Rielle Hunter’s sister: Oddly enough, the baby looks like John Edwards
posted at 8:49 pm on August 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Another tough break for Andrew Young, whose quest to claim paternity of his daughter continues to meet quirky little stumbling blocks. Like, for example, people in a position to know telling Fox News, “There was no relationship between [Rielle] and Andrew Young.” Or the alleged mother of his child allegedly being whisked away by private jet to parts unknown two days before Silky’s penance on ABC. A key detail from that last link: According to the Enquirer, Edwards did end the affair and reveal it to his wife — before restarting it, which might help explain (a) why he and Hunter were still being photographed together just before New Year’s when he claims to have confessed earlier in 2006; (b) what one source who spoke to People magazine meant when he said of Edwards, cryptically, “He told the truth slowly”; (c) why Hunter’s sister would claim to Entertainment Tonight that the relationship not only started before she began working for the campaign (contra Silky) but that it never really ended, an allegation also made by Hunter’s friend Pigeon O’Brien; and of course (d) how a guy who claims it was over by 2006 might have fathered a child born in 2008.
To put in perspective for you just how low Silky’s credibility has sunk even on the left, yesterday’s edition of “Hardball” featured Salon editor Joan Walsh and New York magazine writer John Heilemann (responsible for this recent TPM-ish excrescence) and neither one of them could have been any more skeptical of Edwards’s story than if they were RNC spokesmen. I said last week that I thought he’d recover from this eventually but now I’m not so sure. Click the image to watch.
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This is such garbage. Edwards is such a sleazy no good fellow.
jencab on August 13, 2008 at 8:52 PM
I’m at the point that I could care less what happened with Eddy, if he decided to cheat on his wife, thats his business. However, I don’t want to hear the lefties preach to me about the upright moral structure of their politicians.
Bishop on August 13, 2008 at 8:56 PM
John Edwards cannot be a stupid guy. He’s come a very long way and generally stupid people don’t do that. So it’s baffling to think he could have gotten himself into such an unbelievable mess and continued to increase it at every key stage.
Jill1066 on August 13, 2008 at 8:59 PM
You don’t say.
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Here’s silky’s zodiac FWIW…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(astrology)#Associated_traits
ninjapirate on August 13, 2008 at 8:59 PM
You would think. But people in positions of power can and do this. And for the reasons?
and
As well as some men like the ones here, do their thinking, not with their brains.
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Oh, come on. All babies under 6 months old look like Winston Churchill.
aero on August 13, 2008 at 9:04 PM
On Dan Abrams show last night the host and two guests were also incredulous.
A third guest was there to say “McCain McCain McCain” every time it was his turn.
Marcus on August 13, 2008 at 9:05 PM
I know! I know! The guy screwed an elephant.
Marcus on August 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM
The shocking baby photo!
Kinda.
Exurban Jon on August 13, 2008 at 9:17 PM
So much for Lizzy Edwards being a liberal, liberated woman, eh? Where are the screeches from NOW? Where?!?!!?
SouthernGent on August 13, 2008 at 9:18 PM
THAT is hilarious.
Marcus on August 13, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Is it elgeneralisimo, or has this thing entered the Anna Nicole Smith Bizarro Circus Zone…
elgeneralisimo on August 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Silky spent his entire professional life using significant skill to mesmerize 12 very carefully selected people to his side of a story. Many millons of dollars convinced him he could do it to anyone. However, the entire public is not as carefully vetted for convincibility – and Silky never got that.
eeyore on August 13, 2008 at 9:24 PM
What if some terrorist group or other nefarious democrat operative black mailed Edwards into doing various sundry things vis a vis the Justice Department? There is no doubt in my mind he was to be our Attorney General and be just yet.
