… either way, I hate to see this:
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. …
(h/t DeltaNative, who adds that Drudge has picked it up)
If this is a current story, why are they calling him the vice-presidential candidate?
OMG! I would have thought that the Breck Girl (Edwards) could have hooked up with someone attractive.
That woman looks like the Salt Monster from “The Man Trap” episode of the original Star Trek.
Observer, you are skating so close to the edge with me, you wouldn’t believe it.
And apparently you haven’t read the linked story either.
Au revoir.
You don’t get away with denigrating people’s looks on this blog. This is the one warning I’ll issue.
In an attempt to bring some levity here, I’d just note that Miz Gloria would never be caught in such circumstances, once again demonstrating her superiority as a candidate. Although, the National Equirer might have fun digging in that big garbage can she had on her blog a few weeks ago. I bet they wouldn’t find much, do you think?
Is this blog becoming drudge junior while I’m busy?
Thank you lotus #5. The reason I enjoy reading this blog is (in addition to the interesting bits of information you don’t find anywhere else, of course) because the civil and intelligent discourse sets it apart from so many other blogs.
Looks like a libel suit shaping up to me, NMC. Interesting that the Enquirer apparently didn’t assign a photographer to this stakeout, isn’t it?
If true, there goes the Attny Gen position in an Obama administration.
David Kendall (of Clinton fame) used to represent the National Enquirer. Wonder if he still does?
BREAKING NEWS: Dickie Scruggs won’t be going to Pensacola prison
http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=276444&pub=1&div=News
Becky Kelly, I agree. This is the only blog I know of where views from both sides of the aisle are welcome and comments are generally civil. I can’t believe the Nat. Enquirer didn’t have a photographer there, either. Sounds fishy to me.
Underdog, they did have a photog there: “but, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement”. Wonder why they didn’t get a photo? Hmmm.
IAG, Forrest City, AR is probably a coupla’ hours closer to Oxford than Pensacola, FL….funny he mentions his mother and not his soon-to-be-newborn child as concerns…
I noticed that too, Sailor. If I was Sid, I wouldn’t want that little twerp Zach in my prison. That would make prison even worse. I wonder if Zach is afraid to go to a prison without Sid or Dad around?
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Back on topic :I just don’t see John Edwards doing this…maybe I haven’t learned my lessons from Hart and Clinton, but REALLY! Would he go to the damn hotel? Rent a house for God’s sake… I share NMC’s thought, tho’, lotus, when did we start sharing the Enquirer? BRING ON the UFO’s and ALIENS!!!
LOL Sailor. News @10. Video @ 11. Enquiring minds want to know. Edwards’ concubine is an alien sent here to negotiate a truce with Batman while the Mothership is on the Dark Side of the Moon. The “love-child” is a savant that is already playing classical music, in alien tones of course. The Enquirer took pictures but the images were fuzzy, consistent of course with a poltergeist.
…so they sold the pix to World News Weekly, a tab that doesn’t mind publishing fuzzy photos of aliens! Back atcha’ shaves!
Batman got arrested today in London. (That is actually true, the Batman actor roughed up his mom and sis at a hotel.) Negotiations for the truce are on hold, so that’s why she was free to be in Cali.
CG….Maybe he was “in character” and thought his mother and sister looked like the Joker with those mud-face treatments at the hotel spa. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Here… lemme throw up on that. Anything “reported” in the National Inquirer ipso facto should be banned from this blog. To use one of George’s phrasings, “They don’t have enough disregard for human dignity.”
Oh awright. No more Enquirer interludes. (But I’m still interested to see where this one goes.)
Lotus, down the tubes appears to be where it is headed. Maybe as a sort of corrolary to be used when Godwin’s Law doesn’t quite apply we should invent AND invoke the King Minos Law, http://tinyurl.com/6y9ecx
, since it appears that conversation goes Down the Tube when we start referencing sources best read in the Porcelain Throne Room. Use of the National Enquirer as a primary reference source does appear to lower the bar just a tad, however funny it can make the thread turn.
Okay, DN, you ‘n’ me in the dawghouse. Kibble?
(On the other hand, but for us, how would anybody here have learned of the Cloaca Maxima, SURE to come in handy in conversation before the day’s out?)
>^0^<
lotus//It’s being taken off of Drudge and reported as if it was the spot on the dress moment that brought credibility to the site in the very beginning. For me, like it or not, The National Enquirer is now MSM. Neither Party is passing my smell test at this point in time.
Just can’t lighten up even for a minute around here. Pass the dog bones, please.
You didn’t say you believed it (nor did I). And, it’s still on Drudge, though less prominently.
In any event, I must say, the mental image of J.E. racing around the Beverly Hilton at 2 a.m. with “reporters” in hot pursuit is priceless.
mag//your comment brings to mind one my very bright college freshman made last summer re: “US” magazine, whilst I questioned her purchase of such in the grocery store check out line. “It’s less expensive than ‘Vanity Fair’ and is the most reliable news source of all celebrity gossip mags,” she joked. It’s scary to me that many others her age do, in fact, get their only news from such!
[Psst, DN and Mag (everybody else, avert your eyes): Sunday ToL -- a Murdoch publication, mind -- sez:
[More interestingly,
["Some wags believe ..." -- boy, is that a handy phrase for going flimsy or what? Mumph. Anyhow, now let us return to our regularly-scheduled high-toned blog . . . ]
[Shh, don't tell anyone.]
[Don't read this unless you're lotus or Magnolia.]
Ruh-oh.
Okay, DN, get to work on that photo caption with your CTRL button and scrollwheel. If you blow it up enough, you can eventually make out that these “pix” were taken at different times in different cities (earlier this year in New York for the one on the left). Yet, mirabile dictu, the same blue T-shirt with the same sweatstain. So I call Photoshop BS.
When Edwards comes out and flatly states he did not father a baby with Ms. Hunter, I’ll believe you. So far, he has not done that. Until then, Edwards’ non-denials leave me with a question mark. Don’t forget the Enquirer broke the Jesse Jackson baby story, Gary Hart and his floozy story and the Rush Limbaugh/Oxycontin story, so they have some positive track record in these sordid regards.
P.S. Edwards, a well-known plaintiff’s lawyer, would have already hired one of his buddies to sue them for libel unless truth was a defense.
But, I must say, if this is the best the Enquirer has, they are completely incompetent.
Mmm, I had dog biscuits for dinner. Shhh — don’t read this:
http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1167499.html
Lee Stranahan @ Huffington Post sez: “How’s it going to play out? It seems to me that this is going to be a tsunami-sized scandal for the Democratic Party and right now the coming typhoon of press coverage is close to breaking. ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/say-it-aint-so-john-why-p_b_115165.html