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Affair Could Topple Edwards
 Affair Could
 Topple Edwards
ANALYSIS
Aug 10, 2008 3:22 PM CDT

Affair Could Topple Edwards

Strategists differ on affect affair will have on career

(Newser) - Although opinions are mixed on the future of John Edwards' political career, most analyists take a dim view, CNN reports. Clintonite James Carville believes that "his political career is in shambles," and Gloria Borger thinks his "lies are "going to put an end, probably, to his...

Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll
 Preening
 Edwards 
 Worse Than
 a Ken Doll
OPINION
Aug 10, 2008 11:41 AM CDT

Preening Edwards Worse Than a Ken Doll

Even his confession to narcissism was narcissistic

(Newser) - The real John Edwards shocker was not so much his affair, but his admission of narcisissm—yet even that confession was oddly self-loving, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. While "it isn’t like we didn’t know that the son of a millworker was a little...

Edwards' Ex-Lover Refuses Paternity Test

She's a 'private person' who's 'not running for office,' lawyer says

(Newser) - John Edwards’ former lover refuses to get a paternity test “now or in the future” for the baby Edwards denies he fathered, the Washington Post reports.  Rielle Hunter’s lawyer said she is a “private person” who is “not running for public office” and “wishes...

Edwards Backer Paid Mistress to Move

Prominent donor said he acted on his own to banish Hunter

(Newser) - A former Democratic Party official said yesterday that he paid John Edwards' ex-mistress to leave North Carolina, the Dallas Morning News reports. Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer who led the party finance committee for 4 years, said he was trying to keep Rielle Hunter from tabloid reporters. “I made...

Rielle Hunter: High Profile, Then Out of Sight

Former John Edwards mistress led varied, mysterious life

(Newser) - John Edwards' former mistress has been a part of high-profile social circles in New York, and Los Angeles, but finding old friends willing to talk about the Rielle Hunter they knew is a tough task, the News & Observer reports. Hunter started out partying with a literary crowd in New...

What Edwards Was Trying to Tell Us—and Not Tell Us

Jack Flack reads between the lines of scandal-speak

(Newser) - John Edwards employed classic damage control methods in finally confessing his affair yesterday—ie, announcing it late on a Friday so it would fade over the weekend, and giving an exclusive interview to ensure a sympathetic questioner and avoid a feeding frenzy. Jack Flack, writing in Portfolio, parses Edwards’ statement...

Elizabeth Edwards: John Confessed 2 Years Ago

But cancer made coping easier, she writes

(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards says her husband “made a terrible mistake” in having an affair, but he confessed to her 2 years ago, she writes in a Daily Kos post, months before her breast cancer returned, and "we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made...

'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'
 'I Made a Serious Error
 in Judgment' 
UPDATED
Aug 8, 2008 6:40 PM CDT

'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'

(Newser) - John Edwards released a statement late today acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair and inviting "people who believed in me" to beat him up, saying, "You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself." The ex-senator said he "started to believe...

Edwards Admits Affair, Denies Paternity
 Edwards Admits
 Affair, Denies
 Paternity
UPDATED
Aug 8, 2008 2:22 PM CDT

Edwards Admits Affair, Denies Paternity

(Newser) - John Edwards has admitted that he had an affair with the rumored mother of his illegitimate child, but the onetime presidential and vice presidential candidate denies the child is his, ABC News reports. He says his affair with Rielle Hunter ended too early for him to have been the father...

Press Is Protecting Edwards
 Press Is Protecting Edwards 
OPINION
Aug 8, 2008 12:54 PM CDT

Press Is Protecting Edwards

To get the scoop, hit supermarket checkout line, not newsstand

(Newser) - Don't hold your breath waiting for the mainstream media to cover the John Edwards sex scandal. Despite mounting evidence over 9 months—and even photos in the National Enquirer—the newspapers are assiduously avoiding this story, complains contrarian commentator Alexander Cockburn in the Eureka Reporter, detailing the evidence.

