The LAT’s abortion lobby hitpiece on Fred Thompson: The editors have some ‘splainin’ to do
The story, essentially, is falling apart – and some of the ‘facts’ are disappearing from it without any notices of corrections. Jim Geraghty has the details.
Hold on to your wallets
Mike Allen reports that Dem presidential hopeful John Edwards, trailing badly in the campaign money race, is getting ready to head out on a ‘poverty tour’:
How low can they go: The NYT describes Fred Thompson’s wife as a “trophy” wife
The attacks on Fred Thompson continue in this weekend’s lamestream media outlets. Yesterday it was the LAT, and today it’s the NYT:
You know it’s getting bad for John McCain when …
… goofy Ron Paul is actually beating you in the “campaign cash on hand” department – thanks, in large part, to Paul’s huge wave of online supporters.
Controversy: Fred Thompson was once hired as a lobbyist for a pro-abortion group
James Joyner has a definitive recap and link round-up at this LATimes-breaking story about Thompson’s ties to a pro-abortion group under the first President Bush’s administration.
The John Edwards haircut saga continues
Well, we knew that as recently as this year John “Man of the people” Edwards spent $400 on haircuts – at least twice – and charged them to his campaign (he later paid his campaign back when word of the news hit the press), but did you know one time during the 2004 campaign that he actually paid $1,250 for one??