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Edwards affair: Was media part of a 'conspiracy of silence?'

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cnn.com — Rumors about John Edwards' love affair had been circulating for months, but it wasn't until the former Democratic presidential candidate admitted to the affair that national news organizations jumped on the story.

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  1. They didn't mind printing a story about an alleged affair about John McCain with un-named sources. That's because most of the big media outlets are liberal biased. They have ceased being "watchmen on the wall" and are instead trying to push their own political agenda. CNN tries to put a liberal spin on things as well. I like watching FoxNews. People accuse them of being biased - but more times than not I have agreed with what I've heard them say. Incidently, they have many more viewers than CNN or NBC or those guys.

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  2. If this had been about a Republican, the media would have been all over it from day one.

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  3. its important because his wife knew before he went to be president. and the fact he endorsed barack the day after hillary trounced barack in a primary totally changing the news cycle. he dumped on his wife and then dumped on hillary. do you see the patern. he put the whole democratic party at risk... what if he had won and this came out during the battle against republicans.

    Hillary 08 PUMA

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  4. If this affair was ended in 2006, why was Edwards at the LA hotel at 2:00am-3:00am visiting Hunter less than a month ago? Also, turning "white as a sheet" and chased into a restroom when confronted? Methinks Edwards has not completed lying about this issue. But, as I recall, he is first and foremost, a trial lawyer.

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  5. everyone is screwing somebody. Mccain is, Edwards is...no politician is ever happy with their WIVES.

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  6. speaking of a conspiracy of silence, have you seen this movie about the franklin cover up?
    seems that the more trivial ones transgressions are, the more they are "held to account",
    yet the people who start wars and run child prostitution rings walk free.
    in the 80's, two paperboys named johnny gosch and eugene martin were kidnapped from iowa while they were delivering papers. google those names, and you will quickly find that these (still) missing children lead straight to the highest levels of government, the church, the elite, etc.
    they look out for their own. your research may lead you to believe this is a hoax, based on a conviction of perjury. digg deeper and you will find a conviction for perjury and a sentence of 30 years for one of the alleged victims/alleged hoax perpetrator. other victim-witnesses were intimidated into changing their stories to say it was an elaborate hoax, which is how the story is now portrayed.

    one thing isnt a hoax. two paperboys went out to deliver papers and never came home. its about an hour long.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=866739408240639313

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