the real elizabeth edwards, too.e a big gap between what her image is and how some say she was behaving during the campaign? we're going to get more of that after the break. how about all of the above? the eight passenger buick enclave. may the best car win. tools are uncomplicated. nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping's easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. no. come on. how about... a handshake. alright. (announcer) priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. then, you stand behind it. the 5-year, 100,000 mile transferable powertrain warranty, from buick. withoadside assistance and courtesy transportation, it's the best coverage in america. >>> page 127 of "game change," talking about elizabeth edwards. they say, the world saw valiant, determined, heroic

they talk about elizabeth edwards.truce sif, condescending and crazy he woman. let's begin with you. wow, she probably gets the harshest treatment in this book i think it's fair to say. >> i read some of the excerpts and they were certainly surprising. they're really at odds with our public impression of mrs. edwards. i think that kelly ann made a good point earlier. some of this, i like that term she had, staff infection. i don't know if it relates to the folks who -- >> get it out there. >> i don't know if that really relates to the folks who were making these allegations about mrs. edwards. this is a part of the book that's probably more sa lay shus than useful. there's nothing to learn from beating up on elizabeth edwards. >> there are no source notes in this book. >> it's still in the nonfiction list, not the fiction list. elizabeth edwards is portrayed as a shrew, doing these profanity-laced tirades against staff. i look at her and hillary clinton portrayed the same

it was it tough to wreet for elizabeth edwards. >> sheets gone through losing a teenage son in an autoccident, having his battle with cancer twice. no one could look at that seft circumstances and not bad for her, including a lot around her. as we reported the book there was a uniform view that we thought was important to tell the pub because it wasn't just to go hard at elizabeth edwards. the point was here was a guy who could have been the democratic nominee for president, who could have president of the united states, his wife was at times more famous than he was after her book about her fight against cancer appearance on ora. our accounts mandates we stel the complete story which is a different port trait of her than had been reported before. >> not very flattering at all. john, were you surprised to learn about the difficulty in the marriage of the mccains? >> it's one of things we heard about while we were covering the campaign. when we started to talk to people for the book, it was sort of stunning how many people who work for us the fact there was no such frikt between them and

. >> larry: elizabeth and john edwards have split. she stood by her cheating political husband for three years. even met his out of wedlock little daughter. what made her call it quits now? then a gay, sex and drug scandal destroyed ted haggard's megachurch ministry and devastated the family. why did his wife, gayle, choose to forgive and stay married? all that and amazing musical pairing, next on "larry king live." you all know the story. conan o'brien left nbc after a very public battle with the network. jay leno was set to return as host of the tonight show and once again today he spoke publicly about what happened. joining us to discuss it all, tom shales, the washington post tv columnist wrote a book "live from new york." jerry penicoli, correspondent from extra is here. dick cabot, the former "tonight show" writer for jack par and johnny carson. host of his own late night talk show back then. jay was on oprah today. here's what he had to say about conan. >> have you talked to conan in person since all this? >> no, i haven't. hav

you know, i think that a lot of us -- i've had elizabeth edwards on my show.hink most of us -- again, i don't know if it's a female thing or human thing. imagine, like, losing a child, having cancer, having your husband not just be unfaithful but father a child with someone else when you're raising two young children then have you supporting a presidential campaign all the time? i mean, it's just beyond unconscionable. he could have taken down the whole democratic party with him. >> larry: yeah. miss cupp, what's your read? >> certainly it's an embarrassing day for the edwards and embarrassing day for the mainstream media. when you remember back to the whiff that john mccain had an extramarital affair with a lobbyist, which proved false, "the new york times" put this on their front page, a completely un-sourced story. despite much photographic proof of john edwards' affair, a lot of media sat on this. i hope this is not only teaching a lesson to would-be politicians out there but most of the mainstream media as well. >> larry: miss cupp, what do you make of th

www.vitac.com democratic nomination i concluded, i think that is where it was a statement from elizabeth edwardsnning against hillary and obama and saying we can't make john blacken we can make him a woman and i said in my follow-up line well, they can't make him black. and the woman was asking me if that is funny and i said to her there's a man standing next to me who over hood-- overheard that in just burst out laughing. that is how i know it is funny. >> host: the but, beneath the humor you definitely hold the deep commitment to the founding principles of this country. talk about what you think makes america such an exceptional country? guest coburn there are so many things. i mean a lot of it does come from, from a christian worldview, a christian founding. part of that is freedom of choice so of course they prosper in america but it was disproportionately christians with a christian worldview founding it in part of-- part of what is interesting about that is i mean christ was really upsetting the customs of his day by using so many women for his parables, by administering to women so often.

