The Obligatory Edwards/Enquirer Post
Written by YellowJacket on July 23rd, 2008If you haven’t read anything about this in the blogosphere, you surely will until this story is either proven or disproven.
Former Democratic VP candidate, Presidential candidate, and Senator John Edwards cornered with a mistress and a lovechild:
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcée Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn’t leave until early the next morning.
Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness.
But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.
The NATIONAL ENQUIRER broke the story of Edwards’ love child scandal last year, when Rielle was still pregnant and Edwards was still considered a strong candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Both parties denied the NATIONAL ENQUIRER report and a close friend of Edwards’ came forward and said he was the father of Rielle’s baby. But sources told the NATIONAL ENQUIRER a far different story - they revealed that Edwards was engineering a massive cover up of his shocking infidelity.
Yes, it’s the National Enquirer. But it’s the same tabloid that broke the Rush Limbaugh prescription drug story, and a host of stories in the OJ murder case and the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Only time will tell… given how much of a smarmy know-it-all, holier-than-thou personality Edwards is, this wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
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and let me guess, edwards mistress is an alien from outerspace. come on guys quoting the national enquirer is not acceptable for serious blogs.
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I make it clear in the HEADLINE that I’m sourcing the Enquirer. And I made a clear disclaimer at the end but also acknowledge stories in the past that have been broken by the Enquirer.
Quoting the enquirer is “not acceptable for serious blogs”? I guess you will never read HotAir, Drudge, National Review Online, Daily Pundit, and many more ever again then.
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I am going to guess that the story is true and that is why John is not interested in VP. The main thing is not to get all hysterical over it. He is out of the limelight.
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Im pretty sure this story is true. Too much smoke, and a non-typical Edwards response has convinced me.
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The Enquirer actually claims to be legitimate. They don’t publish the “I Captured Batboy” stories like The Sun and The Weekly World News.
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ok first most of those blogs mentioned by YellowJacket have an axe to grind with edwards thats fine but its more of enjoying bashing edwards then accurately reporting the news. yes the national enquiere has broke a few stories but that is because they don’t fact check as hard as real sources so they can be the first only because they are willing to be wrong so often.