primitives breaking on Edwards' affair

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Holly_Hobby  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 02:57 PM
Original message

BREAKING: ABC via Fox reporting Edwards admitting to affair but did not father child. No link yet.

Edit: No paternity test taken.

Even though only recently lit, it's already a really big bonfire.

Sample comments of the primitives:

book_worm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 02:58 PM
Response to Original message

1. I'll wait until I actually see Edwards admit it rather than take FAUX word.

Holly_Hobby  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:00 PM
Response to Reply #1

4. He talked to Bob Woodward on Dateline tonight.

book_worm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #6

26. apparently he admitted all in 2006 even to Elizabeth, but he insists the baby isn't his, but then why was he recently in CA at the Beverly Hills Hotel visiting this woman and apparently seen holding the baby if he's not the father? Heck, never mind that, what is he doing visiting this woman--period.

The Straight Story  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 02:59 PM
Response to Original message

2. It will get more coverage than the russia/georgia story probably
   
We don't have a news media anymore, we just have entertainment media.

Virginia Dare  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:09 PM
Response to Reply #19

25. They may have had an understanding, you never know....

Virginia Dare  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:02 PM
Response to Original message

8. How does FUX get this information before anybody else?...

Arnold Judas Rimmer  (177 posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:04 PM
Original message

FAUX's motivation for this is obvious.
   
Edwards was likely to be the next Attorney General, and go after the corporate media. Now, probably not.

Virginia Dare  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:05 PM
Response to Original message

17. NOt to mention the CIA is about to blow the lid off the White House...

Mabus  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #8

18. Information is picked up through illegal wiretaps on ordinary citizens and information that the GOP's minions think will be hurtful to Democrats is forwarded to the White House. The White House looks over the information they receive and then include the information they want, as well as how they want it presented, into the satchel that is whisked off to the Fox studios. Once it is at Fox studios, it is copied and sent out to the various "talent" they have.

Virginia Dare  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:07 PM
Response to Reply #18

22. Our own little version of PRAVDA.....

Mabus  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:17 PM
Response to Reply #22

45. Leave No Adult Behind: giving you the news as they want you to believe it
   
Kind of like our educational system, teach to the test not to capitalize on the talents and needs of the kids. We don't need no stinking analytical thinking!

But one can't find "analytical thinking" on Skins's island even with a supercharged, superpowered magnifying glass; I know, because I've looked.

Virginia Dare  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:24 PM
Response to Reply #45

58. I just saw where 87% of the FAUX viewers say they will vote for McCain..so I guess they are doing something right.

smoogatz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:11 PM
Response to Reply #18

31. Edwards' own campaign staffers ratted him out to the media apparently.

Mabus  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:18 PM
Response to Reply #31

47. It wouldn't be the first time
   
I'm sure that they felt they had good reason to do it.

FarceOfNature  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:03 PM
Response to Original message

9. am I the only one who really doesn't care where politicians stick their dicks? (criminality excepted
   
I don't really buy the whole morality as narrowly dictated by traditional Judeo-Christian social norms makes good public leaders bullshit.

Finnfan  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:15 PM
Response to Reply #9

38. I care, but not for moral reasons.
   
Behavior like this by Edwards and Clinton makes me question not their morals, but their judgment. Really, you're a politician, you're the President or you're running for President, you have to know the press is looking for anything juicy to get their hands on, and you do this? Not to mention that his wife is possibly dying of cancer while this is happening - that fact alone will probably ruin his political career forever.

There comes a point in which a smart person with good judgment would say "Maybe I should just keep this in my pants for now."

OhioBlues  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:19 PM
Response to Reply #9

48. Here's the deal
   
when you get married in a church you take these vows, basically giving your word that you will "keep yourself only for the other." When you break that you need to realize that you will hurt (deeply) the one you made the promise to. Since it's hard enough to take when your not sick I can't imagine how Elizabeth feels.

It was wrong of him to do UNLESS he asked her permission or had the marriage dissolved FIRST.

Keeping ones word is such a rare thing now a days. Maybe it would be better if the promise was changed to "try to keep yourself only for the other."

