Now that the media are finally talking about the John Edwards/Rielle Hunter affair — and boy oh boy, are they ever talking about it — here are five questions I’d like to see answered:
What happened to Rielle’s website? beingisfree.org was her nutty New Age site, which was created in 2004 and disappeared with no explanation at some point between April 2007, when it was last updated, and the discovery of the deletion that October. It was even blocked at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, whose stated goal is to preserve the Internet’s history. “Universal access to human knowledge” is their motto. Unless it’s knowledge about Rielle Hunter, apparently.
(Update: Have they changed their minds about this noble knowledge-preserving goal in the last few days? Fortunate Son thinks so.)
Then,about a weekfour days after the Enquirer’s first story, another cached copy of Being Is Free was discovered at the IAWM’s Egyptian counterpart, located at the International School of Information Science in Alexandria. But as soon as people started talking about it, that copy was blocked too. This can’t be a coincidence. Was it done by yet another one of John Edwards’ friends, completely without his knowledge? If so, why does this steady stream of rainwater in my ear smell like asparagus?
Why is John Edwards hanging out with psychics? He now claims he was at the Beverly Hilton, in the middle of the night, without a reservation, not for a hookup or a family reunion. He was really there to talk to Rielle’s psychic friend Bob McGovern about keeping her quiet. (Re: Edwards’ affair with her, that is, which supposedly ended in 2006.) Okay, let’s assume this is true, even though Edwards said it. Let’s assume it took 5 hours, from 9:45 at night until 2:40 in the morning, to hash things out. Then why did Edwards run when he saw the Enquirer reporters? Was he terrified they’d find out he’d been having his palm read or something?
What do Margaret Sweet and Mimi Hockman know about all this? They’re both friends of Rielle’s. Sweet (pictured) is an astrologer who’s apparently been covering for Bob McGovern, and Hockman worked with Rielle on those videos for the Edwards campaign. Has anybody tried to interview them? Why did Sweet remove McGovern’s resume and contact information from her site two days after the story broke? Perhaps more importantly: As an astrologer, why didn’t she do it before the story?- If Edwards told his family about the affair back in 2006, why was he still paying Rielle well into 2007? She was quoted in the Dec. 25, 2006 edition of Newsweek about those campaign videos. Her last payment from the Edwards campaign was in April 2007. Maybe Elizabeth said, “Okay, John, you can keep her around. But no more hanky-panky!” Perhaps while shaking a rolling pin at him for effect. Bathrobe, curlers in her hair, the whole bit.
- Would the American press have been so reluctant to investigate John Edwards’ then-alleged infidelities if he suffered from male pattern baldness? Eliot Spitzer: balding. Larry Craig: Not a lot going on with the ol’ hairline. John McCain: pretty wispy up there. Maybe this isn’t so much a left/right thing as a yum/yuck thing? Just speculating.
Hey, four out of five ain’t bad!
P.S. Anybody know how Nightline did in the ratings last night? I recorded it, but I haven’t watched it. Seems beside the point. But the LA Times, finally free of their “Keep rockin’” edict, has an analysis of the interview. Hey, if you can’t send a reporter to a hotel 15 miles away from your offices, at least you can have her watch ABC a few weeks later…
P.P.S. Rielle’s family is now challenging Edwards to take the paternity test he claims to be eager to take. Wow, how quickly we go from “She and Andrew Young both say he’s the father, so just drop it!” to “If John ain’t the babydaddy, prove it!” And how about this quote from Edwards:
“I would welcome participating in a paternity test. I’m only one side of the test, but I’m happy to participate in one.”
“I’m only one side”? Well, yeah, the side with the sperm. What, is he trying to imply she might not be the mother? (Thanks again for the tip, FS.)
P.P.P.S. DBKP, as always, has much more on this story. And Overlawyered has a few very pointed questions. Also, Paul Mulshine takes the LAT out behind the woodshed. Plus, Sam Stein, whose investigation at the Huffington Post last year helped get this ball rolling, has a complete (if weeks late) overview of the whole thing. And now, if it’s okay with everybody, I’m going to step away from the computer for a few hours and bask in my wholly earned sense of vindication…
Holla back to: UPI and NYDN! Where ya been?
