken the blame,and has reached some type of accord with his wife. There's nothing left to talk about.

Yes, a few creeps will want to dig around for any details but the main "show" is over.

[ailsagirl]

36. kick

[Hekate]

37. Even worse, DU goes nuts. nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

38. $300,000,000,000 of the budget (right off the top) goes to bankers

...to pay off the interest on our national debt.

Every year.

I never hear it mentioned.

Welcome, comrade.