Comments on: John Edwards Scandal: How the Enquirer Beat Edwards in His Biggest Trial

By: Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg

Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:43:57 +0000

” What career?”

Why, professional douchebag, of course!

Couldn’t you see JE with his own talk show? His guests could all be wayward husbands who need advce reconciling with their wives.

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:24:32 +0000

What career?

By: And then

And then — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:26:50 +0000

His future career options may be limited if anyone decides to go after his misuse of campaign funds as part of this whole affair.

By: M'eh

M'eh — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:40:52 +0000

You can’t just flip a switch an instantly convert yourself from a public to private person.

Being a public figure is a legal definition that John Edwards meets by all possible definitions and determinations.

He has been pervasively involved in political events for ten years, and voluntarily pursued the highest elected office in the world twice, and was the Vice Presidential candidate in 2004.

Any newspaper could draw a cartoon of John Edwards with a three foot long Pinocchio nose dancing under the puppet strings held by Fred Baron, and there is little to nothing John Edwards could do about it.

In many ways, Prince Charles is less of a public figure than John Edwards.

By: And then she said

And then she said — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:38:09 +0000

Edwards should have taken a cue from Hugh Grant’s on-air confession. He simply said, ‘we all know there are good things in life and bad things, and I did a bad thing, and there you have it.’ He told it early, he told it all, and he told it himself. And he still has a career.

At any time, Edwards could have released a statement saying he’s completely out of politics to concentrate on his family, making him no longer public figure, no longer fair game to media–but he jsut had to have one more moment in the spotlight, hoping to somehow leave the door open….super-narcissism.

So any word on what he’s going to do now? more hedge fund work? corporate law?

By: Nancy in AK

Nancy in AK — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:01:08 +0000

During his confession, J.E. states that he knows that he couldn’t be the father “because of the timing of events” and says that he’d be happy to take a paternity test. I think he was using words very carefully. What he was saying was, I can’t act like the father at this point in time (because of his commitments to Elizabeth and Jack and Emma Claire), but he wasn’t truly denying that he is Quinn’s bio Dad.

I wonder what is going on at the Edwards household right now. My guess is that JE is staying in the apartment in the barn and Eliz. is in the main house. I bet she will leave him or they will separate and live separate lives on their large property.

I think the JE asked his friend ANDREW YOUNG to help him because YOUNG looks like JE AND THEREfore

By: Norman

Norman — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:14:13 +0000

“I’m going to be rich and famous, I’m going to meet a rich and powerful man. I’m going to manifest it.”

Rielle Hunter, 2005

By: Who da daddy

Who da daddy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:18:24 +0000

Rielle is probably mad that the media is focusing on the VP picks now, instead of continuing to ratchet up the pressure on Elizabeth Edwards to “hurry up and die” or toss the lying, cheating bum out. I wonder what kind of log she’ll be throwing on the fire this week in her continuing effort to manifest her destiny?

By: Mosh

Mosh — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:06:39 +0000

It would greatly beneift JE, IMHO, if he came clean and stated that he fell in love with Ms. Hunter and of course they conceived a child. Love happens!!

It appears that JE e is no longer in love with his wife and probably wants out of the marriage but it’s way too complicated now for him to just leave. His wife’s illness is a big factor and let’s not forget his young children (why do people in their very late 40’s or early 50’s decide to have children?)

It seems that the key players in this story are all miserable. Elizabeth Edwards has to come to terms with the fact that her husband really does not want to be with her. Rielle Hunter, apparently, is constantly being uprooted and attempting (poorly) to hide from everyone. John Edwards’name is mud, and even worse, his freedom to roam and see Rielle has been truncated.

By: tiny dancer

tiny dancer — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:35:19 +0000

Well done! Great synopsis of the recent duel between the National Enquirer and John Edwards. As far as “tell it early, tell it all, tell it yourself” goes, Edwards is 0 for 3.

I certainly don’t believe the assumption that Edwards had had botox injections prior to the Nightline interview. While watching the interview, I was reminded of the theory that raised eyebrows while answering a question can mean deception. If his eyebrows had gone any higher during that interview, they would have joined his hairline!

Keep up the good work!