It looks like the Rielle Hunter/John Edwards story is finally starting to get some traction. Yesterday the McClatchy News Service reported on the fact that there’s no father listed on the baby’s birth certificate. Which doesn’t prove anything on its own, of course, but it sure is odd. Especially considering that Andrew Young claims to be the father.

So, it’s a start. Edwards is also dodging the press now, which is the first time I’ve heard of him running away from a camera.

Now that the news is finally getting around to reporting on the story, I wonder if they’ll take a look at New Age Rielle’s two helpers, Bob McGovern (who describes himself, professionally, as “an intuitive”) and astrologer Margaret Sweet? The press usually loves it when politicians get tangled up with astrologers. Maybe we’ll find out that a dowser or a phrenologist is involved too!

Speaking of astrology, when the National Enquirer first reported on the story last October 10, Rielle Hunter immediately put out a statement denying it. Which, in retrospect, was weird for two reasons:

1. The Enquirer story didn’t name her, saying only that “the other woman” worked on the Edwards campaign. Why deny a story that hasn’t accused you, specifically, of anything?
2. Her denial was published at MyDD.com, whose founder, Jerome Armstrong, is also an astrologer. Probably just another weird coincidence…

I wonder if any of these zodiac-huggers can predict what’s going to happen next?

P.S. You know you’ve really made it when your credibility is questioned by someone named karateexplosions!

P.P.S. I realize this is like talking to a wall, but to the Kos commenter who described this previous post as a “circle jerk of self-sourcing”: I sourced Newsweek, HuffPo, MSNBC, Gawker, Wikipedia, CBS, the BBC, CJR, Slate, and the Boston Globe, in addition to the Enquirer (boo!), Fox (double-boo!), and our own posts on it (triple-boo!), in order to figure out where the story stood at that point. I put in links to all of it, which you’d know if you had clicked them. So I’d like to think it was a fairly well-sourced circle jerk. But other than that, excellent point.
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