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Saturday, December 22, 2007

John Edwards Love Child Scandal: DBKP Library



Over 20 DBKP stories on the John Edwards Love Child Scandal. Includes links to the original three reports from the National Enquirer.



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JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL

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at 10:20 am EST January 13, 2008

* The SS John Edwards Love Child Scandal Sets Sail

* Rielle Hunter Housed by Former NBA Player

* The Edwards Scandal, The Press, The Enquirer and the Blogosphere

* Country Club Courtesan

* Curious Circumstances Excite No Curiosity in the Mainstream Media

* Why Did Rielle Hunter Denounce the National Enquirer NINE WEEKS Before the Paper Would Name Her as the "Other Woman?

* 30 Love Child Scandal Quotes

* The "Interview" That Never Happened

* Source Too 'Tainted For MSM?

* Rielle Hunter: 'Kept Woman'

* UPDATE: Hunter Living in Edwards Backer's House

* Enquirer Update and New Questions!

* CBS Interested Now? Mysterious Videos

* 10 Things We Now Know About the John Edwards Love Child Scandal

* ENQUIRER Fires Second Salvo at Edwards

* John Edwards Love Child Scandal Has Hit the Stands

* QUIZ: Name that Scandal!

* Edwards Scandal? Surf's Up!

* Is This Thing Still On or What?

* Hunter Still Living the "Life of Rielle"

* Edwards Alleged Love Child: Clintons Orchestrated Rumor?

* DBKP World Exclusive! Photos of the Pair??

* Who Is Rielle Hunter?

* John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo With Rielle Hunter?

* Original Enquirer John Edwards Love Child Story
--original story of October 10, 2007 - The Enquirer talks of an unnamed "other woman".

* John Edwards Love Child Scandal
--First installment of December 19, 2007 story - The Enquirer named the "other woman". Rielle Hunter, a former producer of a campaign video for Edwards.

* More on John Edwards Love Child Scandal
--UPDATE on the December 19, 2007 story - The Enquirer publishes a picture of a pregnant Rielle Hunter, as well as some interesting info on Rielle's living arrangements.


* John Edwards Love Child Scandal: DBKP Library

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Friday, December 21, 2007

John Edwards Love Child Scandal: 30 Quotes



Thirty Quotes from the John Edwards Love Child Scandal.


Actually, there's 31.

We gave you one to grow on.

* * * * * * * *


* "Rielle told me she had a secret affair with Edwards. When she found out that she was pregnant, she said he was the father."
--unnamed friend of Rielle Hunter, who supplied the National Enquirer with emails and tapes of phone messages of the one-time producer of webisodes for the Edwards campaign.

* "I did not cheat on my sick wife."
--November 29 Headline at Jossip

* "I've come to the conclusion I just want the country to see who I really am."
--John Edwards, earlier this year, in one of the Reille Hunter-produced videos.

* "[Rielle Hunter] lingers over the former senator's behind as he tucks a starched white shirt into his pants."
--September 29, Overlawyered - John Edwards and Rielle Hunter

* "...an ostensibly jaded, cocaine-addled, sexually voracious 20-year old."
--Jay McInerney on Rielle Hunter

* "I think if when the baby is born its first words are not "Wahhhhhhhhh" but "I'm gonna sue" that would be good evidence of Edwards' involvement."
--Classical Values - The Life of Rielle

* "John Edwards is pro-abortion....so what's the problem?"
--Comment left by Satan on DBKP's "Who Is Rielle Hunter?"

* "What the tabloid's readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary."
--Politico - The Clintonite Who Owns the National Enquirer

* "I think that, as you point out, there have been American presidents that at least according to the ... stories we've all heard, that were not faithful, that were in fact good presidents. So I don't think it controls the issue."
--John Edwards, asked by Katie Couric on CBS Evening News about infidelity

* "Jonathan Prince [from the Edwards campaign] offered to let me and my editor, Tom Edsall, watch the videos - apparently unaware that at one point his campaign claimed not to have access to them."
--Sam Stein,in The Huffington Post, on the videos produced by Rielle Hunter for John Edwards that mysteriously became "unavailable".

