John Edwards Affair; Edwards, Rielle Hunter, Rush Limbaugh and Assumptions

"Assumptions are sometimes useful, sometimes worthless. Assumptions based on someone's lies should be labeled, 'ABOSL'."
--DBKP's Guide to the Aspiring Writer





We always read the comments to stories here at DBKP. In fact, one of our mantras is, "The comments are part of the story".

Another is, "Sometimes, the comments are better than the story".

One comment alerted us to a story, Is Rush Limbaugh Reille Hunter´s Sugar Daddy?, written by Dee, at Immigration Talk with a Mexican American. Dee is anything if not economical: she shoehorns a lot into her story.

Think of Edwards story. The timeline! He is convinced it is NOT his baby because his last quickie with her was in April. She is not impregnated until late May. His ego does not allow him to consider IVF.

We mention this because it points out a danger that all writers--DBKP included--face; i.e., of basing assumptions on a public figure's lies. The lies are found out and POOF!, there goes all your theories.

In the John Edwards scandal, the biggest two assumptions were made by the Mainstream Media and plague them today as they struggle to explain to their readers why they didn't trust them with information on this story before August 8.

The first: that John Edwards told the truth. The second assumption was that because the National Enquirer reported the information, it couldn't be trusted, not even enough for them to do their own investigations, prior to late July.

As we point out in our soon-to-be published writer's guidelines: Assumptions are sometimes useful, sometimes worthless. Assumptions based on someone's lies should be labeled, 'ABOSL'.

NOW, we're not picking on Dee: we're sure that after you read her story, you'll come to the conclusion that she's got her tongue in her cheek. She seems so pleasant in her comments to DBKP's stories, we're sure of it.

One item did strike us, Dee's quote that, "The odds of a first time pregnancy after 40 are astronomical."

From Older mothers - facts and figures:

Additionally, there is an almost 50% increase from ten years ago in the number of women over forty who are now having babies. The rate for women aged 40 and over increased fastest, by over six per cent from 11.5 per 1,000 women aged 40-44 in 2005, to 12.2 in 2006.

The number of live births in England and Wales to mothers aged 40 plus was 12,103 in 1996 and 23,706 in 2006.

Again, here's more info from the United Kingdom. From
Parenting: Age Of First Time Mothers Shows A Sharp Increase:

The number of women having children in their 30s and 40s has climbed steadily over the last 20 years at a time when the overall birth rate has been dropping, in 2003, the fertility rate for women aged 35-39 and over 40 both increased almost 8%.

Later pregnancies are particularly evident among the wealthier social classes, where women persue a career before embarking on motherhood. The only draw back to later parenting is that as a woman gets older their fertility declines.

We realize that the data's from the U.K., not the USA. And there's precious little data about the pregnancy rates of mistresses over 40, but perhaps this might make a good project for some enterprising blogger.

The poster pictured at the beginning of this story? It's not there exclusively in reference to Dee or the Mainstream Media.

It hangs on the side of a computer at DBKP.

by Mondoreb
image: wsmonty

John Edwards Affair: Edwards Statement Admits Little

"Breathtakingly Brazen"
--DBKP's description of Edwards' Nightline appearance

"[Edwards] used the interview to play the Supermarket Tabloid Credibility Card to trash his nemesis, The National Equirer."
--DBKP's LBG,




John Edwards Statement:
* The Words "Affair" and "Lied" never appear in Statement
* No Mention of "Rielle Hunter" to be Found
* Taking "Full Responsibility" Doesn't Include Admission of Guilt
* "99% Honest"--Even While I Lied


Mainstream Media: "Admits", "Lied" and "Affair" in Most Headlines--But Those Words Not Found in Edwards' Statement
No Mention of "Lied", "Affair" or "Rielle Hunter" during Nightline Interview Either






"I was and am ashamed of my conduct and choices, and I had hoped that it would never become public. With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006."
--John Edwards, August 8, 2008 Statement


"One question which immediately comes to mind: What was Edwards doing leaving the Beverly Hilton at 2:40 in the morning, visiting a woman he says he did not love and her baby, which he says he did not father?"
--DBKP: John Edwards Scandal: Edwards Admits Affair, Lies, to ABC News


If admission is the first of the twelve steps toward recovery, John Edwards has yet to take that first step.

At least, that's one conclusion after reading Edwards' press statement or watching his performance on ABC's Nightline.

One hardly knows where to begin.

That was the thought that occurred while reading John Edwards' breathtakingly brazen statement on his "error in judgment" with Rielle Hunter. "Brazen" might also be an appropriate word for Edwards' Nightline appearance.

Edwards' announcement may prove to raise more questions than it answered.

Edwards' statement alleges that he has "given a complete interview on this matter" and "will have nothing more to say". Was this part of the statement an attempt to enable Edwards to appear at the Democrat National Convention without being dogged by pesky reporters' questions?

ALSO at DBKP: Click on banner to access over 60 DBKP stories and videos on the John Edwards scandal.

Are "have already given a complete interview on this matter" and "have nothing more to say" today's substitute for yesterday's failed answers of "tabloid trash" and "lies"?

One guess: The National Enquirer--who wields a far better record of veracity on this subject than Edwards--might have something to say about whether Edwards revisits the topic in the future.

Edwards claims he was 99% honest. Yet, he leaves the specifics of that 99% to the reader's imagination--as well as the remaining 1%. There's a lot that has to be shoe-horned into that 1%.

As LBG points out [John Edwards Scandal: Edwards Defends Affair with Supermarket Tabloid Credibility Card ]:

The MSM claimed Edwards “fessed” up to “lying” about the affair.

“Edwards: Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public.”

“I did not tell the public” is an omission, not an admission of lying. Remember, Edwards knew exactly the impact each and every word he chose to use when arguing his case before the public on Nightline.

LBG goes on to explain.

Edwards never said he lied, he said he “denied”, but mitigated the denial by trashing the National Enquirer, saying it “contained many falsities”. Edwards never expounded on any of the “falsities”. Edwards also chose to defend himself by claiming he was “99% honest”. In fact, the only claim about “lying” was from Edwards in his interview, who charged it was the Enquirer who was lying.

