I wasn’t keen on blogging more on the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter Affair (her real name is Lisa Druck, by the way… then Lisa Hunter… her father-in-law was attorney Alex Hunter of Boulder fame) – gossip isn’t my thing (though I enjoy it like the rest of the world). But since the Los Angeles Times is now forbidding its bloggers from talking, I now thought I’d say a bit more…. especially since the National Enquirer is filing a criminal complaint against the Beverly Hilton and its security force for manhandling the paper’s reporters. If the Enquirer weren’t a hundred percent confident that Edwards was at the hotel with Rielle, I doubt they’d be going to the law.
Is this news? The mainstream media seems to think not. They hide behind professionalism, whatever that means, when the extent of their bias has been documented everywhere. It’s beyond comic. It makes you yearn for the days when reporters were grunts with a high school education. They were more honest.
Edwards was a candidate for vice president of the United States and, until very recently, a candidate for president. He was also being bandied about, quite recently in Newsweek, among other places, as a candidate for vice president once again, a heart beat away, as they say. Normally that would be more than enough. So enough said.
Meanwhile, some more about Rielle Hunter: when she was Lisa Druck she was the heroine of Jay McInerney’s Story of My Life, not, as someone wrote in the comments here, a Bret Easton Ellis novel. After her life as a player, she hooked up with Kip Hunter, said by friends of mine who know him to be a “very nice guy.” Lisa ditched Kip and sought “spiritual enlightenment” — hence the Rielle moniker, whatever that means. In other words, she was just more of the flotsam and jetsam that spills regularly out of Hollywood. It doesn’t say too much for the taste of John Edwards, but then, as we know, he’s building a 28000 square foot house.[Who's going to live there?-ed.]
What of poor Elizabeth Edwards in all this? I remember meeting her at the Personal Democracy Forum a few years back and listening to her speak. She was the highlight of the Forum at that time and, with Elliot Spitzer (ironically!) its keynote speaker. Although I thought her politics naive and conventional in the extreme, I thought Elizabeth was an honest, impassioned woman with an incredible, almost worshipful devotion to her husband. (We knew she had cancer at that point and it made her all the more sympathetic). She was also a huge fan and devotee of blogs and new media, which she surfed, although I doubt she was much of a reader of, say, Powerline. In all, an estimable person. Is she the victim in all this? In the obvious sense, of course. But if she separates himself from her mega-narcisstic husband, perhaps she has done herself a favor.
UPDATE: Some cheap psychoanalysis. I would guess that Edwards, like many cheaters, wanted to be caught. After all, it is hard to conceive he would be that dumb as to conduct a tryst in this modern/post-Bill Clinton era in, of all places, the Beverly Hilton. The Hilton — where such events as the Pre-Oscar luncheon and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent victory celebration are held — would be among the last places you would choose. It’s often a virtual den of paparazzi with staff and others always standing by to tip the gossip press on the latest celeb sighting. There are thousands of places in Southern California more low key for such a meeting. If Edwards is indeed that dumb, we are certainly lucky he never became President. Among those who should be scratching their heads at this moment are his supporters.
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1. Pajamas Media » Getting Rielle — The Enquirer Files Criminal Complaint in Edwards Love Child Case:[...] Read the entire post here … [...]
Jul 25, 2008 - 10:55 am 2. Rachel Peepers:What did the cow say to Rielle Hunter when it saw her riding in the countryside with John Edwards?
Moo.
Jul 25, 2008 - 11:29 am 3. Rachel Peepers:What did the cow say when it saw Rielle Hunter riding in the countryside with John Edwards?
The same thing all cows say. And it starts with an “m”.
Jul 25, 2008 - 11:30 am 4. Captain Hate:Has anybody seen the Silky Foal? I don’t think you’d need a DNA test to confirm a choice between Andrew Young or Pony Boy as the sire; probably not even 20/20 vision.
Somebody who changes their name from Lisa to Rielle is obviously a kindred soul to Breck Boy. In turn an ambulance-chaser who channels dead people in court could really impress a spiritual being like Rielle. A match made in heaven or some alternate universe.