* "Nope. Not a chance."
--Hunter's partner in Midline Groove Productions, when asked by Sam Stein about whether they could talk off the record about the production process of videos Hunter did for the Edwards campaign.

* "You don't even know who I am!"
--Former Edwards campaign staffer, Andrew Young, to National Enquirer's reporter who asked him why Hunter was living in Young's gated community in a house owned by an Edwards' backer.

* "Rielle told me that she remains in phone contact with John, but can't see him for obvious reasons."
--National Enquirer's unnamed source

* "I have no idea who you're talking about."
--Rielle Hunter, when asked if she was Rielle Hunter by an Enquirer reporter

* "Why does a woman quit supporting herself and move several states away, just because she's pregnant?"
--DBKP's Little Baby Ginn

* “Rielle told me while Andrew Young is a friend, she’s not romantically involved with him. Rielle says he’s been responsible for finding her a place to live and even getting her a car to drive."
--National Enquirer's unnamed source, about the statement issued by Young's lawyer that Young was the father of Hunter's unborn child.

* "There’s a rumor circulating that this story was leaked by the Edwards campaign to make Johnny seem more masculine and less gay."
--B4B - Silky Pony Say it Ain't So

* "The fact that I am expecting a child is my personal and private business. This has no relationship to nor does it involve John Edwards in any way. Andrew Young is the father of my unborn child."
--Rielle Hunter, in a statement issued by her lawyer

* "What compelled Rielle Hunter, supposedly a woman who did a little bit of work for the Edwards' campaign that was finished in December 2006, move to within 5 miles
of Edwards' campaign HQ in 2007?"
--DBKP's Mondoreb

* "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous. Anyone who knows me knows that I have been in love with the same woman for 30 plus years."
--John Edwards, October 30, 2007 - in response to the first Enquirer story

* "The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous."
--Rielle Hunter, in a statement issued through MyDD.com, a pro-Democratic Web site

* "I have no idea what you are talking about."
--Hunter, when asked by Enquirer reporter on why she'd moved into the home of an Edwards' backer within 5 miles of Edwards' campaign headquarters.

* "I have no idea what you're talking about."
--Hunter, when asked by Enquirer reporter on her relationship with Edwards

* "Andrew Young is the father of Ms. Hunter's unborn child."
--Statement issued by Young's attorney

* "I don't know any Rielle Hunter."
--Andrew Young, when asked by an Enquirer reporter about Hunter, who lives in a house in the same gated community. Young also insists he is the father of Hunter's unborn child.

* "If you have an alternate explanation for a scandal, you don't take 24 hours to offer that explanation, let alone days or weeks."
--Unnamed political insider, when asked about the various explanations coming from the Edwards campaign

* "If Young was having the affair with Hunter, would he move his mistress in just blocks away from his family?"
--Rob Port, The Edwards Affair

* "Former Edwards campaign Director of Operations, Andrew Young, gives Open Marriage advocates something to cheer about."
--DBKP's Little Baby Ginn

* "I'll make it up when I get there."
--John Edwards to Rielle Hunter about his Intro to a speech; heard on Hunter-produced videos which disappeared two weeks before the Enquirer's first story on the Edwards-Hunter relationship in October. The videos, which cost the Edwards campaign $114,000 and were made to "show America the real John Edwards", reappeared recently on YouTube.

* "And no one has denied the source's information that Rielle has been in phone contact with Edwards since finding out she is pregnant."
--National Enquirer - John Edwards Love Child Scandal

* "..in love with John, but it's "difficult because he is married and has kids."
--Rielle Hunter email in National Enquirer's possession.



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JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL

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* The "Interview" That Never Happened

* Source Too 'Tainted For MSM?

* Rielle Hunter: 'Kept Woman'

* UPDATE: Hunter Living in Edwards Backer's House

* Enquirer Update and New Questions!

* CBS Interested Now? Mysterious Videos

* 10 Things We Now Know About the John Edwards Love Child Scandal

* ENQUIRER Fires Second Salvo at Edwards

* John Edwards Love Child Scandal Has Hit the Stands

* QUIZ: Name that Scandal!

* Edwards Scandal? Surf's Up!

