Edwards pushes censorship


It's a valid news story, but the campaign demanded that it be suppressed

It seems like time after time, it is the Democrats who call for censorship.

The Republicans have their own sins, but at least they back free speech.

So far.

This story lays it out.

A University of North Carolina professor said Friday that John Edwards' campaign demanded that he pull a student reporter's television story that focused on the upscale location of the campaign's headquarters.

C.A. "Charlie" Tuggle, an associate professor at the school, said the Edwards campaign contacted the reporter, second-year master's degree student Carla Babb, asking for a video of her report to be removed from the Internet. When that failed, the campaign demanded in three calls to Tuggle that the TV story be killed, he said.

Now if this had been a Republican candidate who pulled this, you'd better believe the story would have been repeated coast to coast and analyzed for a couple of weeks.

So why hasn't it made the major news?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - November 5, 2007 at 06:09 AM  Tag


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