Report: Edwards to admit that mistress’s baby is his
posted at 6:20 pm on August 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
And so, more than a year after Silky lied his ass off on ABC about the baby not being his, he’s finally ready to come clean. How appropriate that the Enquirer, which dragged big media to this story kicking and screaming, apparently forced the final revelation with yesterday’s report on a secret DNA test confirming paternity. WRAL TV in North Carolina delivers the coup de grace:
Sources have told WRAL News that they expect former U.S. Sen. John Edwards to admit that he is the father of his former mistress’ 18-month-old daughter.
Edwards, a two-time Democratic presidential candidate, confessed last August to having an affair with Rielle Hunter, who served as a videographer on Edwards’ 2008 campaign. He has denied fathering her daughter, saying his relationship with Hunter ended before the child was conceived…
A federal grand jury is investigating whether Edwards’ campaign funds were illegally paid to Hunter to keep quiet about the affair…
Sources said Edwards’ public admission could come before the end of the criminal investigation.
The rumors of hush money laundered through the campaign have also been around for ages. From what I remember of how this all played out, Silky caught a bad break when his pal/money man Fred Baron died. It was Baron who had been sending payments to Hunter and fall guy Andrew Young, supposedly out of simple kindness towards a couple that was in a tough spot. Once Baron died and the money stopped flowing, Young started angling for a book deal and the dominoes began falling, making this a rare scandal where pretty much everything was exactly what it looked like and played out exactly as you’d expect.
Here’s a trip down memory lane from last August, a few days before Hunter’s sister felt obliged to remark publicly on how much the baby looked like Silky. Skip ahead to 45 seconds in. Exit quotation:
WOODRUFF: I need to ask about probably the most controversial allegation. Which is that a report has been published that the baby of Ms. Hunter is your baby. True?
EDWARDS: Not true. Published in a supermarket tabloid. That is absolutely not true.
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Wonder how many times he bounced back from the floor.
To take a line from Jane’s Addicition…”and she can hit!!”
coldwarrior on August 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM
She should have “Bobbitted” his a@#.
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Can’t get fired if you’re a customer.
“That welfare sure buys a lot of steak.” is one of my favorites.
TMK on August 13, 2009 at 6:52 PM
When I was a kid we grew up poor and we were on food STAMPS. So, dad would drag us through the store, load up the food, put it on the belt and the cashier would ring it up by hand. Dad always ducked out and left me holding the “stamps”. Whenever you handed the stamps to the cashier the manager needed to come and approve them.
/Those were the days when people had a certain degree of shame by living off the gubmint. Today? not so much.
Key West Reader on August 13, 2009 at 6:52 PM
-oh, he’s nothing.
-why are we talking about him?
-he’s yesterday’s news.
BS. Until the day this snake has his head cut-off with a shovel, he would have tried to worm his way back into a Democrat administration. And he would have been welcomed back. By the Grace of God his “rehabilitation tour” has failed.
Marcus on August 13, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Precisely.
I’m not advocating welfare, but at least back in the day there was a necessary stigma.
Today, it’s kewl or something.
Upstater85 on August 13, 2009 at 6:55 PM
That had to have been embarrassing.
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Have you seen the “food-stamp pimp” yet. Worked at a convenience store, filthy pair of welfare leeches come in dragging a trio of filthy kids, buying a bunch of over-priced food with her card. Three hours later, same guy comes in with a different welfare leech and her kids, buying more overpriced food.
Made me want to punch him right in the face.
TMK on August 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM
he can join eliot spitzer on msnbc.
rob verdi on August 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM
hm…vaguely familiar.
…while vehemently shaking finger at US….
“I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!”
pilartx on August 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Typical lawyer – no admission until undeniable. And will still blame someone else.
tru2tx on August 13, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I give Billy Jeff a pass on that one. He was schtupping anything that moved for 40+ years. A failure of memory can be forgiven in the case of Monica.
Anders on August 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM
If Edwards was the president at this time, the media would have painted him as responsible and complimented him on his honesty.
sherry on August 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I still can’t get past the fact he likes women.
Chuck Schick on August 13, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Who cares about the kid? This Presidential wannabe became a multi-millionaire at a relatively young age by suing insurance companies. Hmmmh, how would Obamacare address the John Edwards out there who make a living sucking the blood out of those evil insurance companies…What is the impact of litigation on overall healthcare costs? What percent? It seems to me that insurance companies and lawyers are locked in an exquisite embrace where they both happen to be paid by the American consumers…
Nozzle on August 13, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Mark Sanford’s wife isn’t terminally ill either. Edwards is pure slime…par for the course in the Democrat party.
Richard Romano on August 13, 2009 at 7:07 PM
+1 Anders
pilartx on August 13, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Silky should have spent more money on birth control products and less on $600 hair-dos.