2006

In his statement, Edwards mentioned a "mistake", "an error in judgment" and "my actions in 2006". He also referred to his "misconduct".

But nowhere in his statement or on TV, does he state what that "mistake", "error" or "misconduct" actually was. So, image the surprise it must have been to the millions hearing of all this for the first time, when Edwards starts talking about a baby.

Could it be possible that these words referred to Frances Quinn Hunter?

Edwards was careful to use the phrase "my actions in 2006--so careful, in fact, that he repeated the claim, both in his statement and in his TV interview. Edwards--who disappeared completely from public view after reporters attempted to question him about the affair in Washington, D.C. on July 30--had at least a week to craft his statement. This was no slap-dash effort: every word was painstakingly weighed with the precision of a trial attorney; every sentence parsed, before it made its way into Edwards' press release.

Again, if we take Edwards' word on this, could this not be an attempt to settle the matter of Frances Quinn Hunter, so as not to be questioned in Denver? Is "my actions in 2006" a hypnotic device to lull a once-sonambulant, Big Media back to sleep?

Edwards' precisely-worded, "I am and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby, and I am truly hopeful that a test will be done so this fact can be definitively established," is interesting.

The Enquirer previously reported, in its August 11 print edition, that Edwards had refused to take a DNA test.

National Enquirer Editor-in-Chief, David Perel, appeared on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and was direct.

That's true. We know that Rielle believes that he is the father. And Mr. Edwards today, in his own statement, said he did not take a paternity test. He's now saying that he will take one. We've asked him for months if he would take one and he's ignored that request.

Perel also touched on various claims Edwards made in his statement.

Blitzer: What happens, David, if he does take the paternity test and it doesn't match and it shows he is not the father?

Perel: We'll publish that. I've made the offer to him repeatedly: take a paternity test, whatever the results are, we'll publish it. He has refused to do that, as he's been calling this story lies and tabloid trash and lying to the American public. Unfortunately, I think the only reason he came forward and admitted the affair is because we did catch him at the hotel meeting on July 21 and we did publish a photograph this week in the National Enquirer showing him holding the baby.

We can also reveal that in addition to that meeting, he met at the same hotel a month before with Rielle Hunter and the baby, so his actions are what counts. His words have proven not to be credible.

Blitzer: I guess a lot of people question the reporting of the "National Enquirer," in part, David, because you pay sources for information, is that right?

Perel: Wolf, we do pay sources for information after it checks out as credible and accurate. I think, in retrospect, nobody can deny the accuracy of these stories. We've been reporting on the affair for about 10 months now. He says his statements were 99 percent truthful and yet he told the American public while running for the highest office in the land that he did not have an affair, that these were lies, lies? This is a character issue, and he still insists he's 99 percent truthful?

I think the truest thing that he said today in his statement was when he admitted that he's narcissistic.

Edwards' peculiar wording only leads to more questions.

"[T]ruly hopeful that a test will be done"?

"[A]m and have been willing to take any test necessary to establish the fact that I am not the father of any baby"?

After a week's seclusion, why these two phrases, particularly the ambiguous second one? Why not the more simple and direct, "I will submit DNA for a paternity test"?



Doubts

DBKP is not the only ones who harbor doubts about the Edwards' statements. The National Enquirer also expressed skepticism at the claims made by Edwards.

Shortly after ABC announced Edwards' Nightline appearance, the Enquirer, at its website published "JOHN EDWARDS ADMITS AFFAIR!".

The article was short, direct and, as stated, skeptical.

Perhaps the Enquirer was referring to Edwards' claim that "Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family," when it revealed that "His wife had not known about the [Beverly Hilton] meeting."

What did the Enquirer have to say about Edwards' claims that he had "not been engaged in any activity of any description that requested, agreed to or supported payments of any kind to the woman or to the apparent father of the baby"?

Edwards denied paying Hunter to keep her silent but said it may be possible friends or supporters of his made the payments.

Edwards says he will now investigate any possible hush money payoffs.

Obviously, the Enquirer was thinking of another famous self-investigation: O.J. Simpson's famous "I will find the real killers".

Following clues left in this week's Enquirer, DBKP [John Edwards Scandal: Is Fred Baron the Enquirer ‘Hush Money Man’?] and Doug Ross [Rumors Run Wild: Is Fred Baron the Wallet for John Edwards Scandal] both speculated Thursday about the identity of the man the Enquirer says "funneled hush money" to Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young.

Today, Fred Baron, came forward, talking to the Dallas Morning News: [Dallas lawyer Fred Baron paid for Edwards' mistress to relocate]

Dallas lawyer Fred Baron, who helped bankroll the former North Carolina senator's presidential run, told The Dallas Morning News that he paid for the woman, Rielle Hunter, to leave Chapel Hill, N.C., because she was being hounded by tabloids.

Mr. Baron, who was chairman of the Democrat's campaign finance committee in 2004 and 2008, said Mr. Edwards didn't know about his aid to Ms. Hunter.

Two comments to a Radar story also speculated that the Enquirer's money man could be Baron or ex-Dallas Mavericks coach, Don Nelson.

Forced to endure John Edwards' "tabloid trash" attacks--Edwards repeatedly played the "tabloid card" during his interview in lieu of answering Brian Woodruff's questions--the Enquirer, at last, answered back.

As far as being the father of Hunter's love child, you might as well go all the way now, Johnny Boy.

Submit to a DNA test.

By the way what was it you said about The ENQUIRER's journalistic chops when the main stream media was silent until we gave them more than a smoking gun by dropping a bomb on August 6?

Oh yeah - "Tabloid Trash."

Leaving readers to conclude that John Edwards and The National Enquirer are engaged in a high-stakes game of "chicken".

Sounds like the Enquirer isn't going to blink first. Does the Enquirer believe Edwards "came clean", as some reports claim? Their closing sentence holds a hint.

The JOHN EDWARDS "CONFESSION" AIRS TONIGHT 11:30 PM ON NIGHTLINE (ABC).


The country may very well prove to be the Two Americas that John Edwards' referred to in his aborted presidential campaign--but in a very different way than he meant.

One America that believes the "tabloid trash" of The National Enquirer and another that believes John Edwards, The "99% Honest" Man.

