Elizabeth Edwards is blaming the MSM for concentrating more on things like Obama’s bowling score than on real issues. She writes:

Did you, for example, ever know a single fact about Joe Biden’s health care plan? Anything at all? But let me guess, you know Barack Obama’s bowling score. We are choosing a president, the next leader of the free world. We are not buying soap, and we are not choosing a court clerk with primarily administrative duties. What’s more, the news media cut candidates like Joe Biden out of the process even before they got started. Just to be clear: I’m not talking about my husband. I’m referring to other worthy Democratic contenders. Few people even had the chance to find out about Joe Biden’s health care plan before he was literally forced from the race by the news blackout that depressed his poll numbers, which in turn depressed his fund-raising.

Well, here’s a fact about Joe Biden’s health care plan, from NBC’s First Read, in Oct. 2007:

Biden’s plan is not a universal health-care plan, but emphasizes a way for employers to more easily provide health care. The plan has three parts: savings with modernization; health insurance for every child in America; and catastrophic health-care coverage. Health insurance companies would not be required to pay for anything above $55,000 for catastrophic injuries or illnesses; the government would pay the rest. Biden also proposed opening federal health-care insurance options to the general public and allowing people to buy in to Medicare at age 55.
Biden differs from the rest of the Democratic field because he does not require mandates. By bringing in catastrophic health insurance, Biden says he believes he keeps employers wanting to stay involved (since 60 percent of Americans covered are covered by their business) and health insurance costs lower for the American public.

Edwards blames the MSM for candidates like Biden not catching on, but this really treats the voters as if they’re idiots that can’t figure things out without the help of the likes of Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson. Biden didn’t catch on as a candidate because voters did know about the issues and the fact that he’s not for universal health care is one of the reasons he didn’t get any votes from a constituency that is demanding universal health care.

More from the First Read link:

“To be completely honest,” Biden said, “if God said I could solve one thing and one thing only, I would pick foreign policy and solve the war in Iraq.” On his way out, Biden told panelists, “We ought to do this on foreign policy.”

Is this really what Democratic primary voters wanted to hear? I think no. Edwards can blame the MSM as much as she wants for the downfall of her husband and Biden and all the rest, but the fact is Clinton and Obama were always the top two candidates and nobody else in the race did anything to distinguish themselves or challenge them for the nomination.