What an absolute dunce.
fogw on August 13, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Excuse me whilst I wipe the Chivas from my screen and keyboard….
Oh, almost forgot….
+1000
:-)
coldwarrior on August 13, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Poor little kid. A skank for a mother and an even bigger skank for a father.
Mary in LA on August 13, 2009 at 7:12 PM
John Edwards(D) is a fine family man… I mean he started two of them! Probably one for each of the “Two Americas”.
DANEgerus on August 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Anyone who has ever seen that picture of that little girl with her mom already KNEW he had sired her.
That should be enough… for his wife to sue him out of EVERYTHING he owns… including that huge mansion of his with the “No Trespassing” sign for the reading pleasure of the “other America” he seems to be so concerned about…
newton on August 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Honestly, any man who would cheat on his wife while she was terminally ill is slime. To make his act even worse, he didn’t use protection, could have brought home something bleach wouldn’t kill. Also, having some other woman having your husband’s child would be unimaginable. Like my dad would say, “He ain’t worth killin’”
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM
To all who think that this ends the political career of this sorry little ambulance chaser, remember this: Teddy Kennedy drove a chick off a bridge and let her drown while trying to come up with some cover for his poor judgment.
(Hey! It’s my first post! Hey y’all!)
BigAlSouth on August 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM
You just summed up John Edwards political career very succinctly!
chickasaw42 on August 13, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Got his dick caught in the cookie jar. Now he is going to cookie monster prison.
andy85719 on August 13, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Welcome aboard!!
coldwarrior on August 13, 2009 at 7:19 PM
We already knew that Eddy was the lame father who paid his doll babe to keep hushed. throw the book at him and throw away the keys- another shining example of libtards behavior
hawkman on August 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Oh duh! We are SOOOOO Shocked!
katablog.com on August 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Rite Back atcha!
You’ve got a point but I think it’s over for Silky. He doesn’t have anywhere near the support network or political clout that Teddy had and indeed still has.
Oldnuke on August 13, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Kennedy had one thing working for him that Silky doesn’t. Kazillions of dollars.
When Elizabeth gets done with Johnny-Boy he’s going to find himself hanging out with that other America he was always talking about …… without a nickel to his name.
fogw on August 13, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Excellent point but then maybe he was looking at himself in the mirror overhead while “performing” the act.
katablog.com on August 13, 2009 at 7:23 PM
I hear the Silk Pony is going to try to pawn the kid off on Rick Pitino.
Percy_Peabody on August 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Huh.
How could she possibly have even gotten pregnant?
Edwards is not a supporter of “abstinence only” education.
After all, everyone knows that it was that “abstinence education” that Sarah Palin gave her daughter that got her pregnant.
notropis on August 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Are you kidding? Haven’t you heard? She supports her hubby; he was duped by that evil woman whose name cannot be mentioned. Ask Oprah.
katablog.com on August 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM
At least it wasn’t a man and he wasn’t using meth while having gay sex and at least the women didn’t die while he was coming up with an implausible story. Then again, his wife is dying of terminal cancer. Alright, Edwards is less evil than Ted Bundy and more evil than Ebeneezer Scrooge.
andy85719 on August 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I dunno, have you seen Silky’s crib? There’s some money flowing in from somewhere.
AUINSC on August 13, 2009 at 7:27 PM
You forget that Near-Dead Ted had the MSM protecting his bridge to nowhere but Johnny Reid Edwards isn’t so lucky cause we’ve got the National Inquirer speaking truth to power
chickasaw42 on August 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM
..and a good one at that.
Congratulations.
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM
What a tool. I wonder why he didn’t just channel the fetus in the womb to see if it was really his.
Bwaaahhhhh, Edwards you tool.
Geochelone on August 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
…….
……..
…….aaaaahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
blatantblue on August 13, 2009 at 7:31 PM
I haven’t read the entire thread so if I am duplicating someone’s point, sorry. The best thing about this is how the real media couldn’t be bothered to look into one of their heroes and have manged to get scooped twice by, what did he call it, “a supermarket tabloid”. The other is just how shallow the depth of friendships are on the Left. I am pretty sure party donations are being spent as advantageously as they could be.
Cindy Munford on August 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM
What a tool, the Gary Hart-pants of the last election comes clean after he is forced to give dna. He knew the child was his but still made the Mother of his child use dna to force the issue. He will use the baby as a prop in his attempted come back but he can only love the face in the mirror.
BobScuba on August 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
+1000.
The media was too busy sending reporters to the Hanoi Hilton to see if McCain was really tortured; and sending reporters to Wasilla to rummage through the Sarah’s trash.
Chicago was just too far away.