A man who, it may be argued, has yet to take that first step to any hope of a political recovery.

by Mondoreb
images: National Enquirer

Larry Sinclair's Obama Allegations: MSM Has Plenty of Practice Ignoring Certain Stories

YouTube Suppressing the Popularity of the Sinclair Video?

After a hard day of non-reporting, the watchdog reporters of the Mainstream Media
like to gather to compare the notes they didn't take.

Larry Sinclair Files Federal Suit against Obama

Robert Novak Hinted at Sinclair's Allegations in October

Larry Sinclair has filed a federal suit against Barack Obama and others for harassment since the gay man released his video on YouTube alleging that the Senator from Illinois and Sinclair shared gay sex and cocaine in the back of a limo in Gurnee, IL in 1999.

Larry Sinclair's federal lawsuit against Obama
[Click on images to enlarge.]

But don't expect to see anything in the MSM.

That would mean that they would have to explain why the suit was filed. That would mean that they would have to lift their "black out" of the Sinclair story.

The Larry Sinclair story about Barack Obama continues to get the silent treatment from the MSM.

To us, that is the real story of the affair.

We watched as the MSM judiciously ignored hard cold facts collected in the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child story by the National Enquirer. It appears that Obama will get the same courtesy.

Now this morning, Big Head DC claims that YouTube, which is owned by Google, has attempted to suppress the popularity of Larry Sinclair's video allegations about Obama.

As reported in DBKP's "Obama: Larry Sinclair Claims Gay Sex, Drugs in 1999 with Barack", Sinclair says in the videos that he used cocaine with Sen. Barack Obama and performed a sex act on him in 1999.

Big Head DC:

Suppressing the videos’ prominence would dramatically affect the number of YouTubers who actually see them. The view count of Sinclair’s main video has increased by over 100,000 in the last week, but the video is not listed in the YouTube “Most Viewed List” for this week. Also, the “Daily,” “Weekly” and “Monthly Honors” for “Most Discussed” videos on the site have not been updated in recent days. The Sinclair video has substantially more comments and views (about 350,000 as of this writing) than many other popular news and politics videos.

BHDC says that Google hasn't responded to the website's request for comment.

BHDC also notes that the founders of Google, the parent company of YouTube, have stated publicly that they are Obama supporters.

At least Google's owners are honest about it.

That's easier to take than the repeated bleatings from a Mainstream press that maintains--in the face of all evidence, studies, common sense and 40 years of history--that it is an impartial conduit of the news.

Instead of the Liberal-Left mouthpieces that they are.

The only thing that saves the MSM from being complete tools is that every once in awhile, a bright, ambitious reporter bucks the MSM herd instinct and reports on a story the rest have "blacked out".

In the John Edwards-Rielle Hunter story, the MSM not only ignored the facts, but refused to even pose one, single question about any of the facts collected by others who did some digging on the story.

A highly-trained MSM watchdog reporter
takes up the challenge of the Obama story.

Rielle Hunter still continues to be a popular item in stories on DBKP--three months after the Enquirer unearthed the former Edwards' campaign worker's pregnancy and the subsequent moving of her into a gated community five miles from Edwards campaign headquarters--in a house owned by an Edwards backer.

Driving a car owned by Edwards former finance director.

The only words written about these surprising revelations were to attack anyone who did find the information surprising.

In effect, the vaunted MSM--the "watchdogs of the press"--served as Edwards' attack poodles.

At least they have some practice for a reprise of the role on the Larry Sinclair story.

Admittedly, there is much less to go on in the Obama affair than there was in the Edwards Love Child story. But, the fact is: the MSM were all over Fred Thompson using an airplane from a buddy who had a decades-old drug conviction last fall.

Now, that was a scandal!

At this moment, no one outside of Obama and Sinclair know whether this occurred or not. But when the Mainstream press is curiously un-curious about a scandal, it always means that there's a Democrat involved.

But do expect a modicum of coverage in the coming days.

That will be when the MSM blogs attack the very idea of anyone giving credence to the story. They will have no more proof than anyone outside of Sinclair and Obama, but they'll deliver their verdicts on bloggers who attempt to report on the matter.

Sinclair filed a federal suit against Obama and others for harassment after the video was released.



Back in October, Robert Novak reported:

“Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed.”

At the time, it was speculated that this was the story the LA Times supposedly had done major work on and was squashing.



Hard news consists of facts. Some here are a few facts for MSM "reporters".

1 Larry Sinclair has filed a federal lawsuit against a major Democrat presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

2 Larry Sinclair is going to submit to a polygraph on the matter. He called on Obama to do the same.

3 The MSM has zealously refused to let any mention of Larry Sinclair grace a front page or newscast.

The Mainstream press gives more coverage to UFO conspiracy theories than it does to a federal lawsuit being filed against a Democrat presidential candidate.

There is more coverage to "man-made climate change" theories in a day--during one of the coldest winters in decades--than there has been coverage of Rielle Hunter and Larry Sinclair combined, in weeks.

So: people with computers will continue to search on their own for the news the MSM refuses to provide. That includes any mention of Rielle Hunter, and now, Larry Sinclair.

MSM stocks continue to go down, MSM advertising continues to fall, MSM ratings and circulation continue their spiral downward and MSM news bureaus continue to close.

And MSM staffs continue to be cut. Excuses are made for all the MSM cutbacks and various reasons and theories are posited for their happening. But the MSM staff cuts are particularly easy to understand.

After all, why would anyone pay reporters not to report?

DBKP John Edwards Love Child Library Over 25 stories on the story the MSM continues to not report, the curious goings-on between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a former producer hired by Edwards to produce a campaign video--which disappeared after Hunter became pregnant.

by Mondoreb
images:
* smokinggun
* doganswers
Sources:
* DBKP John Edwards Love Child Scandal Library
* YouTube Suppressing Larry Sinclair Obama Video?
* LA Times Sitting on an Explosive Prez Candidate Story?
* Obama: Larry Sinclair Claims Gay Sex, Drugs in 1999 with Barack



Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

"Time For Edwards' Exit": Scandals, Dick Morris, and Tenacity

Through a "scandal that never was," the "John Edwards Love Child" story, consistently coming in third place in the primaries and a gentle velvet gloved scolding from Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, John Edwards isn't about to quit the campaign for the President. Anyone who knows John Edwards, former one time Senator from South Carolina, feisty civil court attorney, knows Edwards' tenaciousness, especially when it comes to his major occupation, running for President.

