Despite being a vintage article,why doesn't Alter ask this of John Edwards? [Indeed,SLATES Mick Kaus asks the same question of Jon Alter and the rest of his MSM cronies over at his homebase in dealing with the near total news blackout of the Edwards affair,despite the fact,as chronicled by Kaus,Edwards repeatedly used his sick [cancer] wife to burnish his own ''virtuous''credentials].

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