I gets no rest:
- Broadcasting & Cable says Edwards is “furious” with ABC for promoting their exclusive so early in the day yesterday:
Edwards had hoped to control the news cycle by making his admission late on a Friday night when the country was watching the Olympics and the long weekend yawned ahead.
I don’t know if it would have really made a difference, but it sounds like Edwards thought so.
- Sam Stein says Edwards is lying — sorry, “making a false assertion” — about when he hired Rielle Hunter. And according to Stein:
Indeed, the circumstances surrounding Hunter’s professional life resoundingly suggest that Edwards hired her as a front to continue their relationship.
- Check out all these reporters suddenly turning their notebooks upside-down and shaking out every last crumb. Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman, author of the now-infamous “John Edwards, Untucked,” describes meeting Rielle on the campaign trail:
I struck up a conversation with the woman at the next event, as we waited outside. She told me her name and asked me what my astrological sign was, which I thought was a little unusual.
He goes on to describe some of her spiritual beliefs and how she wanted to use them to help Edwards become president. As for her opinion of Elizabeth?
“I’ve only met her once,” Rielle said. “She does not give off good energy. She didn’t make eye contact with me.”
None of this information has been relevant for the last three weeks, apparently.
- Lee Stranahan keeps driving the HuffPo commenters nuts, this time with his logical, common-sense advice for John Edwards.
- Edwards ex-mistress rules out paternity test. So that’s how they’re playing this. I thought he seemed suddenly too eager to do the test. Now he gets to say, “I’d love to, but she won’t cooperate!” Funny how everybody else is leaping in the path of that speeding bus, huh? First Fred Baron says he’s the real sugar daddy, and now this.
- Maureen Dowd had three whole weeks to come up with a headline.
- Supercommenter Kris connects some dots here, here, and here. I don’t think it’ll be long before somebody puts out a new timeline.
- David Shuster is one magnanimous guy.
- NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt:
The Times did not want to regurgitate the Enquirer’s reporting without verifying it, which is responsible. But The Times did not try to verify it, beyond a few perfunctory efforts, which I think was wrong.
It’s a start. And:
Still, Edwards-Hunter was “classically not a Times-like story,” said Craig Whitney, the standards editor.
Yeah. It’s actually interesting. And:
“I’m not going to recycle a supermarket tabloid’s anonymously sourced story,” said Bill Keller, the executive editor.
Speaking of supermarkets, at this rate Bill Keller will soon be working in one. And the story was not anonymously sourced, for Pinch’s sake, it was an eyewitness account from multiple reporters. And they were right, you pompous [bad word]!
- Jay McInerney in the NYDN:
“To say that he slept with her but he wasn’t in love with her — that’s not very chivalrous… I don’t feel my questions have been answered with regard to Edwards. It was a half-assed confession.”
Bernie Mac’s untimely death seems a tad convenient: apropos changing the celebutard news cycle.
I’m not alleging John Edwards had anything to do with the Macsters sad demise… but I bet Ollie Stone’s already working up some conspiracy theory screenplay.
Melisa Druck, sister fo Rielle Hunter (born Lisa Druck in Florida) is challengine Edwards to take a paternity test:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5546813&page=2
“In the first reaction from Hunter’s family, her younger sister Melissa told ABC News that Edwards should immediately follow through on his pledge to take a paternity test.
“I would challenge him to do so,” the sister said.
“Somebody must stand up and defend my sister,” she said. “I wish that those involved would refrain from bad-mouthing my sister.”
There’s a Melissa Druck with a very anti-war viewpoint who was quoted in 2004 as being a co-op owner (most co-op worker) in a a juice company.
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2004/02/19/news.html
GENESIS GETTING SQUEEZED BY FEDS
Without a miracle, Genesis Juice Co-op, Eugene’s only raw juice company since 1977, will soon close.
Their products do not comply with a new FDA law that prohibits the distribution of juice not treated by pasteurization or another anti-bacterial process.
“War is OK, cigarettes are OK, but raw juice is not OK? Give me a break,” says Melissa Druck, worker/owner at Genesis since 1998.
The legislation, the Juice Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Law, requires “very” small businesses to comply with the new anti-bacterial requirements by February 2004.
Until three weeks ago, Genesis thought they had several months to find a solution to their dilemma. It turns out they’re too successful to be considered a very small business. They distribute more than 350,000 units per year of juice — ranging from pint to half gallon sizes, and grossed more than $500,000 in one year. They’re nine months into this year’s production, and say they are operating illegally.