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's piece in today's New York Post, "Time For Edward's Exit" is a hoot.

Morris and McGann have decided it's time for Edwards' exit from the Dem's campaign for President and we like how they tried to handle it, attempting to deliver a "pink slip" with a "velvet glove" touch.

To date, Edwards has been a passionate and effective advocate of the need for change. His opposition to special-interest funding of our politics and his good example in refusing to take funds from political action committees both merit our praise and admiration.

They point out that Edwards remaining in the race has unintentional or intentional consequences. It depends on what Morris and McCann's intent was in delivering this missive:

Edwards divides the anti-Clinton vote - and so undermines the prospects for the changes that he so passionately demands in our government. By staying in, he's helping deliver the nomination to the person whom he has described as the defender of the status quo.

They hit Edwards with "facts":

Just how hopeless is his candidacy? Realclearpolitics.com's average of national polls has him in third place - with Clinton at 41 percent, Obama at 35 percent and Edwards at just 15 percent. Even in South Carolina (right next door to his home state), he's polling at only 15 percent to Obama's 42 percent and Clinton's 30 percent.

What does this all mean? Let's try some perspective.

John Edwards has become the quintessential professional politician, his sole "employment" or vocation since running for VP on the ticket with John Kerry in the last election, Edwards has been "officially" campaigning for the 2008 Presidential race since December of 2006.Source - MSNBC

From the New York Times, January 6th:

Appearing on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” Sunday morning, Mr. Edwards said that he would not drop out of the race after the New Hampshire primary.

“This is the cause of my life, and I have no intention of stopping,” Mr. Edwards said. “I am in this through the convention and to the White House.

“Through the convention?” Mr. Stephanopoulos repeated, somewhat incredulously.

“Absolutely,” Mr. Edwards said.

“Even if you lose here, lose in South Carolina, lose in Florida?” Mr. Stephanopoulos continued.

“I am in this through the convention and to the White House,” Mr. Edwards replied.

The Scandal That Never Was....




The National Enquirer broke the "Love Child Scandal" story on Edwards back in December. The "second" such scandal to break, it detailed a very pregnant woman named Rielle Hunter ensconced in a ritzy gated community close to Edward's campaign headquarters in North Carolina:

The woman linked to Presidential candidate John Edwards in a cheating scandal is more than six months pregnant and telling a close confidante that Edwards is the father of her unborn child, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

The NATIONAL ENQUIRER's political bombshell comes just weeks after Edwards emphatically denied having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who formerly worked on his campaign.

But The ENQUIRER has now confirmed not only that Rielle is pregnant, but she is also living in Chapel Hill, N.C. in a gated community, just a few streets away from Andrew Young, who has been a key official in Edwards' campaign. Source - DBKP - John Edwards Shared More Than Just Shampoo With Rielle Hunter

The MSM gave the story a wide berth. Not one single MSM organization looked into the Enquirer's charge that Edwards had an affair with Ms. Hunter. That she was now living rent free in an Edward's supporter's house, driving a car owned by a former Edwards campaign official and good buddy, Andrew Young.

Edwards was given a "Get Out Of Scandal Free" Card by the MSM. No mention of the "Love Child" was made by any of the MSM outlets.

Edwards was free to "campaign" focusing on the downtrodden, those who were getting "screwed" by "the Man."

"Hedging" on the Hedge funds

Edwards described his "work" for the hedge fund company, Fortress Investment Group, in May, 2007, as a "lesson in learning."

"I didn't feel like I understand, and to be honest with you still learning right now, sort of the relationship between that world and the way money moves in this country through financial markets," Edwards said.

Edwards said he also spoke to some Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs besides exploring the position with Fortress. He said his role was to advise the firm about what he saw happening economically in the United States and during his travels overseas. Source - newsmax

The people at Fortress really, really liked John Edwards, the man who's campaigning for the "little guy."

Fortress Investment Group, founded in 1998, describes itself as "a leading global alternative asset manager" with approximately $35.1 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2006. The company is headquartered in New York with affiliates around the world.

Fortress was the single biggest employer of Edwards donors during the first three months of the year. Donors who listed "Fortress" as their employer contributed $67,450 to Edwards' campaign and supporters who identified their employer as "Fortress Investment Group" gave $55,200 to the campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. Source - newsmax

Edwards learned another lesson after it was discovered his "hedge fund" was foreclosing on the most innocent of victims:

Embarrassed presidential hopeful John Edwards promised yesterday to take millions of dollars of his own fortune out of a hedge fund tied to subprime lenders who foreclosed on victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The populist candidate - who has denounced such lenders - invested $16 million of his $30 million in assets in Fortress Investment Group. The Wall Street Journal reported that 34 New Orleans homeowners struggling to overcome Katrina's aftermath faced foreclosure suits from subprime-lending units of Fortress.

Yesterday, the red-faced Democratic candidate vowed to remove from his portfolio any Fortress funds that have a stake in those lender units.

"I will not have my family's money involved in these firms that are foreclosing on people in New Orleans," he said while on the campaign trial in Des Moines, Iowa.
Source - Free Republic

John Edwards, Professional Politician

From PBS, the 2004 Presidential Election:

Speculation about John Edwards' presidential aspirations date back to the 2000 campaign, when Al Gore mentioned the North Carolina senator's name as his second choice for a running mate on the Democratic ticket.



Edwards, a man with deep Southern roots, began 2003 as a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, and before the election season was even under way, several magazines -- People, the New Yorker and the New Republic, among others -- had published profiles of the senator.

Edwards was elected Senator of South Carolina in 1998. In 2003, he announced his decision to retire and to run for President in the 2004 election. Failing to win the nomination for President, Edwards was chosen by the nominee, Senator John Kerry, as his running mate.

Kerry and Edwards were defeated in the 2004 election but by December 2006, Edwards was once again announcing his intention to run for President in the 2008 election. Source - Wiki

By our calculations Edwards has been both officially and unofficially running for the office of the Presidency longer than he was a Senator.

