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

Talking Points Memo, TPM Cafe by Greg Sargent | Jun. 22, 2007 (Opinion)

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 Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

While I have to agree with all the blogs linked to this post--and with this one--that the NYT article has a lot of innuendo in it, that doesn't prove it's wrong. While the Times may not have interviewed people recommended by the Edwards campaign (and probably should have), tax filings about expenditures seem a pretty firm basis for what work the Edwards program did or did not do--though not for all the supposition about motivation. It is, at most, an academic argument though since none of these blogs can match even the reduced reach of the Times.

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