Is pasteurization an option for a company whose slogan reads “Fresh raw juice to bring you life”?
“Raw juice is what we’re about. It goes against our mission to do anything else,” said worker/owner Claudia Sepp, who has worked with Genesis since 1983. The company has ruled out ultraviolet and other processes that would reduce the nutritional value of the juices.
Their process is simple: They wash carefully selected fruits and vegetables, press them gently to preserve live enzymes and vitamins and bottle and distribute the juice to about 50 stores in the Eugene and Portland areas, in addition to selling directly from their production plant on 3rd Avenue. If Genesis sold the juice directly to the public, the law would not apply, says three-year worker/owner Ben Cutler.
This process does not meet government standards. The workers at Genesis watch the mail for a letter from the state’s Department of Agriculture that will demand their immediate closure. The state agency enforces the federal law.
But you wouldn’t know the enterprise is doomed judging by the activity in the production plant. Workers walk through with gloves pulled to their elbows, and the juice press continues to hum.
“We still have juice to make, and orders to fill,” says Druck.
In a fight keep Genesis afloat, the company is working with local lawyers to find a loophole. “But we’re probably going to close,” Druck says. “We’re a small company. We can’t fight the government.” — Tara Stubblefield
Maybe. But John Edwards is a Democrat. So the tin foil hats get hidden away. Now if he were a Republican…
Edwards’s bizarre performance on Nightline only raises further questions about paternity and where the money came from and what the quid pro quos are. Almost nobody believed his cringing admission Friday night — Gail Collins’s NYT column Ken Doll in Lust raises many of the obvious questions: “He had no idea why his national finance chairman has been funneling payments to his ex-mistress, and he was apparently never tempted to pick up the phone to ask. His 2 a.m. visit with the woman, Rielle Hunter, at a Beverly Hills hotel last month was a secret mission to keep her from going public about their liaison, the briefness and meaninglessness of which cannot be stressed too often. And he has no idea what baby that was in The National Enquirer picture.” And if Edwards never saw a baby during his midnight liaison with recent-mother Hunter but her six-month-old baby wasn’t there, where was the baby?
Watch the interview; two things are immediately obvious:
(1) Edwards is obviously lying through his teeth. Consistently dismissed Woodruff’s reasonable questions about paternity, money, and the LA meeting with Rielle Hunter by saying “these are things in supermarket tabloids that make the most outrageous allegations every week,” all in an interview to admit that these supermarket tabloid allegations were true all along. Bizarre. But at least we can see that Edwards is lying, so does this rule out sociopathy? I don’t know — the ASPD criteria sure look like good match with Edwards’s admitted behavior, and certainly the criteria for NPD. This whole scandal appears to be driven by personality disorders; an armchair diagnosis says that the principal actors are:
John Edwards: ASPD? Probably NPD.
Rielle Hunter: Probably BPD
Patrick Bateman: ASPD, NPD, and … Duct tape. I need it for… taping something.
(2) Major ongoing damage control in the Edwards household — Elizabeth wasn’t even present for the interview. The ostensible “reason” may be that Edwards needed to tell his wife he visited Hunter for a secret meeting after he was caught in LA by the Enquirer (as he admits), but his story must have been completely undermined by the Enquirer’s surprising “spy” photos of him with the baby. He sure couldn’t come clean on camera to Woodruff without undermining everything he has been saying, so there’s really no one left to lie to, Elizabeth included.
Edwards’s erratic performance invites further attack — this isn’t going to disappear until after all the paternity and money issues are tracked down. He owes it to his party and country to:
1. Get an independent DNA test done ASAP
2. Come clean on the money and services paid to Andrew Young and Rielle Hunter
3. Reveal the legal contracts the Youngs and Hunter undoubtedly signed to receive that money
4. Who was paying them off for Edwards
5. Whether the check writer and mansion-donators expected or demanded a quid pro quo from Edwards.
The Edwards coverup continues to this day!
Since August 7, 2008 at 6pm EST, the Internet Wayback Machine (Archive.org), has completely changed their website homepage!
Gone are all their statements about preserving digital content to prevent the dark ages, gone are all the statements from Brewster Kahle (founder) of nonpartisan activity, and gone is the employee photos from 2005.
