snood wrote:This thread was started in response to Coulter's hatemongering - not Edwards' career as a class action lawyer, so your appearance here can only be construed to mean that you don't see Coulter's tactics as the miserable and wretched bile they are. And besides (since you want to make this about Edwards' legal cases), upon what are you basing your portrayal of him as an ambulance chaser, and not a hero to the injured poor - anecdotes you've heard?
I did my own research a while back, Snood, and I recommend you do the same. Hero of the injured poor? That's a hoot. How about hero to himself and a handful of others while screwing the multitudes?
From memory:
1) He pretended to channel a suffering baby for cash.
a) Doctor delivers baby who unfortunately suffers from Down syndrome.
b) Enter the scumbag to blame the doctor for Nature's cruelty.
c) Scumbag has no case, since half the Medical community disputes his theory (which has since been thoroughly demonstrated false, btw). So instead of arguing the merits of his case; he pretends to channel the unfortunate child,. Hero of the injured poor? NOT.
2) Filibustered about the loss of his son to convince a jury to punish a manufacturer to choke up millions for a failed drain grate that had
a) Been completely removed.
b) Had never been installed properly.
Common sense tells us this was in no way the manufacturer's fault. Enter the million-dollar scumbag, who proceeds to pervert the memory of his recently departed son in a lengthy filibuster to once again distract from fact in favor of manipulated emotion. Hero of the injured poor? NOT.
That the man made a career out of punishing innocent people for other's tragic misfortune is slimy enough. To pretend he's some kind of hero for doing so is just plain sick. The macro effect of Edward's scumbaggery is higher costs for everyone (especially hard on the poor), and a tremendous spike in C-section deliveries as Doctors increasingly base their medical judgment on fear of the scumbag, over the best medical science available. A million unnecessary scars is the legacy of John Edwards legal career. An environment where Doctors weigh the opinions of scumbag opportunists over the opinions of the most gifted of their peers and the preponderance of the best medical science available. Hero of the injured poor, my ass. All he's done is magnify their suffering by artificially inflating the already exceedingly high cost of medicine. That he and a handful of victims of unfortunate happenstance received millions from his shameless scumbaggery is hardly justification for the damage he's done.
I wouldn't be so ugly as Coulter likes to be about shedding light on the man's profiteering off his own son's death; but agree that the public should know the lengths this piece of sh!t has gone to fill his coffers. Hero of the injured poor? Talk about believing the hype.
I don't hire lawyers to invent bad guys when my family suffers tragedy. I pass out hugs, remember the good times and bury them with dignity. Profiteering is the furthest thing from my mind.
