Wal-Mart To Sen. John Edwards: No PS3 For You!
- November 16th, 2006
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 union-sponsored call that his son had ridiculed a classmate about his shoes, which were purchased at Wal-Mart.
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Upon hearing the news, the company invited Edwards to visit the local store to check out its electronics as well as its shoes for men and boys. And then they basically said he can get in line with everyone else.<br />
<blockquote><p>The Company noted the PlayStation3 is an extremely popular item this Christmas season, and while the rest of America’s working families are waiting patiently in line, Senator Edwards wants to cut to the front. While, we cannot guarantee that Sen. Edwards will be among one of the first to obtain a PlayStation3, we are certain Sen. Edwards will be able to find great gifts for everyone on his Christmas list - many at Wal-Mart’s “roll-back prices.” </p></blockquote>
<p>I have to hand it to Wal-Mart on this one. That’s pretty sweet of them to basically put the smackdown on Edwards like that.
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EDIT: So it turns out, as reader Matt so elegantly put it, that I’m a clown. Well, sort of. The misguided staffer turned out to be doing the <a href=)
Former Senator John Edwards Turns to Wal-Mart for PlayStation3 [walmart newsroom]
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Renfru (Who am I?)
1 year ago
You see, Sen. Edwards is from the wrong party. Wal-Mart contributes to the other guys.
Fatmouse (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Largely because his party tries to fuck with the company every chance they get. Maybe they just want bigger bribes.
Matt
1 year ago
You clown. Edwards released a statement that made it very clear that the staffer overheard his wife mentioning that they wanted to get a PS3 for their young children, and the staffer acted on his own, very misguidedly, and used the Senators name in a completely inappropriate manner. It’s jackasses like you who continue to spread this crap that keep any genuinely good people from wanting to throw their names into the public arena by seeking office. You wanna know why we end up with idiots running our country. Because of you and people just like you.
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Josh Goldman (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I was just reporting on a press release issued by Wal-Mart. Maybe instead of calling me a clown and a jackass you should/could provide a link to the Edwards’ statement so that our readers might benefit.
Jay (Who am I?)
10 months ago
Wow…bottom line here is that WalMart screws over working Americans. Their benefits are no better than one of Stalin’s backyard steel mills and the reason their prices are so low is because they don’t include the costs that WalMart’s products have on our environment overall economy (like shipping responsibility and jobs off to China). I don’t mind Senator Edwards, I think he’s made it pretty clear that he’s standing up for the middle class and the thousands that are in poverty in this country, I don’t think a Wal-Mart press release is really going to take that away from him.
But leave it to Wal-Mart to take a public swipe at a politician who has the guts to call them out on their bullshit….its about time.