Of course, unlike Frances Quinn, Fortunate Son was not born recently, so here are the originals.
Homepage as of Thursday August 7, 2008 at 6:00 pm PST.
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2005 Team photo on homepage as of Thursday August 7, 2008 at 6:00 pm PST
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Their new homepage without mission statements.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
I think some reports are stating that Rielle has been living under an assumed name(s) in California, I wonder if Andrew and Cheri Young have been doing the same? Anyways, since we have Cheri’s picture and profile that had been showcased on Oprah, I figured I could try to find out some more info on Andrew Young - not only to try and find a picture of him (has any blogger or news outlet published one yet?) but more importantly, to try and figure out just what Andrew was doing around late May/early June of 2007. From what I’ve found so far, it certainly seems that around that time he was very busy in his home base of North Carolina, fervently fundraising and preparing for a series of parties/events celebrating Edwards’ 54th birthday on June 10th. I found this blog entry here:
http://samsondoggie.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/max-out/
In this entry the blogger describes being invited to a party/fundraising birthday event of John’s by Andrew Young. He then attends a party, with Andrew Young in attendance as well and mentions other important people that are attending as well as info on other events Andrew is helping to organize. I bet there are photos out there of all of these Edwards birthday events that include Andrew Young in the frame. I’ll have to keep googling.
It is funny that this blogger seems to think that Andrew Young is a bit of a flake. He describes getting the phone call from Andrew:
“…this is Kim from the John Edwards campaign,” says the voice on the line, “I have Operations Director Andrew Young on the phone for you.”
Funny. It sounds like a secretary, definitely not like a machine.
“Great,” I say, stumbling out of my languor, “put him on the line.”
My thought is that I am going to be asked to do something on behalf of my boss, since he is Ireland right now and can’t take this call.
“This is Adam at CRA-NC.” People like that, I think. At least in principle. Except that in practice it does sound a bit odd. I wonder if they think that they have reached a hotline for something illicit.
“Tom!” he says. “You’re on for the party, right?”
“Er, this is Adam Rust.” I feel compelled to remind this guy about my stature. “Adam Rust, from CRA-NC.”
“Right,” he says, “this is Andrew Young, from John Edwards’ campaign. I’m calling to invite you to John Edwards’ birthday party. He is going to be 54.”
Well, I can definitely agree with Adam Rust that Andrew Young seems to be a bit too annoyingly focused on “fundraising”. I wonder if he ever had to ring Fred Baron to remind him that another beginning of a month was approaching?
Hey, quick question for anybody out there - why is Sam Stein over at the Huffington Post saying that Rielle and John met in the winter of 2006? The Enquirer’s October 2007 article said that Rielle had met John “18 months ago,” thus I would assume that means around April 2006. I also thought Rielle’s contract with John’s “One America Committee” was from July 2006 until the end of December 2006. Mickey Kaus over at Slate is quoting Sam’s dateline of the first meeting as being in the winter of 2006 and drawing conclusions based on that info - I hope Sam and Mickey correct their articles.
All 4 John Edward videos that were Produced by Reille Hunter
I dont even know what to think about all of this. You be the judge!
Edwards Webisode 1: Plane Truths
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/politics/edwards-webisode-1-plane-truths.html
John Edwards - Webisode 2
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/politics/john-edwards-missing-webisode.html
Missing Edwards Webisode 3 - Plight of Uganda
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/politics/missing-edwards-webisode-3-plight-of-uganda.html
Missing Edwards Webisode 4 - Plugs
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/politics/missing-edwards-webisode-4-plugs.html
Hey, it seems like Rielle was actually living with Mimi Hockman in South Orange (just as I had posted earlier that I suspected she was living with Mimi on and off, at least until moving to North Carolina). From Jonathan Darman’s new Newsweek article:
“I struck up a conversation with the woman at the next event, as we waited outside. She told me her name and asked me what my astrological sign was, which I thought was a little unusual. I told her. She smiled, and began telling me her life story: how she was working as a documentary-film maker, living with a friend in South Orange, N.J., but how she’d previously had “many lives.”