When you stray, you hurt others period.

tblue  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:23 PM
Response to Reply #9

56. Judeo-Christian-Taliban norms, you mean
   
I don't give a damn either. I am sure most world leaders and politicians throughout history have had mistresses & one-night stands. In places like Japan and France, they're asking, 'So this is news?'

Blue_Tires  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:04 PM
Response to Original message

11. oh dear....
   
this will be all we see on the news for a month...

smoogatz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:04 PM
Response to Original message

12. Well, there you go.
   
Imagine if Edwards had won the nom. Holy crap. Whatever respect I had for the guy just went out the window.

smoogatz  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:14 PM
Response to Reply #29

37. Having an affair and getting caught with your weiner out if you're the Dem nominee (or a serious contender) doesn't make you a bad person, necessarily--though you'd have to be a colossal gaping asshole to do it while your wife is battling terminal breast cancer. What it makes you is a narcissistic jerk, and a ****ing idiot to boot. End of political career for Edwards, and good riddance.

Oh my:

hopewell1985  (121 posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:04 PM
Response to Original message

15. not the first guy to make a mistake
   
I really don't see how this is anyone's business. His wife was sick and he needed some comfort. Not the end of the world.

I think I'll quit now.

[Servonaut]

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sabra  (1000+ posts)       Fri Aug-08-08 03:09 PM
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Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate 
 Advertisements [?]Edited on Fri Aug-08-08 03:29 PM by sabra
Source: ABC News

Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate
In ABC News Interview, Edwards Says He Cheated, but Did Not Father Child


John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.

Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5441195&page=1

I wish I didn't have to work tomorrow, watching the DUmp explode tonight
would be a lot of fun.   
 

[Lord Undies]

The little goons invest so much of their emotional selves in these politicians who validate the little goons' alternate reality.  So many of them are acting like a child who just found out his parents are bank robbers.  It is hilarious!  

They are scrambling to equate Edward's behavior to one of their imaginary enemies in order to salvage something in which to believe.  I repeat:  It's hilarious.

The little goons are having a hard time finding someone in which to compare Edwards.  His wife's pending death and the fact the Edwards have small children make for a tough situation to defend for any reason.  It doesn't get much sleazier or disgusting.  The Edwards are the democrats' only living poster representing anything which resembled "family values".

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possible as President of the United States.

[Donpeyote]

This is good readin  

[BannedFromDU]

The little goons invest so much of their emotional selves in these politicians who validate the little goons' alternate reality.  So many of them are acting like a child who just found out his parents are bank robbers.  It is hilarious!  

They are scrambling to equate Edward's behavior to one of their imaginary enemies in order to salvage something in which to believe.  I repeat:  It's hilarious.

The little goons are having a hard time finding someone in which to compare Edwards.  His wife's pending death and the fact the Edwards have small children make for a tough situation to defend for any reason.  It doesn't get much sleazier or disgusting.  The Edwards are the democrats' only living poster representing anything which resembled "family values".

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possible as President of the United States.

I just logged on after hearing Medved talking about it on car radio. I predicted the DU response with 100 accuracy: a mix of

Shoot the messenger
Claim indifference
Identify supposed moral equivalents
General angry flailing about


In other words, acting like DUmmies.


Nothing new.

Oh, and enjoy your retirement, John Edwards, because it started today.

[Servonaut]

The little goons invest so much of their emotional selves in these politicians who validate the little goons' alternate reality.  So many of them are acting like a child who just found out his parents are bank robbers.  It is hilarious!  

They are scrambling to equate Edward's behavior to one of their imaginary enemies in order to salvage something in which to believe.  I repeat:  It's hilarious.

The little goons are having a hard time finding someone in which to compare Edwards.  His wife's pending death and the fact the Edwards have small children make for a tough situation to defend for any reason.  It doesn't get much sleazier or disgusting.  The Edwards are the democrats' only living poster representing anything which resembled "family values".

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possible as President of the United States.

