Carla Marinucci vs. Robin Hood
SFGate writer Carla Marinucci helps keep poverty taboo
Oh it is going to be a long campaign…
As if an immigration debate, a battle in Lebanon, and Bill Richardson announcing his Presidential run wasn’t enough for the day, San Francisco Chronicle writer Carla Marinucci had to bring fruitcake to the party.
In her SFGate.com blog, Marinucci highlights that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards was paid $55,000 to speak at the University of California last year on the topic of, yes, you guessed it, poverty.
The irony!
Pointing out that former Sen. Edwards was paid “money” to speak about “poverty” must have made her toes tingle in excitement.
What this really does is help shun the subject of poverty off the presidential candidates’ speaking engagements. What millionaire under a microscope wants to talk about poverty when it becomes a negative story? And who better to express concern about poverty in this country than those running for President? (It doesn’t matter if former Sen. John Edwards hadn’t announced his candidacy yet, he never stopped running).
By using his affluent position to run a presidential campaign spearheading the issue of poverty, former Sen. John Edwards has donned his green tights, hoping to use the compassion and wealth of our country to help those most in need.
We need more candidates talking about poverty, not less.
The “irony” bit in Reality Bites must have been an outtake from Carla Marinucci’s interview at the Chronicle.
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- Article quoting this one: Media Distortions of John Edwards
- More on John Edwards
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http://keithpr.com/2007/05/media-distortions-of-john-edwards.html
http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/safe_in_the_fire_swamp/2007/may/22/edwards/
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Thank you for this post. MediaMatters.org also has a good one at http://mediamatters.org/items/200705120002?f=h_top.