Jul 25, 2008 - 11:43 am 5. Lem:How many hunters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I don’t know…. ever since Al Gore I don’t hunt and I’m allways in the dark.
Jul 25, 2008 - 11:56 am 6. srlucado:“They hide behind professionalism…”
So they say, but you have to wonder, when the LA Times’s editor signs his emails “Keep rockin’”.
Scott
Jul 25, 2008 - 12:10 pm 7. David Thomson:There is no doubt in my mind that the MSM would have handled this apparent scandal in the exact opposite manner if John Edwards were a Republican. I am not thrilled about the National Enquirer’s obsession with his personal life. Nonetheless, this story highlights the extent of the bias of the journalistic elite.
Jul 25, 2008 - 12:19 pm 8. dualdiagnosis:For an example just look at the NYT and the breathless story they ran about McCain’s so called infidelity.
Jul 25, 2008 - 12:27 pm 9. Daniel:Yeah, let’s hearken back to the good old days when reporters were honest, high school educated grunts who told the American people everything about the sex lives of their politicians. Oh PLEASE!
Nobody reported on Kennedy’s endless parade of sexual affairs. Have a look at The Press and the Modern Presidency by Liebovich.
(http://books.google.com/books?id=tKki1XYMiDYC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22white+house+press+corps%22+kennedy+unfaithful&source=web&ots=8IcvFX-7d2&sig=6c-bYZNvvEEUFkRW2cu3lZKCbvU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA25,M1)
Then rethink your ahistorical perspective.
Jul 25, 2008 - 1:55 pm 10. anon66:Between the New York Times and the National Enquirer we know which outfit is more welcome in polite society.
But which outfit has the higher journalistic standards about candidates?
The NYT ran a story about McCain’s possible affair when they had NO WITNESSES, on the record or off, that said that they knew of an affair or that either party had disclosed an affair.
The Enquirer has an off-the-record witness and detailed emails admitting the affair from one of the principals.
You need to read the earlier Enquirer stories to make sense of this:
The affair started about 18 months ago,” a friend says the woman confessed to her. “When they met at a bar, sparks flew immediately.
“She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for President. But it soon did — and she fell for him.”
In one bombshell e-mail message provided to The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, the woman confesses to a friend she’s “in love with John,” but it’s “difficult because he is married and has kids.”
In another e-mail, she writes: “Last night and this a.m., he actually has amazed me. He is a great man. My heart is loud and my head is silenced.”
Disclosed her friend: “She initially confided in a few of her closest pals that she was sleeping with ‘a married man named John.’
“It became clear the married man was John Edwards. They got together whenever they could, mostly at hotels where Edwards and his campaign staff stayed.”
The woman later spelled it out in a phone call to her pal and talked openly about having an affair with Edwards.
The friend says the woman told her that she “had a crush on John. One thing led to another, and they soon ended up in bed together. But she knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer.”
The woman’s friend told The NATIONAL ENQUIRER: “As the affair went on, she said that both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it.”
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_cheating_scandal/celebrity/64271
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Instead, Rielle has been telling a confidante that Edwards is the father of her child.
“Rielle told me while Andrew Young is a friend, she’s not romantically involved with him,” says the source close to Rielle. “Rielle says he’s been responsible for finding her a place to live and even getting her a car to drive.
“If he really were the father of her baby and had engaged in an extramarital affair with her, I doubt seriously that he’d bring his wife and kids over to her house for dinner — which Rielle told me he did a few weeks ago.
“Rielle has said from the beginning that the baby is John’s, but she appears willing to do whatever they want her to do to protect his candidacy.
“I think what’s taking place is simply a cover-up by Edwards’ campaign.”
And no one has denied the source’s information that Rielle has been in phone contact with Edwards since finding out she is pregnant.
When ENQUIRER reporters contacted Young in person at his home on Dec. 12, he became furious — and denied he was Andrew Young.
