Posted on 08/13/2008 8:23:37 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Elizabeth Edwards authorized a friend to attack John Edwards over his "she was in remission" interview on Nightline. That's the stunning assertion of Sandra Westfall, the "People" magazine writer who authored the article [excerpt here] containing the friend's crticism. Westfall was a guest on tonight's Verdict with Dan Abrams.
DAN ABRAMS: Sandra, let me start with you. Is it fair to say that the story that you guys have in this week's magazine is effectively Elizabeth Edwards' side of the story?
SANDRA WESTFALL: You know, she authorized her brother and her best friend to speak to me on her behalf.
View video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Elizabeth authorizes friend to attack John ping to Today show list.
bttt
My my, that does sound familiar.... Obambi says that sort of thing a lot. I do hope the John Edwards farce continues to unravel quickly enough to keep some MSM attention, before they decide to wash their hands of it all as "old news" (would not happen with a Republican scandal of course, but with leading Demagogues anything that does not get out quickly while there is still an official scandal may never be heard by most of the public.
Cancer or no cancer, reps from the DNC cheat on their wives.
JFK
Carter but only in his heart,
Gary Hart
and who can not just love the stain making Clinton, "Oral ain't sex."
Adultery and hurting those who you claim to love is a requirement for leadership positions for DNC.
Anyone who can rationalize destroying the lives and livelihoods of innocent OBGYNs in the Carolinas using phony science can rationalize this.
Interesting. Thanks for watching/reporting/posting, Mark. Much appreciated.
Hehe ...
Lyndon Johnson, according to a girl I know who worked in the WH at the time, fathered a child and one of Johnson’s loyal aides claimed that the kid was his and married the mother.
I doubt that!
i hope she’s not done with him
she can throw him out and not suffer financially
how incredibly selfish is he?
stress can induce the return of cancer
It’s time for her to go . . .
Cancer or no cancer, reps from the DNC cheat on their wives.
JFK
Carter but only in his heart,
Gary Hart
and who can not just love the stain making Clinton, "Oral ain't sex."
Adultery and hurting those who you claim to love is a requirement for leadership positions for DNC.
Are you going to add John McCain to that list? Didn't his wife have cancer as well? Or is it that she just stayed with him the entire time he was in the Hanoi Hilton...
or was it both?
Spin Control...
“No one should assume it was easy,” says Hargrave McElroy, Elizabeth Edwards’ best friend, in PEOPLE magazine’s latest issue hitting newsstands Friday.
Once news of the affair went public, the PEOPLE magazine cover story says Elizabeth Edwards encouraged her husband to come clean.
Friends tell PEOPLE magazine Edwards is working hard to regain his wife’s trust, that they “are not living separate lives. They are together in that house, as before.” They say his remorse “is real” and that “he is in pain.” The magazine describes others in the Edwards’ social circle as “outraged.”
” Are you going to add John McCain to that list? Didn’t his wife have cancer as well? Or is it that she just stayed with him the entire time he was in the Hanoi Hilton... or was it both?”
Don’t forget Newt.
Gang, human failure in this regard is pretty much bipartisan. To quote someone who is very quotable when such allegations came to light in his era — As you judge, so you will be judged.
I don’t think either one was running for President of the United States when it happened and/or the wife knew it & still campaigned for him as if nothing had happened!
John will have to move in with Reille because he'll be homeless (part of the “other America” don’tcha know.)
I find it interesting that the people who reflexively blurt out about John McCain’s ancient past (low blow cheap-shots en masse), in response to the news about John Edwards’ situation, seem to be the same people who claim that it’s the rural white people (read “Republicans”) who “wouldn’t vote for an African-American”. Always with the blame-shifting onto Republicans... Always with the projection...
JOHN EDWARDS: Can I explain to you what happened? First of all, it happened during a period after she was in remission from cancer. That's no excuse, in any possible way for what happened.
ABRAMS: Alright, so here's what People magazine reports: "one family friend is outraged by both his behavior and his public apology. The idea that so long as her cancer is in remission, his cheating is somehow not so bad—it's mind-blowing." Before I go to Lynn [Sweet], Sandra, was that person also authorized to speak by Elizabeth Edwards?
WESTFALL: Yeah. I'll tell you that that wasn't the only person who told me that.
ABRAMS: Wow.
WESTFALL: They had former aides screaming at the television --
ABRAMS: Wow.
WESTFALL: -- throughout that interview."
There's nothing like that Gomer Pyle voice offering hair-splitting situation ethics that, after all, she was in remission when he was boinging the girlfriend. Who would think of such a conditional clause to somehow lessen the gravity and evil of adultery?
Also, she left.
Also, she is still friends with him and is supporting him...
Their whole circumstances were very much different...
sorry to disappoint -
BINGO
I still haven’t figured out the details but this is Bush’s fault somehow
All this couldn’t have been happening to a more deserving
turd.
EdWards came before us and tried to sell us that he was different. That he cared for the displaced and poor. He used
his wifes cancer as a campaign stunt. What a croc.
Hope to see this assclown in the dustbin of history.
Highpockets I don’t know if you are a man or woman. Makes no difference.
If your spouse found out you’d been receiving or giving Oral you’d find out that clinton is wrong and that oral IS sex.
Course you know that when Bill made that very stupid self serving statement.
I debated a Dem on local radio yesterday and she blamed the Russian invasion of Georgia on the United States.
One has to wonder if Elizabeth also authorized John to see the slut in July.
The Hanoi Hilton guests rarely if ever had female guests.
Jane Fonda stopped a few times but had no time for Americans.
What with ensuring the defeat of South Vietnam, there was just not time to help murder of a few of the 1.5 million Asians abandoned by the same jet setting communist.
Socialism is so cool!!! Go Jane GO
McCains first wife did not abandon him while he was in prison in Vietnam was the point I was trying to make. He abandoned her when he returned and noticed that after an accident, she didn’t look so pretty any more...
I will go kicking and screaming to vote against Obama, not for Mccain.
See post 31.
What?
i’d be making friends with lorena bobbit, to get pointers on how to “bobbit” hubbies manhood
maybe john has a secret desire for a transexual operation with genital surgery?
does anyone think that bubba, given the same circumstances, would have dared to cheat on hill if she had terminal cancer?
None of this makes sense to normnal “thinking” people - What was John Edwards incentive to even tell his wife about the affair waaaaaaaaay back in 2006? I don’t believe he told her then - I think she may have found out about it recently - because he got caught by the Natl Inq.
Also, why would he be visiting this woman and her baby in secret in a hotel if it wasn’t his baby? What’s the incentive for him there?
I love this scandel because it exposes the liar Edwards is but I do feel sorry for his wife, who was the more likeable of their “team”
Is John Edwards’ former aide(Andrew Young)covering for him?
When Young was in his 20s, he was charged with passing worthless checks, possession of marijuana, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Charges of burglary and criminal mischief were thrown out in a Florida court in 1987.
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