Friday, April 20, 2007
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Pink Sapphire-gate - Updated!
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Posted by:
Dean Barnett at
4:24 PM
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The scandal surrounding John Edwards’ $400 haircuts continues to grow like an unsightly loose end. The sad tale has officially migrated from Blogistan, achieving mainstream respectability in the pages of the New York Times. The Grey Lady reports:
A spokesman for the campaign, Eric Schultz, said that Torrenueva Hair Designs of Beverly Hills sent the bill for a haircut in February and a second last month to the Edwards campaign and that the campaign mistakenly paid it. Mr. Schultz said Mr. Edwards would reimburse the campaign. He would not say how a haircut could cost $400 or whether it might cover other expenses, too. The stylist, Joseph Torrenueva, said in an interview that his normal charge was $175 “in my shop” and that the extra fee was to go to where the candidate was, a practice he described as routine among his clients. Beyond that, he said, “I really can’t talk about it.”
First off, I’m calling bull-shinola on Schultz’s explanation of how the campaign came to pay the bill. In the normal course of things, one leaves a salon and pays one’s bill on one’s way out. While Torrenueva may have been compensated in the fashion that the campaign claims, there is no logical explanation of how Manchester’s Pink Sapphire could have mistakenly sent the bill to the wrong place. I would bet that the Pink Sapphire typically doesn’t send bills out at all.
I have also consulted my own stylist, Lenny DiPasquale of Harvard Square’s Leonard Stephen salon (who gives a great haircut for more than a barber but for a tiny fraction of $400), to get some additional insight. Lenny assures me that for $400 in Iowa and New Hampshire (at the previously mentioned Pink Sapphire), Edwards was getting a lot more done than just a trim of his admittedly lovely locks. No wonder why the campaign is being evasive. The image of Edwards with a mud mask and cucumbers covering his eyes is one that could stick with the general public. (Is there not an ambitious photo-shop wizard out there who would like to enjoy fleeting fame by creating such an image and sending it to me?)
I must admit, though, that I do enjoy stylist Torrenueva’s invocation of barber-client privilege. Should the legal system’s rules of evidence not be changed to reflect the new reality that for some people their stylist is the equivalent of a doctor? Toranueva certainly charges more than a doctor.
(Thanks to Okie on the Lam for the image.)
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Only extends to disclosing comments made in the shop to the patrons' wives and girlfriends.
I do not see a scandal in mistakenly paying the haircut out of campaign vs. personally funds--the real scandal may be whether or not John Edwards is in the Donald Trump club of vanity bald spot deniers? We already know that Edwards shares Trump love of modest living residences. |
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Jessicalange, for once, is right. Hypocrisy and fraud mean nothing to those who mean well. Power to the People! By any means necessary! The ends justifies the means! 2 legs bad 4 legs good! Some animals are more equal than others. |
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It is no wonder the Republicans are out of power and not likely to regain it anytime soon. It seems this site can only fixate on one of three things: 1) How the MSM is responsible for everything that ails us; 2) How an empty suit who is running 4th in the polling is going to be the next President; and 3) How bad the Democrats are.
This week, while you disingenuous attacked NBC while ignoring the similar role played by Fox, we saw: how a mentally imbalanced individual with a criminal history was able to purchase 2 guns and in an act of domestic terrorism, slaughter 32 innocents; the worst 48 hours of violence in Iraq since our invasion; and our Attorney General perform so badly that one of the most reliable conservatives in the Senate publicly called on him to resign. But all Dean can write about is Edwards' hair and how Romney is holding strong at 5% in the polls. Speaks volumes about both the Republican party (as opposed to the conservative movement) and the "new media". |
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No, I did not see this poll. Please supply a link. |
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The compassion in me acknowledges that Edwards’ pate may have been the means to relief of second-tiered American poverty. $400 is quite the example the trickle-down supply sided economics. Perhaps a shorn head would indeed eliminate his mighty power! More likely, it is a combination of the rich indulging in the perks of wealth, and poor lamenting, jealously I might add, in such frivolity. Such is America, no matter how many ways it is divided up. |
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Dean, I thought you might want to see the most recent poll which finally has your man, Mitt, on the top! Unfortunately, in this poll, Mitt is the candidate that independents would "definitely" not support. Good luck winning any election if you cannot get the independents.
The poll finds that the percentage of those surveyed who would definitely not support Sen. John McCain has nearly doubled and is nearly a majority -- 47%. He's become as polarizing as Hillary Clinton, at least to partisans. But only 41% of independents say they would definitely not support him.
Among independents -- Definitely would NOT support
Romney: 53%
Clinton: 51
McCain: 41
Edwards: 39
Giuliani: 35
Obama: 29
In the Republican primary, McCain's support has leveled off at about 21 percent. When Fred Thompson is included in the question, Rudy Giuliani receives 33%. Without Fred Thompson, he takes 37%. Last month, Giuliani was at 44%. (Giuliani is the second choice of a plurality of Thompson supporters).
