MyDD :: Colbert:"If Edwards cared about the poor he'd have stayed poor"

Colbert:"If Edwards cared about the poor he'd have stayed poor"

by TarHeel, Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 02:56:51 PM EST

Funny stuff.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_c olbert_report/index.jhtml

scroll down to "$400 haircut" priemered 4/19 as "The Word"

shows a clip of Edwards talking about poverty and helping getting the poor out of poverty.

Colbert: "That's class warfare, folks. Eliminating poverty. Who's going to pay for it? The poor? They don't have any cash.

Thank goodness the AP dug and dug deep and reported THE important story about John Edwards this man of the people recently got a $400 haircut, which brings us to tonights word; $400 haircut. ...

What does a rich guy know about helping the poor? (graphic "Other than FDR")

If he really cared about the poor he would have stayed poor....

The Democrats run salon socialists like John Edwards or Al Gore. He (al gore) says he stands up for conservation and the environment, but I recently learned he lives in a house. A house with running water and electricity. If he really believed all the earth stuff don't you think he'd be living in a hollow log?

The point is once you've made a certain amount of money caring about anything other then yourself makes you a hypocrit.

I'm not saying John Edwards should drop out of the race, but at least run as a republican.

John Edwards - good looking, intelligent, rich guy - with a populist message that's really clicking in the heartland he could be a republican contender.

Tags: Colbert, Edwards (all tags)

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Colbert nails it (3.00 / 6)

So does Yglesias:

[Dowd] won't come out and write: "John Edwards' expensive haircuts indicate to me that he would be a bad president." If she wrote that, after all, it would be obvious that she was being idiotic[...] So, instead, she writes a column which is nominally about how other people will find his haircuts objectionable. The voters -- not Dowd, Dowd is serious -- will find this very damaging.

Insert concern trolls like vwcat in place of Dowd, and you have some of the anti-Edwards commentary going on around here on this issue.

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by clarkent on Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 03:30:14 PM EST

Re: Colbert nails it (3.00 / 2)

Why a one rating, yitbos?

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by clarkent on Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 04:42:42 PM EST
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Re: Colbert nails it (none / 0)

My guess is the fact that you called a known poster a "troll" without direct provocation.

by georgep on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 10:33:53 AM EST
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Re: Colbert nails it (none / 0)

The "known poster" posts very anti-Edwards stuff over at Politico and posts the same stuff here with "I am so sorry to see this on the web..." then has the audacity of hope to deny they are posting at Politico.

vwcat is a troll.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. ~RFK

by Vox Populi on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 03:37:16 PM EST
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Re: Colbert nails it (none / 0)

Thanks for the support!

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by clarkent on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 07:58:56 AM EST
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Edwards and Jon Terter (3.00 / 4)

First Jon Tester is attacked as one who goes to a cheap barbershop and gets a down-home haircut, but will vote like an elitist. Then it's Edwards being attacked for spending too much on a haircut and wanting to help poor people. Sometimes I think Democrats will be attacked no matter what they do with their hair.

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by hilltopper on Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 08:23:08 PM EST

You got it! (3.00 / 1)

If we have learned anything in the last 8 years it is that "Democrats will be attacked no matter what they do."

Hair or no hair.

Military service or not.

Living in a house or living in a cave.

You will be attacked. So get ready for it and deal with it.

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by Mooncat on Sat Apr 21, 2007 at 11:54:26 PM EST
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Edwards: What a fool... (none / 0)

....to reinforce the most visceral negative stereotype about himself. Stick a fork in him.

The choice is simple: A President who voted for the worst of Bush's odius agenda, or one who didn't.

by Liberal Avenger on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 12:49:54 AM EST

In your dreams. (3.00 / 2)

Get used to it., No matter what our candidates do, they will be carricatured. We need a fighter who can handle it, and John Edwards can.

by littafi on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 03:20:57 AM EST
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Re: In your dreams. (none / 0)

Only a fool reinforces a caricature. But then, Edwards wasn't going anywhere anyway. Democrats could have chosen him in 2004 and said "no thanks."Some people just can't take a hint.

The choice is simple: A President who voted for the worst of Bush's odius agenda, or one who didn't.

by Liberal Avenger on Mon Apr 23, 2007 at 11:15:10 AM EST
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Re: Colbert:"If Edwards cared about the poor (none / 0)

I wrote a comment criticizing Dowd's column already, and I agree it was absurd and petty and unsubstantive and wrong, however...
I don't think you know anything about how she or her dad tips. I don't think her dad needs criticizing for getting a cheap haircut, it's she that needs to be criticized for making an invalid comparison (between a cop 40 years ago and a constantly televised candidate for president today). Further, she may not be one's favorite columnist, but being a reporter is a real job. She was a beat reporter and sports reporter and a washington reporter for years before she got a job as a columnist (which even if you don't agree with their positions, is still a lot of work, meeting two deadlines a week).
I think there is plenty to criticize in the column on itself without resorting to insulting her dad and reporters and unrelated, uniformed tipping habits.

by jujube on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 05:55:45 AM EST

Edwards is just a hell of a good man. (none / 0)

He'd make a hell of a good president.

Dowd's nuts. She knows better than to do that.

by HumOliver on Sun Apr 22, 2007 at 12:03:17 PM EST

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