MSM Consigns Edwards Mystery to Memory Hole

Rielle Hunter again exits stage left as John Edwards continues his Teflon progress to the primaries. If this were a Republican candidate, dozens of reporters would vie for more details.

I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde's response to a fellow author who asked about what to do about a "conspiracy of silence" concerning his candidacy for a literary prize.

Oscar's pithy advice: "Join it."

However, if Edwards manages to survive the pre-Super Tuesday rush to judgment, this vignette should be examined more closely, as he already appears to be hypocritical far beyond the normal two-faced norm of major candidates!

UPDATE: Oops, Mickey Kaus has a characteristically brilliant sum-up of the overarching Weltanshauungs in conflict in the USA, as propounded in Room Eight by Jerry Skurnik. The gist in a few well-chosen words is that there are two electorates, the rabid liberal "intelligentsia" now whipped into daily frenzies by blogs, and the stay-at-home Joe Six-Packers who couldn't care less. The MSM used to provide fodder for the former, the latter were affected by union leaders & bread and butter issues. Now "Rielle Hunter" is the most "hit upon" google site at MSN, yet no MSM will mention her name---nada, rien, kein, etc. Check the two links for adjectival assurances.

Really Rielle will bubble to the surface again, as her tummy gets deep into the third trimester. And inquiring minds will continue to sleuth it out, no matter how hard the suits at NYT, Time Inc, Newsweak, & the alphabet networks & cables play the triple monkey denial routine.