John Edwards Admits Being a Lying, Adulterous Swine

By: streiff (Diary)  |  August 8th at 02:38 PM  | 

John Edwards, presumably to cadge a prime time speaking spot at the Democrat Convention, has confessed to 1) carrying on an affair with “documentary film maker” Rielle Hunter and 2) being caught with her in a Beverly Hills hotel last month by reporters from the National Enquirer. The made-for-Oprah confession will happen tonight on ABC. John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an | Read More »

The Dike Gives Way

By: streiff (Diary)  |  August 6th at 08:20 PM  | 

A few weeks ago I was one of the handful reckless enough to write about John Edwards, his mistress, and apparent out of wedlock offspring. I would use the nice old English word but I think I’ll run afoul of our bad word detector. Now the story has made its way into Edwards’s hometown newspaper, but in the context of what this scandal that everyone | Read More »

The Silence of the Lambs

By: streiff (Diary)  |  July 25th at 01:21 PM  | 

Someone has to say it. Unless a fraud of the magnitude we’ve learned to expect from the New York Times or CBS News has been perpetrated on the public, John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress (lover, paramour, concubine, courtesan, kept woman, lady friend, squeeze, strange, etc.) in Beverly Hills hotel. A mistress who may or may not have given birth to his child, but | Read More »