Morris and McGann feel it's time for Edwards to "gracefully" remove himself from the race with sugarcoated kudos. Surely both Morris and McGann know Edwards by now, that Edwards only does what Edwards wants to do.

At this juncture it's premature to declare either Obama or Hillary as a "sure thing." Edwards, a wily ex-civil attorney, knows this too. The race is far from over and Edwards is doing what he does best: run for President.

By LBG
Image - John Edwards 2008
Image - John Edwards 2004




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The SS John Edwards Love Child Scandal Sets Sail

It's been almost two weeks since the National Enquirer first broke the story of John Edward's "alleged" love child.

The story of Edwards and the video maker vixen: how Edwards hired a 44-year-old single lass to make a series of films on the "real John Edwards" turned into an affair, and then a bun in the oven for Ms. Hunter.

The MSM turned up its collective noses at the Enquirer piece. Edwards denied it, to some reporter, somewhere on the primary campaign trail. Edwards, Democrat, former malpractice attorney and one time Senator from North Carolina is running for the office of President.

We're still baffled by the silence, or laziness of the MSM on this matter. Have we reached an era when the MSM know longer cares what a candidate does in his spare time while campaigning for President, at least the Democrat candidates. Woe unto any Republican: the same set of sub-standards applied to the Dems do not apply to them.

For the MSM to look askance at the Enquirer story about Edwards is puzzling. The Enquirer was responsible for breaking Pardongate: Hillary Clinton's two siblings, with their pockets lined with cash from persons pardoned by husband Bill, during the remaining hours of his presidency.

The Enquirer also spilled the beans on Rush Limbaugh's love affair with the drug, Oxycontin.

The Enquirer exposed Senator Gary Hart with a lovely lass on his knee on the boat, Monkey Business, when Hart ran for President. The all-important semen stained dress worn by the rubinesque intern, Monica Lewinsky, during her romps with then President Clinton.

Those stories by the Enquirer were proven to be true which means there's likely probability of truth in the Edward's Love Child story. And yet the MSM has chosen to not investigate. Evidently the percentages or probabilities or "sources" must be higher in order for the MSM to turn a jaundice eye on the possible shenanigans of an ex-Senator running for president.

Either the MSM believes the "word" of Edwards, which we find fascinating; after all, the man is a politician running for the highest position in the land.

Or, the MSM does not care.

It's alleged that Edwards has a pregnant mistress. Since the MSM has decided it won't investigate--or "can't" investigate, we're not sure--it will remain "alleged".

From Dave In Boca:

MSM Consigns Edwards Mystery to Memory Hole
Rielle Hunter again exits stage left as John Edwards continues his Teflon progress to the primaries. If this were a Republican candidate, dozens of reporters would vie for more details.

I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde's response to a fellow author who asked about what to do about a "conspiracy of silence" concerning his candidacy for a literary prize.

Oscar's pithy advice: "Join it."

However, if Edwards manages to survive the pre-Super Tuesday rush to judgment, this vignette should be examined more closely, as he already appears to be hypocritical far beyond the normal two-faced norm of major candidates!

Until then, Edwards seems to gotten a "Get Out Of A Scandal" Free Card from the Community MSM. The SS John Edwards Love Child story will sail out of sight, perhaps somewhere such as the Bermuda Triangle or Sargasso Sea.

By Little Baby Ginn
Image - Bermuda Triangle

Source - DBKP - John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo with Rielle Hunter?


DBKP.com - Bigger, Better!.
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John Edwards Love Child Scandal: Country Club Concubine

Rielle Hunter, pregnant single woman, supported by a lover, ensconced in swank surroundings, living the kind of life a poverty-stricken unwed mother would never dare to dream about.

The National Enquirer claims John Edwards had an affair and that the woman is now pregnant with his baby. The woman in question, 44-year-old Rielle Hunter, claims the father is 41-year-old Andrew Young, political operative and until recently, Director of Finance of the Edwards for President campaign.

Such is the enigma of Rielle Hunter. A throwback to the old days of the pampered "other woman" or the state of today's connubial bliss?


The first Enquirer story ran on October 10Th.




Nowhere in the Enquirer was the "woman" named nor her "profession."

The very next day a woman named Rielle Hunter issued a "denial" by way of the website, Mydd.

"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 6 month contract, which we completed December 31, 2006.

When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.

This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it."

John Edwards also made a statement the same day as Hunter:

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." [1]

The question has been raised here at DBKP: why did Rielle Hunter come out with a statement against the Enquirer when it never named her, her profession, age or where she resided. In essence, outing herself?

If you look closely at her "statement" on October 11 Hunter claims her "relationship" with the Edwards' campaign was "professional." No one knew at the time she made this statement that Ms. Hunter was pregnant and that little over a month later, she would move to North Carolina to a gated community of luxury homes five miles from the Edwards campaign headquarters.

The second salvo was fired by the Enquirer on December 19 when the tabloid posted a picture of a very pregnant Rielle Hunter. The Enquirer claimed unnamed sources had verified that Ms. Hunter's unborn child was Edwards, that she had been set up in a swank house, all expenses paid, by an Edwards' backer. The Enquirer wrote that Ms. Hunter had issued a denial of involvement with Edwards and claimed the baby's father was a former campaign finance director and political operative, Andrew Young.

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."

According to the National Enquirer, Rielle Hunter moved to the gated community of Governor's Club, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a few miles from the Edwards campaign headquarters. When the Enquirer contacted Ms. Hunter at her new Chapel Hill home, Ms. Hunter denied she was Rielle Hunter. When the Enquirer contacted Andrew Young at his home, he denied he was Andrew Young and called the cops.

The Governor's Club, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Governor's Club
For Sale
39514 Glenn Glade
Approximate Square Footage: 7,439
$1,649,900

One month ago Rielle Hunter moved into the gated luxury community of Governor's Club. All the amenities: a country club, golf course, pool, clubhouse. Governor's Club is a close-knit community, the residents proud of their beautiful homes and surrounding area.

