{"id":319,"date":"2007-03-26T08:32:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=319"},"modified":"2007-03-26T08:32:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:32:03","slug":"more-elizabeth-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"More Elizabeth Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed John and Elizabeth Edwards appearing on 60 Minutes last night, CBS has a transcript of the interview<\/a>, and a video clip at that link as well.<\/p>\n

I thought they sounded great, but then I’m not one of the few who are disturbed by their decision to continue campaigning.<\/p>\n

This clip was uploaded by the fine folks at TheBlueState<\/a>, under the heading Katy Couric second-guesses the Edwards Family<\/b>, and I have to say I share their take on the interview. Couric certainly went out of her way to press all the arguments against their decision, and didn’t show much understanding of why they decided as they did. But they responded to her well.<\/p>\n


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UPDATE:<\/b> There are several great responses to the Couric interview at the Huffington Post this morning. Susan Madrak, in The Cancer Scolds Explain It All For You<\/a>, asks why we can’t accept people wanting to live their lives as long as they are alive. David Sirota, in Et tu, Katie Couric?<\/a>, discusses Couric’s role as chief prosecutor with the Edwards being cross-examined. And Taylor Marsh, asking Is Katie Kidding?<\/a>, wonders why Couric kept asking the same question (“you know you’re dying so what’s the point?”<\/em>) over and over in various ways.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t realized before reading the HuffPost that Couric’s husband had battled cancer, and that she worked full-time during that struggle. You’d think she might be a bit more understanding.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> And polling shows<\/a> that Americans back the Edwards strongly for their decision to stay in the race, though a notable number (38%) believe he may eventually have to drop out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed John and Elizabeth Edwards appearing on 60 Minutes last night, CBS has a transcript of the interview, and a video clip at that link as well. I thought they sounded great, but then I’m not one of the few who are disturbed by their decision to continue campaigning. This clip was uploaded by the fine folks at TheBlueState, under the heading Katy Couric second-guesses the Edwards Family, and I have to say I share their take on the interview. Couric certainly went out of her way to press all the arguments against their decision, and didn’t …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-59","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}