Wonder if Mimi will ever answer any reporters’ questions? Rielle probably was living with Mimi in South Orange(at least from time to time when not on a yoga retreat or in California) up until she left for NC because the Enquirer says that she “left the New Jersey area” for Chapel Hill. I bet Mimi had some interesting conversations with Rielle before her departure from NJ.
Oh, also, Jonathan Darman mentions that his conversation with Rielle happened July 7, 2006 when he was covering Edwards in Iowa - so Sam Stein is wrong about winter of 2006 being the first time Rielle and Edwards met.
Hey everyone, I’m confused because the Enquirer had reported in December 2007 that:
“Edwards’ lawyer called The ENQUIRER and denied the well-coiffed Democratic candidate is the father of Rielle’s baby, adding that Rielle would deny it as well.
A day later, in a shocking twist, the attorney for Mr. Young issued a statement that Young fathered Rielle’s baby!
“Andrew Young is the father of Ms. Hunter’s unborn child,” declared his Washington, D.C.-based attorney.
“Sen. Edwards knew nothing about the relationship between these former co-workers, which began when they worked together in 2006.”
Why would Andrew Young’s attorney make sure to add the detail that Edwards knew nothing about this secret relationship Rielle and Andrew were having while working on his campaign back in 2006? Edwards now keeps stressing how he was the one having the affair with Rielle in 2006. Would Edwards, if asked about this at present answer that Andrew, unbeknownst to him, had started dating Rielle in 2006 after he and Rielle had ended their own affair? Also, Andrew seems to have been very busy in North Carolina with his wife Cheri and their kids. If Andrew is the “apparent father” (Edwards seems to be saying “apparent” to allow for other scenarios/false narratives to be constructed for public consumption in the future) then it is pretty amazing that he was able to conduct an affair with the NJ/NYC/California - based Rielle for at least part (according to his attorney) of 2006 and then well into 2007, at least until late May and then obviously keep in contact with Rielle and arrange for her to move close to him in Chapel Hill.
I’m sure bloggers (and reporters at this point, how refreshing!) will be dissecting this as well as the million other inconsistencies and contradictions, but I just thought I’d point out the obvious, too!
kris: winter usually lasts from late november to march-april, at least north of the equator in temperate zones. It sounds like some people are misinterpreting the use of the term ‘winter’, not that sam stein is using the term incorrectly, just… ambiguously.
Andrew Young was busy getting arrested in July September 2006.
http://stranahan.com/2008/08/09/andrew-youngs-criminal-record/
Kris - really excellent catch re:Andrew Young and his PHYSICAL where abouts as opposed to Rielle’s where abouts during the first months of 2007 - this may be a legitimate angle to pursue, Andrew Young and Reille Hunter’s ability to engage in an affair… I also wonder the following (please excuse upcoming ICKK factor) Is it possible the tipster (or whomever, (Rielle herself or Bob McGovern) obtained enough of John Edwards’ DNA from his visits to the hotel rooms for the National Enquirer to conduct their own little paternity test? I know it would not be legal in any sense, but it would be enough for them to print and possibly force Edwards into a real paternity test. Kind of like the blue dress…
From the days of Watergate, investigative reporters have lived by the maxim “Follow the money!” Why has the MSM not asked the most important question of all? How does a woman who has no visible means of support afford the payments on a $3,000,000 home that her friend and Edwards supporter Bob McGovern helped her finance? Come on guys! FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!
Please note, that it has been reported that Rielle is not interested in a paternity test.
And her website may have died for the simple reason that she didn’t renew the domain registration.
From the daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/09/2008-08-09_john_edwards_exmistress_wont_get_a_pater.html
John Edwards’ ex-mistress won’t get a paternity test for daughter
BY SOO YOUN in Santa Barbara, Calif and CELESTE KATZ in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Saturday, August 9th 2008, 10:10 PM
ABC News
“Rielle Hunter will not have a paternity test for her daughter, though John Edwards is willing to take one.
John Edwards’ ex-mistress Rielle Hunter says she won’t have a paternity test conducted on her daughter - not now, not ever.”
As far as indexing the site with the ‘Interbet Archives’ — any competent web developer can add a ‘robots.txt’ file to the site (used by legitimate search engines) to limit or request no indexing of pages. If one is set up to do so they will then NOT index the site and will remove any previously-saved pages.
If that’s the case, Michael, why was Being Is Free being indexed until a couple of days after I wrote about it? Just a fluke?
