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Skriven 2008-08-08 18:03:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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On 08-08-08, JIM HOLSONBACK said to TIM RICHARDSON:


-=> On 08-07-08 18:47 TIM RICHARDSON wrote to ALL <=-


TR> I was going to post up Ann Coulter's weekly column as usual again this
TR> week....but it deals with a rather controversial subject that I really
TR> don't like.


TR> Her column this week is devoted to the so-called sex scandal
TR> surrounding John Edwards, and the `love child' he supposedly fathered
TR> with some mistress.


JH>Well, it's not a so-called sex scandal anymore.  Edwards 'fessed up
JH>today.


Yep! I saw that. As for who fathered her child....that part is still up in the
air.


JH>Interview where he admits to the sex affair which he has repeatedly
JH>denied will be aired tonight on ABC's Nightline.


It was on the local news just now.


JH>But he claims that even though he hasn't had a paternity test, he knows
JH>that he can't be the baby daddy in question.  He claims that by the time
JH>she became pregnant, he had stopped porking her, and by that time the
JH>porking duties had been passed along and taken over by one of his
JH>staffers.


JH>I dunno if he explains in the interview just why he was in that LA hotel
JH>room in the middle of the night, visiting with mommy and baby.


JH>Can you imagine what the MSM would have done along with this story if
JH>Edwards had been a Repub?


It would have been the Gary Condit `media microscope' all over again.


I have to hunt up where I put that column. Ah...here it is: I just didn't want
to go with it until I was sure there was a lot more than just hearsay and
innuendo to base the story on.



A BABY DADDY FOR BOTH AMERICAS
July 30, 2008


The mainstream media really seem to imagine they can prevent Americans from
knowing information by refusing to mention it in newspapers or on TV.


For those few Americans without an Internet connection and to whom I have not
faxed the National Enquirer stories: Evidence is accumulating that John
Edwards is right -- there really are "two Americas." There's one where men
cheat on their cancer-stricken wives and one where men do not cheat on their
cancer-stricken wives.


To put it another way, it would appear that ambulances aren't the only things
John Edwards has been chasing lately.


Last year, the National Enquirer broke the story about New-Age divorcee Rielle
Hunter, formerly Lisa Druck, telling friends she was having an affair with
Edwards and that she was pregnant with his "love child."


Who knew that "my father was a mill worker" could be such a great pickup line?
In his defense, Edwards had to do something to kill time between giving
$50,000 speeches on poverty.


I guess the Enquirer is lucky Edwards isn't a trial lawyer! A sleazy carnival
sideshow trial lawyer wouldn't even need to start channeling unborn children
before a jury -- as Edwards did in the junk-science cases that made him a
multimillionaire -- to win a defamation case if these charges are false. The
"love child" allegation could be easily disproved by DNA testing.


Which brings up a fascinating legal question: Would it be admissible for
Edwards to channel the very love child at issue during such a proceeding?

Reminiscent of his performances in medical malpractice cases, he could say:
She speaks to you through me and I have to tell you right now -- I didn't plan
to talk about this -- right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside
me, and she's talking to you, she's saying: "John Edwards ain't my daddy!"


When the National Enquirer story first broke last year, the Edwards campaign
denied that Edwards was the father, pawning the affair off on an apparently
very loyal Edwards campaign official, Andrew Young. Like Edwards, Young was
married with children, but also like Edwards, Young is a Democrat, so it was
possible.


Except that, not only has Young's wife not left him, but she was perfectly
copacetic with her husband's mistress moving into their gated community for
the duration of her pregnancy, and even joining her, Andrew and the kids for
dinner.


Back on Earth, that doesn't happen. The Edwards campaign better start looking
at its backup plan of claiming Nathan Lane is the father.


It also didn't smack of innocence that the Edwards campaign stripped Hunter's
videos from the Edwards Web site when the story broke.


Soon after Edwards met Hunter in a bar in New York, the Edwards campaign began
paying her more than $100,000 to make "hip" videos of him for the campaign Web
site. Unfortunately, Edwards' hair stylists ate up most of the budget.


As Herculean a task as it would be to make John Edwards look hip, the videos
can't be worse for the campaign than the Edwards staffer who said of the
Catholic church's position on birth control: "What if Mary had taken Plan B
after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?" So why did
they take down Hunter's videos?

With the MSM still pretending the Internet doesn't exist, last week the
Enquirer staked out the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles after receiving a tip
that Edwards would be going there to visit Hunter and the love child, who
reportedly has her mother's eyes and her father's dramatic flair in front of a
jury.


According to the Enquirer, Edwards entered Hunter's hotel room around 9:45
p.m. and left at 2:40 in the morning. Seeing reporters as he left Hunter's
room, Edwards sprinted to a hotel bathroom and blockaded himself in until
hotel security came to rescue him. Even more suspicious, while Edwards was
barricaded in the bathroom, no one reported hearing sounds of a blow dryer.


When asked about the Enquirer story at a press conference a few days later,
Edwards looked as flustered as Rep. Robert Wexler did after being asked if he
really lives with his mother-in-law in Florida while running for office in
that district.


First Edwards pretended to be unfamiliar with the story, a preposterous pose
even if the story were false. Then Edwards dropped eye contact and said:
"That's tabloid trash. They're full of lies. I'm here to talk about helping
people." He couldn't have looked more guilty if he had broken into a cold
sweat and lit a cigarette. Britney Spears has responded more credibly to
questions about tabloid stories.


Meanwhile, the only way consumers of the old media might ascertain that
Edwards is embroiled in some sort of scandal is that, starting last Thursday,
his name was summarily dropped from lists of possible vice presidential
candidates.


If only Republican Larry Craig had been in the bathroom, the MSM might have
covered it.


COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER





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