The originator of the phrase partially owns up, underscoring, as Glenn Reynolds says, that the real division isn’t between rich and poor but between the actual country and the one the old news media presents. Or in the case of John Edwards, hides. Now, about that bumper sticker…
UPDATE: Then the sister of his paramour decided to weigh in. Uh, oh.
First Fox News picked up on it, and now the Philadelphia Daily News–or at least a column on their Web version–is saying "it may be true." The PDN is overlooking Fox’s corroboration of a major part of the National Enquirer’s initial work, but maybe that’s on purpose. Anyhow, it’s a start.
OOPS: Well, now, I see, via Mickey Kaus at Slate, that the Charlotte Observer preceded even Fox.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 