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IssuesFox News video bio on Edwards noted criticism of haircuts, legal career -- but Huckabee bio featured no criticism
On the January 3 edition of Fox News Live, host Shepard Smith aired
two reports as part
of his "Before They Were Candidates" series: one on former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and one
on former Gov. Mike
Huckabee (R-AR). Smith -- who narrated both reports -- began the Edwards piece by
saying "John Edwards took a lot of heat for his $400 haircut" and airing a brief clip
from a YouTube video showing Edwards adjusting his hair while the
song "I Feel Pretty" from the musical
West Side Story played. Later in the piece, Smith
said that "[c]ritics have called him an ambulance chaser." By contrast, the
Huckabee piece included no mention of any criticism directed at
him.
The video of Edwards grooming has
been repeatedly shown on Fox News, as Media Matters
noted.
From the 2 p.m. ET hour of the
January 3 edition of Fox News
Live:
SMITH: John Edwards, you know, likes
to talk about the "two Americas." In fact, Juan Williams was
telling me last night that of all the political speeches that he's seen of this
entire election season, the one that raised the roof the most, that really
brought people up was that speech by John Edwards. "Two Americas," one for the rich, one for
the poor. He's lived both of them. He's also endured his share of tragedy and a
lot of heartache along the way, even on the campaign trail. As a part of our
series, let's take a look back before they were
candidates.
[begin video clip]
SMITH: John Edwards took a lot of heat for his $400
haircut.
FEMALE VOICE [singing]: I feel pretty. Oh, so
pretty.
SMITH: But, as you may have heard
him mention, he comes from more humble roots.
EDWARDS: And it was a two-room house
in a mill village in South
Carolina.
SMITH: Seneca, South
Carolina --
VIDEO CLIP: I was born in a small
town.
SMITH: -- where Edwards was born on
June 10, 1953.
EDWARDS: My father had to borrow $50
to get me and my mother out of the hospital.
SMITH: Edwards lived in five
different towns before he was 12 years old. His family would move every time his
dad was transferred to a new mill. They finally settled in Robbins, North
Carolina, when Edwards was in the seventh grade. He was
the first in his family to go to college , graduating from NC State. Then UNC
law school where he met his wife, Elizabeth. They married in 1977, the Saturday
after they took the bar exam. His wedding ring cost $22. Hers, $11. But they
were soon living, as Edwards would put it, in "the other America."
They had two children, Wade and
Cate. And Edwards made millions as a trial lawyer. Critics have called him an ambulance
chaser, but he doesn't apologize for his success, saying he's always
fought for the little guy. In 1995, to get over his fear of heights, Edwards
climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with his son, Wade.
Less than a year later, Wade was killed in a car crash. He was but 16 years old.
Within four years, John and Elizabeth had two more children.
EDWARDS: This is Emma Claire and
this is Jack.
SMITH: And in 2004, Edwards made his
first run for the White House before becoming John Kerry' s running mate. Then
the same day they conceded the election, Elizabeth was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Three years later, Edwards was back
on the campaign trail when his wife's cancer came back. This time, it was
treatable but incurable. John and Elizabeth Edwards, though, refused to let the
disease derail their dreams.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS: It's unbelievably
important that we get this election right.
JOHN EDWARDS: Both of us are
committed to the cause. We're committed to changing this country that we love so
much.
[end video clip]
SMITH: We'll have much more on all
the front-runners before they were candidates later in this hour and tonight on
the Fox Report, 6 o'clock Central
time.
[...]
SMITH: The Huckabee campaign's
hoping for some of those undecided voters to give him a chance tonight. There's
a lot that you may not know about Mike Huckabee. He's been a guitar player. He's
been a preacher and a marathon man. And today as a part of our series, we're
checking out how it all began for Mike Huckabee. A look back before they were
candidates.
[begin video clip]
SMITH: Call him "the other man from
Hope." Michael Dale Huckabee, born here in Hope, Arkansas, 1955 -- nine years after another
pretty well-known politician.
Huckabee's father, Dorsey, a fireman
and a mechanic. His mother, Mae, an office assistant at the local gas company.
Huckabee found music here in Hope. He says on Christmas 1966, his gift was an
electric guitar straight from the J.C. Penney catalog. He says he played the
thing until his fingers bled. Huckabee never really left behind his love for
music. Even today, he still plays bass in his band, Capitol Offense. He's opened
for Willie Nelson and the Charlie Daniels Band, played at two presidential
inauguration balls. Huckabee graduated from Hope High
School, the first man in his family to get a
diploma. And he went to Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, where he
married Janet, his high school sweetheart, and majored in biblical studies. He
would go on to become the youngest-ever president of the Arkansas Baptist State
Convention.
HUCKABEE: The joys of knowing Jesus
Christ. The joy of knowing what it means to follow
him.
SMITH: And you know if Mike Huckabee
were to be elected to the White House, he wouldn't be the first preacher to make
it there. James Garfield blazed that trail. Big-time politics began for Huckabee
in 1993, elected Arkansas' lieutenant governor and a year
later, governor for a four-year term, only the third Republican governor there
since Reconstruction. He served until 2007, and Time magazine honored him as one of the
five best governors in all the land, but along the way, Huckabee faced serious
health issues. In March of 2003, a doctor diagnosed him with Type 2 diabetes and
warned if he didn't change his life, he'd be dead within a decade. Huckabee took
that warning seriously. He dropped more than a hundred pounds and within two
years had completed four marathons. Today, Mike Huckabee tries to teach other
Americans his lessons. He wrote a book called Quit Digging your Grave with a Knife and
Fork. It aims to show folks how to live healthier lives. Just a
little extra help, courtesy of a man from Hope.
[end video clip]
SMITH: A man from Hope is live with
us right now. Sir, great to see you. How's it going?
HUCKABEE: It's going great, Shep.
That was a nice piece. I appreciate you doing that.
SMITH: Well, we appreciate your
campaign giving us some nice pictures.
Published: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:30:16 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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