Medved’s all over John Edwards’ performance in last night’s presidential debate, especially this lame response to Brian Williams’ question about the $400 haircuts (cue the violin):
Well, that was a mistake which we’ve remedied. It was simply a mistake.
But if the question is, Brian, whether I live a privileged and blessed lifestyle now, the answer to that is yes; a lot of us do. But it’s not where I come from, and I’ve not forgotten where I come from. Many people in the audience and the viewing audience know that my dad worked in textile mills all his life, and I can remember vividly — my dad’s here tonight, and I was born here in South Carolina — I can remember vividly my dad after church one Sunday when I was about 10 years old taking us, just our whole family, into a restaurant — I was dressed up; I was very proud to be there — and we sat, got our menus, looked at the menus. And the waitress came over, and my father said, “I’m sorry we have to leave.” I didn’t understand why. Why did we have to leave? I was embarrassed. I found out when we got out the reason we had to leave is he couldn’t pay the prices that were on the menu.
The reason I’m running for president of the United States is so that everybody in this country can have the same kind of chance as I’ve had.
Running for president so everyne can order anything they want off the menu, Medved concludes. Somehow I think Edwards really sees it that way.
