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Sen. John Edwards caught with mistress and love child
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:41 PM EDT
Article Source: nationalenquirer.comadvertisement
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
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{"commentId":2260730,"authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
Why do we keep getting these guys that want to be Kennedy? You can't get away with that stuff now.
{"commentId":2260730,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
- 15 votes
#1 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:43 PM EDT{"commentId":2261422,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
I almost wonder if it's just better to be open about it, especially if you are a Democrat and don't have to worry about the family values voters so much. Just be like, I'm a powerful, wealthy man and I want many mistresses, so there! Hell, you can probably turn it into a Fox reality show, "Who Wants to Sleep with a Senator?" where you can at least pick the hot chicks or the ones who'll let you do the weird stuff.
{"commentId":2261422,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
- 13 votes
{"commentId":2261528,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
Adam,...We are evidently one of the few countries where having a mistress is shocking.
Money, power and mistresses are expected in many other countries. If Edwards has a mistress couldn't he have chosen someone more attractive?
{"commentId":2261528,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 7 votes
{"commentId":2261642,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
If Edwards has a mistress couldn't he have chosen someone more attractive?
Exactly. I'm more disappointed that our politicians have such bad taste in mistresses and less that they have them to begin with. Why are the mistresses almost always barely fives at best? Hell, if this is true, Edwards is many times more attractive than his own mistress. Just on looks alone, Edwards should be getting a 7 rather than a 1.5. Add in the money, and he should be nailing 9s and 10s.
{"commentId":2261642,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
- 6 votes
{"commentId":2262239,"authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
Dude, I'd say she's a step up for Johnboy from that porker he's been married to for a couple of decades.
{"commentId":2262239,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
- 6 votes
{"commentId":2262254,"authorDomain":"kelewanpug-politics"}
Where are the pictures. They used a split screen to show the two of them. Not very National Enquirer-like. If they had pictures they aren't shy about using them, from my experience.
Are we to believe that these guys followed these people for months, and then forgot to take pictures?
{"commentId":2262254,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"kelewanpug-politics"}
- 8 votes
{"commentId":2262538,"authorDomain":"RWE"}
"Dude, I'd say she's a step up for Johnboy from that porker he's been married to for a couple of decades."
HAHAHA LOL Bill!!!! He's lucky he hasn't caught cancer from that nasty hag!
{"commentId":2262538,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"RWE"}
{"commentId":2262589,"authorDomain":"lele"}
Just on looks alone, Edwards should be getting a 7 rather than a 1.5. Add in the money, and he should be nailing 9s and 10s.
He works pretty hard for that 7. Just remember: enquirer shots are more like mug-shots than vogue shots... she just *might* be a knock out.
{"commentId":2262589,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"lele"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2262674,"authorDomain":"lisaed"}
Guess that means he's off the short list now for obama veep.....not that I believe anything I read in the Enquirer.
{"commentId":2262674,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"lisaed"}
- 6 votes
{"commentId":2264908,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
HAHAHA LOL Bill!!!! He's lucky he hasn't caught cancer from that nasty hag!
Uncalled and in bad taste.
{"commentId":2264908,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"a0ted"}
- 16 votes
{"commentId":2264993,"authorDomain":"jfrank"}
I almost wonder if it's just better to be open about it, especially if you are a Democrat and don't have to worry about the family values voters so much. Just be like, I'm a powerful, wealthy man and I want many mistresses, so there! Hell, you can probably turn it into a Fox reality show, "Who Wants to Sleep with a Senator?" where you can at least pick the hot chicks or the ones who'll let you do the weird stuff.
And if it was a republican it'd be a man who was his secret lover.
{"commentId":2264993,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jfrank"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2265004,"authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
The Sonofamillworker is deader than dead politically. When you've got Sharon Waxman, a respected former NY Times and WaPo reporter picking up on this (he'd denied any involvement with Hunter and the Enquirer nailed him), he's dead meat. No vp choice. Probably no cabinet pick either if Obama wins.
{"commentId":2265004,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"wharrison55"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2265433,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
Slate has a good piece on why the news media is practically ignoring these stories.
An excerpt:
Although the Craig story and the John Edwards story, currently unfolding thanks to the National Enquirer, aren't directly analogous, they have a bit in common. Edwards, too, may be a sex hypocrite. The tabloid called Edwards a cheater last October and the father of a love child in December, and last night the Enquirer posted a story about Edwards' visit to his alleged mistress and child at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night.