He also denied knowing “any Rielle Hunter,” yelling at the top of his voice: “You don’t even know who I am!” But when his wife called him “Andrew,” he shot her a dirty look.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_love_child/celebrity/64426
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:01 pm 11. Belmont Club » Print the legend:[...] Roger Simon comments on the Edwards/National Enquirer affair. Roger writes: Some cheap psychoanalysis. I would guess that Edwards, like many cheaters, wanted to be caught. After all, it is hard to conceive he would be that dumb as to conduct a tryst in this modern/post-Bill Clinton era in, of all places, the Beverly Hilton. The Hilton — where such events as the Pre-Oscar luncheon and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent victory celebration are held — would be among the last places you would choose. It’s often a virtual den of paparazzi with staff and others always standing by to tip the gossip press on the latest celeb sighting. There are thousands of places in Southern California more low key for such a meeting. If Edwards is indeed that dumb, we are certainly lucky he never became President. Among those who should be scratching their heads at this moment are his supporters. [...]
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:18 pm 12. Vince Foster's ghost:Kaus’s working theory was that the National Enquirer and other tabs were working on behalf of Hillary. If that is true, was this a hit on Edwards on her behalf?
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:20 pm 13. Mister Snitch!:“Some cheap psychoanalysis. I would guess that Edwards, like many cheaters, wanted to be caught. After all, it is hard to conceive he would be that dumb as to conduct a tryst in this modern/post-Bill Clinton era in, of all places, the Beverly Hilton.”
I don’t know that Edwards’ actions add up neatly to “he wanted to be caught”. I think one (or more) of the following is more likely in this case:
1) Edwards was convinced he simply could not be caught. He was smarter and slicker than everyone else. His bank account was a testament to his ability to manipulate both the media and the public.
2) Since everything he did was morally sound, it didn’t matter if he was caught. His ability to justify – especially to himself – his every action convinced him that no matter what he did, he had nothing to hide. (This mindset CAN lead to a subconscious desire to be caught, as Roger suggests. So I cannot discount that possibility entirely.)
3) Edwards simply lived in circles where corruption is so blatant that it’s a sign of cowardice not to flaunt it a little. Men who spend their resources making sure their tails are covered simply have no balls. Indeed, in John Edwards’ world, a truly honest man simply can’t be trusted. A little sleaze, like alcohol, greases the social wheels.
If you lived in Jersey and studied the human dynamics hereabouts, you’d understand precisely the mentality I’m describing. But you can always rent The Sopranos box set and watch Tony Soprano play it out for you. New Jersey is just like the rest of the world, only more so.
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:28 pm 14. glenn:With the Enquirer filing charges it’s pretty obvious that they didn’t empty the clip in the first issue. Fun to watch.
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:32 pm 15. paul a'barge:I don’t necessarily think he wanted to get caught. Frankly, for a guy in the spotlight as much as he is and for one who is a dedicated target of the National Equirer, what’s a guy going to do and how’s he going to do it?
My guess is he wanted to see his child.
Well, now he can see the child all he wants. Frankly, I’m amazed … Jesse Jackson pulled this stunt and he slid away from it like he was Teflon coated. Why not Edwards?
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:42 pm 16. Morton Doodslag:If this were a Republican, the media, who relish in defaming their percieved enemies (basically anyone who isn’t as far left as they are…), would run be all over this story. They’d do it because they not only hate those to the right of themselves, but because it would serve to rob oxygen from the McCain campaign. But the media doesn’t wish to do anything to harm Obama or the Dems, especially while HE* is on his GVL** (*BHO **Global Victory Lap).
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:55 pm 17. Reid:Edwards is this generations Gary Hart.
Jul 25, 2008 - 2:59 pm 18. Right Angles » Blog Archive » More on the unreported Edwards story:[...] reporters who were chasing former N.C. U.S. Senator John Edwards all over the basement on Monday. Roger Simon points out that if Edwards weren’t there he doubts the paper would be suing the hotel. He then asks: Is [...]
Jul 25, 2008 - 3:13 pm 19. nystink:Media bias? What media bias? If I don’t see it on CNN or read it in the NYT, it just didn’t happen!
Jul 25, 2008 - 3:20 pm 20. Dick Stanley:You kinda, oughta, maybe wonder why she got pregnant. I mean she’s a grown woman. Surely she knows how not to? Looks like she wanted to, even if it wasn’t in Breck Boy’s interest.
