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
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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 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: 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
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Source: John Edwards Love Child Sex Scandal: Rielle Hunter Named Again



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