* Is This Thing Still On or What?

* Hunter Still Living the "Life of Rielle"

* Edwards Alleged Love Child: Clintons Orchestrated Rumor?

* DBKP World Exclusive! Photos of the Pair??

* Who Is Rielle Hunter?

* John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo With Rielle Hunter?



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Thursday, December 20, 2007

John Edwards, Rielle Hunter Love Child Scandal: Latest UPDATE - Hunter Living in Edwards' Backer's House



The latest on the John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal story from the National Enquirer.

What's new about the presidential candidate's supposed love child and the campaign video-producing mother?

* A picture of Rielle, very pregnant, is displayed on the Enquirer website. In the picture, Rielle Hunter doesn't seem to notice the presence of a photographer. She does, however, appears to be in a hurry.

* Rielle Hunter was placed in a rental home in the Governor's Club, the same gated community that Andrew Young (not the former U.N. ambassador) has a multi-million dollar home.

* Young is Edwards' former "North Carolina Finance Director".

* The home Hunter is living in, is owned by an Edwards' backer and is less than five miles from Edwards' national campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, N.C.

* Someone is quoted saying that "Young is a friend of Hunter" and nothing more. Although at this point, he seems to be her chaperon.

* The question is raised about why Young, whom Edwards' campaign insists is the father, would place his mistress in the same locale as his wife and kids.

Maybe Young is not very experienced in the cheating husband role.

These facts are interspersed throughout the story that has been emerging on the Enquirer's website and in the pages of its tabloid.

Expect more news and bigger news later this evening or early tomorrow morning. That's when new Enquirers will be hitting many locations for sale.

The updated material from the National Enquirer.

The ENQUIRER has confirmed that Young placed Rielle in a rental home in the Governors Club, the same gated community where he lives in a multimillion-dollar home with his wife Cheri and their young children. That home is owned by an Edwards' backer and is less than five miles from Edwards' national campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, N.C.

A former "Director of Operations" for Edwards' campaign, Young's last official position with the campaign was "North Carolina Finance Director." He left that job about a month ago - about the same time Rielle settled in Chapel Hill.


A source close to Young vehemently denies that he funneled campaign money to Rielle - who drives a BMW SUV registered in Young's name.


Instead, Rielle has been telling a confidante that Edwards is the father of her child.

“Rielle told me while Andrew Young is a friend, she’s not romantically involved with him,” says the source close to Rielle. “Rielle says he’s been responsible for finding her a place to live and even getting her a car to drive.

“If he really were the father of her baby and had engaged in an extramarital affair with her, I doubt seriously that he’d bring his wife and kids over to her house for dinner – which Rielle told me he did a few weeks ago.

“Rielle has said from the beginning that the baby is John’s, but she appears willing to do whatever they want her to do to protect his candidacy.


The question remains: will the John Edwards campaign answer any questions?

Will the traditional media ask any?

Is the Edwards' campaign hoping that this will blow over and they can continue to campaign in Iowa without any distractions?

Will Edwards or any of his staff take time off from the campaign to see Rielle Hunter when she goes to the hospital?

This is not all that we will learn on this matter.

Surely, some interest has been piqued in the traditional media. Surely, someone will want to know who paid for all these perks for Hunter and where the money came from.

Surely, someone will be curious about the living arrangements that an Edwards' campaign member set up for the former "hard-partying girl".

Surely.


JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL

LATEST:
at 2:01 pm EST

* UPDATE: Hunter Living in Edwards Backer's House

* Enquirer Update and New Questions!

* CBS Interested Now? Mysterious Videos

* 10 Things We Now Know About the John Edwards Love Child Scandal

* ENQUIRER Fires Second Salvo at Edwards

* John Edwards Love Child Scandal Has Hit the Stands

* QUIZ: Name that Scandal!

* Edwards Scandal? Surf's Up!

* Is This Thing Still On or What?

* Hunter Still Living the "Life of Rielle"

* Edwards Alleged Love Child: Clintons Orchestrated Rumor?

* DBKP World Exclusive! Photos of the Pair??

* Who Is Rielle Hunter?

