Elizabeth Edwards vs Tony Snow
The liberal media is a mixture of lower standards, no standards and double standards. Such behavior is simply standard. While liberal media hypocrisy is as self evident a truth as a drunken Kennedy, even the media usually stops stomping on people when they are perceived to be dying.
The media vilified Ronald Reagan, despite his being loved by virtually everybody not suffering from liberal levels of toxicity. Yet with the exception of true hatemongers such as Robert Scheer, most of the media treated the news of his Alzheimers disease with dignity and class (although much less than that exhibited by Mr. Reagan himself).
The last few weeks of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford were for the most part free of abuse by the press jackals. Political strategist Lee Atwater, a man vilified for helping President Bush Sr. defeat Michael Dukakis, was treated with sympathy when word of his brain cancer came to light. Those who went after Bill Clinton fiercely in the media were very respectful when he had his heart surgery.
The bottom line is that while people can have political disagreements, we should be opponents, not enemies. I do not agree with virtually anything Hillary Clinton or Nancy Pelosi have to say, but I do not wish for them to die. I wish for them to be defeated politically. I want them out of elective office, but leading happy lives with their families.
The willingness to respect those fighting for their lives has just been sabotaged, hopefully not forever. Two people in the political arena have announced that they are battling cancer. One of them is Elizabeth Edwards. The other one is Tony Snow. The way the media is treating them is as different as their ideologies.
Elizabeth Edwards should star in the remake of “The Untouchables.” Criticism of her is not allowed for any reason.
Decent people everywhere want Elizabeth Edwards to defeat her cancer, and live happily ever after with her husband for decades to come. She is a strong, smart woman, and she has suffered the worst fate any parent can face in their lives, that being having a child pre-decease her (their son was killed in an auto accident at age 16). Now she is fighting for her life. She deserves our prayers.
What she does not deserve is to be given a halo and be made out to be heroic just because she is suffering. She is not allowed to attack people, knowing that if they attack back they will be condemned for responding in an unsympathetic manner to a dying woman.
Her husband went after Dick Cheney’s daughter, who was not in the political arena, and not fair game. Elizabeth Edwards has thrown herself into the arena, and she is absolutely fair game.
She has lashed out at the media for being unfair to her husband because he is a white male. As a white male myself, I can tell you that we have it pretty good in American society. Second of all, the media was so far up her husband’s rumpus in 2004 that she forgets that he was the golden boy. John Kerry did not want him as the Vice Presidential Nominee. Edwards openly campaigned for the job, and foisted himself upon Kerry, the fresh face boy wonder. Four years later, Obama is the fresh face. Edwards is not. Elizabeth Edwards played the race and gender cards against Hillary and Obama, no worse than they did, but no better.
Ms. Edwards lashed out at Ann Coulter for 45 minutes on the Chris Matthews program. Now Ann Coulter can dish it out, and she has crossed the line on several occasions. However, in this particular instance, Ms. Coulter was ambushed. She did not hit back because she knew the media would rush to the defense of Ms. Edwards. While Ms. Coulter is much more hard edged than Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Ms. Edwards certainly showed the animosity of Rosie O’Donell in her attack. Ms. Edwards got a free pass.
Let me be the one to take the heat by blasting a woman in ill health.
Ms. Edwards married a man who seems to be a loyal husband and father, a sincere man in terms of his family. It is the only thing he seems to be sincere about. He is simply a phony who built a business empire suing people. He is Jim Carrey in “Liar Liar.” His campaign is crumbling because he is a hypocrite who preaches poverty and lives like a Saudi Royal Prince. He wants to run a positive campaign, but he is collapsing in the polls. Therefore, his wife is the attack dog.
If Ms. Edwards truly is suffering health wise, she might want to spend her final years on Earth being nicer to people, rather than attacking them for simply being better candidates than her husband. The media should crawl out from under her skirt and start challenging her statements.
If Elizabeth Edwards is approaching sainthood, White House press secretary Tony Snow is being treated as the second coming of El Diablo (Tom Tancredo, that means “the devil”).
Tony Snow is battling cancer. He could be dying. He announced that due to the medical bills he has piled up, he can no longer afford to work. He is leaving the Bush administration.
He is being mocked. How can a man making almost $200,000 per year be broke? Try having cancer. Isn’t he leaving the Bush administration because it is a sinking ship? Sure, if you are a member of the media that is so disgusting that you think that anybody connected to President Bush deserves to suffer.
We should pray for Tony Snow to recover financially and physically. Period. To quote an old deodorant commercial, anything less would be uncivilized.
Have we really gotten to the point where partisan politics is so poisoned that liberals are allowed up until to death to lob verbal bombs while conservatives must be hounded beyond the grave?
Elizabeth Edwards attacks people, and she is greeted with, “You go girl.” Tony Snow conducts himself with class and dignity, and the media does everything but sing the Queen song, “Another one (Bush team member) bites the dust.”
An old joke states that just because one is paranoid does not mean that they are not out to get you. Republicans do claim about media biases and double standards, but this is because it is actually completely true. It does happen, apparently from cradle to grave.
To Tony Snow, I wish you good health, and may God bless you and your family.
To Elizabeth Edwards, I wish you the same. I also ask you to knock it off with the political nonsense. If you throw punches, you need to take them. Better yet, tell your husband to grow a pair and fight his own battles.
To the liberal media, I simply ask you to try and be slightly less disgusting than usual in the hopes that you will slowly become decent human beings. Take the human decency equivalent of the nicotine patch until you can finally kick the habit of acting like yourselves. Otherwise, unlike Ms. Edwards and Mr. Snow, nobody will pray for your survival. Your damaged credibility is killing your profession, and there is currently less and less sympathy or desire for you to survive.
eric
August 18th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Right on Eric !