Geochelone on August 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Don’t you mean Elizabeth’s crib?
Change of ownership, stay tuned.
fogw on August 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Kinda makes that hike on the Appalachian Trail pale by comparison, huh?
Rational Thought on August 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM
no
they all said
“What’s a ….Chicago?”
blatantblue on August 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Since he had to have had reporters traveling with his campaign I’d be willing to bet this hasn’t been a secret for a long long time. Well, maybe the baby, but not the baby’s mom.
Cindy Munford on August 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Exactly. At least the “stigma” attached to it in the old days gave people some kind of incentive to do better for themselves. Today, it’s no different than using a debit card from your bank.
uncivilized on August 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Hey, Big Al! I see you found your way over from the now-forever changed Power Line “Forum”. How’ve you been?
Del Dolemonte on August 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
That’s ok. Elizabeth will stay with him because he tells her she is beautiful in the morning.
capitalisttool on August 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
On Edwards’ next presidential run, maybe he can get Rick Pitino to be his running mate.
Percy_Peabody on August 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Also, I don’t think he knows how to do anything. The only job he was good at was ambulance chaser.
uncivilized on August 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
And building 100,000 square foot houses directly across the road from mobile home parks. What a guy!
What’s so scary is that he came to within 200,000 votes of turning the evil Dick Cheney out of office.
Del Dolemonte on August 13, 2009 at 7:49 PM
LOL. No, sister, I get behind them often myself!
zeebeach on August 13, 2009 at 7:53 PM
It’s interesting to play the what ifs… if the media had done it’s @#$% job from the beginning, we might be dealing with President HRClinton instead of Lord Obama.
Think how long Edwards stayed in the race and how it kept fracturing up the Dem vote.
If I were Hillary I’d want Edward’s head on a spike.
Sarjex on August 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM
That’s the best news of all. Fred Baron was another SOB trial attorney suing docotrs like that adulterer Edwards.
txdoc on August 13, 2009 at 7:55 PM
YAHTZEE!!
Khun Joe on August 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM
That’s another reason I think Silky’s political career is over. He tee’d off the Clintons.
Oldnuke on August 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Betcha Johnny’s poor mill-workin’ pappy will be smiling in Heaven(?) when Elizabeth sends sonny back to the America he grew up in.
Cornhusker on August 13, 2009 at 8:04 PM
At least this time, the Americans got a baby out of all that infidelity.
Kralizec on August 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM
There is a built in tendency to seek out the speck of dust in others’ eyes, especially those we do not like, while ignoring the glaring wooden planks in our own eyes and in those whom we like. It takes a conscience, integrity and vigilance to avoid being a hypocrite.
I recall when such characteristics would have been considered a professional duty within enough of the MSM so that they could not get away as a whole with being so uniformly biased so frequently. Yet not today. So much of the media is either parroting, spreading dirt, burying, strutting raw temptation, or avoidance in pleasantries. Strange culture in which we are living.
Loxodonta on August 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I’ve noticed that the democrat/liberal nincompoops have become so absurdly absurd that HA sarcastic remarks no longer require that /sarc symbol. We have no option but to be funny and sarcastic when we comment about them…they are good for jokes and nothing more!
redwhiteblue on August 13, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Yes, it was. That’s the difference between “need” and “entitlement”. The queens swipe the EBT cards like credit (off my back), like they swipe Katrina cards for Dooney and Bourke (off my back).
You learn, as a child, what you want to be. And, what you don’t want to be. I chose my path. Others have been on the same path for so long that they don’t see an exit. This is the path that Obama espouses.
BTW, please, MOM, be safe on 9/12. I gotta stay local because I’m growing increasingly worried for safety reasons.
Love ya
Key West Reader on August 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I would love to see Edwards back in Washington.
Hope to see Edwards back in Washington.
Every time I walk out of Union Station, there are dozens and dozens of vagrants hustling for loose change. Hope Edwards enjoys his new career.
coldwarrior on August 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM
“Mill workin pappy” LMFAO!!!!
Key West Reader on August 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I hope he loses hair over this.
Key West Reader on August 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Would it have hurt if you had given a little content warning on that one??/ :-)
coldwarrior on August 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Feelin kinda evil tonight.
Key West Reader on August 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM
And in case you don’t know, there has been a resurrection here today. Yes. Your favorite curmudgeon has returned to life.
Loxodonta on August 13, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Lying sack of sh*t.
“Coming clean” a year after stonewalling and shamelessly lying is in no way “clean” It’s the perfect example of the lowest kind of character that a stained blue dress or a paternaty test is the only thing that can force you into being “honest” after straight-face lying and finger pointing at your accusers. Being honest means you do it without already being caught in your lie.
