If John Edwards thought nobody would be paying attention because he sorta-somewhat-partially confessed on a Friday? Oooof.
- Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft says she’s confirmed that Bob McGovern’s phone number and address, which were deleted from Margaret Sweet’s site but still appeared in the Google cache for another week or so, match California real estate records for a Robert Philip McGovern. She also has some very good questions about the relationship between McGovern and Edwards.
- If you didn’t scroll all the way down the 57 updates to yesterday’s post, here’s another link to Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman looking back on his friendship with Rielle Hunter. Darman wrote the Dec. 2006 “John Edwards, Untucked” story about those weird campaign web videos that were at the root (so to speak) of all this. Now that the feline has escaped the sack, apparently Darman’s not worried about being taken off Rielle’s Christmas card list. Or whichever New Age winter holiday she celebrates.
- Rielle allegedly had a nickname for Edwards. I’ve tried to type it out three times now, but the shuddering prevents me. Just go here.
- Lee Stranahan looks at the criminal record of Edwards aide, and alleged father of Frances Quinn Hunter, Andrew Young. Maybe Rielle is refusing the paternity test because she can’t face the possibility that this jerk really is the father? Just trying to consider all the angles…
- Psychology Today says John Edwards is nutty:
Edwards’ TV performance will go down in history. It is hard to find a way to parody it. He confessed to “a narcissism that leads you to believe you can do whatever you want, you’re invincible, and there will be no consequences.” We knew that. But, more incredible, Edwards was demonstrating the same narcissistic sense of invincibility in his supposed confession!
Like I said: It takes a special kind of narcissist to be narcissistic while confessing to his own narcissism.
If you find anything else new or interesting in the next 6-8 hours or so, please leave it in the comments. I’m going to take a nap or three. You have to hand it to Edwards: He said, “Okay, you know what, these bloggers wanna mess with me? I’ll make ‘em work weekends!” Unfortunately for him, we’re not all as dumb as he thinks, we don’t like being lied to, and we have no social lives.
Why Edwards is really in trouble…It’s the money, stupid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059486/posts
Just as I suspected: Andrew Young’s primary job duties were focused on fundraising efforts in North Carolina and NOT flying around with John and Rielle all over the place or frequenting NYC. See this article in The Olympian.
“Edwards told ABC News that his affair with Hunter ended in 2006, and that he didn’t know when Young might have become involved with the woman. Young continued working for the campaign, primarily organizing fundraising events in North Carolina, until approximately one year ago. Campaign finance records show he was making about $3,500 a month.”
Love Lips? Really? On the bight side no one has to worry that their brain surgeon was involved in some sordid affair.
I can’t top “Love Lips”.
Someone should set up a Paypal account for Rielle (”Riley”) Hunter’s child’s college fund whose share devalues over a twelve month period and if unclaimed in 12 months is eventually donated 100% to a charity for women who suffer the abuses of powerful deadbeat dads.
Edwards deserves some sort of Deciever of the year award:
Here is Edwards on Clinton on Feb. 12, 1999:
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. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.
Found that here:
http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/john_edwards_in_1999
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“a narcissism that leads you to believe you can do whatever you want, you’re invincible, and there will be no consequences.”
Wouldn’t this terrible malady have first troubled the lad when he began winning multi-million dollar law suits? When he got elected to the Senate? When he ran for Vice President of the US?
Rielle wasn’t Edwards’ first rodeo. There must have been other bimbos over the years and a system in place to keep them happy and quiet afterwards.
Google trends shows Rielle Hunter story holds 15 of the top 25 Google search terms!!!
As usual, the La Times, of course, gets it wrong, stating “Fifty of the top 25″, but hey, at least it no longer has a news blackout of the John Edwards affair:
“As of this posting, one measure of national interest in the story of the affair between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter is Google’s Hot Trends list. Fifty of the top 25 most popular Google search terms related to the Edwards affair story, including the top five queries.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/google-trends-r.html
Their original screenshot, just in case, like so many other Edwards web references at Archive.org, it changes:
http://i37.tinypic.com/el5kyp.jpg
Simon, the Psychology Today money quote is:
Edwards almost certainly has NPD, and quite possibly ASPD.
Rielle Hunter almost certainly has BPD.
This whole scandal is driven by personality disorders.
You want hypocrisy? Here it is. Bill Clinton is giving a speech at the convention, Bill Clinton who had an affair with an intern while he was President, Bill Clinton who had at least one affair while he was Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton who at first denied both affairs before having to fess up to them, Bill Clinton is giving a speech at the convention to nominate Barack Obama but John Edwards, who also had an affair, who also denied it before he had to fess up to it, who was his party’s Vice Presidential nominee 4 years ago, who was a candidate for his party’s nomination this year, who still has delegates for this convention is all but exiled from the convention (at the moment).
Burns’s preferred method of killing horses was electrocution. It had been so ever since the day in 1982 when, he says, the late James Druck, an Ocala, Fla., attorney who represented insurance companies, paid him to kill the brilliant show jumper Henry the Hawk, on whose life Druck had taken out a $150,000 life-insurance policy. In fact, says Burns, Druck personally taught him how to rig the wires to electrocute Henry the Hawk: how to slice an extension cord down the middle into two strands of wire; how to attach a pair of alligator clips to the bare end of each wire; and how to attach the clips to the horse—one to its ear, the other to its rectum. All he had to do then, says Burns, was plug the cord into a standard wall socket. And step back.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1004483/1/index.htm
Bob McGovern did not, apparently, dress up as a clown for neighborhood children.
“Neighbors of Mr. McGovern described him as a friendly and low-key person who often puttered around his small front lawn in slacks and a dress shirt. They said he was active in community and political causes around Santa Barbara, particularly those having to do with the construction of more low-income housing.
John Holmes, who lives across the street from the McGoverns, said on Sunday that the couple had lived on the block for several years and blended into the neighborhood comfortably.
“Bob is a really pleasant guy, very interested in the community,” Mr. Holmes said. “The only thing that stood out about him was that he was often up early in the morning doing work around the house. I learned recently, too, that he and his wife took care of a relative in their home for a long time, a relative who was dying of cancer.”
While Mr. McGovern appeared to work at least partly from home, neighbors said they were unaware of his professional activities beyond community activism. One of his neighbors described him as a “spiritual” man who had offered help and counseling to people in the area.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/us/11edwards.html?_r=1&scp=10&sq=john edwards&st=cse&oref=slogin
Your picture of “Newsweek” made me curious about what they are writing about the Edwards matter… (in addition to the Darman article you linked to).
Well, if you go to Newsweek’s homepage, the only mention of Edwards on the whole page is a link to a SERIOUS (not updated) article about how he’s a (serious) contender for the VP slot. How can that be? Of course, the home page does link the Darman article, but only references Rielle Hunter on that link.
Oh Simon, I just want to give you a hug and tell you it will all be ok. I picture you with a massive ulcer from the black coffee consumed to report on events, and the bile generated by people ripping off your work without giving you credit.