The New York Times has an unbelievable hit piece on John Edwards today. Reporter Leslie Wayne writes
it was his use of a tax-exempt organization to finance his travel and employ people connected to his past and current campaigns that went beyond what most other prospective candidates have done before pursuing national office. And according to experts on nonprofit foundations, Mr. Edwards pushed at the boundaries of how far such organizations can venture into the political realm.
But Wayne can’t find any actual wrongdoing, just hints. Like this from Ferrell Guillory: “It all adds up to a remarkable feat of keeping a presidential candidacy alive without any of the traditional bases for it.” Even a former IRS lawyer gets pulled into the hatchet job.
“I can?t say that what Mr. Edwards did was wrong,? Mr. [Marcus S.] Owens said. ?But he was working right up to the line. Who knows whether he stepped or stumbled over it. But he was close enough that if a wind was blowing hard, he?d fall over it”
This isn’t the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Times is supposed to be about news, not opinion. I’m so disappointed.