SouthernGent on August 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Nah, that’s not what happened. I have read so much here and there I can’t link it but his wife knew he as cheating on her. Someone said that Elizabeth was calling around looking for Hunter (probably trying to find her husband). She confronted him, he denied it, she didn’t believe him (he is the world’s worse liar) and then he cracked and confessed. He didn’t volunteer this information out of the goodness of his heart. Come on, Allah! You’re a man. He either promised or she made him promise to end it. Hunter said she was fired 12/28/2006. Personally, I think they started up again as soon as he thought he could get away with it.
Oh, and I heard the baby looks just like John Edwards in a Onesie.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I heard a writer or editor from NE say she was flown out of the country by private jet and is taking a 50k vacation. Must be nice. They know where she is and will probably release it next week or later.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 9:31 PM
The baby was born with a full head of hair, a mirror, and a brush.
Kevin71 on August 13, 2008 at 9:36 PM
If this chick was green she’d look like Shrek’s wife. Pile on the 2 pack a day voice and she is pas une jolie fille.
Alden Pyle on August 13, 2008 at 9:46 PM
This is worse than anything Bill Clinton did. At least Clinton didn’t have a bastard child.
mram on August 13, 2008 at 9:50 PM
For someone who hangs out with a Bear of Very Little Brain…. I think you hit the nail on the head. The guy thought he was invincible, he said as much in his “confession.” I have to say, though, I’m still baffled as to Elizabeth Edwards’ involvement in this situation. What did she know, and when did she know it?
Ash on August 13, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Huh. I was thinking “Hey Gloria, where’s Meathead?” myself.
Alex_SF on August 13, 2008 at 9:54 PM
You can’t take the North Carolina out of the hillbilly douchebag.
benrand on August 13, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Yeah don’t say!
But,I’m perplexed,I thought Republicans
called it a baby!
and,
Liberals referred “the baby” as unviable
tissue mass!
canopfor on August 13, 2008 at 10:10 PM
That anyone knows of. But what we do have is a blue dress. Smart man, that Clinton.
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 10:11 PM
If this chick was green she’d look like Shreks wife.
Alden Pyle on Aug 13,2008 at 9:46PM.
Alden Pyle: Always remember “beauty is skin deep”!
and,
“Ugly is right to the bone”,a hum! haha.
canopfor on August 13, 2008 at 10:14 PM
drip, drip, drip……
No matter how much of a dog Edwards has been, this is one story that doesn’t improve for Edwards with this slow release of details. For the rest of us, it’s GREAT! Good entertainment to watch a pompous ass go down in flames.
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 10:18 PM
I’d disagree only from the fact that, as president,Clinton shouldn’t have even known the interns name and it was clearly all about sex with a fat stupid groupie. Edwards, at least, had an affair with somebody who was closer to being an intellectual and social equal.
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I thought he would recover!
This is Silky,sqeeky clean kid from a small town America,
son of a mill worker,or sumpin like dat!
Every Liberal thought John Edwards was thee family man,
loved his wife,couldn’t do no wrong!
Silky was put upon a pedastel,he was the answer to the
family oriented Republican!
And then their world collasped,Silky is now very close to
taking Bill Predaters mantle,and the left are beside them-
selves!
John Edwards has,and i love this word,Be-Trayed his
voters and they are devasted!
canopfor on August 13, 2008 at 10:26 PM
What eeyore said… oh, and the fact the media has never asked him a tough question, not even once, in all the times he spewed out fatuous pandering tripe that was transparently designed to incite grievances and create a victim class, rather than solve any problem. That might have contributed to the feeling of invincibility a little bit too, ya think?
There is such sweet irony in the way the MSM’s loving protection of any Dem lulls them into the belief that their half-baked junior high insights and “policies” could be attractive to any but the clueless sector of the electorate.
That Karma, she’s still such a puppy’s mom, isn’t she?
drunyan8315 on August 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Personally, I think they are Whore-ified.
