To go along with John Edwards’s two Americas, there are now two News Corps. There’s the icky, mean Republican one, of course. But who knew there was a good one? The kind of News Corp. that John Edwards takes big bucks from:

August 3, 2007 — WASHINGTON – John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul’s companies. The Edwards campaign said the multimillionaire trial lawyer would not return the hefty payout from Murdoch for the book titled “Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives.” The campaign didn’t respond to a question from The Post about whether it was hypocritical for Edwards to take money from News Corp. while calling for other candidates not to.
In addition to a $500,000 advance from HarperCollins, which is owned by News Corp., Edwards also was cut a check for $300,000 for expenses.

Edwards tries to get out of this by saying he donated some of this money to charity, which misses the point that he was giving News Corp. an opportunity to profit off of his name. If Edwards believes his own shtick, then he’s an enabler of everything he’s against.