* John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo With Rielle Hunter?

by Mondoreb
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Source: UPDATE, John Edwards Love Child Scandal

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

John Edwards, Rielle Hunter Love Child Scandal: CBS Now Interested?

Katie Couric Asks John Edwards an Interesting Question

John Edwards Gives an Interesting Answer


"I think that, as you point out, there have been American presidents that at least according to the ... stories we've all heard, that were not faithful, that were in fact good presidents. So I don't think it controls the issue."

--John Edwards this evening with Katie Couric on CBS Evening News



"Jonathan Prince offered to let me and my editor, Tom Edsall, watch the videos - apparently unaware that at one point his campaign claimed not to have access to them."

--Sam Stein,in The Huffington Post, on the videos produced by Rielle Hunter for John Edwards that mysteriously became "unavailable".


The John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal is not going away.

The Edwards' campaign has issued no statements, apparently either not completely sure what to say or satisfied that observers will dismiss the National Enquirer's information that the supermarket tabloid started releasing yesterday as trashy gossip.

And indeed, things did die down today--for awhile.

By late afternoon, if one Googled "John Edwards" in "NEWS", the Enquirer's slot with accompanying stories had disappeared, to be replaced about topics like how "cool" the Edwards campaign was in Iowa.

The Enquirer's slot on the Edwards NewsSearch returned this evening.

Maybe it was because some others are beginning to take notice of the curious affair of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.

By an odd circumstance, Katie Couric, tonight's CBS Evening News, asked the candidates their views on infidelity.

John Edwards was among them.

His answer, in its entirety, is contained later in this piece. The part of his answer reproduced at the top of this page may prove revealing, however.

Not a whiff of a statement from the Edwards campaign can be detected at this point.

Having read Sam Stein's Huffington Post piece on the mysterious Rielle Hunter videos, I re-read it again last night and again a little while ago.

The piece, written September 26, 2007, reports the trouble that the reporter had obtaining access to these suddenly inaccessible pieces of campaign work.

Re-reading in light of the sudden attention devoted the subject lately is, to say the least, interesting. It raises a few questions.

Over the next two months, various stories appeared on the Rielle Hunter-John Edwards connection and the secrecy that enveloped it. Especially the first National Enquirer story on the pair. But after awhile, the stories became less frequent.

Apparently, everyone moved onto other topics.

Except the National Enquirer.

Say what you will, the Enquirer is like a piranha when it smells blood. It devoted some more resources to the mystery. There were enough interesting questions for the gossip tabloid to tackle.

NE dispatched an operative to Chapel Hill, NC to "keep an eye" on Rielle Hunter, who'd moved within 5 miles of the Edwards campaign headquarters.

Back to interesting questions.

* Why did the campaign pay at least $100,000 for Hunter to do a few videos to introduce the 'real John Edwards' to America and then hide them?

* Why does an aspiring actress register information with the Screen Actors Guild and then make her information unavailable?

* Why did the campaign seemingly want the Rielle Hunter videos to fade away?

* Does the candidate still want America to see the 'real John Edwards'?

* Did Katie Couric see a glimpse of that person tonight on CBS Evening News?

* Why would Rielle Hunter deny she was Rielle Hunter?

* Was it because she still thought she was Lisa Druck?

* Did Rielle/Lisa get her BMW courtesy of the John Edwards campaign? A former campaign staffer who has the car registered in his name, denies it.

The Rielle Hunter videos

"I've come to the personal conclusion, that I actually want the country to see who I am."

--John Edwards in his missing, then re-surfaced video made by Rielle Hunter. Edwards' campaign paid Hunter over $100,000 for the "web drama" videos.

Some of the missing webisodes reappeared on YouTube. The first is below.


The production company responsible for the webisodes, Midline Groove Productions, had a minimalist website. Through it, however, I was able to email Mimi Hockman, Rielle Hunter's partner, to ask if I could screen the tapes. She directed me to a Business Week website where the last remaining webisode link still functioned. But beyond that, I was rebuffed. Once again, the reasons seemed strangely artificial.

"Our contract expired last year," Hockman emailed, "and the Edwards camp owns all of the webisodes and footage."

(Hmmm.... The campaign had said it couldn't access the footage.) Could we at least talk off the record about the filming process?

