Politico takes a really funny position on the vetting failures of John Edwards... their conclusion... it is the individual's staff that is responsible to vet their own bosses and inform the complicit MSM to the failures of the staff's bosses... so the MSM can be complicit without having to look complicit.

I know my summation sounds ridiculous... and it is ridiculous... but non-the-less... that's exactly what Politico says!

Read it for yourself!

Politico Whiny-baby article

Edwards epilogue: Does the press really vet presidential candidates?

Over the past few weeks, the world has learned quite enough about John Edwards – from the lies he told in trying to cover up an adulterous affair to the compulsive vanity that left some people close to him questioning his judgment and even his grip on reality.....

The revelations about Edwards... have undermined one of the favorite conceits of political journalism, that the intensive scrutiny given candidates by reporters during a presidential campaign is an excellent filter to determine who is fit for the White House.

While the media “usually does well” in vetting candidates, said presidential historian Michael Beschloss, “Edwards is a good case” in which it didn’t.

And that failure is worrisome in a changed political world where politicians - be they Barack Obama or Sarah Palin - can burst upon the national stage and seemingly overnight become candidates for higher office.

The media, according to Beschloss, now has “a much bigger responsibility than it used to.” In the past, he said, the political establishment “would usually have known the candidate for a long time, and if there were big problems, they probably would have known about those, and tried to make sure those people wouldn’t be nominated.”

That did not happen with Edwards, even though as a Senator he had run for president once before, in 2004, ended up on the Democratic ticket as John Kerry’s running mate, and was a known quantity to many top Democrats....

Two stories by the National Enquirer that ran before Iowa described Edwards’s affair with Rielle Hunter. But the mainstream media went to sources within the Edwards campaign to try to confirm the stories and got nowhere. No one in the campaign would confirm them.

Those staffers are the ones who should be held accountable, Marc Ambinder wrote in response to the question he posed on The Atlantic’s website: “Should Edwards Aides Be Shamed And Blamed?”

“It’s your responsibility to quit the campaign and not enable it,” he wrote. “If you enable it, you are responsible in some ways for the fallout. Your loyalty isn’t an excuse for that.” ....

OK... we've got it Politico... the National Enquirer is better at doing the job you have so gleefully prided yourself in... and you have admitted that a scumbag, sensationalist, rag paper like the Enquirer (this according to you MSM) is more reliable than yourself.

Then you pass whatever buck might be left in your corner to the politician's staff to initiate and inform you... do your job for you?

Just too funny.

xtnyoda, shalomed