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Now we know who really got the $400 hairdo.
faraway on August 13, 2008 at 10:35 PM
That we know of. His philandering has been well established. He’s done it with willing partners, he’s done it with ones that werent. He could be doing this right now. All it takes is for both parties to be quiet, and for no one to get angry and spill the beans. Money usually keeps people(women) from getting angry, or spilling the beans.
Usually.
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Seems like nothing instills traditional marital values in the wives of Leftist pols like hubby catching a bout of the ol’ infidelity…just ask
Tammy WynetteHillary Clinton.(Unless, of course, they are defending the rights of women in exotic places such as Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, Jordan, Syria, or “Palestine”, to name a few)
Wanderlust on August 13, 2008 at 10:45 PM
A kindred soul! Let me be clear that you don’t go nearly this far in your statements but I personally think that Bill Clinton is a textbook example of a serial rapist. His power and prestige has skewed the dynamics where some sex was with willing partners and some sex with unwilling partners was able to be covered up by state troopers, secret service agents, and others. Were it not for talent, Clinton would be serving time in some Arkansas prison for sexual assault.
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Uh, not quite. Lewinski had a college degree, went on to obtain a masters, and had an interest in politics.
Hunter dropped out of college, went on to study astrology, chakras, and crystals, and had an interest in marrying rich and powerful men.
Both women came from upper middle class backgrounds. Monica’s father is an oncologist; Hunter’s father was an attorney. Hunter’s father insured her horse so he could electrocute it and collect the insurance proceeds.
I think Monica comes out on top in this one.
Blake on August 13, 2008 at 11:04 PM
*shrugs* Sometimes I spend more time on a comment.
It’s interesting, the circumstances surrounding clinton. And while he is held in high esteem with his fans, And he is not actually a serial rapist, you are correct in your opinion as presented. I think that there are similar though patters between clinton and a serial rapist. Under different circumstances, he could very well be incarcerated.
Notice that Ronald Reagan has the prestige of being an actor, and then later president. With Power. Same with George W Bush. And while it may be the fantasy of the left who would like to think so, they were/are faithful with their wifes. They were and are faithful to their duties and responsibilities. Their thought patterns, and the reason that they do and said the things they did was not “because they could” or because “they believed they could do whatever they wanted” … These two example are of people with a stronger character than clinton and edwards.
In my opinion, this goes hand in hand with leadership. The people who use power and don’t abuse it in their personal life will seldom do it on an official level. Those who do in their personal life, and betray their sworn vows to their wives when they were married, won’t think twice about doing so while in public office. My opinion. Of course this does not hold absolutely true 100% of the time, and not every republican is good, not all democrats are bad. That being said, Reagan and Bush are in my opinion, good. And clinton and edwards are pond scum, poor excuses for human beings.
wise_man on August 13, 2008 at 11:06 PM
The more and more I hear of this story, the more I think Edwards fathered the child.
That being said, Rielle must not be very close to her sister. In the interview, she says she saw pictures of the baby. If you were sisters, wouldn’t you have seen it in-person by now?
asc85 on August 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM
The baby is the Silky Filly
EJDolbow on August 13, 2008 at 11:13 PM
You know way to much about this for it to be be normal! ;-0
Despite your encylepedic knowledge of political “mistresses” I’d still disagree for two reasons.
First, the age differential. Despite Monica’s beliefs, there was no way that Bill would leave Clinton for a fat stupid twenty-something groupie. Hunter is closer in age to Edwards and could conceivably be the trophy wife.
Secondly, what does college or an interest in politics have to do with this? I could as easily paint Hunter as an “unconventional artist” as your description of her as a college drop out trolling for a sugar daddy. As you say, they both come from similar backgrounds so it all comes down to what is less sleazy. Hiring your mistress to you campaign staff seems less dirty to me than screwing an intern in the oval office.
Finally, I can’t believe I even got sucked into this discussion!
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Minor point here, you are right but let’s not make the child an “it” whoever is the father. She doesn’t deserve that kind of description.