"Nope," she wrote. "Not a chance."

My reportorial curiosity thoroughly piqued, I decided to dig further.

Who is Rielle Hunter? The Newsweek item said Edwards met the aspiring actress and filmmaker in a New York City bar. A call to the Screen Actors Guild elicited the following exchange:

Screen Actors Guild: "This performer chooses not to list her contact information in the membership database."

HuffPost: "So if I wanted to contact her about her work with web video?"

SAG: "Well, I don't know what to tell you. It's up to the performer to choose whether they are listed or not."


Stein starts asking other questions.
Most important of all: Was there, in fact, a legal reason that prohibited Edwards from showing the webisodes? One campaign finance expert told me that, "if used by the presidential campaign, the videos are considered an in-kind contribution, which is limited at $5,000 in value... Still," he added, "this is an abundance of caution." Others didn't tread as lightly. "Bullshit", "baloney", and "malarkey" were the words used by three eminent experts in the field to describe Edwards' stance.

Presented with this record, the Edwards campaign finally relented. But even then they proved surprisingly guarded.

Jonathan Prince offered to let me and my editor, Tom Edsall, watch the videos - apparently unaware that at one point his campaign claimed not to have access to them. But there was a proviso: we could only view the videos in Prince's presence.


Stein asks this penetrating question that has yet almost 3 months from his writing it, to be answered by the Edwards' campaign.
Not lost in the matter is the irony of Edwards' stance. After all, the videos were made with the apparent goal of bringing transparency to the political process.

Huffington Post: Edwards Mystery: Innocuous Videos Suddenly Shrouded in Secrecy

We'll revisit the videos in a later piece. For now, the questions remain.

Katie Couric's interview is somewhat enlightening. Why not a straightforward answer to a question that Edwards had to know was going to appear at some point after the first Enquirer story?

John Edwards, from all accounts, was a uber-successful trial attorney; he's used to tough questions and rigorous preparation for important performances.

The complete CBS Evening News exchange is below.

Couric: Harry Truman said, "A man not honorable in his marital relations is not usually honorable in any other." Some people don't feel comfortable supporting a candidate who has not remained faithful to his or her spouse. Can you understand their position?

Edwards: Of course. I mean, for a lot of Americans, including the family that I grew up with ... it's fundamental to how you judge people and human character: Whether you keep your word, whether you keep what is your ultimate word, which is that you love your spouse, and you'll stay with them.

Couric: Do you think ... what about people who use that as a way to evaluate a candidate? In other words, there have been a number of fine presidents according to some analysts ...

Edwards: Right.

Couric: ... who have certainly not been sort of exhibited the greatest moral character ...

Edwards: Right.

Couric: ... when it comes to infidelity ...

Edwards: Right.

Couric: I guess is what I'm getting at.

Edwards: Yes.

Couric: So how important do you think it is in the grand scheme of things?

Edwards: I think the most important qualities in a president in today's world are trustworthiness, sincerity, honesty, strength of leadership. And certainly that goes to a part of that. It's not the whole thing. But it goes to a part of it.

Couric: So you think it's an appropriate way to judge a candidate?

Edwards: Yeah. But I don't think it's controlling. I mean, I think that, as you point out, there have been American presidents that at least according to the ... stories we've all heard, that were not faithful, that were in fact good presidents. So I don't think it controls the issue. But I think it's certain ... something reasonable for people to consider.

CBS Evening News: Candidates Offer views on infidelity

The Edwards' campaign was no doubt happy to receive a cover story in Newsweek this week. The piece is largely favorably predisposed to Edwards.

There is one paragraph, though.
Edwards, who had retired from the Senate to run for president and didn't have (or need) a full-time job, geared up for a second run at the White House. He started a poverty center and immersed himself in policy to combat criticism from the last election that he was a lightweight on the issues.

He also made some questionable choices for a champion of the underprivileged. He built a 25,000-square-foot house, the most expensive in North Carolina's affluent Orange County. He got caught paying a ridiculous sum for a haircut. More seriously, he took a part-time, $500,000 consulting job with Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund of the type that has become a symbol of Wall Street excess.

