John Edwards is doing something about nothing...the nothing treatment he's getting from the media, that is:
John Edwards' campaign is launching a full-on assault on the media for what they claim is inadequate and unfair press coverage of the former North Carolina senator's presidential bid.
"For the better part of a year the media has focused on two celebrity candidates,” Edwards Communications Director Chris Kofinis said Thursday. “And they continue to act as if there were only two candidates in the race, even after John Edwards beat Senator Clinton in Iowa and poll after poll show competitive races in Nevada, South Carolina and other key states."
In a comment I made in an earlier thread, I mentioned that after the last debate, the cameras followed Clinton and Obama without one shot of Edwards' hugs and hand shakes. I also noted that Chris Matthews would switch the subject in his commentary when someone would bring up Edwards.
On Thursday, the campaign went live with a Web site that sites several recent news headlines that only include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It also includes recent statistics from the Project for Excellence in Journalism that indicate that from January 6-11, Edwards received just a fraction of the news coverage allotted to his two rivals.
At least he gets to take part in the debates.
[O]n Thursday one town-hall supporter urged the crowd to directly complain to media outlets about the lack of coverage. Edwards said he agreed, and that it was time to speak out.
The video is one he had produced to address this very issue. It's good, and it's short. And most importantly, it's true.
UPDATE: Want to see how bad it really is? This is for anyone out there who has any doubts about why Edwards is protesting, or about the direction our wonderfully democratic election system is going.
Why, it's nearly as good as the one we're fighting so hard for in Iraq! Keep spreading the lies democracy, President (sic) Bush!
Edwards reminds me of Mitt Romney in drag. They're both ridiculous & silly rich boys with skeletons in their closets [indeed, National Enquirer believes Edwards has one gestating into her third trimester in a gated community in NC]....
The campaign would be better off without both of them.