Republican shill, John Solomon certainly must not know how wealthy the liberal/progressive FDR was, or the huge mansions from the Kennedy's to the Bush's have lived in.... A measly $400 for a haircut in Beverly Hills for a fund raiser and for Solomon and other idiots to continue riding that as proof of anything is rediculous... However, this is what republican Solomon is all about, just get John Edwards out of the race as soon as possible....The republican fear of Edwards is very obvious. That some pay thousands to their manicurist, along with $12,000 dollars suits people like Bush wears. The pig Solomon is just that another lying. distorting, smearing republican pig!
Can One Reporter Take Down a Presidential Candidate? John Solomon Is Trying to Find Out The overblown "controversies" over John Edwards' $400 haircut, hedge fund work and real estate dealings are largely the product of one reporter at the Washington Post who hides his grudges behind "fair and balanced" journalism.
Earlier this summer, the Washington Post ran a profile of Joseph Torrenueva, a Beverly Hills Democrat better known these days as John Edwards' barber. The article, which led the paper's "style" section, has achieved minor infamy for the author's solemn assertion, "It is some kind of commentary on the state of American politics that hair seems to have attracted as much attention as, say, his position on healthcare."
Has it now? The truth is nobody knew anything about Joe Torrenueva before the Post article appeared. Miniscandals about politician's haircuts are more like Chia pets than human heads of hair. They don't grow on their own. They require reporters to pursue and water them with investigations into the practices and prices of high-end barbers; only then is national attention focused on who and what presidential candidates pay for their monthly snips. The Torrenueva profile didn't offer "some kind of commentary" on the state of American politics so much as it offered insight into the peculiar priorities of its author, Post money and politics reporter John Solomon.
No one who has followed Solomon's controversial reporting career was surprised to see his byline on the Torrenueva profile. When he jumped from the Associated Press to the Post at the end of 2006, Solomon took his well-known obsessions with him. Among these are the personal finances of prominent Democrats and, apparently, their boyish bangs.
The only thing that likely surprised Solomon watchers about the Torrenueva profile was its placement in the "style" section. This may have even surprised Solomon himself, as the article appears written with more prime Post real estate in mind. How else to explain Solomon's newsy tone, as if the words of Joe Torrenueva, stylist to the stars, could unleash another season's worth of Hairgate exposes leading all the way up to and through the door of the Edwards' campaign bus?
"Torrenueva's account of his long relationship with Edwards -- the first he's given -- probably guarantees ... the whole issue go away," he writes. Or so John Solomon can hope!
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