Five Minutes with Elizabeth Edwards
From a February 14 interview in
Campus Progress via
JREGrassroots,
What Mrs. Edwards has to say about the media and blogs:
EE: After the recent election
I've been spending a lot of time on channels that have to do with garden landscaping because it was just easier for me, less heartburn. I just get very frustrated listening to mainstream media, like they will report that the new budget increases money for Pell Grants. I just want to say, I beg your pardon? They're cutting off 90,000 people from those grants, and it isn't even part of the discussion.
I do listen to CSPAN in the car and Air America and Talk Left radio. I read the Washington Post and the New York Times. But I go to a lot of websites, I spend a lot of time on the internet. I get a lot of information from blogs, I have a whole list including Talking Points, Daily Kos, Democratic Underground and more. Sometimes I check out the right wing sites to see what they are talking about. I have a whole folder of sites and I open them all up every day and see what catches my eye.
We have a friend at Vanity Fair:
CP: How is Cate doing?
EE: She's in NY now, she expects to go to law school in a few years. She's working right now as an editorial assistant at Vanity Fair.
What a good husband and father John Edwards is:
CP: Happy Valentine's Day! Any plans?
EE: The truth is, I look really lousy so John said I could pick the restaurant and he'd go out and get something and we'd have dinner here. This morning John made pancakes for the kids and cut them into heart shapes and we left them cards and everything. And then he made me eggs and cut those into hearts too.
Elizabeth, if you are reading this, know that you are in our hearts and prayers. We wish you strength and good health as you recover from chemo and radiation. You are an amazingly strong woman and a wonderful example for all of us!