I just logged on after hearing Medved talking about it on car radio. I predicted the DU response with 100 accuracy: a mix of

Shoot the messenger
Claim indifference
Identify supposed moral equivalents
General angry flailing about

In other words, acting like DUmmies.


Nothing new.

Oh, and enjoy your retirement, John Edwards, because it started today.

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dsotm-wywh (47 posts)      Fri Aug-08-08 04:25 PM
Original message
I still don't think John Edwards had an affair and no one can prove otherwise
I'm still pretty sure he didn't do it. I mean, this guy who "claims" that he's John Edwards and that he had an affair must be a guy with a mask on.

And who are we to believe John Edwards any way? He's under extreme emotional distress with his wife's cancer so he can't be trusted.

Also, notice how this news came out on THE SAME DAY AS THE OPENING CEREMONIES OF THE OLYMPICS. Obviously, it's just a Republican cover Bush trying to take over China and steal their oil.

I won't believe it until someone can prove to me with DNA testing (from 5 different sources) that he had an affair with this nut job, wacko lady.

Edwards/Clinton 2012!!!

[ReaganForRushmore]

Does this give the meaning of "Two Americas" that John Edwards was trying to define?...........One with a mistress and a baby and one with Elizabeth? He is a scumbucket for treating Elizabeth that way, regardless of her cancer or not, no wife deserves to be cheated on.

[Lord Undies]

The little goons invest so much of their emotional selves in these politicians who validate the little goons' alternate reality.  So many of them are acting like a child who just found out his parents are bank robbers.  It is hilarious!  

They are scrambling to equate Edward's behavior to one of their imaginary enemies in order to salvage something in which to believe.  I repeat:  It's hilarious.

The little goons are having a hard time finding someone in which to compare Edwards.  His wife's pending death and the fact the Edwards have small children make for a tough situation to defend for any reason.  It doesn't get much sleazier or disgusting.  The Edwards are the democrats' only living poster representing anything which resembled "family values".

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possible as President of the United States.

I just logged on after hearing Medved talking about it on car radio. I predicted the DU response with 100 accuracy: a mix of

Shoot the messenger
Claim indifference
Identify supposed moral equivalents
General angry flailing about


In other words, acting like DUmmies.


Nothing new.

Oh, and enjoy your retirement, John Edwards, because it started today.

They are predictable little goons. 

Yeah, Edwards is through (thank goodness).  He travelled a million miles in his attempt to become somebody and then he wrecked it all with 4-1/2 inches.

[USA4ME]

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possibly as President of the United States.

I agree.  She knew he was a phoney and didn't say a word.

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[Zeus]

The little goons invest so much of their emotional selves in these politicians who validate the little goons' alternate reality.  So many of them are acting like a child who just found out his parents are bank robbers.  It is hilarious!  

They are scrambling to equate Edward's behavior to one of their imaginary enemies in order to salvage something in which to believe.  I repeat:  It's hilarious.

The little goons are having a hard time finding someone in which to compare Edwards.  His wife's pending death and the fact the Edwards have small children make for a tough situation to defend for any reason.  It doesn't get much sleazier or disgusting.  The Edwards are the democrats' only living poster representing anything which resembled "family values".

This couldn't be happening to a more deserving group of hypocrites, and that includes Elizabeth Edwards.  Her illness does not excuse her for aiding and abetting the attempt to foist her maggot-of-a-husband on the American public, possible as President of the United States.

Undies you just hit on the cover story. John Boy was just out "Interviewing" for a replacement momma for the Edwards youngin's

He did it for the Children.

[Carl]

Mabus  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-08-08 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #8

18. Information is picked up through illegal wiretaps on ordinary citizens and information that the GOP's minions think will be hurtful to Democrats is forwarded to the White House. The White House looks over the information they receive and then include the information they want, as well as how they want it presented, into the satchel that is whisked off to the Fox studios. Once it is at Fox studios, it is copied and sent out to the various "talent" they have.

 

Yep,you are all under serveillance 24/7 so that if a one of you knows some bit of dirt on any dem it will be in the studio within the hour.

They have zero comprehension of reality or how big and complex the world really is.