Governor's Club
For Sale
Approximate Square Footage: 6,451
$1,199,00

The Enquirer reported that when their investigators contacted Ms. Hunter at her new Governor's Club home she denied she was Rielle Hunter. The Enquirer discovered the home is owned by a John Edwards' backer, the shiny new BMW Ms. Hunter drives, registered to Andrew Young. The new home is conveniently located close to the Edwards campaign headquarters and in the same neighborhood where Andrew Young resides... with his wife and young children.

Governor's Club Clubhouse

The 42,000 sq. ft. clubhouse has a golf shop, banquet and ballroom facilities.

Ms. Hunter can use the large pool or meet friends at the lounge. Andrew Young left his position as the Edwards campaign finance director last month. No word yet on how he supports his wife, children and pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, down the street.



Sources told the Enquirer that apparently it's "All in the Family" in Governor's Club as according to sources, Young and his wife and children recently had dinner at Rielle's house.

Such is the enigma of Rielle Hunter, the other woman, purported lover of one Andrew Young, political operative, former campaign finance director, good friend of John Edwards and now, "father" of Rielle Hunter's unborn baby.

Governor's Club, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, one happy "family" luxury community.

Source - 1 - DBKP - John Edwards Love Child Scandal
Source - 2 - Governor's Club
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John Edwards Love Child Scandal: Source Too Tainted for MSM?

National Enquirer not part of the MSM Brotherhood

What is a politician to do?

Let’s say you’ve gotten involved with a former associate on your campaign. For example, someone, oh say, that’s produced campaign videos for your cause.

And let’s continue, for the sake of argument, that you and this comely lass got caught up in the moment and magic happened.

An untidy pregnancy resulted, and even though your position on the campaign trail favors abortion on demand, in your private life, you have children.

Or perhaps, the mother wanted a reminder of the good times.

Again, what’s a candidate to do?

Hypothetically, if you were someone running for office and you had a unseemly scandal you wanted to hide in plain sight, here's a solution that's guaranteed to succeed.

Hand it over the Enquirer, let them publish it. Sit back and watch the MSM ignore it until it dies on the vine.

Not all stories come wrapped in pretty bows, some come by way of less than "ethical" standards, at least in the minds of mainstream journalists in regards to the National Enquirer.

The National Enquirer is a tabloid whose stories run the gamut from celebrity gossip to political scandals. A step up from the tabloids which scream tales of 500 pd women giving birth to alien babies or yet another sighting of Bigfoot.

The Enquirer has had its moments, much to the chagrin of the intrepid MSM. Stories such as Pardongate, Jesse Jackson's love child, Gary Hart's Monkey Business and Monica Lewinsky's semen stained dark blue polka dot dress came from the colorful pages of the supermarket rag. Not only did the Enquirer break these stories to the public but each story revealed a dark side to these politicians that were less than sterling, a side which pertained to their character. They got caught with their pants down or with less than ethical reasons for granting pardons.

All these stories were initially treated as pariahs or put into the same category as Bigfoot or flying saucers because they were broken by the Enquirer but in the end the stories were true.

The same scenario is being played out once again. The Enquirer has broken a story of John Edward's "alleged" love child. The MSM is silent. If the story about Edwards is true and the MSM remains silent then this story will have been out there, in plain sight, and then died on the media vine.

We're not maintaining the story about Edwards and his "love child" is true but how we will ever know? The MSM has decided the story, since it originated from the National Enquirer, is untouchable and therefore, no effort will be made to verify its veracity.

Tainted by the fruit of the poisoned tabloid.


By LBG
notes: Mondoreb
Image [tvhistory.tv]

DBKP's John Edwards Love Child Scandal * * * LIBRARY * * * 18 DBKP Stories on the Scandal JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL LATEST: at 10:25 EST * 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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John Edwards Love Child Scandal: The "Interview" That Never Happened

Disappeared!

Interview with Enquirer Editor-in-Chief David
Perel about the scandal that was up yesterday has disappeared!

Did a 'interview' actually take place?
Our theory about what happened to the mysterious "interview".

(Disappeared! We couldn't resist the National Enquirer-style headline.)

One more curious item in the John Edwards Love Child Scandal:

Yesterday a story appeared on AOL News which detailed an "interview with National Enquirer Editor-in-Chief, David Perel". We read the short piece and decided to comment on the "interview". But first, it was decided to grab a sandwich first.

When we returned, the "interview" had disappeared!

We continuously checked it throughout last evening, but the "interview" never re-appeared on the AOL News site. Memeorandum still had it referenced. Okay, maybe it was a glitch.

This morning, same thing.

The "interview" was still missing. Along side, other referenced stories containing the interview were also gone. Such as this one at Blogging Stocks: National Enquirer Editor Defends Edwards Love Child Story

Where was the mysterious interview?

Now THIS was a story for the National Enquirer!

And that is exactly what we suspect happened to the "interview", which was still up on Memeorandum a few minutes ago.

Here's DBKP's theory on the missing "interview".

There was no interview. Never was.

We're theorizing that the person who reported the 'interview' at AOL News was anticipating a media coup: an interview with the brains behind the hot scandal of the moment, the Enquirer's Perel.

He most likely did what we did yesterday. Contact the National Enquirer and talk to someone about the scandal. He also probably talked to the same person we talked to yesterday, the aforementioned Perel.

DBKP was hunting information on past scandals that the MSM had ignored and the Enquirer had broken. We had most of them, but didn't want to miss any. So we called the NE.

An affable chap, Perel at first was hesitant, but then got a copy of the tabloid, due for sale today and read us what is in the sidebar of the magazine's latest story on Edwards. Kinda like the Enquirer's Greatest Hits.

DBKP didn't feel like we should steal the Enquirer's thunder and rush out with the information: after all, the Enquirer had spent money and resources chasing down a story the other media had shown little interest in.

The Enquirer invested a lot in the story. It rightfully would want people to read about it in the National Enquirer or its website.

Not in AOL News.

Perel told us everything in the AOL story, plus a little more.

In fact, it was remarked here that the AOL story could have almost have been a transcript from our notes.

But we were more interested in actually chatting with Perel, the man behind this story, not scooping the publication in a faux 'interview'.

Not that we're paragons of human virtue--far from it. But, we're not without appreciating someone else's hard work, either.

So here's our theory: The guy at AOL News (his name escapes us and his interview isn't visible) put up the "interview" and sat back to expect the resulting traffic to satisfy advertisers.

