Tuesday, September 22, 2009
News John Edwards keeps sinking lower
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:01 PM
You wouldn't expect someone so pretty to be capable of such scurrilous behavior.
At this point, the former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate is a footnote, an also-ran, but I can't help reading these train-wreck stories about the fallout of his covered-up affair with a bat-shit-crazy New Age videographer.
On Saturday, the NYT ran an article that reels, in excruciating detail, Edwards' continuing free-fall from grace:
A federal grand jury in nearby Raleigh is investigating whether any crimes were committed in connection with campaign laws in an effort to conceal his extramarital affair with a woman named Rielle Hunter.At the same time, Mr. Edwards is moving toward an abrupt reversal in his public posture; associates said in interviews that he is considering declaring that he is the father of Ms. Hunter’s 19-month-old daughter, something that he once flatly asserted in a television interview was not possible.
Ouch. Other tidbits alleged in the article:
- Edwards talked a married campaign aide into claiming (unconvincingly, I might add) that he had fathered Hunter's kid
- Edwards promised to marry Hunter in a rooftop ceremony — with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band — once his wife, Elizabeth, had died of cancer
- Edwards asked a wealthy donor if he could find a doctor who would falsify a DNA report
OK, I'm gonna need a shower if I continue. Read the rest yourself if you can stomach it.
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Trust me, I know bat-shit videographers. They are a dime a dozen. Rielle isn't any wackier than the next. In fact, she deserves something in the realm of a pity break. Why? When Rielle Hunter was the Florida teenager, Lisa Druck, she was raised by the father from hell, the same evil Druck dude referenced here in this sickening, yet award-winning Sports Illustrated investigative piece from '91: http://bit.ly/o57eB Rielle's/Lisa's childhood pony was Henry the Hawk. I for one, and I may be the only one, hope that Rielle Hunter eventually finds some peace and happiness in her life with her beautiful daughter. By now, she's earned it.
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The same NYT articel claims that John Edwards bet Joe Wilson to scream "You Lied" during the President's address to a joint session of Congress.
who is surprised? politicians will be politicians, most are simply better at keeping it covered up.
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