Edwards invested nearly $16 million of his own money in the fund. This summer, it was revealed that Fortress invested in two major subprime lenders that had sought to foreclose on victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana—an unflattering detail for a candidate who launched his campaign with a speech in the Lower Ninth Ward.

--Newsweek: John Edwards: The Sleeper Candidate/Road Warrior

The Big Question

In our mind, anyway: what's the National Enquirer going to release next? The publication usually reserves some juicy bits for later release, after the initial story.

More details, in many cases.

We're waiting for that next blast.

The smart money is saying that the Edwards campaign might be doing some waiting itself.

[NOTE: Ron Gunzburger's Politics echoes our feelings about the National Enquirer still having big guns left to fire in this story. Also, they publish the expected denial--finally--from Edwards.]
EDWARDS: John Edwards' strongly denied the sex scandal allegation published Wednesday on the cover of the National Enquirer as "absolute nonsense." The story claims Edwards impregnated a campaign staffer, Rielle Hunter, who is now six-months pregnant. Hunter denied the story in a written statement, saying that "this has no relationship to nor does it involve John Edwards in any way. Andrew Young is the father of my unborn child."

Interestingly -- and I say this because you just know trial lawyer Edwards will sue the Enquirer when the race is over if this story is false -- the newspaper is sticking with their version that Edwards is the father of Hunter's unborn child. Stay tuned because Enquirer's past history indicates they usually save the most damning evidence in these situations to print in an upcoming edition once the the target is locked into a denial story.

--Thursday News Update: Edwards calls Scandal story "Nonsense"


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JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL

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at 10:40 pm EST 12-19-07

* CBS Now Interested in Scandal?

* 10 Things We Now Know About the John Edwards Love Child Scandal

* ENQUIRER Fires Second Salvo at Edwards

* John Edwards Love Child Scandal Has Hit the Stands

* QUIZ: Name that Scandal!

* Edwards Scandal? Surf's Up!

* Is This Thing Still On or What?

* Hunter Still Living the "Life of Rielle"

* Edwards Alleged Love Child: Clintons Orchestrated Rumor?

* DBKP World Exclusive! Photos of the Pair??

* Who Is Rielle Hunter?

* John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo With Rielle Hunter?


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John Edwards, Rielle Hunter Love Child Scandal: 10 Things We Know


"When my Love Child gets this high..."


As information about Rielle Hunter, mother of John Edwards' alleged love child, continues to come out, one piece of information remains elusive.

A statement from the Edwards' campaign about the growing scandal.

The National Enquirer broke the story yesterday and has added updates today.

They are expected to release at least two more updates containing information they've tracked down.

Meanwhile, Rielle Hunter denied that Edwards is the father of her child. But then, Rielle Hunter denied being Rielle Hunter, when confronted by a representative of the Enquirer.

Edwards operative, Andrew Young (not the former U.N. ambassador) has stepped forward, in what one source called "taking one for the team" and claimed that he [Young] was the father.

The Enquirer points out that they have been able to establish no known romantic link between Hunter and Young.

Another source has claimed that Hunter is living in a house owned by Edwards.

Still another has questioned whether it is being paid for with Edwards' campaign money.

The National Enquirer wondered in its latest update if, perhaps, this would violate some campaign finance law.

10 Things we do know for sure at this point in the scandal.

We've included the latest from the last updates at the National Enquirer.

10 Things We Now Know from the National Enquirer's
story on John Edwards and the UPDATE


1-- Where Rielle lives
2-- What Rielle did for a living
3-- All about Andrew Young
4-- Young Denies EVERYTHING!
5-- Rielle Hunter Denies EVERYTHING!
6-- John Edwards Denies EVERYTHING!
7-- Statements from all concerned
8-- How the National Enquirer pursues a story.
9-- The National Enquirer's political analysis
10- John Edwards is running for president


We saw this, was trying to figure out how to write a whole story based on it, then decided we're too tired to write anything other than a blurb.
Update: There’s a rumor circulating that this story was leaked by the Edwards campaign to make Johnny seem more masculine and less gay. Developing….
Actually, two blurbs, because the same post was updated once more with this:
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Tuesday that he had sex with a campaign staffer to learn more about dating and relationships and their connection to poverty in the United States.