National Enquirer, upon learning of it, consulted its lawyers and notified AOL News that no "Interview" had occurred, so the story came down. It remains down.

We couldn't imagine that Perel would talk freely on the eve of his paper recouping some of their investment in the John Edwards Love Child Scandal story. It's been reported that up to seven people were involved in gathering information in North Carolina.

Oh wait. That may have been one of the facts contained in the "interview".

This is only a theory, mind you. We have no proof and we figure all parties concerned are probably busy right now: the Enquirer with its latest release of John Edwards Love Child news; AOL News with cleaning up around the office.

That's why no attempt was made to contact either this morning.

We'll get around to it next week, when both are probably a bit freer.

We'll be happy to listen to any other theories, or better yet, news of what actually happened.

In the meantime, we're going to pass along a little advice we've learned over the years.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

UPDATE: December 22, 2007 - Okay, Okay. So our theory was wrong! In the course of checking something out today, we confirmed that there was an interview. The disappearance of it is still a mystery to everyone we talked to today. As is the other location the interview disappeared from during the same time frame. So, it was a glitch. We did say it could have been a glitch. So, give us partial credit. If our theory offended anyone, we extend our deepest apologies. Just so you'll know and we keep the record straight.

by Mondoreb
[image:nationalenquirer]

DBKP's John Edwards Love Child Scandal * * * LIBRARY * * * 18 DBKP Stories on the Scandal JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SEX SCANDAL LATEST: at 10:25 EST * 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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John Edwards' Love Child Scandal: Reille Hunter "Kept" Woman

Times have changed,
And we've often rewound the clock,
Since the Puritans got a shock,
When they landed on Plymouth Rock. If today,
Any shock they should try to stem,
'Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything Goes.

Former Edwards campaign Director of Operations, Andrew Young, gives Open Marriage advocates something to cheer about.

The 41-year-old former "North Carolina Finance Director" of the Edwards campaign has stepped forward and not only claimed the "alleged" love child of John Edwards as his but has also moved his six months pregnant mistress, Reille Hunter, into the same multi-million dollar gated community as his own wife and children.

No word from Young's wife on how well she's adjusted to the new neighbor, the 'other' woman and the impending "bundle of joy."

According to the National Enquirer, the bald headed stepchild of the MSM, an unnamed source claims Young, and his 'first' family, his legally married wife and legitimate children, had dinner with his pregnant paramour in her newly acquired abode.

Young issued a statement that he was the father of the Edwards "love child."

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.

Confusion reigned when Young, contacted by the intrepid Enquirer reporters, denied knowing the mother of his love child, Reille Hunter, even though he staunchly claims the baby is his.

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.

Feminists have yet to weigh in. One would think that in this day and age Feminists would wonder why a pregnant woman would need to rely so heavily on the 'father' of her child. That an independent, strong woman, would be able to take responsibility for her own actions especially in matters of conception. And if she chose to keep her baby she would continue to provide for herself and not count on the father or 'others' for her sole support.

Young's decision to move his 44-year-old pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child into the same swank community as his first family shows that old fashioned morality has finally fallen by the wayside replaced by a new set of standards, those of great 1934 Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes!

Source - National Enquirer
Cole Porter Lyrics, Anything Goes
Image [sondheimguide.com]

By LBG



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John Edwards Love Child Scandal Story Has Hit the Stands

The newest rumor in the John Edwards Love Child Scandal mill: the National Enquirer, illusionists or temporary moralists?

Yesterday the incendiary rag had published a story on its website, "John Edwards Love Child Scandal!" along with the blurb, "Woman linked to candidate PREGNANT & IN HIDING."




Bloggers took the Enquirer story and ran with it if only to write about various scenarios if the rumor were true or false and if the Clintons were behind the story.

From Politico:

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.

The telenovella style melodrama flew across the net and escalated when the link to the Edwards story at the Enquirer disappeared. One blogger called those who were covering the rumor gistfest, morons, that the story had disappeared and therefore was baseless.

True, for several hours the story had disappeared from the cyberpages of the Enquirer. Had the Enquirer made the realization that their story about Edwards was untrue and did the honorable thing and removed it before more damage could be done?

Inquiring minds wanted to know until several hours later when, in illusionist fashion, the story reappeared!

Was the Enquirer toying with everyone? First you see it, now you don't?

The enigma of the disappearing John Edwards Enquirer story came to an end this morning when the thud of millions of Enquirers hitting backstreet newstands resounded across the country; the brightly colored headline "John Edwards' Love Child Scandal" splayed across the page. The story had now reached the masses.

Source - National Enquirer

By LBG
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John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal: Is This Thing Still On or What?

Are we still gonna have that John Edwards
Love Child Sex Scandal Thing?

We're gonna demand that National Enquirer turn in its membership in good standing to the Royal Order of Scandalmongers.

They pulled the story?

As we reported last time, kiddies, the NE John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal (it does have a ring to it) was up at 1:15 and 3 am. It was down at 6:00.

Is this any way to run a scandal?

It's still down, but there a cute photo of Jennifer Anniston in a pastel T-shirt that made the trip over to the Enquirer worth it.

Surf's Up! "John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal" UPDATE: AT 8:08 AM EST---National Enquirer Story is Back Up!

It's still up at Drudge, though.

And Meme orandum.

So, we're gonna go with what we got.

Rielle Hunter Still Pregnant!!

Reille Still has Nice Hair

We Still Have Chuck Adkins' Trophy!!

Still Proud to Be one of Chuck's "Morons-2007 Winner"

National Enquirer:
Make Up Your Mind, Or I'm Having it Without You!

So far in this scandal, by our accounting, we have:

1- Pregnant Ex-Edwards campaign worker

2- Names (Rielle Hunter was Lisa Druck)

1- Cool Trophy

1- Great Name for a Scandal (John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal)

5- Stories that DBKP has written, including one with fake pix.

0- Stories up on National Enquirer's Website featuring a great name for a scandal.

1- Times I've been called a "professional blogger" in my so-called career.

4- Cigars left until we have to stop typing and go to the store to get more. (Can't have a proper scandal if you're short of nicotine, I always say.)

