Earlier this week I posed the question "What Do John McCain and John Edwards Have In Common?"
'Remember how Republicans across America (come to think of it, it wasn't only Republicans) brought up the Edwards $400 haircut day after day after day?
Well guess what? John McCain has been wearing a $520 pair of Italian loafers. I guess this means all of those people who just couldn't stop talking about 'pretty boy' Edwards being "out of touch" because he had and spent money are going to be consistent and bash McCain, right?'
Much to my surprise, CNN actually did a segment on this very topic.
And I love it. I mean, how could you not?
The point was never that I wanted to see more irrelevant MSM stories on fluffy, non-substantive issues. Believe me, I know there are already far too many of those. The point is that the mainstream media always goes along with the Republican framing and spin regarding how elitist, weak and out of touch Democrats are because of how they dress, what they drive and drink and how much they spend on their hair-cuts, etc.
So in that context and in that context only, I think we should appreciate that CNN
(a station that strongly mocked the Democrats just the other day) covered this story. Look, fair is fair, and if Edwards lost votes over his hair why not let McCain lose some votes over his shoes?
PS---I credit HuffPo for breaking the shoe story but I credit months of having to put up with non-substantive smears on Edwards for the rest.