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Silky Pony makes $$ off of Rupert Murdoch

What’s a little hypocrisy for the man who explores poverty with a half-million bucks at a hedge fund? From Moonbattery:

Yesterday John Edwards demanded that his fellow Dem candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and his hated News Corp., on the grounds that Fox News Channel is not relentlessly liberal like all other television media outlets. The Breck Girl feels so strongly about this, he managed to kill a Democrat debate co-sponsored by the ultra-left Congressional Black Caucus because it was to be hosted by FNC.

Now it comes to light that Silky Pony earned at least $800,000 from a book yawn-inducingly entitled Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives — which was published by Murdoch’s HarperCollins.

Edwards pocketed a $500,000 advance plus $300,000 for expenses. Needless to say he’s not giving the money back, any more than he would give back the $millions he looted from doctors with a cheesy trial lawyer carnival act that featured channeling the spirit of a handicapped fetus.

Not that this need stop him from attacking Shrillary for collecting $20,000 in donations from allegedly right-wing News Corp. officials.

Ya gotta love that shamelessness of the well-coiffed Silky Pone-Pone! In his world, making $800k off of Rupert Murdoch is nowhere near as horrible as making $20k off of him.

August 6, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, John Edwards