John Edwards Admits Sexual Affair

[rogueyam]

I tried to do my non-American politics part by posting about a giant inflatable turd. No pleasing some folks.

 

Dude! That giant inflatable turd was as American as cherry pie and don't you forget it!

[rogueyam]

Folks, hear this; it ain't over until the National Enquirer says it's over. From Larry King Live last night:

 

 

KING: In New York is Dr. Robi Ludwig, psychotherapist, best selling author of "Til Death Do Us Part." Here in Los Angeles is Dr. Charles Sophy, psychiatrist, medical director of the L.A. County Department of Children & Family Services. In West Palm Beach, Florida is David Perel, the editor in chief of the "National Enquirer." And in Atlanta is Drew Griffin, correspondent for the CNN special investigations unit.

 

We'll start with David Perel. David, you've been so right on this. Is more coming?

 

DAVID PEREL, EDITOR IN CHIEF, "NATIONAL ENQUIRER": Yes, Larry, there's a lot more coming. Absolutely.

 

KING: How did â?? by digging into all of this, and the fact that it keeps coming, does that surprise you? You've done a lot of stories. Does this one surprise you?

 

PEREL: This story did surprise me, Larry. It surprised me that John Edwards, who had a reputation as being a very honest and moral man, could stand there before the American public while running for president and just lie so brazenly. I have to admit it shocked me and it shocked the team at the Enquirer.

 

(OK, that last bit had me laughing out loud! - ry)

 

The truth is there will be more revelations. He was not totally honest during that "Nightline" interview. There is more to the story that's going to come out in the Enquirer.

 

KING: Can you give us a hint what's coming this week?

 

PEREL: Yes, I can. As a matter of fact, we can tell you that he met three times with Rielle Hunter at the Beverly Hilton this year. that he has been in contact with her since, that she has now been flown out of California by private plane to an undisclosed location. And significantly, on the money trail, that he absolutely knew she was being paid, and she told him that she was being paid, and how much and where it was coming from.

 

 

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[rchapstick]

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[Bangkoktraveler]

Typical Conservative action; chase the non story and forget about things of importance such as an energy program.

 

I am interested in the fact that the USA produces 1/3 of our own oil but in 1970 we were producing twice that amount. Why are we not producing that amount, if not more, now?

[rogueyam]

yawn

 

If you're looking for inflatable turd news that's on a different thread.

[Old Hippie]

Can you explain how Kerry lying effects my lost pension? or the exportation of jobs, rising cost of living/declining standard of living etc...?

[kamui]

Can you explain how Kerry lying effects my lost pension? or the exportation of jobs, rising cost of living/declining standard of living etc...?

 

Don't worry, there won't be much left anyway. Just ask Rogy who is/will be paying the 100 Billion USD the government spent on non governmental contractors in Iraq (and don't forget to add the billions GWP and his cronies spent for the army, governmental agencies, e.g. - and of course don't forget that some more billions need to spend in the upcoming years) ...

 

But lets go back to Edwards and his baby. That's a matter of national interest (the internal media is not interested at all unfortunately).

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[Bangkoktraveler]

[color:red]"But lets go back to Edwards and his baby. That's a matter of national interest (the internal media is not interested at all unfortunately)."[/color]

 

Shit, I forgot this is a whoremongering website. I hope John Edwards got more then a little piece of ass?

 

I think the President should be a person who is getting laid enough so as not to be horny any more so as to not want to fuck the public any more.

 

JOHN EDWARDS would make an excellent Vice President!

[rogueyam]

OK, so not everybody cares so much about John Edwards. But if you really want to understand American politics I think it is helpful to see what kind of man stood a hop, skip, and a jump from being a heartbeat away from being the President of the United States. I know most here on Thai360 can't appreciate an item like the following, but for those who can this is one of the most telling bits to come from this recent debacle.

 

The News & Observer is North Carolina's most important newspaper. This essay was written by its Executive Editor yesterday. Follow the link to read the readers' comments. This piece raises questions about the N&O as much as it does about John Edwards.

 

 

 

Edwards went for big time

John Drescher, Executive Editor

News and Observer (Charlotte, NC)

August 17, 2008

 

 

Forgive me if I'm straining to believe John Edwards' version of events. My last conversation with him wasn't a good one.

 

In some ways, that talk reflected the difficult relationship we've had with him since he became a national political figure.

 

About 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, former Sen. Edwards reached me on my office phone.

 

Earlier that day, while campaigning in South Carolina, Edwards denied a report in The National Enquirer that he had an affair with an unnamed woman who once worked in his campaign.

 

In the newsroom, we debated whether to run Edwards' comments about the Enquirer story in the next day's print edition.

 

The argument for: Any comment a presidential candidate makes is fair game. He had publicly responded to a published report, and that was worth noting.

 

The argument against: The Enquirer story was thin and apparently based on one anonymous source. It didn't even name the woman with whom he had the affair. It ran in a publication that pays people for information.

 

By the time Edwards called, we had decided not to publish the story in the Friday paper. But Edwards didn't know that. I wanted to hear what he had to say. We still could have reversed our decision.

 

Edwards told me that the allegations were not true.

 

He said The N&O was the paper that arrived on his doorstep every day, the one read by friends of him and his wife, Elizabeth.

 

He said he'd never called before to complain or state his case. Given Elizabeth's health -- she has cancer -- he said it was especially important to him that the story not run in The N&O.

 

He was calling from an airport, and we spoke only a few minutes.

 

I made no promises.

 

Edwards' comments were off the record. Because he has acknowledged he lied, I feel free to report them.

 

Regarding the affair, I neither believed nor disbelieved Edwards. Working with our colleagues from The Charlotte Observer, we quickly sent a reporter to New York, where the woman then lived, and also worked the story from here. For a fuller explanation of our coverage, see the Editor's Blog at newsobserver.com.

 

Regarding his warm feelings toward The N&O, I thought: Bull.

 

Edwards barely talked with us during his most recent campaign. He had grown too big, too national, to talk to his hometown paper.

 

But there was more to it than Edwards wanting a bigger platform. Edwards and his staff didn't like our reporting.

 

We've given a lot of coverage to Edwards' two presidential bids. Some of you objected, saying we should have given him the same level of coverage as the other candidates for president.

 

That's like saying that when Duke, UNC or State goes to the Final Four, we should cover them the same as the other teams.

 

Edwards was the strongest presidential candidate from North Carolina in the history of our nation. Whether you liked him or not, he was a big story here.

 

Sometimes our stories were favorable. Sometimes they weren't.

 

We wrote about his absences from the Senate, his big new estate, his expensive haircuts, his working for a hedge fund and his move to the left in his second run for president.

 

"Is he really devoted to the issues of regular people?" we wrote in a profile last December. "Is he still the millworker's son, or has he been captured by the fruits of his wealth?"

 

Edwards' staff objected loud and long, especially to that story, which was picked up by papers across the country. They called an Iowan in the story to see whether he had been quoted accurately. He had; we taped the interview.

 

Our relationship with Edwards grew so strained, Rob Christensen said, that only our long-running grudge match with the late Jesse Helms could rival it.

 

Christensen has covered politics for us for 35 years.

 

"The fundamental problem with The N&O and Edwards relationship was Edwards thought his hometown paper should be supportive of his candidacy," Christensen said. We saw our role as telling you about Edwards and his proposals, for better or worse.

 

When it came time to talk about his affair, Edwards was true to form. He went national and chose his friends at ABC News.

 

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[rchapstick]

Gawd, you're dull