But do we know if the Space Alien from the Weekly World News has endorsed Fred Thompson for the GOP nod once Fred agreed to make BatBoy his running mate?

Or you can just pick up a copy of the National Enquirer and pass these lies as off as fact! Can’t wait till the Register breaks open the story on Geroge Bush’s space alien baby. The Enquirer recently had an edition where the headline was Angelina and Brad are splitting, another story that they were having a baby and couldn’t be happier, and another that claimed she was bulimic.

So this qualifies as a credible source to Wiskol and the Register? Even for a 2nd rate fishwrap this is pretty low.

The Register is a third-rate paper that’s getting worse all the time as it cuts its reporting staff and attempts to publish an even trashier version of its already thin product.

Why would substantive people bother wasting time with reporters from a publication that has no national coverage and an eccentric editorial policy that slants news and opinion relentlessly, and does its most significant work by omitting the news and opinion that would challenge their world view?

Good for the Edwards campaign. They gave the Register exactly what they deserved.

Excuse me, but on what planet is a query about an alleged affair a “hardball question?” Sheesh.

I’m participating at the Daily Kos and blogging elsewhere, Main Stream Media is not doing it’s job, but the focus on salacious and superficial issues that ultimately will not effect the policies of the candidate abound. His hair cut? His House? An affair with absolutely no proof? That he’s already commented on already?

I’m sorry, I have to respectfully disagree.

As far as the issue of asking tough questions is concerned; the tough questions should be directed to the candidates, not their wives. We should be asking candidates about their positions on issues; and asking follow-up questions to their canned 5 second sound byte answers.

When John Edwards takes the initiative to talk about poverty, so-called journalists ask about the price of his hair cuts or the size of his home rather than ask questions about how the problem of poverty can be addressed.

So pardon me if I find the need to ask Elizabeth Edwards about an allegation of an affair absurd. In my opinion, it is simply not an appropriate question to be asked of her. And in this case, asking tough questions of the candidates doesn’t even have relevance.

If the alleged affair story is so inconsequential, just take the question and say just that. “I’m not going to spend time addressing a silly story that appeared in a paper that is known to sensationalize the news,” would have been a decent answer.

Ellinorianne, It has been mentioned many times on this blog that mainstream reporters try too hard to please the big boys. This is an (albeit rare) example of a reporter refusing to back down from asking a tough question. Is it not hypocritical of us to say that the question is “not fair game?”