Scrappy on August 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Edwards was able to have an ongoing affair and father a child right in front of his crack team of investigative journalist. Super sleuths they are not.
But you are right. They did indeed know, and they covered for him. That is entirely plausible. Not even journalists can be that blind.
Geochelone on August 13, 2009 at 8:25 PM
So if she had been pregnant under Obama Care would the baby have been killed?
Jeff from WI on August 13, 2009 at 8:32 PM
If the relationship was over, then why was he…
pedestrian on August 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM
There are still people with his name on their bumpers, along with Kerry. Hope they don’t take them off and we can laugh at them every time we see them
thebrokenrattle on August 13, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Well, I guess the official song for Edwards is now this.
madmonkphotog on August 13, 2009 at 8:42 PM
FIFY
pedestrian on August 13, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Hopefully the kid WILL inherit a spine from it’s mother.
Jeff from WI on August 13, 2009 at 8:49 PM
I’m with you. Teddy rode his brothers’ coattails and played on the nostalgia of Camelot.
Edwards took campaign contributions from the “Other America” to pay off the baby momma and keep his accomplices quiet. It doesn’t feel good to get duped out of even a little bit of money.
Laura in Maryland on August 13, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Can’t believe a lawyer would act like this .
borntoraisehogs on August 13, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Maybe he’s just a good Donk… you know, into “diversity”?
drunyan8315 on August 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Shit, THAT is funny!
drunyan8315 on August 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM
That main page photo reminds me of the late Rodney Dangerfield in “Back to School.” At least Rodney was TRYING to be funny.
DrAllecon on August 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Damn the one time abortion would have been a plus for the USA,but noooo
theTarCzar on August 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I’m not pushing my luck on this one…
No duh!!!
Hog Wild on August 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM
What are you afraid of?
TXMomof3 on August 13, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I never could figure out why Silky complained about his dad working in a mill because around here a job in a mill or factory would be considered a great job. If Edward’s dad was around now his job would have probably be out sourced and I am surprized too that Silky preferred women over men. He just acts so femmy.
garydt on August 13, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Well I’ll be damned!
There really are two Americas.
The one where he lives in a big mansion with his wife and kids…… and the one where he meets his campaign aide in hotels and fathers illegitimate children.
Spider79 on August 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I say we NEVER elect another lawyer to government. They are trained in dissembling.
leftnomore on August 14, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I say we NEVER elect another lawyer to government. They are trained in dissembling and paid to fool people. This guy is a world class scam artist, and of course, a Proud Democrat.
leftnomore on August 14, 2009 at 12:44 AM
John Edwards’ wife was literally dying of cancer. She was literally on her death bed until her highly successful American healthcare cancer treatments (before Obamacare destroyed that life-saving medical success story… which it will) began to beat the cancer back into remission.
So what’s a faithful and loving husband that’s running for political office to do while his wife dies?
Go out on the campaign trail and shag some nominally attractive air-head hippy chick repeatedly until she’s knocked up. Then to frost the cake, deny the affair and deny your own child, on national television, with a straight face, while funneling campaign funds to your knocked up concubine through the rinse cycle to keep her big yapper shut with hush money… and of course end the illicit affair when the ol’ ball-n-chain recovers from her cancer and appears to be staying around for awhile longer than the faithful and loving husband had expected her to.
There are no words to describe the descpicable and loathsome creature that is John Edwards. I bet he even begged her to get an abortion, repeatedly.
Frankly, being the bottom feeding scum bag John Edwards has proven he is, I’m surprised he just didn’t have her ‘whacked’ since he is just one rung from the bottom of the food chain anyway.
And to think that jerkoff could have been VPOTUS, or even POTUS, if he had shucked and jived and denied his little bundle of joy a little better.
But then again, we still have Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Franken, etc ad nauseum; et al. Half a dozen of one… six of another. Whatever. Edwards is just one spoke in the wheel of Democrats with no conscience and no soul.
SilverStar830 on August 14, 2009 at 1:58 AM
Best part of the clip: approx 09:58 mark when he’s asked “Did you think it would end this way?” and JohnnyBoy is flabbergasted someone thinks something for him has “ended”. Bigger narcissist than Obama.
Marcus on August 14, 2009 at 2:41 AM
UPDATE:
Edwards blames Bush for the affair, calls it a vast
right wing conspiracy
macncheez on August 14, 2009 at 2:56 AM
Liar.
hawkdriver on August 14, 2009 at 4:07 AM
When Silky kept babbling about not knowing who that baby is, my first thought was that I hope someone has set up a hefty fund for this poor kid’s future therapy sessions. I shall pray for this child. Silky is on his own. Creep.
redwhiteblue on August 14, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Godspeed…and thank you.
redwhiteblue on August 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM
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