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July 20, 2007

Really?

by AltHippo @ 12:14 pm. Filed under Uncategorized, 2008 Elections

A question pops up at the WaPo politics hour that’s been on my mind as well:

Cleveland: According to Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly, “a healthy chunk of the national political press corps doesn’t like John Edwards” and “the press was trying to bury Edwards.” Are you part of this chunk? Is John Solomon part of this chunk? Why doesn’t this healthy chunk like Edwards?

Chris Cillizza: Interesting question.

To be honest, I haven’t picked up on any sort of group animosity toward Sen. Edwards from the national media.

Dan Balz and I were actually in Cleveland on Tuesday to interview Edwards and I can tell you that both on and off camera Edwards was cordial and good humored.

Really? You haven’t picked up on any hostility towards Edwards? I have, and I’m not a hotsie-totsie political reporter for the Washington Post-Modern.

In fact, as I was reading the article I got this in my inbasket:

Dear Friend:

Jamison Foser wrote to you on Wednesday about Jim Miklaszewski, NBC’s chief Pentagon correspondent, and how he reportedly took $30,000 from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce to give a speech at its Business EXPO 2007. As you read, during his speech Miklaszewski attacked presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), calling him a “loser” for attempting to defend a pricey haircut.

Of course, Cillizza could just be being very dry. Like, he might say: “Honestly, I haven’t noticed that the McCain campaign has money problems,” or “I haven’t noticed Bush likes to talk about 9.11 and Iraq in the same breath.”

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