On Friday I posted about how the John Edwards Sex Scandal was the Top Story on CNN, FOX while they barely covered the Russia-Georgia fighting. Think Progress shows us where FOX NEWS’ priorities continue to be:

Fox News has decided which story is worthy of more coverage. Today, host Gregg Jarrett interviewed PBS’s Bonnie Erbe. “We have these huge stories going on like the one you’re reporting in Georgia,” Erbe noted when asked about Edwards. Jarrett, however, completely ignored Erbe’s comment on Georgia and continued to talk about Edwards, offering praise for the National Enquirer:

JARRETT: You know, his excuse for lying is absolutely stunning. He claims he denied the affair because the reporting by the National Enquirer was “99 percent wrong.” Well, so far, they’ve been about 100 percent right.

Throughout the segment, Jarrett refused to talk about anything except for Edwards’s affair:

ERBE: The American public have told pollsters, this political season they want substance. Both these candidates have expressed support for allowing Georgia into NATO. … We could have been on the verge of nuclear war. Those are the kinds of the things that the American public wants to see discussed.

JARRETT: Right. You know, but getting back to Edwards, during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Edwards absolutely ripped into Bill Clinton.

Erbe called the Edwards story “water cooler talk,” noting again that Edwards’s affair is “not the stuff the American public wants to hear about in this election cycle.” Again, Jarrett wholly ignored her, responding with more Edwards talk:

JARRETT: Well it’s amazing, he thought could get away with it, and if he had become the Democratic nominee, my goodness.

Of course, this is nothing new for Fox, which has a history of covering tabloid issues more than wars.

Watch the video:

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News stations really love those sex scandals don’t they? Well, John Edwards has given them a story that I’m sure you’ll be seeing non-stop over the next few days.

Even with the Russia and Georgia conflict breaking out, it seems the news wants to focus on John Edwards affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.

CNN’s Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer has almost focused entirely on the John Edwards affair with only brief mentions of the fighting in Georgia. As soon as they finish reporting on the Georgia fighting, they go right back to the ‘John Edwards Sex Scandal’. Non-stop coverage!

If you go to CNN.com you’ll see the top story is the John Edwards affair as shown in the screenshot on the right with the caption ‘Edwards Admits to extramarital affair.

Sure, the affair is news worthy, but not to the extent they are running with this thing. Why not more on the suspicious nature of the Anthrax investigation? Why not more coverage of forged letter to link Iraq and Al Qaeda-9/11? Why not more coverage of Dennis Kucinich’s attempts to impeach George Bush?

CNN isn’t alone with the love of ‘Sex Scandals’. Of course FOX News is going to have a field day with this, as you would expect from them since John Edwards is a Democrat. The screenshot from their website is on the right with the caption ‘EDWARDS ADMITS AFFAIR’.

Would FOX News ever have a top story featuring Karl Rove Being Caught Lying About Iraq War? Rove is like a God to them over there.

MSNBC’s website is a little better with the main focus on the Russia/Georgia battle and the John Edwards affair story pushed to the right, as shown in the screen shot below.

Get ready for them to spin this for all it’s worth over the next week, unless some other scandal peaks their interest.

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Google Video
Friday, August 10, 2007

When asked by Barbara Walters on the night of September 11, 2001 if the 9/11 attacks were carried out by forces within the U.S., 2008 presidential candidate and then senate intelligence committee member John Edwards becomes evasive and refuses to answer the question, after having spoken to CIA director George Tenet earlier that day.

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Be sure to watch the 9/11 Documentary Videos at www.LibertyVideos.org including Alex Jones’ TerrorStorm at www.WatchTerrorStorm.com