Posted on 09/21/2009 12:27:22 PM PDT by AJKauf
The New York Times, of all news outlets, published a John Edwards mini-scoop Saturday (on its front page, no less), informing us the onetime Senator and presidential aspirant is “considering” owning up to the paternity of his putative love-child with Rielle Hunter.
Telling the simple truth is evidently something politicians in this post-George Washington era have to “consider” – no cherry trees for our John, nor for his wife Elizabeth who, the Times further informs us, is reluctant for her husband to make this revelation. In her view, the old saw “the truth shall make you free” does not apply directly to the Edwards family (unless it’s through managed leaks.)
But no matter. We all know by now that the Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are pretty far from the ideal couple, more like a blow-dried version of a John Cheever nightmare with a little John O’Hara and John Updike thrown in.
But what really gives here? Why is the Times suddenly so interested in the Edwards affair, a scandal the paper once assiduously ignored, saying nary a word for months as the incriminating photographs piled up in the National Enquirer?...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Because the tapes from Giles and O'Keefe keep coming out, and the NYT (and most of the MSM) has been instructed to provide a diversion.
Obama himself is going to Copenhagen until the storm is over.
If anyone thinks this is not planned, just watch the movie, WAG THE DOG.
Too Little! Too Late!
Also possible the NYT is slowly paving the way for Edwards to be rehabilitated. After all, he and Elizabeth are both rich phoney radicals, exactly the type the media adores.
Anything is possible. The question is why?
Do they think we don't have enough crooked liars in government?
I suspect that Edwards leaked this as a trial balloon and being a lefty he naturally leaks to the NYT. The NYT does not need to create a diversion from the ACORN story, it has just pretended it does not exist.
Who the heck cares?
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If he is the father and it has been proven then he is the father and doesn’t matter whether he OWNS UP TO IT OR NOT. That is one man I wouldn’t vote for no matter what. He is ruthless and dishonorable. If he is the father of this baby he needs to man up in private and make it right. We don’t care out here eddieeee whether you are or not but perhaps the child you have fathered might one day. Be a man and do the right thing for once in your life. Elizabeth? She needs to quit enabling. They are all a pitiful crew.
He is a disgraced former senator with no political prospects. I see no reason to keep paying attention to him.
“The revelation of ACORN as rotten to the core and a near-perfect illustration of a fundamental flaw in the welfare state is a challenge to their weltanschauung so extreme it would engender personality disintegration.”
Bump for excellence.
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