Did you watch 60 Minutes on Sunday? John and Elizabeth Edwards sat down to talk with Katie Couric about their pursuit of the White House and Elizabeth's cancer. The Edwards couple did an amazing job countering Katie's sloppy journalism.
First of all, can we please put away the "Some say..." strawmen forever? "Some say that you are blinded by ambition." "Some say that you are an ambulance chasing sheister who hates his wife." "Some say that I am too busy doing kagle excercises during this interview to care about anything other than the Peabody that Bill O'Reilly is gonna shove up my cooch the next time we are alone on an elevator together."
Listen to this audio where the answers were omitted. You'll get a real feel for how intellectually lazy Ms. Couric was:
The best point made by the Edwards' was that they needn't end the campaign because his wife might die sooner rather than later. They learned the hard way, with the death of their 16 year-old son in 1996, that you never know when tragedy might strike and your life will end. You need to live in the present and work to make a difference because there just may not be a tomorrow. After all, he's campaigning to be the leader of the free world. He could be taken out by an assasins bullet tomorrow and Elizabeth may be left standing over his grave at his funeral. There is no promise in tomorrow, so they have chosen to live in today.
Elizabeth's cancer, should it be an issue when he's in the White House won't be insurmountable. I was reminded that both Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan battled breast cancer while their husbands sat in the Oval Office. Ronald Reagan had cancer himself. Bill Clinton had to manage the distractions of the death of his beloved mother, his weak marriage, and impeachment while fighting wars. And George H.W. Bush had to endur his cold-as-ice bitch of a wife and moron son who might just follow him into the White House. All these men did their job, some quite well, and civilization survived.
And, as Taegan Goddard pointed out, who is Katie Couric to criticize any family's handling of cancer. When her husband was dying of cancer, she continued to work her hectic schedule as anchor of the Today Show. She didn't resign her position to nurse her husband. She managed to carry the burden for a news division that was worth hundred of millions of dollars, sitting down with world leaders, all while "dealing" with her husband's impending death.
Watch the interview and honestly tell me you don't feel more comfortable with the Edwards family because of how well they handled this needless grilling. I dare you.
I hope to one to be as courageous and full of love as they are, and I hope to one day knee Katie Couric in the groin!
Other douchebags joining Katie Couric in infamy:
Rudy Guiliani
Mitt Romney
Tim Hardaway
Terrence Howard
3 comments:
I absolutely disagree. She asked the questions that I think most Americans were wondering. This early in, I think the pressings questions about his abilities to do the job if elected would be unrealistic. I believe this story could play out much like Michael Douglas' and Annette Bennings. Wouldn't that be heartwarming. They do, however, have amazing optimism.
It's not that she asked the question. That's reasonable. I object to:
a) Her badgering with the same question.
b) Her use of the "Some people say..." device. It's an unprofessional tactic that belongs on Fox News and not 60 Minutes.
c) The exclusion of evidence of people who have gone through similar crises and been able to effectively do their jobs. The list grows longer the more I read cricticism. Not just the Regans, Fords, and Couric herself, but what about Ed Bradley from CBS who was reporting on 60 Minutes within weeks of his own passing. Or Peter Jennings of ABC.
I think a lot of this criticism is spurred by people that are now thrown off guard. In 2004, we learned that Edwards was a difficult target for character assination. He might be a lightweight, but he's a stand-up guy who is squeaky clean and almost unbearably hopeful. He lost a son. It was hard to attack. Now the likes of Obama and Clinton, and other liberals who aren't on Edwards' side are at a loss with his wife having cancer. The American President, indeed.
Just my thoughts...
Asked the questions that most Americans were wondering? Actually, that was why they held a news conference on Thursday.
Maybe now Katie can ask Tony Snow all the questions that most Americans are wondering also?
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