When the original Enquirer story about the affair with Rielle Hunter came out, Edwards categorically denied the relationship, stating: "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous." As he rejected the Enquirer's charges, Edwards was making his wife and their marriage a central component of his campaign. If Edwards had had no affair, he wasn't a hypocrite, not then and not now.
But if Edwards had an affair and lied about it, shouldn't he suffer scrutiny akin to that of Craig? At least three-dozen daily newspapers in the United States published the Craig news the day after the Roll Call scoop, according to Nexis, but this morning not a single U.S. daily mentioned the Enquirer piece.
{"commentId":2265433,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"sbutki"}
- 10 votes
{"commentId":2266223,"authorDomain":"isaacs"}
Bill:
I'm sure you're just as attractive and the same weight as you were 20 years ago. However, try being a woman and having three or four kids and see if you can stay petite and attractive. Your comment about Edwards' weight was uncalled for and Right Winged Eagle is an as*hole.
{"commentId":2266223,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"isaacs"}
- 8 votes
{"commentId":2266561,"authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
I already reported both of their comments as inflammatory. It's a shame that they're attacking Elizabeth Edwards.
{"commentId":2266561,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
- 6 votes
{"commentId":2275688,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
I agree, to attack the personal appearance of a blameless spouse is plain mean, especially when the woman is undergoing cancer treatments. Everyone offended should be sure to use the ! on those.
{"commentId":2275688,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":2278022,"authorDomain":"ljshelhamer"}
Edwards has always made me sick with his preening. He is so full of himself it makes me want to spit up. Of course he could not have a lover that is more attractive than him. And yes, he does have a feminine demeanor. He is a "pretty boy." Do you remember how he and Obama ganged up on Hillary? He is definately a member of the "all boys club." This also explains why he has a mistress in the first place. He has no respect for women. I was personally aphaulled when I heard that, regardless of the Cancer that is terminal, he was still marching toward the white house. What a bunch of crap. I knew that something was wrong with that couple, now I know what it is. His wife must know that he has a mistress and this was her chance to watch him on the road and at least try to out-do her competition.
The whole thing makes me sick:
1. Slut woman who will wait forever.
2. Abused wife who begs at her husband's feet for even the crumbs.
3. Pretty boy, not a senator any more, acting like he is "all for America" when he clearly is "all for getting praise!"
{"commentId":2278022,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"ljshelhamer"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2261325,"authorDomain":"look-upon-me"}
Seems like a credible source.
{"commentId":2261325,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"look-upon-me"}
- 11 votes
#2 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:46 PM EDT{"commentId":2261384,"authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
You mean not everything in the Enquirer is true??? Blasphemy!!! haha..
{"commentId":2261384,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2262366,"authorDomain":"MightyMait"}
Hey, at least it's not News of the World.
{"commentId":2262366,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"MightyMait"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2275701,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Seems like a credible source.
Compared to what, CBS who aired an edited interview to cover up McCain's ignorance?
It is a sad state of affairs when Comedy Central and the National Enquirer report stories that the mainstream try to bury, but welcome to the most criminal, corporate ruled government in American history and their corporate partners in the mainstream media. The New World Order is Orwellian!
{"commentId":2275701,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2261391,"authorDomain":"lunartick"}
Gotta love that a guy using the subdomain "scientificblog" is turning to the National Enquirer for stories....
{"commentId":2261391,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"lunartick"}
- 15 votes
#3 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:54 PM EDT{"commentId":2263967,"authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
They write some great science there.
{"commentId":2263967,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":2266065,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
There prose style is worth note and their eager reiteration of the rag's name reinforces the seriousness of their exclusives.
{"commentId":2266065,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2261514,"authorDomain":"lele"}
I think I've seen that woman somewhere before...
{"commentId":2261514,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"lele"}
- 4 votes
#4 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:06 PM EDT{"commentId":2262291,"authorDomain":"babin"}
Leaving your neighbors house?
With your husband at a yogurt shop as you drove by?
Working the cash register at your local Wal-mart at 3am?
{"commentId":2262291,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"babin"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2262971,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
The latter.
{"commentId":2262971,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2270269,"authorDomain":"spikegary"}
I was thinking Linda Trippi.....
{"commentId":2270269,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"spikegary"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2261807,"authorDomain":"jdl-28"}
Who care what he does in that way, it is his life and we should be staying out of it. But there must be a lot of sick people reading that trash Enquirer trying to see what someone else is doing sense there life is going no where.
