Wash. Post's Milbank compares Edwards' haircuts to undocumented workers at Romney's home

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200712130001?f=h_top

Wash. Post's Milbank compares Edwards' haircuts to undocumented workers at Romney's home while "he's complaining about illegal immigrants"



Summary: On Countdown, Keith Olbermann asked Dana Milbank about the repeated references in The Washington Post to the cost of John Edwards' haircuts, including in his own column. Milbank replied that he is "guilty of the haircut slander" and added: "{T}he $400 dollar haircut speaks of that the same way Romney having the illegal immigrants twice return to work in his home even ... as he's complaining about illegal immigrants." While Milbank identified an inconsistency between Romney's actions and his stated views, he offered no justification for suggesting a similar inconsistency in Edwards' efforts to fight poverty while paying for expensive haircuts.

[fascisthunter]

1. People Like Dana Have to... because They Have NOTHING ELSE (nt)

[madinmaryland]

2. Milbank is a male Maureen Dowd.

Obsessing on the irrelevant.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Wow! What a perfect comparison!!!!

:thumbsup:

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Dana Milbank is a stupid twit. I cannot believe that Olbermann still has him on..

[trumad]

5. The guy should never mention anybody elses hair

He has the worst rug on TV.

[BuyingThyme]

6. A lot of people don't know this, but Edwards pays illegal aliens

$600 to cut his hair.

[JDPriestly]

7. Paying a few hundred too many for a haircut can happen.

Have you ever gone someplace, forgotten or been too busy or too embarrassed to ask how much you were going to pay? I have. Wasting money is a foolish thing, but it happens when you are busy or not paying attention. Hiring illegals is a different matter. Even that can happen once or twice if the illegals are subcontractors. It depends on whether Romney was hiring them knowingly and over and over.

[terisan]

8. Rather have the bill for Edwards' haircut than the one we pay for Bush's chef. nt

[spanone]

9. give him a break, he's a comedian