Edwards Campaign: Times Refused To Talk To Beneficiaries Of His Anti-Poverty Programs

The Edwards campaign is pushing back hard against today's enormous front-page New York Times piece alleging that there was something untoward about the fact that the antipoverty programs set up by John Edwards provided a "bridge" to his Presidential campaign. The story has already come under fire here, here, and here.

But we've just learned something new and surprising about the story. The Edwards campaign has just told us on the record that The ... Full Story »

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by Terry Hinshaw - Oct. 1, 2008

This piece from one of Edward's chief and most dependable defenders in the media can't even come close to undercutting the sharp edge of the heavily sourced NYT article that appeared this morning. The AP has also run a very similar story today, further reinforcing the accuracy of the NYT piece. As the Atlantic's political blogger, Marc Ambinder, has written, the only ones surprised by the NYT and AP stories are those who haven't been following the Edward's campaign closely.

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