Even Clinton life was brought out when it should of been between him and his wife only. It is to bad that so many people want to judge other, if not we would not need trash like the enquirer.
{"commentId":2261807,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jdl-28"}
- 3 votes
#5 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:33 PM EDT{"commentId":2261939,"authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
I agree jdl.
And is it annoying to anyone else that they capitalize their whole name throughout the whole article..?
{"commentId":2261939,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"sgreenway"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2263026,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
Previously this nation had a society where private lives were not the subject of "news programming." This society was by no means perfect but it possessed some civility. The only perpetrators of crime and scandal that escape the public's eye, are the monsters in the administration.
{"commentId":2263026,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2288439,"authorDomain":"spikegary"}
That was before the advent of the 24 hour newscycle-Kennedy would never have survived politically in this day and age. Nowadays, politicians understand that their life is open for public viewing-they made the choice to be in the public eye-th egame is what it is, for better or worse.
{"commentId":2288439,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"spikegary"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2262095,"authorDomain":"partisanhack"}
Another morsel to eat up news cycles. And, of course, no photos or evidence, just hearsay.
In the meantime we're supposed to believe that the sordid affair that lead to McCain's second marriage with his hottie rich girl addict is, what, just fine?
While Democrats may dicker, it's assumed that Republicans are two-timing philanderers. It's just not news a far as the media's concerned.
{"commentId":2262095,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"partisanhack"}
- 8 votes
#6 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:59 PM EDT{"commentId":2262238,"authorDomain":"Constitutionalpatriot"}
True, true, PH. Are we so excited by the sleazy reports of some alleged philandering that we forget those things that are so important to our civilization as a whole? Let's hope not, and that most of us are more attentive to the realities and necessities that truly affect us on a daily basis.......
{"commentId":2262238,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"Constitutionalpatriot"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2265513,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
I have the awful feeling that sick imagination is involved in these stories. A vicarious exploration in the mind of a world of infidelities.
{"commentId":2265513,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2262292,"authorDomain":"newsblog903"}
Remember folks, the N.I. was the magazine that the Men in Black used to track the behavior of space aliens! They said it was credible. I almost forgot I'm supposed to say sarcasm.
{"commentId":2262292,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"newsblog903"}
- 1 vote
#7 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:17 PM EDT{"commentId":2262305,"authorDomain":"babin"}
This guy always seemed fake to me. Hope this wipes that plastic smile off his face.
{"commentId":2262305,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"babin"}
- 3 votes
#8 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:19 PM EDT{"commentId":2262559,"authorDomain":"RWE"}
I hope he pulls a "Full McCain" and leaves his wife while she has cancer!!! HAHAHA
{"commentId":2262559,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"RWE"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2262493,"authorDomain":"mlees"}
You guys need to grow up!
{"commentId":2262493,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"mlees"}
- 6 votes
#9 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:35 PM EDT{"commentId":2262687,"authorDomain":"kick-boxer"}
WHO CARES? The only thing is that he should own up to it and stop pretending to be Mr. Goodie Two Shoes and he isn't having an affair. Attorney General or Supreme Court in an OBama administration? Otherwise, if the story were untrue, he would be filing his multi-million dollar libel lawsuit against the Enquirer right about now. Has he denounced the story? No. Has he threaten to sue for a retraction? Hell no! Because it's true and he has no way out now. Just own up to it. Be a real man. WHO CARES if he has a mistress and a love child? Just own up to it! Gotta admire that kinds gall, don'tcha? First Clinton now Edwards! Can't keep his boner in his pants! So sue me.
{"commentId":2262687,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"kick-boxer"}
- 6 votes
#10 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:50 PM EDT{"commentId":2262779,"authorDomain":"blue-eyed-lady"}
Say it aint so. If you play you're going to pay, it's only just a matter of time before the dirt will bury you.
{"commentId":2262779,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"blue-eyed-lady"}
- 2 votes
#11 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:59 PM EDT{"commentId":2263236,"authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
NEWS FLASH:
It's from the National Enquirer.
{"commentId":2263236,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
- 11 votes
#12 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:47 PM EDT{"commentId":2263698,"authorDomain":"kick-boxer"}
NEWS FLASH: EDWARDS ISN'T REBUFFING THE STORY! yes, even the NE can get it right sometimes. I guess that John is consulting with his wife and handlers on how to spin this little gem. Why so much trouble? Just admit it.