"http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/abcpost_poll_nu.html" |
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To say here, Dean, or are you simply paraphrasing Ann Coulter in words that won't get you fired? |
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every single comment on this blog being one of the following:
A. Hugh is a Republican tool!
B. Mitt Romney sucks!
C. Your blog sucks!
D. Republicans suck!
Do conservatives do this on Liberal blogs too?
I'm more curious than anything else. It boggles my mind that the first comments up on every post you have are consistently from detractors. Free speech cheers and what not, it just seems odd. |
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how about "Fop"? "Ponce"? "Popinjay"? "Fancy Lad"? "Sisterboy"?
Which John said this, "Would ya just watch the hair. Ya know, I spend a long time on my hair and he hit it; he hit my hair."?
Heard Clay Edwards singing this 'un:
"She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy.
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright.
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know.
It's not for lack of bread, like the Greadful Death.
Darlin'
Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder lenght or longer
Here baby, there, momma, ev'rywhere, daddy, daddy.
hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair.Flow it, show it,long as God can grow it, my hair."
and his hair was perfect...
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I had no idea inflation had been so bad. |
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Perhaps Mr. Edwards was just redistributing income? |
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Iraq = threat to U.S.
Deficit = money to pay for war
Abramoff = ask Harry Reid (hint - no one cares)
Katrina = when water is coming for you - move. New Orleans run by Dems at local and state level since forever, son. But blame George ifn that'll make you feel better.
Torture = torture? what're you talking about? I thought it was Maplethorpe's new show. Or live art from the NEA. Or the skull and crossbones frat initiation. Or did we cut someone's head off?
Gonzo = misplaced loyalty. It happens. Check out the turnover rate in Clinton's years and any other Prez.
Religious hacks at justice = again, what are you talking about? Ginsberg's not a Wiccan.
Rumsfeld = did a fine job. As good as any other SecDef if you'll find someone to read you your own history.
Libs, try to get perspective on things. And not European perspective, American perspective. Try it just once.
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I wonder if he listened to the best in D.C. right now if he'd benefit. One would like to hope so, but things like 400 dollar haircuts suggest otherwise.
Oh well. |
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i posted this one but it mysteriously disappeared.
Meanwhile, our favorite TV nugget of the day so far came courtesy of Barbara Walters, who matter-of-factly informed viewers that Laura Bush recently had her hair done by famed New York City stylist Sally Hershberger, who charges $700 for a haircut.
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have you been out of the country for 5 years.
explain how iraq was a threat to the US. it has been debunked by everyone including G.W.Bush who has admitted more than once there was no ties to al-queida or to 9/11.
deficit-you are badly misinformed. the war is off the books, the deficit does not even factor in the half a trillion dollars we have spent to referee a civil war.
torture- uh abu gharib, you and rush may think those were college pranks but most americans andthe rest of the world sees attaching electrical wires to testicles as torture.
justice religious hacks- didn't ashcroft cover lady liberty's breasts with a sheet because his dirty mind couldn't get past the sexual aspects of a statue.
rumsfeld-did such a fine job he was fired.
sheesh
you ask liberals to get a clue- you are lost without a compass my friend.
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Oh contraire, if anything, it has been confirmed. |
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Actually, according to Bush's own numbers and the subsequent GAO analysis, the tax cuts have cost 1.7 trillion so far, and if extended 5 years beyond their 2010 expiration would cost an additional 1 trillion; The Bush budget ends it projections there. The lastest GAO report I can find puts the cost of the war up to last fall at 430 billion.
That said, I do think this whole haircut episode with Edwards is relevant. Part of his carefully sculpted image is this 'aw shucks my dad was a laborer, I'm just like you' persona. I personally started shaving my head since I developed male pattern baldness, but if I had hair to cut, I'd hardly be spending $400 bucks to do it.
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don't even know where that typo came from. |
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Scarlet Pimpernel,
Haircut One Hundred !
That's classic.
I never thought I'd ever see them referred to here at Townhall.
I actually have their album, and it's quite good.
By the way, it sure does look like you upset the compassionate liberals !
They're throwing everything at you...Halliburton, mind-control experiments, skull & bones initiations, blaming Hurricane Katrina on the President, and quoting "Gone With the Wind."
Jessica Lange even demonstrated her multi-cultural respect for Italian-Americans by referring to Scalia and Alito as "Scalito" !
(BTW, Scarlet Pimpernel, I'll see you at the secret meeting on Sunday. But don't forget, you have to knock three times before reciting the secret password, otherwise Cheney won't authorize the Secret Service to let you in.) |
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the meeting has been cancelled
cheney is in his last throes
gonzo can't recall where the meeting is or if he ever attended a meeting before.
gates is still in iraq telling them to share their milk and cookies and place nice
bush hasn't been told of the meeting for plausible deniability reasons.
and rove is busy deleting e-mails from every server in the white house.
maybe next week |
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Too funny--oh I know I should say someting witty, but please pardon me, you said it far better than I might. |
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are responsible for Edward's $400 cut? |
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Re~ would-be President Prig: Coulter was right. |
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