Dems: 'Say it Ain't So, John'
 Dems: 'Say it
 Ain't So, John'
Aug 7, 2008 3:46 AM CDT

Dems: 'Say it Ain't So, John'

Convention role in Jeopardy unless Edwards settles mess

(Newser) - John Edwards is under increasing pressure from senior Democrats to address published reports he has been having an affair with a former campaign worker and is the father of her child. Edwards' status in the party and his role in the upcoming national convention are at stake, reports the Charlotte ...

Pics Surface of Edwards With 'Love Child'

National Enquirer publishes 'spy photo' from LA hotel meeting

(Newser) - The National Enquirer, continuing its coverage of a child it claims former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards fathered during an extramarital affair, today published photos of Edwards holding the baby while visiting the child’s mother last month in Los Angeles. “His elaborate cover-up is unraveling at the seams,...

Edwards Dodges Press Over Tabloid Questions

He gives reporters the slip at recent speech

(Newser) - John Edwards apparently wants nothing to do with the press these days in the wake of tabloid reports that he was caught visiting a mistress and their love child, the News & Observer reports. After giving a speech at a Washington hotel, Edwards slipped out through a kitchen exit and...

The Southern Drawl's Double Standard
The Southern Drawl's Double Standard
Analysis
Jul 30, 2008 4:43 PM CDT

The Southern Drawl's Double Standard

Only GOP candidates are allowed to 'tahlk like thee-us'

(Newser) - When Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stumped in Arkansas, each tried on a Southern drawl, and both were roundly mocked as pandering Yankees. Even John Edwards, a native Southerner, was accused of “carefully maintaining” his accent for political effect. Yet Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were allowed to drawl...

Insiders' Pick as McCain Running Mate: Portman
Insiders' Pick as McCain Running Mate: Portman
ANALYSIS
Jul 29, 2008 2:12 PM CDT

Insiders' Pick as McCain Running Mate: Portman

Ex-Congressman could quell establishment grousing

(Newser) - Ex-Congressman and ex-OMB director Rob Portman has much to offer John McCain as a running mate, writes Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza. "If Washington-based political operatives picked the vice president, Portman would have it hands down" because he's "that rare breed of politician who is equally conversant—and...

Edwards 'Love Child' Story Shows Press Double Standard

Media are hypocrites about hypocrisy

(Newser) - The press jumped all over Larry Craig’s bathroom dalliance not because he was gay, it was claimed, but because he was a hypocrite with an anti-gay voting record. But no one is piling on John Edwards, whom the National Enquirer says it caught visiting his mistress and love child...

Tabloid: We Caught Edwards Visiting Mistress, Love Child

National Enquirer corners ex-candidate after LA rendezvous

(Newser) - The National Enquirer claims to have cornered and confronted John Edwards yesterday after a late-night tryst with the woman they have been saying for months is his mistress and the mother of his infant child. The tabloid says its reporters tracked Edwards as he entered a Los Angeles hotel through...

Obama's VP Search Fields a General
Obama's VP Search Fields
a General
Jun 10, 2008 8:30 PM CDT

Obama's VP Search Fields a General

James Jones, retired NATO honcho, surfaces in Hill talks

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s VP selection team had a busy couple of days on Capitol Hill, talking up possible running mates with legislators. A new name in the mix is that of retired Gen. James Jones, MSNBC reports. Joe Biden and Ohio governor Ted Strickland also came under scrutiny; Bill Richardson,...

Edwards Doesn't Want VP Slot
 Edwards Doesn't Want VP Slot 
Jun 6, 2008 4:31 PM CDT

Edwards Doesn't Want VP Slot

Ex-senator's been there, done that

(Newser) - John Kerry's running mate doesn’t want to reprise the role for Barack Obama. "I have already been a candidate for vice president in 2004," John Edwards said today in Spain, AFP reports."I want to work hard for the campaign, but the vice presidency is not...

VP Rerun 'Won't Happen': Edwards

Partnering with Obama 'not something I'm interested in,' '04 nominee says

(Newser) - Days after endorsing Barack Obama, John Edwards is beating back buzz he’s on the vice-presidential shortlist. “No, no, won’t happen,” he told NBC today. “It’s just not something I’m interested in.” The '04 nominee wouldn’t cop to an interest in being...

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