Jul 25, 2008 - 3:20 pm 21. SteveG:They got it backwards.
You go to Santa Barbara if you want privacy.
Get a cottage at the San Ysidro ranch or the Biltmore.
For the most part, Santa Barbarans make a point of ignoring celebrities.
Nobody looks like a genius in that group…
Jul 25, 2008 - 3:32 pm 22. The Motley Phil:Methinks the Silky Channeler has some ’splainin to do. I know it’s true because I read it in the Enquirer…. and that is more of a statement of truth than a joke. I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards on many levels, but probably because she hitched her wagon to this schmuck and now cannot leave. God bless her and her kids.
Jul 25, 2008 - 3:41 pm 23. Jim Treacher:2 + 2 = 5. Keep rockin’!
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:02 pm 24. Greybeard:Honest question:
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:18 pm 25. Born Free:Does the Hilton not have adjoining rooms?
Many interesting theories, and maybe I overlooked it, but I didn’t see the most obviously likely postulation being made by previous commenters:
The alleged bimbo wanted face time, and the alleged bimbo-banger was afraid to cross her.
Occam’s Razor, people.
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:28 pm 26. A. N. Pierson:“Then rethink your ahistorical perspective.”
Daniel, you must not read this blog very often. I would bet my house Roger Simon is perfectly aware of the history here, since he worked for decades in Hollywood. EVERYONE knows about JFK, my friend. THat is nothing new.
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:32 pm 27. Born Free:Many interesting theories, and maybe I overlooked it, but I didn’t see the most obviously likely postulation being made by previous commenters:
The alleged bimbo wanted face time, and the alleged bimbo-eruptor was afraid to cross her.
Occam’s Razor, people.
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:32 pm 28. The Rielle Deal « Cockadoodledoo!:[...] Rielle Deal A few excerpts from Roger Simon’s post at Pajamas Media: If the Enquirer weren’t a hundred percent confident that Edwards was at the [...]
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:37 pm 29. AST:“It makes you yearn for the days when reporters were grunts with a high school education. They were more honest.”
I think that both education and journalism were doomed when they became college majors. There just isn’t that much to learn about either one (How hard is it to say “Know your subject, explain it clearly and use a feedback like testing to see how well it’s getting across? All that was ever required in the past was a knowledge of the subjects. Similarly, journalism can be summarized in two or three sentences.), but when you have to have a specialized degree to go into the field, you get a whole lot more of brainwashed people teaching and “reporting.” College is supposed to broaden the mind, but lately it narrows everything to fit through a liberal keyhole.
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:41 pm 30. Kevin:I guess this is the same Chicago Tribune company that had NO PROBLEM publishing all of Jeri Ryan’s sealed divorce testimony to get rid of Obama’s only real Senate opponent in 2004. I’ll bet you my house against a jelly donut that they’d be all over this if it was McCain.
Jul 25, 2008 - 4:56 pm 31. glenn:“Edwards is this generations Gary Hart” And a mere shadow of the c**ksman of the McGovern campaign. Gary Hart stood right up and challenged the press to catch him if they could. They obliged. Silky lied, deceived and had a friend (married friend at that) take credit for Ms Hunters “bun in the oven” Not a real man, our Silky.
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:17 pm 32. djl130:I think Rielle is dangling the possibility of blabbing. That is how she got him to visit the hotel. Most likely, she knows darn well the Beverly Hilton is a very visible place. SHE wants this to get out somehow, only she does not want to mess up any future as the possible 2nd Mrs. Edwards. It is a very tricky situation. Maybe she doesn’t WANT him to be VP. The possibility of 4-8 years of pretending might seem daunting at best. Make a bet he is sweating bullets and can’t figure out what to do with her. He probably HAD to meet with her to keep her quiet. Think Fatal Attraction. I will bet this all starts to unravel soon. I feel sorry for the kids. Here their mom is, dying; I don’t care what her politics are, she has to be in a complete state of despair. And blonde California nut job is waiting in the wings complete with a new sib. The older child, the daughter, if she knows (surely she knows) must be sick. Here they were, the golden ones, and now they have become the object of more than just fluffy hair ridicule. He is reprehensible.
