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Many of those same hometown supporters already had gone to bed Friday night before ABC aired an interview on “Nightline” in which Edwards admitted to an affair two years ago with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter.

They missed the former U.S. senator confessing that he had strayed from the values he learned growing up in Robbins. Edwards told ABC he had become “something different than that young boy who grew up in a small town in North Carolina.”

“Because that young boy would never have done this, never thought about doing it,” Edwards said, “to his family or to his wife.”

But as members of the national media took whacks at Edwards, Hancock and others in Robbins muffled their dismay with Sunday vows not to condemn him.

Charlotte Observer

I’m not surprised.  After all, the media covered it up for almost two years after it took place until a tabloid magazine broke the story.  In fact, just a few weeks ago the LA Times ordered its bloggers not to talk about it.

If this isn’t indicative of the very heavy left wing bias in the mainstream news media I don’t know how much more proof one can require.  If Edwards were a Republican do you really think the media would have sat on this story for so long until they were forced to report on it?

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