Just when you thought the Worldnutdaily couldn't go any lower, they cite and link to the National Enquirer. Seriously, here's the screenshot:
Pathetic.
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New Low for Worldnutdaily
Category: Politics
Posted on: July 25, 2008 9:30 AM, by Ed Brayton
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This story got its legs way more from the Drudge Report linking to it than WND.
Posted by: Michael Heath | July 25, 2008 9:46 AM
Skepticism is certainly warranted, but the NE has broken real scandals before, and WND is not the only paper to cite it as something to watch.
The story they claim happened: catching Edwards in a hotel with his alleged mistress and then chasing him around the building, is one that would be very easy to disprove if it were false. I don't think it's quite time to declare that it's 100% a done-deal lie until some explanations are offered from the Edwards camp.
Posted by: Bad | July 25, 2008 9:53 AM
Sorry, Ed, but that doesn't even reach the depth of the Wingnut Daily's regular lows. Much less their low lows. Or their neap tide lows.
Posted by: Russell | July 25, 2008 10:08 AM
Oh, so does that mean Bush's failing marriage to Pickles and recurrant binge drinking is now fair game? It's been one of the major story-lines for years.
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | July 25, 2008 10:28 AM
This is old. Back in Oct. '07 the NE has been going on about Edwards and Hunter and the supposed lovechild. Big deal.
Posted by: Shawn Wilkinson | July 25, 2008 10:30 AM
Relative to Dubyas' drinking habits, our president has often claimed that he stopped drinking when he found Joshua of Nazareth. As writer Gail Sheehy found out, the real reason he stopped is that wife Laura advised him that if he didn't, it was adios.
Posted by: SLC | July 25, 2008 10:58 AM
Even if it turns out to be true, it just show there's a joke brewing in their somewhere about telling what party a politician is in based on the gender of the person they are caught with. =)
Cheers.
Posted by: FastLane | July 25, 2008 10:58 AM
I'm not sure of the point of the post, Ed. Why would the fact that WorldNutDaily is linking to a newspaper with more credibility than themselves somehow be a "new low" for them? Don't they link to papers more credible than themselves every single day?
Posted by: NonyNony | July 25, 2008 11:20 AM
FastLane, you are absolutely correct, of course. How many Democratic gay sex scandals have we heard about, versus Republican gay sex scandals? I'm sure there are gay dems, just a there are (probably) straight repubs, it's just that either the gay dems are more careful, or the straight repubs are such a tiny minority that we virtually never hear about them.
Nony, WND links to more credible sources than themselves on the close order of 100% of the time, since the credibility of WorldNutDaily is
Posted by: Blaidd Drwg | July 25, 2008 12:01 PM
The Worldnutdaily is the National Enquirer, only written from a far-right perspective.
Posted by: Sadie Morrison | July 25, 2008 12:27 PM
Now there's a hotel security guard claiming that the encounter did in fact happen:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391426,00.html
Again, skepticism is warranted, but I don't think this is something that can be simply dismissed as certain baseless invention.
Posted by: Bad | July 25, 2008 1:19 PM
There's a third option: gay Democrats are much more likely to be out of the closet, and so can live normal lives with their partners. Log Cabin Republicans do exist, but members of a party that depends so much on the Religious Right for their power are far more likely to be closeted and in obligatory heterosexual marriages (boasting of their "family values" all the while), indulging their real sexual urges on the sly and sleazy, as repressed people tend to do. Gay democrats have long-term partners, gay republicans pick up strangers in public restrooms or hit on the Senate pages.
If you look at the heterosexual scandals of the two parties, you can see the same dichotomy. Democrats keep a mistress on the side...republicans like to be diapered by hookers.
Guess which ones are more fun for the media to play with?
Posted by: Seraph | July 25, 2008 1:22 PM
Worldnutdaily aside, the National Enquirer has had a few moments of journalistic prowess. They did break the story of Jesse Jackson's illegitimate child and also broke some aspects of the Lewinsky scandal. You may not like them but that doesn't deny possible legitimacy.
Posted by: No One | July 25, 2008 1:50 PM
@No One
So basically the NE is good at spying on people's personal affiars.
I don't think that's something to brag about.
Posted by: Shawn Wilkinson | July 25, 2008 3:05 PM
Why would it constitute a "new low" for WorldNutDaily to link to a news source with higher credibility and reliability than itself?
(Originally, I wrote that sentence with sarcastic intent. But upon further reflection, it may be a flat truth that the National Enquirer is more credible and reliable than WND...)
Posted by: G Felis | July 25, 2008 5:49 PM
Not to give WND any credibility, but Huff-Po has the same story. Not presented quite so breathlessly, but the same story none the less. I've never been much of an Arianna Huffington fan. Since she first surfaced as the larval form of Ann Coulter, she changed sides, but not methods.
Posted by: Bert Chadick | July 26, 2008 12:26 AM
I agree, Ed.
Pathetic.
Edwards that is.
Posted by: The Steinman | July 26, 2008 6:25 AM
Steinman, you don't have to go home to Edwards' wife.
Posted by: Hari | July 26, 2008 6:35 PM
Whether it is true or not, I can't help but laugh that Ed would get so indignant about this when he posted an unconfirmed rumor a week ago about Jesse Helms and cross-dressing. Pathetic.
Posted by: mroberts | July 28, 2008 3:34 PM