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:31 pm 33. Lem:What does supermodel Rachel Hunter have in common with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter?
Not one dam thing.
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:36 pm 34. Javelin:“Yeah, let’s hearken back to the good old days when reporters were honest, high school educated grunts ”
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:39 pm 35. Javelin:You mean when papers were openly partisan and dedicated to supporting their crew and trashing the opposition no matter what?
Vince Foster’s ghost
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:41 pm 36. Mwalimu Daudi:you got it right, just like the rest of your crackpot Clinton conspiracy fictions(lies).
I would guess that Edwards, like many cheaters, wanted to be caught. After all, it is hard to conceive he would be that dumb as to conduct a tryst in this modern/post-Bill Clinton era in, of all places, the Beverly Hilton.
I disagree. I suspect that this sort of thing goes on a lot more often than we hear about it. Only when someone outside of the MSM-Democrat Party Axis gets wind of it does the public learn what has been going on. Remember how journalists in the Kennedy era kept his zipper episodes under wraps? Not much has changed.
Jul 25, 2008 - 5:48 pm 37. ~Paules:I had a friend in DC who worked for the Secret Service (plain clothes division). Not a week went by when she didn’t get the chance to pull some politician, or diplomat, or bigwig out of a sticky wicket, usually with his pants at half-mast. It’s the norm. I won’t excuse Edwards, but neither am I surprised. Political wives in Washington well understand that philandering is the price a woman pays for political power and status. There’s always a younger woman waiting in the wings. I would give Edwards the Prince of Wales Award. He took a horse-faced mare in a field of fillies. Must be something there I don’t understand.
Wilbur Mills, at least, was an honorable lecher and drunk.
“Hi, I’m Wilbur.”
“Hello, Wilbur.”
“You all know what I done.”
Uh, huh. A discreet mistress is always preferable to a floozy. It just sucks to the max when a half-naked stripper leaps from your limo and plunges into the Tidal Basin at the foot of the Jefferson Memorial. Wilbur, what were you thinking?
The French understand. Sarkozy settled the issue. Take the most desirable slut on offer and marry her. She’s polyamorous by her own admission. Fine, but the rest of us don’t get a free ticket. We answer to wives and mortgage payments. It tends to keep us in line. One rule for them, and another for the rest of us. It’s just the way it is.
Jul 25, 2008 - 6:17 pm 38. WR Jonas:When I first read this report I was completely flabbergasted. How could a smooth talkin , good looking left wing lawyer be this dumb? If this isn’t the result of big stupid streak then there is simply no truth to the old saying ,”if you give a fool enough rope he will eventually hang himself”.
Jul 25, 2008 - 6:37 pm 39. Jim Treacher:“You mean when papers were openly partisan and dedicated to supporting their crew and trashing the opposition no matter what?”
As opposed to now, when they claim to be impartial while they’re supporting their crew and trashing the opposition no matter what.
Jul 25, 2008 - 7:11 pm 40. jedrury:WR:
Edwards is as slick as Bubba. He is the new Bubba; one of the reasons, he is a loser in the race for the nomination is that the voters saw him as a slickster from the South. The voter was not going to be fooled twice.
Jul 25, 2008 - 7:16 pm 41. Markus:I’m surprised he would do this only because I think that HE thinks he is still in the running for VP, and it wouldn’t happen if the Obama campaign had any reason to believe a story like this would emerge.
Jul 25, 2008 - 7:38 pm 42. marymcl:I’d love to see James Ellroy’s take on all this
Jul 25, 2008 - 9:48 pm 43. Lem:I have a question.
Had the MSM ran with this story, would we still be as interested in posting all this speculation?
I’m asking because until we get more information, I think we should maintain some level of propriety and decorum.
Now that that’s out of the way
I recall that in the movie ‘Bright Lights Big City’ (based on the novel by Jay McInerney) there was a wife/model (might’ve been written after Lisa/Riell) who was more interested in whether the Michael J Fox character’s all American novel was going to be a success. He was a fact checker at a New Yorker like Mag. Anyway, she (the wife/model)ended up cheating on him.
http://tinyurl.com/6rtnqr
Is it possible that Riell set up the senator?…. you bet.