{"commentId":2263698,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"kick-boxer"}
- 3 votes
#13 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:44 PM EDT{"commentId":2263845,"authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
There are certain places where a politician shouldn't lower himself enough to rebuke. He already refuted the story when they first tried it in December, and so did the "mistress."
{"commentId":2263845,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2266144,"authorDomain":"jade-log"}
And there is Prince Charles and his paramour. Royalty and glamour combined. Oh how interested we are and then the jolly young princes' escapades. The death of Diane which should be more attended. It's all about being hypnotized by mindless numbing media. Not even grasping what a @!$%#ty place we're in.
{"commentId":2266144,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jade-log"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2268101,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
There are certain places where a politician shouldn't lower himself enough to rebuke. He already refuted the story when they first tried it in December, and so did the "mistress."
Here's the problem: if he denies the story then his response will become news and it is at THAT point that I expect the news media to jump on this story. This is how Nightline and other programs covered the famous National Enquirer photos that sank Gary Hart - they covered it not as a "we're following up on the Enquirer" story because that could make them look like they're their standards so much as a "lets look at how a candidate is responding to a trashy story"
There was a time when one can just ignore a story from tabloids and it'd go away.
Those days are gone.
As this writer asks:
"How long can the papers avoid this story in the age of the Internet, bloggers like me, and guys like Matt Drudge, who've posted the National Enquirer tale?"
{"commentId":2268101,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"sbutki"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2263813,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
Oh yes. We should get all excited and discuss this long into the night.
A story from the National Enquirer.
I see this story nowhere else. No buzz, nothing.
How about waiting for a better source, really. No saying it's not true, I have nno idea. But when it comes to the NE one really needs more than one source.
{"commentId":2263813,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
- 10 votes
#14 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:56 PM EDT{"commentId":2264204,"authorDomain":"mimacarol"}
His hair is prettier than hers. So sad......
{"commentId":2264204,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"mimacarol"}
- 5 votes
#15 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:46 PM EDT{"commentId":2264450,"authorDomain":"LynneaofHeaven"}
{"commentId":2264741,"authorDomain":"dolores"}
The National Inquirer is going way to far with these claims. Edwards should just sue them for defamation of character.
{"commentId":2264741,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"dolores"}
- 2 votes
#17 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:57 PM EDT{"commentId":2265484,"authorDomain":"mhbmeb"}
I thought exactly the same thing Dolores. At least he doesn't have to hire a lawyer to do it!
I rank it right up there with the alien baby stories in believability.
{"commentId":2265484,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"mhbmeb"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2265578,"authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
Truth is a valid defense so he should sue them - unless he did it. If it is true and he sues, his career is over.
People of like party affiliation tend to rally 'round these guys long after they are caught and then say things like 'it doesn't matter if he is unfaithful to his wife with cancer' ...
... if his wife can't trust him, how can we? That goes for members of both parties.
{"commentId":2265578,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":2265587,"authorDomain":"mhbmeb"}
Truth would probably prove him innocent of this accusation.
And it seems equally as likely that party affiliation has some to do with the willingness to believe a charge by a source like the National Enquirer.
{"commentId":2265587,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"mhbmeb"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":2266185,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
Truth is a valid defense so he should sue them
As if you ave a @!$%# about the truth. The damage will have already been done even if it's not the truth. The trolls will accomplished their mission. The idiots on the right will quote it here on the vine, ad nauseam , Rush will write a song about it. All for what? Just because you don't like the guy. (for whatever reason).
The thruth doesn't make any difference any more. Just nasty dirty tactics.
I don't know if this is true or not. I'm not sure why we're supposed to care if it is true. Rdwards didn't have a canpaign like Craig did about gays or the Defense of Marriage Act that he was flogging. If it's not true I suppose the aim is to ruin any further political aspirations he might have for an Obama cabinet appointment or VP chance.
What bull@!$%#, How sad.
It's amazing to me that we get anyone to run for office any more.
{"commentId":2266185,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2276760,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
Man, doesn't that guy know how to us spell check?
{"commentId":2276760,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2288449,"authorDomain":"spikegary"}
Jimster,
Do you mean the same trolls that are spreading all the rumors about McCain, his time in the military, his marriages and the like?
{"commentId":2288449,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"spikegary"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":2264881,"authorDomain":"jfrank"}
NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
Which also brought us such great stories as Elvis is alive with Aliens, Batboy and of course how the world was going to end in 2000
{"commentId":2264881,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"jfrank"}
- 6 votes
#18 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:18 PM EDT{"commentId":2268141,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
Batboy was the Weakly World News wasn't it?
