Senator John Edwards is looking to be among the first Americans to purchase a new Play Station 3...from Wal-Mart according to a press release I just got from the company:

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Nov. 16, 2006 – Just like the millions of Americans who turn to their neighborhood Wal-Mart for their holiday shopping needs, Wal-Mart announced today that former Sen. John Edwards is seeking to be one of the first to get a Sony PlayStation3, one of the most coveted holiday gift items this Christmas season.

Yesterday, a staff person for former Sen. Edwards contacted a Wal-Mart electronics manager in Raleigh, North Carolina to obtain a Sony PlayStation3 on behalf of the Senator’s family. Later that night, Sen. Edwards reportedly re-told a homespun story to participants of a United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union-sponsored call about how his son had chided a fellow student for purchasing shoes at Wal-Mart.

What’s particularly funny is that Edwards has been going around being all anti-Wal-Mart for a while now.  Back in August he appeared at an anti-Wal-Mart rally put on by a “grassroots” group shilling for the unions, where he had this to say:

“We want every single consumer in America, every person in America, to know that if they walk into a Wal-Mart, that first of all their tax dollars are subsidizing Wal-Mart employees. Their tax dollars are helping provide health care for Wal-Mart employees, because Wal-Mart’s not doing it. Their tax dollars are going to provide housing and food stamps for Wal-Mart employees,” Mr. Edwards told a crowd of 400 at Hill House. “What is wrong with this picture?”

And here’s John Edwards, perpetuating a business model that is forcing people onto welfare and food stamps just so that he can get a good deal on a new Play Station.  How tragic.

Seriously though, I love it when anti-business liberals like this get caught enjoying the fruits (plentiful cheap merchandise) of our pro-business economy from an “evil” company like Wal-Mart.  It reminds me of the time a virulently anti-Wal-Mart reporter from the New York Times got caught at a Wal-Mart press conference wearing a tie bought at Wal-Mart.

The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Update: It gets better.  Edwards was just lambasting Wal-Mart for not paying living wages yesterday.  The very same day his staffer requested the Play Station.

Too funny.