Jul 25, 2008 - 10:14 pm 44. Lem:Yes…. I found a New York Times Magazine long article on the movie…
By this June afternoon, McInerney’s semiautobiographical novel – the witty story of a smart young writer….
Like I said the cheating wife (played by Phoebe Cates) may have been written after Riell.
OK.. I’ll put it upfront on Nexflix. I just hope this baby got legs
Jul 25, 2008 - 10:29 pm 45. Boris:The National Enquirer has never gotten a story wrong, so……
Jul 26, 2008 - 6:16 am 46. glenn:Guys like John Edwards do it because they can. Call it what you want, serial womanizing like Bill Clinton is an exibition of lack of moral fiber. He said as much.
Jul 26, 2008 - 6:22 am 47. Bernard Chapin:Thanks for this, the LA Times silence is sickening.
Jul 26, 2008 - 6:58 am 48. christopher rivers:“when reporters were grunts with a high school education”
Looking back, I think left newspapering around the time of a big change in mentality and ethos; I remember reporters were more interested in getting The Truth, if possible, but failing that noble goal, they were equally interested in just taking big people down a peg.
Jul 26, 2008 - 7:03 am 49. Forbidden news? « Pecanpii’s Weblog:At its worst, it was just Revenge of the Nerds, but it worked. Now there is a lot of social worker/activist attitudes at work, they think and judge a lot, and decide their stories should reflect their conclusions.
“Reporting” is just too menial for them. I suppose the postmodernist mindset is also at work, since there is no objective reality, why bother?
[...] Is this news? The mainstream media seems to think not. They hide behind professionalism, whatever that means, when the extent of their bias has been documented everywhere. It’s beyond comic. http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/25/getting-rielle-the-enquirer-files-a-criminal-complain... [...]
Jul 26, 2008 - 7:10 am 50. richard ponce:my god, is real life aping the movies? in “men in black” people went to the tabloids to find out the truth. today, indeed, black is the new white.
Jul 26, 2008 - 8:04 am 51. aloysiusmiller:Too funny to pass up:
http://www.imao.us/archives/010250.html
Jul 26, 2008 - 9:53 am 52. PoliGazette » Edwards’ Love Child?:[...] here. One gets the impression that there are quite some American journalists who believe that John [...]
Jul 26, 2008 - 11:25 am 53. Captain Hate:“I think that both education and journalism were doomed when they became college majors.”
Bingo; plus you add Watergate to the mix and the pooch gets screwed as badly as Rielle as every do-gooder with synapses firing so irregularly that they can’t even make it through law school flocks to this sadly debased field to “change the world”. Toss in the meta-narrative crap that the elite institutions of higher learnin’ are tooling the unsuspecting acolytes with and you reach the current sad state of journalism. And these imbeciles want a national shield law so they can get more delusional and suffer no consequences.
Jul 26, 2008 - 11:52 am 54. Jenny:We see the only drilling that John Edwards is interested in.
The Democrats do the drilling and the American taxpayers are the ones that “get drilled”.
Jul 26, 2008 - 1:07 pm 55. mccain fan(not):“Edwards was a candidate for vice president of the United States and, until very recently, a candidate for president. He was also being bandied about, quite recently in Newsweek, among other places, as a candidate for vice president once again, a heart beat away, as they say. Normally that would be more than enough. So enough said.”
I agree with everything you said, such conduct by a public figure and candidate for President should be widely reported and examined by the press and a key factor in any evaluation of his charcter for holding public office:
and talk about sleazy:
Carol the wife he dumped was severely injured in a car accident while McCain was imprisoned and still in rehab when he dumped her
he must have been even stupider than edwards (or more shameless or didn’t care at all about being caught) in the conduct of his affair
McCain’s broken marriage and fractured Reagan friendship
The nature and timing of his divorce from Carol Shepp alienated key friends — and his version doesn’t always match that in court documents.
By Richard A. Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,539385,full.story
an excerpt
McCain, who is about to become the GOP nominee, has made several statements about how he divorced Carol and married Hensley that conflict with the public record.
