Again with the haircuts?
The Washington Post's John Solomon -- yes, that John Solomon -- had a lengthy piece yesterday on ... John Edwards' haircuts. Seriously.
It is some kind of commentary on the state of American politics that as Edwards has campaigned for president, vice president and now president again, his hair seems to have attracted as much attention as, say, his position on health care. But when his campaign reported in April that it had paid for two of his haircuts at $400 each, the political damage was immediate. With each punch line on late night TV his image as a self-styled populist making poverty his signature issue was further eroded.
A.L. responded beautifully.
Solomon informs us that Edwards' hair "seems to have attracted as much attention as ... his position on health care." It's as if there is some sort of inexorable force at work here. The hair just attracts attention all on its own, like a magnet attracting metal objects. Journalists like John Solomon apparently have no role in this process. Here's an idea, John: why don't you write an article about Edwards' health care plan instead of wasting all of our time on this trivial garbage?
Good idea.
Solomon is sad little hack, and apparently always will be.
I'm wondering if John Solomon takes the same look at Bush's haircuts & assistance to those living in poverty as he does with John Edwards. If he were, & if he was honest in his "journalism" what would we read? How much has Bush spent of the peoples money on his own haircuts, & how much has he spent on poverty? How much does he give to Exxon/Mobile, & how much does he give to soldiers for body armor? How much does he give to Wall Street, & how much does he give to victims of Hurricane Katrina?
Edwards overpays the common working man while conservatives want to swindle the average worker. Which would make a better leader for this nation?
WTF do expensive haircuts have to do with health care?
The wealthiest people in this country are in the best position to assist the underprivileged. Yet this Solomon dumbass thinks they deserve nothing but scorn by our ever-vigilant press when they attempt to do such a thing because, you know, it's completely hypocritical for anyone who *isn't* poor to try to *help* the poor. Brilliant friggin' logic.
I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature...
Yeesh.
Free advice for John Edwards- go down to your local barber and pay him his $10 plus $5 tip and get a buzz cut like that Jon Tester guy from Montana. Save your campaign $1,235 every time you need a trim and it might even win a couple southern states for you.
Well yea, seems to me a well written article on Edwards position on healthcare might be 'at least' as important as his haircut...
at least...... Oh naah what am I thinking, lets just focus on his haircut... That is clearly 'the' most important point to
analyze in any candidate...right... right??? Espeicially one running for president of the United States... Positions on the important issues of the day??? Ha! Who needs those? .. God!!! Just gag me with a backhoe now please, what a crock.....JD
Why should he have to apologize for getting an expensive haircut? Do you really think GWB or anyone else of the players in DC are going to Super Cuts?
I'm with Ghostwolf, in the interest of balance I want to know how much bushie boy pays and lets find out how mush Laura pays to be cut/colored/highlighted too. How much do they spend to have their dog groomed?
I want full hygenic disclosure from now on!
I'm still waiting to hear if Ray Gun used Ms. Clairol in his hair.
Fanon @ 7:
Even how often Ann Coulter douches?
They're just implying that it's impossible to be wealthy and care about the poor.
Since the Republicans often appear to be the party of the rich, this might backfire.
And considering that one of the best friends the poor ever had was FDR, who was richer than God, it's all pretty much nonsense.
ysbaddaden @ 9:
Why is it an issue that John Edwards, a millionaire, pays $400 for haircuts an issue, but George Bush's $10,000 suits are not?
Haircuts are cutting edge news.
If George W. Bush was a real man he'd go down to J.C. Penney and buy a couple of $200 suits off the rack.
Reich-wingers love the wealthy, unless they are a prominent Progressive.
ysbaddaden @ 13:
There's that librul media at work for you. If someone dared to cover how much herr dubyah spent on his suits during the '04 election run, the source would have been thoroughly attacked and the reich-wing librul-media-paranoia and ranting would be in full force.
it's reaganomics. trickle down. you'd think he would get high praises for spreading the wealth using reagan's idea of the wealthy pissing on the masses.
the reich wingers so identify their party with wealth that when they see a progressive with money they think he's a hypocrite.
If expensive haircuts is the worst they can do, he must be held in very high regard: they can't fault him on the issues. Still, it's very banal.
The 'cons are laughing all the way to the bank over how easy it was to smear Edwards.
Don't think for a minute that Coulter's "fag" comments were not carefully orchestrated.
The haircut stupidity ties right in with the fag theme. Questions his manhood; the sound-bites that stick.
I would like to see the Democrats attack the 'cons with continuous verbal assault, no mercy, no prisoners. 'cons want to talk "fags", fine...the Dems should bring up the topics of pedophilia, DC madam, and Jeff Gannon, for starters.
Certainly, the price of a haircut is irrelevent. It never ceases to amaze me, the media's lack of insight or fairhandedness.
How much do Bush or Thompson or Giuliani pay for their haircuts? Probably the same as Edwards.
Does it make sense that we'd somehow prefer to have a president who gets $400 haircuts and gives multibillion-dollar tax cuts to the rich to a president who gets $400 haircuts and fights for poor and average people?
It just goes to show how threatened the elite who own and control the media are by actual democracy. And how willing they are to distract people from the issues.
Why stop with expensive haircuts? Go after the politicians who drive a luxury car instead of an economical car while you're at it.
i'll lay odds that guiliani spends at least $2500 on each of his suits, yet we never hear about this from the same idiots who fixate on edwards' haircut. comparatively, it is no less an extravagance. and, if rudy had hair to comb, you can bet he'd be in line at the salon right behind edwards plunking down his $400.
it's all just more distraction. always watch what the other hand is doing, folks.
how much does condi pay for her brazilian wax job?
I can't help but look back to how brilliant, charismatic and revolutionary Howard Dean's campaign was coming off in 2004, and the media really needed something to grind his onions... His show of true American conviction and cheer (`Yeeeearrrgh!') became his tombstone...
And this time around it's John Edwards' hair.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton continues to be an incurable bitch, and Obama is...well, sure eloquent, for a man of his...type.
Anyway, it's nice to see that with every campaign cycle the world is a hell of a lot worse off, and yet we still find time to play all these TV games when people are asking to be given the keys to the entire planet. I'm waiting for the next rerun: so much outrage on both Republican and Democrat side that some twit with no shot at winning in the middle bungles things and gives the Republicans a slight margin with which to fuck and potentially give another 4 years to a destructive, static cash vacuum.
Well, folks the difference between Edwards' 400 haircuts (an he must need a lot of them given how bushy he wears it), and Bush's haircut (which may or may not cost the same), is that Bush isn't styling himself as this 2 americas liberal. Edwards is a sham through and through. The guy works for the most opportunistic type of organization on Wall Street. He Just built a 3000 sq ft home, a huge Mc Mansion, except he has the land to go with it. Now, there's nothing wrong with these things per se, but come on, if the dude can't walk that walk, why on earth should we believe the talk he talks ???
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