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Have you heard lots of media coverage of the “secret” visit by John Edwards to his “mistress” and their suspected “love child”? I haven’t either. Certainly not, say, like the coverage of Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom footplay. Could that be due to media bias? When Slate magazine lists that as a definite concern, you know that media bias in favor of liberals and Democrats is not a right-wing construct.
Some additional commentary, including thoughts attributed to Andrew Sullivan, about the impact of these revelations on homosexuals. [CAUTION: The topic, though humerous, may be challenging for some.] Is it only I, or does Edwards’s “friend” look like Camilla Parker-Bowles (Prince Charles’s current wife) on a really bad day?
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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