In his 2002 memoir, “Worth the Fighting For,” McCain wrote that he had separated from Carol before he began dating Hensley.
“I spent as much time with Cindy in Washington and Arizona as our jobs would allow,” McCain wrote. “I was separated from Carol, but our divorce would not become final until February of 1980.”
An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had “cohabited” until Jan. 7 of that year — or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.
Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife.
Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.
“Everybody was upset with him,” recalled Nancy Reynolds, a top aide to the former president who introduced him to McCain.
Jul 26, 2008 - 5:25 pm 56. CJ:“It makes you yearn for the days when reporters were grunts with a high school education. They were more honest.”
They were more honest and they were wiser and more humble. They had lived at least some of their lives outside the bubble that today’s mediots stay inside of. They weren’t above listing who-what-when-where-how-why and they weren’t cognitively impaired by leftist dogma.
Here’s what really important about the Edwards story. Silky’s political career is now over. He’s just going to fade away from big-time politics, and people who get their news from mainstream media will have no idea why. Did the Clintons ask their old buddy and National Enquirer owner Ron Burkle to make the hit? Who knows, but the 2004 vice-presidential candidate is now politically dead.
Jul 26, 2008 - 8:42 pm 57. John:It will be fun to see if Edwards is still angling for a speaking position during prime-time at the DNC convention next month, and if the party and/or the Obama campaign is willing to give it to him.
Due to his narcissistic personality (I subscribe to Mr. Snitch!’s Theory No. 1 stated above that Edwards believed he was too smart to get caught) my guess is Edwards will still want a high-profile spot in Denver on one of the first three nights of the convention, and the Obama people will be trying to see if he’d like to spend the week hanging out in Vail or Telluride until the convention is over.
Jul 27, 2008 - 9:15 am 58. Tessa:I remember when Edwards and Kerry were running and Mrs Edwards was very fat. It was as though emotionally she was shut down and compensating with food. The more I saw of him the more I understood. It is always all about him. What she may want or need never fits in to their life. I am sure that Edwards is so selfish and does not have the emotional capacity to give Mrs. Edwards back anything.
Jul 27, 2008 - 11:05 am 59. Seven Machos:Her dying takes away from him and what he needs. He is the typical, emotionally crippled, malignant narcissist.
It is a terrible shame McCain Fan, about how McCain hasn’t admitted all that he did years ago yet the press won’t hound him for it. The press is so easy on Republicans. If the New York Times would just go after rumors about McCain with one-tenth the tenacity that it went after Edwards…
Jul 27, 2008 - 2:04 pm 60. nyker:it will be interesting if giulani the multiple cheater on his wife and who now is cashing in on his political connections to help clients win zoning variances and publc conracts is angling for a major role at the convention
I subscribe to mr snitch’s theory #3 that giuliani was such a nacrcissist no one would care he is such a sleazebag
Jul 27, 2008 - 2:48 pm 61. Nahanni:A roll of Charmin is worth more then NYT or LAT stock and the only value either newspaper has is for wrappiong fish, lining birdcages or to help get the fireplace going. Well, the fire starter thing might be of value seeing as the Democrats who the NYT and LAT whore for want us all to heat with cake this winter.
Jul 27, 2008 - 11:43 pm 62. tanstaafl:Drawing a parallel between McCain’s situation and Edwards on this stuff is stupid.
In February of this year, the New York Times had no trouble publishing a very lengthy story, reviewing McCain’s past as well as alluding to a romantic liaison between McCain and a female lobbyist in the present.
Which allusion was made without any substantive or verifiable factual information.
Thus far, I have found no mention of the Edward’s meltdown in the online edition of New York Times.
This is near unbelievable bias in journalism.
Jul 28, 2008 - 7:34 am 63. Locomotive Breath:Something that lends credibility to this story is that John Edwards would never go out with anyone who is prettier than he is.
Jul 29, 2008 - 2:34 pm 64. Earl:Someday someone will report (not the mainstream media, of course) on Obama’s ritual booty calls he makes when he returns to Chicago after road trips…that’s why he not so quick to pounce on his pipes with remarks…
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