Edwards daughter received Murdoch money.
I find myself agreeing with the last paragraph.
Written by GussDemocratic presidential candidate John Edwards recently defended taking a lucrative book contract from a publisher controlled by Rupert Murdoch — whose News Corp. empire Edwards has sharply criticized — by insisting that “every dime” of his $500,000 advance went to charity.
Left unmentioned by Edwards, however, was that Murdoch’s HarperCollins paid portions of a $300,000 expense budget for the book to Edwards’s daughter and to a senior political aide, Jonathan Prince.
The sums paid to Cate Edwards and Prince, who are listed as co-authors on the little-noticed 2006 coffee table book, “Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives,” have not been made public, but were confirmed by two sources with first-hand knowledge of the book deal.
These and other details of the deal that have spilled out in recent weeks demonstrate both the complexity of Edwards’ transformation into an anti-corporate crusader, and of Murdoch’s double role as a corporate titan and political player.
Murdoch’s position as the backer of such conservative News Corp. outlets, from the Fox News Channel’s popular prime-time talk shows to the Weekly Standard magazine, has long angered some on the left, but Edwards was the first of the Democratic presidential candidates to join liberal activists in a successful effort to shut down a Democrat presidential debate that was to be televised on Fox.
“The time has come for Democrats to stop pretending to be friends with the very people who demonize the Democratic Party,” he said recently in a statement that referred explicitly to Murdoch, News Corp.’s chairman and CEO.
~J~ Says:
August 12th, 2007 at 1:16 pmVisit ~J~
Given the circumstances described, don’t you find his statement as highlighted in the last paragraph to be a bit hypocritical?
Yes, Fox has talk shows that lean right, but their news is news. Do you think all Republicans should refuse to appear on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC? They all lean left.
Edwards is doing this for publicity and nothing else. He’s not going to be nominated and proved himself to be such a poor VP candidate he can kiss that good-bye too.
Guss Says:
August 12th, 2007 at 6:52 pmVisit Guss
I’ve got to start making my point a little more clear. That’s exactly what I was trying to point out. He goes around accusing other people while he’s doing the same thing. A hypocrite with a capital H.