NY Times Pens Love Note to Elizabeth Edwards

There's fawning coverage usually reserved for the Clintons, then there's unabashed puffery in this drivel about Elizabeth Edwards, moonbat wife of the Silky Pony.

Perspective on Her Side, Mrs. Edwards Enters Fray

When Mrs. Edwards called in to a television talk show this week to confront the conservative commentator Ann Coulter who had attacked Mr. Edwards this year, it was a decision that Mrs. Edwards said she made impulsively and on her own. The resulting dramatic four minutes of television created a surge of attention that at least momentarily electrified her husband’s campaign, winning applause from the left and apparently spiking contributions in the critical final days of this second-quarter fund-raising period.

It also made Mrs. Edwards the sympathetic face of the Edwards campaign, for a few days overshadowing the candidate himself.

Similarly, Mrs. Edwards told gay leaders at a kick-off event for the San Francisco gay pride parade last week that she supported same-sex marriage, a position at variance with Mr. Edwards’s. He learned of her remarks from reading a newspaper, an aide said. Mrs. Edwards said that she was just offering her opinion, as well as an explanation for her husband’s more conservative views on the issue, in response to a question. But the interview, some Democrats said, had the political effect of at least appeasing some liberal Democrats over Mr. Edwards’s views of gay-rights issues.

Anyone with a functioning brain knows the Coulter stunt was a pre-planned hit, so these reporters are either dangerously naive or just plain disingenuous. Even the Koslings figured that one out.

We're also to believe that her husband only learned of her position on gay marriage by reading the newspaper?

Please, don't insult our intelligence.

Still, several campaign advisers said the sharpest change in Mrs. Edwards’s role was the extent to which she has become a public figure in her own right. There may be a risk to this, aides to the couple acknowledged, to the extent that Mrs. Edwards might at once overshadow and diminish her husband at a time when opponents have sought to portray him as intellectually weak.

Nobody needs to portray him that way. He's doing an great job of it himself.

Can you imagine such puffery about the wife of a Republican candidate?

Neither can I.