The Edwards Hits Keep On A-Comin'

When the media isn't ignoring John Edwards altogether, they're slamming him for spurious reasons. This time, Joe "What Dead Intern" Scarborough smears Edwards for wearing proper biking attire. This one is just stupid - George Bush riding with Lance Armstrong is a well-known bit of recent history, and yes, Commander Codpiece wore (shock!) spandex when he did it. And as Attaturk notes, Edwards had biking shorts on over the spandex, so this particular hit by Joey Scar was a lie in addition to being thuddingly stupid.

I mean, I don't want to take up biking myself because I don't like needles - and maybe a Presidential candidate looking for credibility shouldn't associate himself with the Tour de France - but Scarborough's just being an idiot here.

UPDATE: To clarify, I think the press just likes the Hillary-Obama two-horse race and wants it to continue. For example, nobody bothered to notice during the "I'll talk to our enemies" donnybrook that someone else on the stage, Bill Richardson, um, actually talked to most of the enemies on that list, and in so doing extracted a lot of positive elements through tough negotiation.

In an interview late Thursday, Richardson refused to engage in the sparring between Clinton and Obama on the subject. "But on the substance, you know I've actually met a lot of these guys already - I've met Castro, I've met Chavez," Richardson said proudly in a phone call from Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he was campaigning.

Richardson, the former Ambassador to the United Nations who has negotiated with rogue leaders from Saddam Hussein to officials from North Korea, said the latter would be his top priority if he had to schedule a list of meetings with dictators as president. Last on his list, he said, would probably be Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Everyone, he said, deserved the right to talk to the United States if it would resolve a crisis.

"But I'm not just going to say, 'Yeah, I'll meet with you - for what? For coffee?' No, you have to have hard-nosed negotations," he said.

So cut the crap, media. This is not a two-horse race.