Andrew Young: Scandal Damage Confined to a Few Websites
MAINSTREAM PRESS HAD NO PROBLEM BELIEVING RIDICULOUS SCHEME
BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE BLOGOSPHERE!
…Or rather, a few parts of it.
Andrew Young, in his book, The Politician, holds forth on the beginnings of the John Edwards’ cover-up. One of the main pillars of the cover-up, after the National Enquirer discovered that Rielle Hunter was pregnant was the ridiculous story that she was pregnant, not by Edwards, but by Edwards’ campaign fall-guy, Young.
It was an absolutely preposterous lie, but Edwards decided to go ahead. “This single paragraph was to be offered to the National Enquirer or any other media person who called the Edwards campaign about Rielle Hunter,” writes Young. “The senator and the advisers who worked closely with him on this issue — Jonathan Prince and Mark Kornblau — expected the onslaught to begin on Wednesday, December 19, when the new edition of the Enquirer would be posted online.” In anticipation of a firestorm, Young sent his family out of town.
But when the Enquirer story was published, nothing much happened. “To our relief, no serious newspaper or TV network picked up the story because they couldn’t find a source to confirm it,” Young writes. “Our phones and those of our friends and relatives rang constantly with calls from reporters and producers, but we ignored them all. Rielle and the campaign followed the same strategy, and since they still play by the multi-source rule, the big print and broadcast news organizations were stymied.” The damage was confined to a few websites. “We began to think that perhaps our strategy had worked,” Young writes.
Just for the record: one of those “few websites” was this one. While the mainstream press not only covered up, but helped the Edwards’ campaign hide the story, DBKP was publishing over 160 articles on various parts of the affair, scandal and elaborate cover-up.
We also spent considerable space on the Mainstream Media dereliction of duty towards the Edwards story.
The Edwards’ campaign was well aware of who we were, according to several sources.
We want to take this opportunity to remind the Mainstream Media–so that the next time, they’ll be sure to ask Andrew Young about those “few websites.”
We’re not holding our breath.
