Video here-
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/7636?&in=00:08:30&out=00:14:06

“Edwards averts scandal (so far)” (05:36)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1pwtFpvq8&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow1pwtFpvq8&eurl

EDWARDS: I’m saying you asked me about this photograph, I don’t know anything about that photograph, I don’t know who that baby is. I don’t know if the picture has been altered, manufactured, if it’s a picture of me taken some other time, holding another baby — I have no idea. I was not at this meeting holding a child for my photograph to be taken I can tell you that.

Pay attention here. He does not say he didn’t hold the child. He only says he didn’t pose for a photograph and is refusing to authenticate the photograph. This has a real smokescreen feeling to it that to me this suggests that he did hold the baby.

Woodruff follows up:

WOODRUFF: You did say you did meet her at a hotel in California.

EDWARDS: She was there, Mr. McGovern was present, and that’s where the meeting took place.

WOODRUFF: But you don’t remember a baby being there?

EDWARDS: No.

Finally, cornered, he says “no.” A lie?

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/08/because-of-recent-string-of-hurtful-and.html

It truthfully scooped the rest of the media that Dick Morris was ordering hookers while advising President Clinton.

It truthfully scooped the rest of the media on Rush Limbaugh’s addiction to pain killers.

It truthfully scooped the rest of the media on Jesse Jackson fathering a love child.

[Updated addition] It truthfully scooped the rest of the media when it published a photo of O.J. Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes – a critical piece of evidence in his murder/wrongful death trials.

It truthfully scooped the rest of the media on John Edwards’ affair.

Yet people are still disgracefully allowed to dismiss this great paper as merely being ‘tabloid trash’ that is not worth believing.

Some of these stories might not have even been reported at all had it not been for the Enquirer. Yet there are people out there that would rather have the truth swept under the carpet of history than admit that the Enquirer is a legitimate news outlet that is running circles around other national papers.

It is astonishing that some people still give the benefit of the doubt to lying, scum-sucking politcians over The Enquirer. Most other papers in this country should take lessons from it. The Enquirer is a national treasure – one of the few remaining fearless bastions of truth left.

Still wanna bet that its wrong about the ‘love child’ angle to the Edwards story?

http://patterico.com/2008/08/08/how-many-more-times-does-the-enquirer-have-to-prove-itself-before-people-stop-dismissing-it/

We’re patiently awaiting an over-the-top apology by SN!

I’m not sure what you mean by this.

Partisan blindness.

So was Bill Clinton’s, except that, you know, Clinton left office a popular president. I wonder if it was because all the handwaving that Republicans did made them look idiotic?

….Sadly No! drops another few notches. nice integrity.

Edwards is a real shitbag for cheating on his old lady like that, but he’s not exactly breaking new ground by doing so. This quote from People magazine is just the start of the silliness surrounding this whole thing:
“I’m just so surprised and disappointed,” a source close to Edwards tells PEOPLE. “We put in all that time and effort and poured our souls into this campaign. It’s really unfortunate, too, that what he did now dilutes his credibility on the poverty issue, where he really had the change to make a difference.”

Uuuhhhh…how so? What does his fucking around on his sick wife have to do with his fight to end poverty? Snap out of it and get some freakin’ perspective. It’s not like he made it his mission in Congress to create laws and otherwise use his power to deny equal rights to adulterers. *cough*closedgayrepublicanhomophobes*cough*

Edwards on Clinton-
“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter,” Edwards said in 1999. “It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.

Edwards has told associates that when he endorsed Obama, he was promised a coveted prime-time, broadcast speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention later this month.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12402_Page2.html

Edwards today admitted the National Enquirer was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.

The former Senator said his wife had not known about the meeting.

So let me get this straight – he claims he ended his affair with Hunter over 9 months previous to February 2008, and that he previously admitted the affair to his wife. Yet for some reason, he still saw fit to visit her at a Beverly Hills hotel at 2:30AM last month and didn’t bother to tell his wife this time. Am I reading this correctly???

Oh wait, there’s more…

Edwards denied paying any money to Hunter to keep her from going public but said it was possible some of his friends or supporters may have made payments without telling him.

He said he would ask questions about any possible arrangement.

Ok there…..

So I guess we are supposed to now believe that Edwards had an affair with Hunter that somehow ended. Then AFTER the affair with Edwards ended, Hunter had ANOTHER affair with Edwards’ (married) aide Andrew Young, and managed to get pregnant by Young.

Riiiight. That’s something we should all believe. After all, Edwards and Young have declared that to be the truth, and we know what a great a great track record they have for telling people the truth – unlike the ‘tabloid trash’ that the Enquirer dishes out.
http://patterico.com/2008/08/08/why-edwards-denial-about-paternity-doesnt-pass-the-smell-test/

Y’know it’s just not that big a deal, right?

I expect there will now be a wave of supporters who will come to his defense, just like for Clinton, and say that this was not really sex, that it’s nobody’s business anyway, if this was Europe it would be no big deal, America is too f*ck’n puritanical, cheating on his wife is not indicative of his honesty, maybe Elizabeth told him to go out and get some because of her illness, and that this is not “news”.

Tell that to Edwards who is making it a goddamned special on ABC.

[Clif adds: You won't find me defending Edwards at this point. Once Edwards admits the affair, the story has legs and is no longer simply rumor-mongering bubbling up from the perfervid imagination of a guy who blows goats.]

still higher than many, but when you end up looking as dumb as Slate’s dumbest, that is not high praise.

[Clif adds: Ah, moops, you missed our point. We never said that Edwards didn't have an affair; there was no way to know one way or the other. Our point was that Kaus didn't either and was openly defending his right to spread rumors. Rather than having the taxpayers pay you to use government computers to leave stupid comments, why don't you get back to work and do what we pay you to do, okay?]

so, goober here was right, and you were all wrong. He is tool for writing a story with nothing to back it up, and you are all losers for defending Edwards with nothing to back it up.

ta da!