Going Where I Shouldn’t Go

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 21st at 08:26 AM  | 

Michelle Malkin is reporting this morning that John Edwards will finally admit what we’ve known all along — he’s the daddy. It is about time. But I’m going to go where smarter people probably would not. As Michelle quotes from the book Game Change, “Confronted then with the Enquirer photo of her husband cuddling Hunter’s baby, she insisted to Palmieri that she still believed he | Read More »

John Edwards Creates Two Americas: One for legit kids. One for illegit kids.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 7th at 06:08 AM  | 

Streiff noted last night the media is just now paying attention to John Edwards and his baby’s mama. But here’s the thing. Ann Coulter hits the nail on the head. Hey, what sort of “elected official” was Ted Haggard again? He was the Christian minister no one outside of his own parish had ever heard of until he was caught in a gay sex scandal | Read More »

John Edwards has a child with his mistress*

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 25th at 01:24 PM  | 

On February 21, 2008, the New York Times ran a 3,000 word article with no sources on the record and a lot of innuendo about John McCain having an affair with a lobbyist. The first paragraph was one sentence. Here is the second paragraph: A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate | Read More »