We're not saying we believe rumors and innuendo about scandals, mind you. Only that we're keeping our ears open.
--Blog 4 Brownback: Silky Pony, Say it Ain't So


From the UPDATED National Enquirer:

Presidential candidate John Edwards is caught up in a love child scandal, a blockbuster ENQUIRER investigation has discovered.

The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Rielle Hunter, a woman linked to Edwards in a cheating scandal earlier this year, is more than six months pregnant — and she's told a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her baby!

The ENQUIRER's political bombshell comes just weeks after Edwards emphatically denied having an affair with Rielle, who formerly worked on his campaign and told another close pal that she was romantically involved with the married ex-senator.

The ENQUIRER has now confirmed not only that Rielle is expecting, but that she's gone into hiding with the help of a former aide to Edwards. The visibly pregnant blonde has relocated from the New York area to Chapel Hill, N.C., where she is living in an upscale gated community near political operative Andrew Young, who's been extremely close to Edwards for years and was a key official in his presidential campaign.

And in a bizarre twist, Young — a 41-year-old married man with young children — now claims HE is the father of Rielle's baby! But others are skeptical, wondering if Young's paternity claim is a cover-up to protect Edwards.

Meanwhile, Edwards' cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth has joined him on the campaign trail.

In a statement issued to The ENQUIRER through her attorney, Rielle said: "The fact that I am expecting a child is my personal and private business. This has no relationship to nor does it involve John Edwards in any way. Andrew Young is the father of my unborn child."

But a source extremely close to the 43-year-old divorcée says Rielle has told a far different story privately: "Rielle told me she had a secret affair with Edwards. When she found out that she was pregnant, she said he was the father."

Rielle loves Edwards and will do anything to protect him, the source says.

In The ENQUIRER's Oct. 22 issue, we revealed that Edwards, 54, was involved in a mistress scandal and the shocking allegations — if proven true — could devastate the Democratic hopeful's campaign.


John Edwards responding to the question
"How many times have you read the National Enquirer?"



At the time, we withheld Rielle's name, but reported that an insider told The ENQUIRER that she claimed that she began the affair some 18 months earlier. She talked about her relationship in phone calls and e-mails.

After our story was published, several political bloggers correctly identified "the other woman" as Rielle, a self-described filmmaker whose company was hired by a pro-Edwards group called One America Committee and paid $114,000 to produce videos for Edwards' campaign. She worked with Edwards on those videos.

Reporters asked Edwards about The ENQUIRER report during a campaign stop in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 11. Edwards responded: "The story is false. It's completely untrue, ridiculous," adding: "Anyone who knows me knows that I have been in love with the same woman for 30 plus years."

Rielle issued her own statement through MyDD.com, a pro-Democratic Web site, saying: "The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the Internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous.

"My video production company was hired by the Edwards camp on a six-month contract, which we completed Dec. 31, 2006. When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional."

But what the rest of the press didn't know is that when Rielle made that claim, she was pregnant, hiding it and had told her confidante it was Edwards' baby.

That's also when it was decided Rielle would relocate to North Carolina, said the source.


"I did not have sex with that woman
...I think
"


The ENQUIRER has confirmed that Young placed Rielle in a rental home in the Governors Club, the same gated community where he lives in a multimillion-dollar home with his wife Cheri and their young children. That home is owned by an Edwards' backer and is less than five miles from Edwards' national campaign headquarters in Chapel Hill, N.C.

A former "Director of Operations" for Edwards' campaign, Young's last official position with the campaign was "North Carolina Finance Director." He left that job about a month ago - about the same time Rielle settled in Chapel Hill.

A source close to Young vehemently denies that he funneled campaign money to Rielle - who drives a BMW SUV registered in Young's name.

The ENQUIRER spotted Rielle — visibly pregnant in a black sweater and loose-fitting slacks — leaving her OB/GYN's office in Cary, N.C., on Dec. 12.

And when asked for a comment about her relationship with Edwards by an ENQUIRER reporter, Rielle responded: "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Asked why she was living in Young's gated community, she answered: "I have no idea what you are talking about."

