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Follow-up reporting has been sparse in the days since the National Enquirer's alleged (for the second time in a year) that former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was embroiled in a "love-child scandal" with 44-year-old videographer Rielle Hunter (aka Lisa Druck) at the Beverly Hilton. Both Hunter and Edwards denied having the tabloid's initial salacious cover story last October.
Now, a handful of videos in which Hunter, as producer, documented John Edwards' travels over the course of six months in 2006 have resurfaced. The rather innovative web shorts -- noted even in Businessweek's Year in Web Video feature -- reportedly vanished from the Internet last September. Definitive evidence that a pregnant-looking Hunter, as photographed by the Enquirer last December, was indeed knocked up by Edwards, yes?
Was the mysterious disappearance of the five-part "Webisode Series: Following John Edwards," -- before Edwards declared his candidacy last year -- perpetuated by the Edwards campaign or Hunter? Or were they only taken down mistakenly as part of an elaborate fabrication by the Enquirer? This "disappearance" only bolstered the veracity of the Enquirer cover last October and last weeks' subsequent piece alleging the affair / love-child of Edwards and Hunter. Perhaps nothing adds up to make the tabloid's claims worth advancing or coloring between the lines. Or perhaps we should be reminded to expect no less from the "creeps and weirdos" running the show in Washington.
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photo of John Edwards with Mayor Villaraigosa taken June 21 by Damian Dovarganes, AP
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Well geeze!
If it's in the Inquirer it MUST be true!
And look at the proof. Rielle Hunter photgraphs John Edwards. Rielle Hunter comes up preggers. It's gotta be John Edwards!
What else could it be!
Immaculate conception?
You're kidding, right? How is that "definitive" evidence of anything? Meanwhile, the Enquirer claims to have numerous pictures of an alleged meeting between Edwards and Hunter last week. Where are those pictures? And how come no other news source has found anything to back up the Enquirer's story? Unless you want to make the claim that the media is bypassing a politician love scandal on purpose (and really, I doubt you want to make that claim), then where is the proof? Pictures, DNA tests, heck even eyewitness testimony from someone other than a National Enquirer photographer...that evidence would be much more "definitive" than some yanked webisodes. Or are we supposed to blindly believe the next Enquirer cover claiming Oprah is having an alien baby? At least those stories are usually supported by pictures.
of course, huskerlaw, tongue firmly planted in cheek. My own cheek.
"You're kidding, right?"
Actually I am. If the Inquirer had photos, I'd be looking for evidence of Photoshop.
Ok, sorry all...my sarcasm detector malfunctioned. Carry on!
I've noticed much hand wringing and Enquirer bashing from the left, and a lot of gloating from the right on this John Edwards 'affair' and I have some questions.
1. Shouldn't the Enquirer be a good source for this sort of news? They make their money from celebrity sightings and by tracking who is screwing whom. This is certainly not the NY Times forte.
2. Doesn't anyone remember Gary Hart?
3. Why should anyone care on either side? I can't figure out why this matters at all.
And that is actually the most important question. Why does it matter if he has an affair or not?
" Shouldn't the Enquirer be a good source for this sort of news?"
Oh sterling source of factual information! People who read the Inquirer usually think that the moon walk was faked, and that wrestling is real.
"Why does it matter if he has an affair or not?"
It doesn't to me. Apparently it does to the Inquirer.