MICKEY KAUS ON THE SICKNESS OF THE MEDIA: “John Edwards runs an entire presidential campaign based in large part on his character as shown by his loyalty to his brave, ill wife–when in reality he’s cheating on her, practically setting up a second family–and the press doesn’t care (or, rather, pretends in public that it doesn’t care, lest its readers get interested). But a year later some prosecutor comes up with a tedious, hard-to-define potential campaign violation, and it’s katy-bar-the door!”