Mrs. Edwards was betrayed in the most callous way by her husband, vice-presidential candidate and left-wing pin up, John. The news of her death was recounted on CNN with nary a word of her husband's "love child" and serial infidelity.

The same treatment can be expected when Bill Clinton (a man accused of rape on multiple occasions) shuffles off this mortal coil. Can we expect the same for Clarence Thomas?

As recently as this past summer, our corporate media swooned over the former Oral Roberts University teacher Anita Hill and her slanderous accusations against the Supreme Court nominee (now Justice) Clarence Thomas. The "high tech lynching" of the early 90's was fair game to be revisited.

When it comes to civility, the media invariably displays a double standard. Mrs Edwards suffered enough in this life being married to man who so casually betrayed her in the midst of cancer, a man our media wishes to have been in the White House.