1- YouTube video of a John Edwards' ad they pulled, or something like that...we might throw it in here, just because we're big on multi-media presentations.)

65-T-shirts with "I'm John Edward's Love Child" on the Front and a Picture of a Trojan Condom on the back. We're not sure what to do with them, but I'm rooting for the National Enquirer to take a 3rd shot and we'll have a sale next time the first hour.

So, I'm not sure if I should take off my Scandal Party Hat or not.

Rielle was so cute, too.

At any rate, it was better than watching the eternal war between the pundits that see Ron Paul as the Second Coming of Hitler and the one that see him as the Second Coming of Christ.

And we never hurled chunks once during the whole "Love Child" thing, unlike the queasy feeling we get every time we have to read about how Mike Huckabee's gonna get over 1600 Electoral votes because he tells good jokes to the guys in the press tent.

And the John Edwards' Love Child Sex Scandal (it does have a ring to it, I'm telling you) was more fun than listening to people who profess to be strict secularists telling everyone that if Mitt Romney's elected, the country's gonna go to Hell.

Damn it.

I hope the scandal's not over.

At least, the scandal happened now, unlike the polls and the pundits who confidently told us who was gonna be Secretary of the Coast Guard in Hillary Clinton's cabinet.

I'm not giving up on this scandal thing, doggone it.

I'll be out for awhile.

When I get back, we're gonna have us a real scandal.

I gotta go get me some new sources.

by Mondoreb
[images: nationalenquirer;nymag]
[NOTE: I'm not giving up on this thing. I'll be back around noon EST, and I'd better see some hysterical denying from the Edwards' campaign when I do. Or somebody's gonna be in trouble.]



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John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal: Hunter Living the "Life of Rielle"

Hunter becomes the Hunted

DNA Sample Would Clear Things Up in a Hurry For Edwards

"He's Pro-Abortion, So What's the Problem?"

Testing the Theory: There is no such thing as Bad Publicity

The Enquirer Pulls the Story from its Website sometime between 3 and 6 am.

So, Is This Whole Love Child Sex Scandal Thing Still On or What?

The Way They Run the Enquirer: It's a Scandal!!

John Edwards is expected to again deny reports that he's the father of a love child by a former campaign worker.

The allegations resurfaced after the National Enquirer announced it now has photos of a visibly pregnant Rielle Hunter.

Hunter, at one point known as Lisa Druck, is saying that another member of the Edwards' campaign is the father.

But then, Rielle or Lisa, told the National Enquirer, when she answered the door, that she was neither.

If the Enquirer's revelations are true, Reille Hunter at one point was known as Lisa Druck and John Edwards at one point was known as a candidate.

6:15 am EST: Chuck Calls Us "Morons"; National Enquirer Story is Now Down!

2007 Proud Winner's of "Chuck's Morons" "Thank you, thank you!" "You’d think that these so called professional Bloggers would know this! (I notice the original story on the Enquirer has disappeared and good for them for pulling it!Applause) Bunch of damn morons…. Morons are: DBKP, The Radio Equalizer and Macsmind" --Chuck Adkins: Memo to Bloggers about the National Enquirer's John Edwards' story: Get Real, Please! And we like Chuck like our kin, too... Who exactly was it that called us professional Bloggers? I think you have to have a license. We don't want to get in any trouble, just for the record. Curiously, Chuck's the 2nd blog that's written of the National Enquirer pulling down the story. At the first one that reported that (we left a comment informing them our links worked just fine at a little after 3:00 am EST) the Enquirer pulled the story down, we had to sadly report: it's still up. BUT, after testing it for this story, Chuck is right! The story is down! So at shortly after 3:00, the Enquirer story was up. At shortly after 6:00, the Enquirer story is down. Hmmm.... Why'd the Enquirer take the story down? At least one inquiring mind wants to know. Well, whether it is up or down, we stand by our story which is: we read the Enquirer. And also, Meme orandum...where the story is still up proudly at the top while we type at 6:15. But whether we're proved right or wrong, we're proud to win any award Chuckie's handing out. Do we get to give a speech? We need to fix our hair.

6:30 am EST: Rielle Hunter Still Pregnant; We Still Have Chuck's Trophy

Edwards and Hunter both denied the affair. For weeks the story went dormant and Edwards told the New York Daily News, "The story disappeared because it's made up." According to the report from Rush and Molloy, The magazine stood by its original story claiming that it was 100% accurate.

The story of Edwards and Hunter have been surfacing over the last couple months, with the National Enquirer going so far as to accuse Edwards in October.

It then was supposed to email proof to Edwards. The Enquirer didn't and the scandal simmered down.

Apparently, the National Enquirer had just begun to fight.

NOW, it has photos of Rielle in the family way, and statements from multiple sources that name Edwards as the father.

Of course, the Edwards' campaign will issue heated denials.

Who to believe?

Well, the Enquirer's reputation for the unvarnished truth isn't as high as it might be.

But neither is Edwards'.

He's previously insisted that he took a high-paying position to study "poverty".

One way to settle the controversy would be for Edwards to come forward and offer DNA. If he's not the father, the case is closed, and being the fine trial lawyer that he is, he may have some recourse against the National Enquirer.

From all indications and circumstances, here's a prediction: he will state the allegations are beneath his squashing them with a medical test. He will deny, and people will choose who to believe.

Of course, none of the resulting controversy and negative buzz will help him get the press to pay any attention to his issues.

But that might be a good thing. On the day the scandal erupted again, some polls reported that John Edwards had taken a slight lead in Iowa.

So maybe he won't have any grounds for damages against the National Enquirer, right or wrong.

One thing's for sure: in another three months or so, Ms. Hunter will deliver a bouncing bundle of joy into this world.

If it has Edwards' hair, people will talk.

* John Edwards Shared More Than Shampoo With Rielle Hunter * John Edwards, Rielle Hunter Love Child Sex Scandal: Who is Rielle Hunter? * Edwards Alleged Love Child Sex Scandal: Clintons Orchestrated Rumor?

[NOTE: Even if Edwards turns out to be the father, we're keeping the cool trophy.]

by Mondoreb
[image:nationalenquirer]
Source: John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal: Rielle Hunter Named Again



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