This one has been on my mind since Tony’s first bout. I had watched him on Fox for years untill he was offerd the press sec. job and was so happy for him when he took it.
He has ALWAYS conducted himself with class and deserves nothing less than the same. Just recently since he announced he will be going back into the private sector I knew it would only be a matter of minutes before stupid spiteful crap flying around, I was right. But I wont dignify these creeps with a link. I’ll e-mail to you if need them for reference.
On the otherside, if you remember back a few weeks I posted here that it just didnt sit right when the Edwards held a touchy feely press conference to announce Elizabeths breast cancer. It was just too self indulgent for me to take it as if this was done to cut the press short from speculation if they said nothing.
It actually appeard to me like they were wearing their ” WE ARE CHAMPIONS” logo on their sleeves. It made me sick because I could see where the sincerity was falling… right on the campaign. It was a simple sympathy ploy.
August 18th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
If you are serious about political opponents not being enemies, then why do you delete all liberal comments from your blog?
August 18th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I’m missing something here, and its probably knowledge.
Why should a man in Tony’s position have to go anywhere due to his health ?
Would’nt there be benefits for a man who works in the executive office that would carry him no matter what ? Or is it a stinking HMO that has to do with it because it was a pre-existing condition? Regardless, his post at the White house was something he really thought hard about before he took it.
And if it’s true that he has to leave for more money to pay medical bills, thats ridiculous.
He is part of the team that has and is keeping us from getting killed. He is a soldier in a sense that he believes that the fight we are in must be fought, and he is doing his part. He was instumental in the “Wounded Warrior program” and now thats what he is.
But he has to hit the road and do speaking engagements etc…
I really hope the reason is to spend more time with his family, and not the money.
August 18th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
You know, I hadn’t read that he was leaving due to medical bills? What’s your source?
And , Micky? It didn’t sit right with me either re Ms. Edwards cancer announcement. I cannot imagine doing that in her shoes.I am a very private person to begin with. And I certainly don’t understand how it is that she is out there with all her criticism! But in all sincerity, I couldn’t see myself marrying her husband either. What I’m trying to say is, these people are like, from a different planet than I am, they are so far removed from anything I understand.
Thanks g. Nicely done again. And re the hateful rhetoric that comes from the left; I’ll never forget some politician actually saying ‘If____________ (fill in the blank with any Bush administration person) was on fire, I wouldn’t even bother to piss on him to put it out.’ I’m sorry. There is NO possible reason or excuse for that vicious attitude.
Oh…one more thing. If indeed you are deleting liberal comments here, thanks. Nice to not have to deal with the negativity.
C
August 19th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Carole,
It wasn’t just liberal comment’s. I don’t think Eric has a problem with those.
I caught one before he deleted it, it was nasty and mean.
August 19th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Eric,
They are not the first to use their tragedy -the Edwards as a sheild, while they attack.
There is a sentiment alive in American politics today, people want their cake and eat it too.
August 19th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Hi Eric…
It’s so far out of the liberal mindset to be decent to someone who disagrees with their politics. Disagree with their worldview, and you are the Enemy. When you demonize the enemy, it’s all in the name of A Better World.
I’m watching “Serenity” right now and it occurs to me that the story line matches what the liberals want for the world. They have to “…make people better…” That means making their thoughts, beliefs, and desires indistinguishable to their own.
August 19th, 2007 at 11:55 am
“Went after cheney’s daughter”
I guess. He mentioned that she was a lesbian. Is that akin to alcoholism to you?
August 19th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
He could of made his point without mentioning it, it was shady sneaky crap.
I watched it live. As soon as Edwards made that remark I got my ” GADUNG ” face on. It took me about a minute to close my mouth
August 19th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Uh…no offense Paul…but what does alcoholism have to do with this…or even, lesbianism?
Mr. Edwards brought Cheney’s daughter’s sexual practices into a political debate. How is this appropriate at all? I think that is the point of the piece here….Edwards poor choices in attack topics…as well as Mrs. Edwards poor choices.
There are those of us that marvel that a party that is so prone to vitriolic attack of the most inappropriate sort is NOT the one that gets stereotypically cast in that role. Hatred is now the defining characteristic of the liberal democratic dialogue. Yet, they would have us believe that Bush, Cheney, Rove and all conservatives are evil and never miss a chance to spitefully describe them thus.
Yet…it is not the Bush administration or conservatives that are spewing hateful rhetoric.
So my question is; who is more evil? Those who spew it, or those upon which it is cast?
August 19th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
“If you are serious about political opponents not being enemies, then why do you delete all liberal comments from your blog?”
Because this blog is not a democracy. The owner can feel free to post whatever he wants, and to delete whatever he wants to.
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August 31st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Boy, you, and (most) of those who comment on your blog have restored my faith that there are decent empathetic human beings who choose to make public commentary in the political arena. I just heard news item about Tony Snow resigning, and in searching for information re: his illness, I’be been absolutely sickened at the blogs and comments that were listed first on the Google search results page. Your words are so on target, unfortunately. We find it hard to understand the level of hatred that exists among the Muslim population in the Middle East? Their blind hatred for Jews? Their blind hatred for those who are fellow Muslims, but from different tribal roots (i.e. Sunni vs. Shiite, etc.)? Well, we have only to look right here at home in the media and certain members of the liberal left who just never cease to surprise me with the raw hatred of political rivals, those who dare to have a different opinion from their own. The large portion of the media which leans left only amplifies the inhumane words and attitudes……… We consider ourselves to be a democratic country founded by those who came to these shores to preserve their right to believe as they do, while maintaining tolerance for those of differing sentiment and beliefs? My stomache litterally turned reading those first few blogs. And, regretfully, the writers of such vituperative garbage actually think they are being clever and communicative! Just one more word: YUCK!