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Enquirer Editor Details Edwards Stakeouts

Tabloid chief slams NYT for missing huge story

(Newser) - The National Enquirer scored big this month by accusing John Edwards of an extramarital affair—but it worked hard for the news, the New Republic reports. The tabloid's reporters staked out Rielle Hunter for days and spent hours waiting for Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel. When the hopeful snuck...

Edwards Told Rielle They'd Be Together After Wife Died: Tab

Enquirer offers details of affair, financial deal

(Newser) - The National Enquirer is on the John Edwards case again this week, with a story offering salacious details of the affair with Rielle Hunter (offered by "friends") and a photo of the baby the tab says is his. Edwards not only promised Hunter they’d be together after...

Lawyers Who Quashed Affair Rumors Had Edwards Ties

Cover-up indicates affair began earlier than Edwards admits

(Newser) - Two lawyers who acted seemingly independently in December to defuse rumors of John Edwards' affair had links to a key backer, the New York Times reports—lawyer Fred Baron, whose wife donated to Edwards' nearly defunct political action committee just as it paid Rielle Hunter $14,000 4 months after...

Elizabeth Edwards' Anguish Lurks Behind United Front

But incurable cancer factored heavily into her decision to stay, say friends

(Newser) - Behind the staunch show of support in public, People reports that Elizabeth Edwards has struggled mightily since her husband began revealing in 2006 his affair with Rielle Hunter. Edwards didn't confess to the affair all at once but in "installments"—and though devastated, Elizabeth's terminal cancer factored powerfully...

NC Paper: We Tried to Confirm Edwards Affair
NC Paper: We Tried to Confirm Edwards Affair
OPINION
Aug 13, 2008 12:24 PM CDT

NC Paper: We Tried to Confirm Edwards Affair

Editor says coverage was spot on, given what reporters knew

(Newser) - There has been much hand-wringing over the mainstream media’s coverage—or lack thereof—of the John Edwards sex scandal, but the News & Observer of Raleigh thinks it got it right. In a blog post today, the executive editor explains that the paper took the Enquirer’s allegations seriously,...

Tab Claims Edwards Continued Affair

Mistress was flown away before confession

(Newser) - The National Enquirer, having finally forced John Edwards to confess to the affair with Rielle Hunter that he had strenuously denied, isn't backing down on the parts of the story Edwards still swears aren't true. This week the supermarket tabloid insists that Edwards is indeed the father of Hunter's child—...

He's 99% Honest&mdash;Really!
 He's 99%
 Honest—Really!
Opinion
Aug 12, 2008 11:41 AM CDT

He's 99% Honest—Really!

Edwards falls short of any standard of truth-telling

(Newser) - Every sex scandal has a defining sound bite, and John Edwards’ declaration that “being 99% honest is no longer enough,” is destined for the hall of fame, writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. The thing about honesty is that last percentage is a killer. Given the size...

Lover Joined Edwards on Tour to Announce Prez Race

Blogger posts pix of 'inner circle'

(Newser) - John Edwards brought former mistress Rielle Hunter on his campaign plane during his four-day presidential announcement tour, reports the Washington Post. Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, did not accompany her husband. A technology blogger invited along on the 2006 trip has published photographs of Hunter, who was working as a videographer for...

Sympathy for Elizabeth Big Reason Media Held Back

Mainstream media, not knowing what to do, fumbled reportage

(Newser) - The mainstream media found itself in an awkward bind when evidence of John Edwards' affair began trickling in, writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. Why such a half-hearted effort to confirm the story? Kurtz doesn't think the liberal bias charge holds up and says sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards, disdain...

Edwards Lie Cost Hillary the Nomination, Aide Says

...and hence the nomination

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s former communications director is convinced that had the media outed John Edwards last year, Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. “We would have won Iowa,” Howard Wolfson tells ABC. “Our voters and Edwards’ voters were the same people. They were older, pro-union.” Obama...

Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards
Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards
glossies
Aug 10, 2008 4:21 PM CDT

Flirty, New Age Rielle Aimed to 'Save' Edwards

'I let her do my astrological chart': Newsweek columnist

(Newser) - Flirting with John Edwards on a plane 2 years ago, Rielle Hunter looked like a schmoozy blonde trying—and failing—to tempt a presidential hopeful. But as Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman got to know her, he realized she was documenting Edwards on video—and wanted to help him with New...

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...

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