the story of john and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic and the book, where the gap between what see and how they were in private was cats make -- was chasmic. the gap between barack obama's public image and private reality was of all the candidates than ever was. the spent very little time in the above -- a campaign was a -- all the candidates the narrowest. they spent very little time in the campaign trying to manage him. the obama campaign was able to focus to a large extent on getting done what needed to get done. there was not as large a gap between the two. it as i talked before about race example, there were times where the public image was not going on behind the scenes, but an important part of why he was successful and the can and was the fact that the gap was narrower. guest: we don't have a very much about barack obama that is less flattering. i would urge people to read the book, and there are a number of scenes worked there was crisis, questions about whether the strategy was working. in one prominent instance, you see barack obama saying that we will stay the cours

[laughter] host: you work for elizabeth edwards in 2004 when she was wife of the then president -- vice-presidentialnominee. if you had to go through what she did, how would you have handled that? guest: given everything she has faced -- she has lost a child, she has terminal cancer, her husband cheated on her in a public way, that would make me angry. more importantly, not in defense of elisabeth but in defense of our morals and values as human beings, i find this book absolutely disgusting. there's a difference between peeling back the curtain and having an expedition -- exposition that shows what goes on behind campaigns. look at john edwards, without having to dig into a very personal private ugly moment in a person's life that serves no other purpose than like a tabloid magazine. guest: that is an interesting point. people work on these campaigns and work on these relationships personally is a factor. i think the authors sought to show readers of that the public image was very different from what was happening privately. that is an interesting dynamic in the campaign. guest: think there is a wa

the story of john and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic and the book, where the gap between whate public saw and wanted to see and how they were in private was cats make -- was chasmic. the gap between barack obama's public image and private reality was of all the candidates than ever was. the spent very little time in the above -- a campaign was a -- all the candidates the narrowest. they spent very little time in the campaign trying to manage him. the obama campaign was able to focus to a large extent on getting done what needed to get done. there was not as large a gap between the two. it as i talked before about race example, there were times where the public image was not going on behind the scenes, but an important part of why he was successful and the can and was the fact that the gap was narrower. guest: we don't have a very much about barack obama that is less flattering. i would urge people to read the book, and there are a number of scenes worked there was crisis, questions about whether the strategy was working. in one prominent instance, you see barack obama saying t

i concluded, i think that where west, with a statement from elizabeth edwards talking about john edwardsunning against hillary and obama and saying we can't mate john black and we can't make any woman. and i said in my follow-up line they can't make him black. the woman was asking me if that's funny and i said there is a man standing next to me who overheard that and just burst out funding. that's how i know it's funny. >> host: your audience tells you it was funny. but beneath the humor you hold a deep commitment to the founding principles of this country. talk about what you think makes america such an exceptional country. >> guest: there are so many things. i mean, a lot of it does come from a christian worldview, a christian founding, part of that is freedom of choice. so of course, all religions are prosperous in america. let it was disproportionately questions with a christian world. you found it -- i mean, part of what's interesting about that is, christ was really upsetting the customs of his day by using so many women for his parables, by administering to women so often. that wa

the story of john and elizabeth edwards is the most dramatic and the book, where the gap between whate was cats make -- was chasmic. the gap between barack obama's public image and private reality was of all the candidates than ever was. the spent very little time in the above -- a campaign was a -- all the candidates the narrowest. they spent very little time in the campaign trying to manage him. the obama campaign was able to focus to a large extent on getting done what needed to get done. there was not as large a gap between the two. it as i talked before about race example, there were times where the public image was not going on behind the scenes, but an important part of why he was successful and the can and was the fact that the gap was narrower. guest: we don't have a very much about barack obama that is less flattering. i would urge people to read the book, and there are a number of scenes worked there was crisis, questions about whether the strategy was working. in one prominent instance, you see barack obama saying that we will stay the course, that we chose this strategy a

cases there's a wide divergence between public image and private reality, the story of john and elizabeth edwardsne of the biggest, the gap between what they wanted the public to see and how they were in private is a cass. . barack obama, hi chasm was very -- his chasm was very small, the smallest of any of the campaigns. for all these other campaigns, there were enormous amounts of time and effort devoted by the staff to kind of bridge that gap and massage those differences. the obama campaign was able to focus, on a larger extent, on getting done what they needed to get done that said we show, as i talked before about the race example, we show plenty of examples where the obama public image wasn't what was going on behind the scenes, and we laid that bare. but i think it's important, i think it's an important reason why he was successful because the gap was narrower. guest: another thing that's been said about the book is we don't have are much about barack obama or we don't show anything about barack obama that's less flattering. i urge people to read the book, there are a number of moments in