Yes I only read newspapers that get everything right. Because there are so many with perfect track records.
{"commentId":2268141,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"sbutki"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":2265150,"authorDomain":"bfbell"}
she kinda looked like an alien...I don't think it matters if it is true or not. It is out there so folks are going to believe it. I would have preferred a picture of the two of them together it would have been more believable. I am certainly not a Edwards supporter, but he could have been more discreet. If it is true!!
{"commentId":2265150,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"bfbell"}
#19 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:54 PM EDT{"commentId":2265613,"authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
While the story may or may not be true, I am a little concerned at the ease at which some of the commenters are accepting it, without any proof at all.
{"commentId":2265613,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"thelukesituation"}
- 4 votes
#20 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:05 PM EDT{"commentId":2266184,"authorDomain":"thisisnotamerica"}
{"commentId":2266270,"authorDomain":"niafabo"}
Even if he had a mistress and love child I couldn't help but respect the fact that he was there for them and help took care of them but hey that's just me.
{"commentId":2266270,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"niafabo"}
- 2 votes
#22 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:50 AM EDT{"commentId":2266613,"authorDomain":"niafabo"}
Both parties denied the NATIONAL ENQUIRER report and a close friend of Edwards' came forward and said he was the father of Rielle's baby...they revealed that Edwards was engineering a massive cover up of his shocking infidelity.
Riiiight never mind that's all I needed to know it was bs.
{"commentId":2266613,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"niafabo"}
- 2 votes
#23 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:12 AM EDT{"commentId":2266906,"authorDomain":"pennyschinke"}
They met when she was making video films for his Presidential campaign. He's out on the campaign trail...Elizabeth got exhausted from the traveling and had to go home to rest--she has cancer, and therapy can drain a person. Rielle played around with camera shots, cajoled him, they got comfortable with each other--which is a good thing between a photographer/film maker and subject. Things happen. But it does look bad when his wife is so terribly sick, and he's been playing Mr. Good Guy who'll save the poor...then sets Rielle up in a big, expensive house in an extremely nice town in his state...that takes some serious cash. And look where it got that young NY Governor who was fighting prostitution...by visiting a prostitute. It's all in how you paint yourself....especially when you get cornered.
Look at Al Gore...preaching conservation and "doing without", but being driven to "appearances" in Lincoln Town Cars with AC...and an SUV.
It's really all about how you "paint" yourself....
{"commentId":2266906,"threadId":"318219","contentId":"1689366","authorDomain":"pennyschinke"}
- 2 votes
#24 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:38 AM EDT{"commentId":2267711,"authorDomain":"uncleandy"}
I think this is just a bunch of high school bathroom gossip. The fact that these two were seen together does not automatically equal an affair or sexual relationship. It is possible for men and women to be close friends and not actually be dating one another.
The only facts in the story is that they were in the hotel with each other and that Edwards left in the middle of the night.
There is no mention of the purpose of the meeting so the reporter is assuming it must be sexually related. The possibility that Hunter could be trying to discuss a current or future business deal with Edwards is never mentioned. Since she worked for Edwards as a video producer in the past would suggest the possibility of a future film project in which Edwards may be involved in, or at the very least, Hunter was attempting to pitch to him.
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- 3 votes
#25 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:09 AM EDT{"commentId":2271342,"authorDomain":"scientificblog"}
I don't know why he would run and then hide in a hotel bathroom for 15 minutes if there was nothing strange going on being there. Though I think his campaign staffer taking one for the team by saying it's his illicit love child was nice - probably didn't make that guy's wife all that happy though.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":2269353,"authorDomain":"MinnieApolis"}
Assuming the story is true -- and we don't know that for sure (yet) -- then one wonders who put their reporters on to the location of the rendezvous???
Or could they be bugging Edwards' phone? For shame -- bugging is illegal in the US of A (sarcasm alert).
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- 3 votes
#26 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:23 PM EDT{"commentId":2271622,"authorDomain":"a0ted"}
If true:
a) DNA
b) If his baby, the former US Senator should recognize that he is the father.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2271697,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
Men in Black is a movie. The National Enquirer is not, imo, a reliable source of news. AND, who the hells cares about what politicians do in their private lives, as long as they are doing the job they are hired to do?
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- 2 votes
#27 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:34 PM EDT{"canLink":false,"threadId":"318219","isPrivate":false}
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