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 11:22 PM
Silky Foal.
Mojave Mark on August 13, 2008 at 11:30 PM
How do we even know that she went willingly? For all we know she has been whisked away against her will. This is really strange. If I were her (and I am glad I am not), I would worry about my safety. Kind of King Henry 8th ish, if you know what I mean.
bloggless on August 13, 2008 at 11:31 PM
high hopes, if Hunter is a trophy wife, then I have lost all hope for humanity.
bloggless on August 13, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Well, none of us know what is “hot” in that other America Edwards keeps talking about! ;-)
Seriously, I’ve never ever understood this kind of behavior. You’ve got a loving wife and adorable children; yet you feel the need to have sex with employees????
highhopes on August 13, 2008 at 11:38 PM
He’s a low dog not to acknowlege his own flesh and blood. But the worst of it is he’s cheating ALL his children. They have a right to each other.
SarahW on August 13, 2008 at 11:46 PM
You’re a great one Alden Pyle. Thanks for the laugh.
Entelechy on August 13, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Let me guess… if the baby exhibits an aptitude for lying, hypocrisy, ambulance chasing, infidelity, douchebagery, socialism, hyperbole or just a general sense that you would would not leave him alone with spare-change on the nightstand then it may be silky junior. Sorry but this man’s conscience resides somewhere between Jim Baker and Jesse
Jackas$Jackson. (And that’s NOT hyperbolic)Claypigeon on August 13, 2008 at 11:55 PM
I no longer feel sorry for anyone in this story, except for his children from the first wife.
Entelechy on August 13, 2008 at 11:55 PM
I think someone should issue an APB for this woman and her baby. They seem to have disappeared.
bloggless on August 13, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Edwards is the most transparent slug since Bill Clinton.
The only difference is that Edwards has none of BJ’s formidable political talent or smarmy charm.
mylegsareswollen on August 14, 2008 at 12:05 AM
There is the age difference. However, there is no way Edwards would ever marry Hunter. She is not a trophy wife. She is not accomplished, not beautiful, and not smart. She is heavily into this new age nonsense and she would be an embarrassment every time she opens her mouth. More than a few people have documented the crazy things that come out of her mouth.
You are the one who brought up intellectual equals. Edwards would have a greater interest in politics than cleansing diets, high colonics, and ashrams. She has produced no art, unconventional or otherwise. Her one artistic venture – “webisodes” are terrible. It is she, not me, who said she knew said she wanted to meet rich and powerful men. And she is a college drop out – that is a fact.
You can’t get dirtier than screwing a married man with small children and a dying wife and hoping to break up the marriage. And getting knocked up, too boot.
Too late, now. It’s the battle of the bimbos!
Blake on August 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM
..just another brick in the Hot Air foundation. :-)
Alden Pyle on August 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM
A politician with a secret us useful indeed.
And when a politician with a secret is no longer useful, he is easily eliminated with his own secret
The process of elimination is itself useful
Remember the ancient asian proverb:
To scare the monkey, kill the chicken
entagor on August 14, 2008 at 12:07 AM
This is not a defense of anyone or anything, but what the devil is this chick doing on tv? Our culture is like a petri dish of foul bacteria.
Jaibones on August 14, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Is that a man wearing a wig?
Tim Burton on August 14, 2008 at 12:58 AM
They smoke cigars?!?
electric-rascal on August 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM
Fire up the grill, it’s time for some charred Silky!
Seixon on August 14, 2008 at 3:13 AM
I wonder how many politicians are out there right now worrying about the hot babe they spent some time with a while back. I’ll bet there are more than a few sweating it out.
Qzsusy on August 14, 2008 at 7:41 AM
Hey Al,
Quit wasting your time on Edwards tryst.
None other than the renowned political savant K.P. stated that this was simply a two day story.
there it is on August 14, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Agreed. That skank looks more like a booby prize than a trophy.
AZCoyote on August 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM
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