When asked who fathered her baby, she answered: "I have no idea who you're talking about or what you're talking about."

She even denied that she was Rielle Hunter!

But things changed dramatically when The ENQUIRER contacted Edwards for a comment just days later.

Edwards' lawyer called The ENQUIRER and denied the well-coiffed Democratic candidate is the father of Rielle's baby, adding that Rielle would deny it as well.

A day later, in a shocking twist, the attorney for Mr. Young issued a statement that Young fathered Rielle's baby!

"Andrew Young is the father of Ms. Hunter's unborn child," declared his Washington, D.C.-based attorney.

"Sen. Edwards knew nothing about the relationship between these former co-workers, which began when they worked together in 2006.

"As a private citizen who no longer works for the campaign, Mr. Young asks that the media respect his privacy while he works to make amends with his family."

Neither Young nor Rielle offered any evidence of their prior romantic relationship, and both turned down an ENQUIRER request to take polygraph tests on the claim that Young fathered her child.

Now some insiders wonder whether Young's paternity claim is simply a cover-up to protect his longtime pal Edwards.

"If you have an alternate explanation for a scandal, you don't take 24 hours to offer that explanation, let alone days or weeks," a political insider told The ENQUIRER.

Simply put, Edwards could have nipped the earlier cheating scandal in the bud by instructing his aides to explain that Rielle had been romantically involved with a married man on the campaign. But he didn't.

Instead, Rielle has been telling a confidante that Edwards is the father of her child.

"Rielle told me while Andrew Young is a friend, she's not romantically involved with him," says the source close to Rielle. "Rielle says he's been responsible for finding her a place to live and even getting her a car to drive.

"If he really were the father of her baby and had engaged in an extramarital affair with her, I doubt seriously that he'd bring his wife and kids over to her house for dinner — which Rielle told me he did a few weeks ago.

"Rielle has said from the beginning that the baby is John's, but she appears willing to do whatever they want her to do to protect his candidacy.

"I think what's taking place is simply a cover-up by Edwards' campaign."

And no one has denied the source's information that Rielle has been in phone contact with Edwards since finding out she is pregnant.

When ENQUIRER reporters contacted Young in person at his home on Dec. 12, he became furious — and denied he was Andrew Young.

He also denied knowing "any Rielle Hunter," yelling at the top of his voice: "You don't even know who I am!" But when his wife called him "Andrew," he shot her a dirty look.

An enraged Young called police, demanding our reporters be arrested for trespassing. Officers from the Chatham County (N.C.) Sheriff's Department responded, questioned everyone and made no arrests.

While controversy swirls around her, Rielle — a wannabe actress who by her own admission was a drug-using New York party girl in the '80s — stayed in touch with Edwards.

"Rielle told me that she remains in phone contact with John, but can't see him for obvious reasons," said the source close to her.


Some analysis on the John Edwards Love Child Scandal:

I ignored this story at first because it was broken by The National Enquirer, and the tabloid has never been the most rock-solid of sources. But now the facts of this story seem to be adding up, and it appears as though TNE may be able to chalk up “the Edwards affair” next to Rush Limbaugh’s pain killer addiction as big-time political stories they’ve broken.

Apparently, a woman who has long been rumored to be Edwards’ mistress, one Rielle Hunter, has turned up pregnant and living in a home owned by an Edwards supporter that just happens to be in the same gated community as that supporter’s family.

Edwards is claiming that Hunter had an affair with the supporter who owns the home she’s living in (one Andrew Young who was formerly the Edwards Campaign’s Director of Operations), but that doesn’t quite make sense. If Young was having the affair with Hunter, would he move his mistress in just blocks away from his family?

It’s a nasty situation, and I don’t expect Edwards will be emerging from it clean.

-The John Edwards Affair

We've written extensively today on the affair; DBKP has been waiting for a statement from the Edwards campaign and there has been none.

Since we've already filed 8 or 9 stories on this in the last 18 hours, we'll wait a little longer.

In the meantime, listed below are everything you'd want to know about the John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal at DBKP to date.


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by Mondoreb
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Source: National Enquirer: John Edwards Love Child Scandal

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