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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence John Edwards' Secret Affair with MSM
Usually, the mainstream press is happy to let tabloids do the dirty work so it can swoop in and fill in the blanks with on-the-record non-denial denials and explanations with just enough wiggle room for back-peddling down the road. That appeared to be how it would go down when the National Enquirer claimed John Edwards had an affair with campaign worker (and former Jay McInerney squeeze) Rielle Hunter. The notion of the candidate with the cancer-stricken wife getting his $400 haircuts mussed up by a woman who describes herself as "addicted to higher consciousness" has the makings of a dynamic and devastating primary season scandal. What's more, the Enquirer says it has enough evidence to sink the campaign. Sources close to AMI tell Radar the tab is in possession of e-mails and phone records from Hunter to various acquaintances in which she details the affair and says she and John are in love with one another. There's just one problem: nobody wants to believe the story. Call it a swift boat backlash. The mainstream media hasn't seen fit to dignify the item with much coverage (Ann Coulter doesn't count). When writer Sam Stein dared deface liberal oasis Huffington Post last week with questions about payments from the Edwards camp to Hunter's video production company, the rest of the prog-bloggers piled on him. Edwards himself calls the story "just false" and Hunter says, "When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional" (Mickey Kaus notes that the odd preface leaves flexibility for both parties regarding their conduct before and after she was on staff). Privately, however, at least one former Edwards staffer labels Hunter a "crazy lady," and admits being unsure what her role was with the campaign. The refusal to push the affair story is the latest example of what one rival strategist dubbed "the Teflon campaign" of the former North Carolina senator. Remember last fall when an intern called a North Carolina Wal-Mart and asked a clerk to set aside a Playstation 3 for Edwards, even though Edwards is critical of the company's labor practices? Remember the revelation that two Edwards campaign bloggers authored anti-Catholic posts on their personal blogs? No, right? How about when Rolling Stone opened a profile on Edwards last August with: "If he weren't so rich, handsome, and well married, you might feel a little sorry for John Edwards." That's the stuff. 
"That's the stuff." Do you say "stuff" because they won't let you say "shit"? 'Cause this looks like a load of bullstuff to me. -- SCAM Posted by: austinmayor on October 16, 2007 4:08 PM Go figure the MSM, not dignifying an item in the Pulitizer-prize winning National Enquirer that doesn't even name its source, if indeed it even has one, let alone a credible one. Course you're not naming your source(s) either, are you? Ask me, it's the politics of personal destruction all over again. I'd call it yellow journalism, but cowardly bullshit says it better. Posted by: ColPash on October 16, 2007 7:18 PM Yet another example of the yellow press ignoring the repeated corroboration that Mickey Kaus blows goats. Kaus issues cryptic non-denial denials, yet no one in the MSM will report on the confirmed bestiality. Posted by: TheLeftyBlogosphere on October 16, 2007 8:33 PM The supposed tephlon didn't stop the $400 haircut meme that is brought up in a new story nearly every week. Perhaps if there was an email between Edwards and the woman or some sort of ,even minimal, evidence to the accusation it would be a story but as of now it seems pure speculation acting as a story. Although I heard from a second cousin who's friends with the doorman at Bill O'Reilly's building that the parents of that 12 year old SCHIP kid the Dems used have all their millions stashed in the Bahamas. Posted by: carsick on October 16, 2007 9:17 PM Advertisement ColPash: Do you see anybody suing for slander? If it was about me and false, I'd sue for millions, wouldn't yo-ou? Posted by: misterpeasea on October 17, 2007 3:49 AM Nor do you see the reason Edwards did not run for re-election. His ratings were in the 30 in North Carolina. Over 40,000 people were laid off in the Triangle area at the end of the Internet bubble. Each and every member of the North Carolina delegation pitched in to help the unemployed--except Edwards. He was too busy studying the fine details of pig farming in Iowa and running for president. As a senator he only seemed interested in trial lawyer matters--otherwise he was busy running for president. It strikes me he would probably be about as sorry at being president as he was in the Senate. Edwards could care less about working people. He is a punk and a phony. White trash. Posted by: hrumphgrumble on October 18, 2007 6:04 PM I JUST FOUND THIS! Posted by: TOREYRAY on December 19, 2007 6:54 PM So stupid. I don't see the MSM latching on to the OTHER favorite of The Enquirer, the G Dub/Laura Bush impending divorce. Cry me a fucking river on that one too, Radar, why doncha? Posted by: Violenza on August 13, 2008 1:04 PM |
    
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