http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/breckgirl/ en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:12:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383397/posts John Edwards' $400 Haircut Tip Came From Obama Campaign 4:59 pm November 10, 2009 Remember John Edwards' famous $400 haircut? It was that story, leaked to Politico back in April of 2007, that helped bring down Edwards as a "man of the people" kind of candidate in his second bid for the White House. And where did that tip come from? The Obama campaign. Politico's Ben Smith, who initially reported the "hair apparent" story, writes that David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's race for the White House, fesses up to the Obama campaign's role in leaking the story: I was... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383397/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:12:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344219/posts No, it's not a storyline on "Guiding Light" (RIP) -- but rather the latest chapter in the John Edwards mistress scandal. The guy who once claimed he was the father of the child born to Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, is now claiming Edwards is the real daddy (duh!) and that Edwards once promised Hunter he would marry her after his wife died (she's sick with cancer) -- this according to a book proposal obtained by the NY Times. Andrew Young, Edwards' former aide, claims Edwards told Hunter it would be a rooftop wedding and the Dave Matthews Band would make... TMZ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2344219/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2241481/posts In her new memoir, Resilience, John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, said she was sick to her stomach when her husband confessed his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. She writes, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up." Which is probably the same way her husband reacted when the National Enquirer broke the story of his affair and chased him through a parking garage at the Beverly Hilton. Elizabeth, who has an incurable cancer, said Hunter seduced her husband by telling him he was "so hot" and that though John confessed the affair to her in 2006, he... Hollywood Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2241481/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:42:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232604/posts John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter is "ready for her close-up" with her first national TV interview since the cheating scandal wrecked his career, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. In a startling change of heart, Rielle Hunter has decided to face the cameras and has narrowed her choice of interviewer to either "ABC News" correspondents Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters, say sources. "Rielle had previously assured John she wasn't going to spill the beans," said a close source. "But she's changed her tune after thinking Elizabeth Edwards might disparage her in the upcoming interview she's already taped with Oprah Winfrey. "The... Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232604/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224473/posts A federal grand jury is convening to investigate former presidential candidate John Edwards in connection with possible campaign finance violations related to paying his mistress, Rielle Hunter, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. At least four former Edwards campaign workers recently received secret subpoenas to testify in Raleigh, N.C., according to a close source in Washington, D.C. One witness has confirmed receipt of the government document and has already contacted a lawyer, according to the source. Nat. Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224473/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2199232/posts Story at link. National Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2199232/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:52:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068660/posts John Edwards, the Democrats’ 2004 vice presidential nominee who unsuccessfully sought the top spot on the party’s ticket this year, is like the man who never was among party leaders gathered in Denver. Edwards, the one-term North Carolina senator whose 2008 candidacy ended in January, admitted in early August, after a lot of tabloid disclosures, that he had been carrying on an extramarital affair with a campaign aide even as his wife, Elizabeth, was battling cancer. He also admitted that he had repeatedly lied about it. It still isn’t clear if he fathered an out of wedlock child during the... CQ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068660/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068231/posts ExclusiveJohn Edwards calling former staffers asking for forgiveness By THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Updated Tuesday, August 26th 2008, 12:07 AM   DENVER - John Edwards is burning up the phone lines, begging former aides and backers to forgive him for lying about his affair - but hearing their rage instead.As Democrats kick off their convention Monday, the onetime presidential contender is a man without a party - or a political future - trying to rebuild bridges through dozens of remorseful phone calls.It's proving a hard sell with onetime true believers. CLICK TO SEE A PHOTO... The New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068231/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:08:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065288/posts One-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards promised his mistress they would reunited once his cancer-stricken wife died, the National Enquirer reported. The Enquirer - which first broke word of the Edwards scandal - also reported that mistress Rielle Hunter refuses to make Edwards take a paternity test because she fears it will jeopardize their future. Edwards, who admitted the affair earlier this month after repeated denials, remains in contact with Hunter even now, according to the Enquirer. The North Carolina politician called her after his Aug. 8 confession on national television, reportedly telling her: "We'll be together when Elizabeth is... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065288/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:50:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062200/posts snip-The revelations of ties among the lawyers emerged through public records and interviews with people close to Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter, which suggested that their affair went on longer than Mr. Edwards admitted and that the effort to conceal it by Mr. Edwards’s inner circle was much more extensive than has been reported. The review found that Mr. Edwards’s political action committee went to unusual lengths to make a final $14,000 payment to Ms. Hunter’s film company months after its contract with the committee had ended. The payment was issued while the committee was short on cash and could... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062200/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:52:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062154/posts Via Tapper, a palate-cleansing Kinsleyan gaffe from Susan Collins confirming that everyone in America, from the checkout counter to the Senate, is on the same page vis-a-vis Silky. The exchange starts at 2:00. Meanwhile, Radar picks through the latest tidbits from the Enquirer (print edition only) and floats a familiar theory about who their super-secret source might be. Exit quotation: “Of course I love you. Don’t worry, we’ll get through this.” hot air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062154/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:57:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062016/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to spend a little time here, just a brief moment, on the Breck Girl. This is a story, ladies and gentlemen, not going away. People ask me, "Rush, it's over. What's the big deal? Why stick with Edwards?" This is a multilayered story, and to illustrate this, I am holding in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers (shuffling paper) a printed copy of an article by the illustrious Walter Shapiro writing at Salon.com. Walter Shapiro is a Drive-Byer, and he used to write for USA Today. "After covering John Edwards -- and liking him -- for years,... EIB http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062016/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:00:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061926/posts Another issue of the National Enquirer, another round of sordid allegations about the extent to which John Edwards is lying about his affair with Rielle Hunter. The four new pieces: • Edwards didn't confess until after a campaign staffer walked in on him and Hunter having an "intimate moment" in hotel room. Word eventually got to Elizabeth Edwards, who then confronted John, who then admitted the whole thing. But this all happened after he'd already declared his candidacy for the presidency. • The whole public tango over the DNA test, with Edwards saying he wants one and Hunter saying she... Radar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061926/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:29:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061783/posts An anguished Elizabeth Edwards decided to stay with her cheating husband because she is dying and worried about their two young children, her closest friend says. "It's just tragic. That's all I can say about it," Hargrave McElroy, Elizabeth's best friend, told the Daily News. In a longer interview with People magazine, McElroy, a North Carolina teacher, said John Edwards didn't confess his adultery with his flaky videographer, Rielle Hunter, until after he officially announced his presidential run in December 2006. Then Elizabeth had a terrible choice to make. "There was anguish - excruciating anguish - for her in dealing... Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061783/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061525/posts RALEIGH, N.C. -- Elizabeth Edwards' decision not to leave her husband after he confessed to an affair was hastened by the discovery of her cancer recurrence just months after the revelation, her brother and a friend told People magazine. "She couldn't say, 'Well, maybe we'll work through this for years, or maybe we should separate for two years,"' said Hargrave McElroy, a friend, told the magazine for its Aug. 25 issue. "(The cancer) forced her to choose whether to move forward." Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, admitted last week to having a short affair in 2006 with a filmmaker... KARE11.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061525/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:08:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061515/posts MIDI - JOHNNY ANGEL DFU News of the Day in Song http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061515/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061440/posts Former presidential candidate John Edwards knew his ex-mistress, Reille Hunter, was receiving payments from his former campaign finance chairman, according to the National Enquirer, the publication that broke the story of Edwards' affair. What's more, says the Enquirer, it has "uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying" Hunter. After months of denials, Edwards admitted to the affair, but vehemently denied fathering a baby with Hunter, or knowing she was being paid. Edwards said, "I've never paid a dime of money to any of the people that are involved. I've never asked anybody to pay a dime of money, never... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061440/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:53:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061439/posts The good news: DNA testing has confirmed that John Edwards is not the father of Rielle Hunter's baby. The bad news: The father is Bill Clinton. Ha ha -- just kidding! It's almost impossible to get pregnant by having the type of sex Bill Clinton prefers. Also, by now, everyone has heard the news that Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, has refused to grant a paternity test. I wonder if Edwards knew that when he was making his chesty offer to take a paternity test? Edwards gushed to ABC's Bob Woodruff: "I would welcome participating in a paternity test, be happy... Ann Coulter.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061439/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:51:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060998/posts A Texas publicist who says she was Rielle Hunter's confidant when her secret affair began with John Edwards is convinced the ex-senator fathered her friend's baby. "She would not have a child with someone that she didn't love - and she loves him," said Pigeon O'Brien, who says she was pals with Hunter for 20 years until they lost touch a year ago. As "who's the daddy" speculation persisted, the National Enquirer reported last night that Edwards lied when he told the nation - and his sick wife - that he ended the "short" affair in 2006. Edwards renewed the... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060998/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060976/posts Democratic strategists loudly insist that the tawdry sex scandal consuming John Edwards will do no damage to the Obama campaign. Despite the very public embraces between the former North Carolina senator and the presumptive nominee, Obama apologists (can we coin a new term-- "Obamapologists"?) dismiss the Edwards case as an irrelevant distraction. After all, they say that their man never seriously considered his former rival as a potential running mate or even for a major cabinet post, so the unfolding disgrace of a one-time elected official bears no connection to Barack's visionary campaign of hope, change, and global redemption. For... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060976/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2060431/posts me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2060431/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:20:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060090/posts The rise and fall of John Edwards Political stardom to public apology By Jim Morrill jmorrill@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 When veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum first met John Edwards in 1997, he saw in the accomplished trial lawyer a raw political talent. “I called my partners and said. ‘I think I just met a future president of the United States,'” Shrum recalls. A year later, at 45, Edwards was elected to the U.S. Senate, launching a trajectory that in 2000 put him on the short list of Al Gore's vice presidential candidates. By 2001, he'd begun planning what... Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060090/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059809/posts Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday. A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul." Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me." Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059809/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:11:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059762/posts RALEIGH, N.C. - There were few people closer to John Edwards during his presidential campaigns than Fred Baron, a renowned Texas trial lawyer who evolved into one of the Democratic Party’s key fund-raisers. Baron, who made his fortune as a celebrated litigator on asbestos-injury cases before turning his attention to Democratic presidential tickets, was part of Edwards’ inner circle of advisers. But when it came to one key financial decision, Baron said he chose to keep the former senator out of the loop. On Friday, after Edwards confessed to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, a video producer with whom... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059762/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:28:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059754/posts It was the encounter that would unceremoniously hoist former Sen. John Edwards' extramarital affair into full public view: a visit last month with the woman and her baby at her room at a hotel in Beverly Hills where Edwards was confronted by reporters for the National Enquirer as he tried to leave the building. At the center of that now fateful episode at the Beverly Hilton was Robert McGovern, a California resident described as a spiritual healer of 20 years and a friend and former associate of the woman with whom Edwards has admitted having the affair, Rielle Hunter. In... SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059754/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:13:43 GMT