The question isn’t how it was done, but why, and by whom.
Hey! Now we know why Edwards traveled all that way to [allegedly] visit the baby. Snip, snip, lock of hair, INSTANT DNA. No need for Rielle’s permission.
Just a crazy thought.
Just for a fun sidenote:
It turns out that, according to the Charlotte Observer, Rielle:
“tried her hand at writing, churning out scripts for potential TV, film or stage projects with such titles as “Jupiter, Where Are You?,” “So Very Virgo,” “Reality Reels” and “It’s All About Uranus.” None of the titles, which are listed in the property settlement in the Hunters’ 1999 divorce, are in the authoritative Internet Movie Data Base.”
Heh.
FORTUNATE SON SAYS: There was no robots.txt file on any page of BeingisFree.org (see below), and limiting files will not “remove any previously saved pages” on Archive.org.
Archive.org intentionally removed RielleHunter’s cached webpage TWICE, and there is a trail a mile wide there for journalists to pursue.
A typical BeingisFree.org page structure below Michael’s comment:
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As far as indexing the site with the ‘Internet Archives’ — any competent web developer can add a ‘robots.txt’ file to the site (used by legitimate search engines) to limit or request no indexing of pages. If one is set up to do so they will then NOT index the site and will remove any previously-saved pages.
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Craig Jarvis of the News & Observer, also has a rough chronology of Andrew Young’s rise to power in the Edwards’ campaign.
http://www.newsobserver.com/front/v-print/story/1171233.html
Culligan confirm Andrew Aldridge Young’s wife Cheri Young’s maiden name was “Cheri Lynn Pfister, and that she was a nurse. Probably went to schools near where her Highland, IL parents now reside.
If she married at 25 in 1998, she was probably born in 1973 and graduate highschool in 1990 or 1991 and nursing school in 1994-5.
High Schools in Highland, IL listed below:
http://local.yahoo.com/IL/Highland/Education/K-12/High Schools
http://webofdeception.com/#andrewyoung
I wonder if this also means that some of the soon-to-be-unemployed media lefties will take Larry Sinclair’s claims about Hussein a little more seriously!
Remind me why we care, exactly? So the guy’s as slimy as McCain. Are we supposed to be surprised? Why aren’t we worrying more about the people who are actually in or running for office? You know John Edwards will never serve in an administration or Congress again.
Rielle Hunter is pronounced “RILEY” Hunter.
http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/1169932.html
Why do we care, exactly? Because it’s a great story. It’s got everything: sex, money, secret rendezvous, mysteriously disappearing websites and videos, corrupt politicians, a fatherless child, kooky new age mumbo jumbo. If Edwards were from Florida instead of North Carolina, this would be like a Carl Hiassen novel, unfolding in real life. Just imagine the scene as Edwards was cowering in the men’s room of the Beverly Hilton, National Enquirer reporters pounding on the door. You just KNOW that as bad as things looked for him, at some point during the ordeal he caught a glimpse of himself in the bathroom mirror and reflexively pulled out his pocket comb… Don’t worry laura, we know there’s an election coming up, and we’ll keep abreast of the real issues too. But please let us enjoy this juicy scandal while it lasts.
If you don’t, that’s perfectly fine. Although it does raise the question of why you’re taking the time to comment.
What’s the Mel Gibson movie where the brave protagonist is taken by force to the decaying civilization’s Inca city where he sees first hand the abject corruption and rot in the highest levels of Incan government. Half the people he sees at the top of the ruling class are barking mad, and the other half are pure evil hypocrites. So, with that in mind, is John Edwards barking mad, or is he an evil Hypocrite?
I feel sorry for Elizabeth Edwards. This is the last thing she needs. This whole Edwards scandal will probably make the media dig up McCain’s affair with Cindy McCain and ask why McCain left his first wife. Washington is a sad place.
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Uh, Fortunate Son, the Internet Archive’s mission statement and group picture has been moved off the front page and into the About IA section.
As for their terms of use, they say they’ll remove stuff if the author or publisher contacts them and requests that it be expunged from the collection after the fact:
So much for the big Internet Archive conspiracy theory. Someone contacted them and requested that their content be removed, and they complied, according to their TOS.
Uh, okay. Who? And why?
By the way: Good choice!