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John Edwards' $400 Haircut Tip Came From Obama Campaign 4:59 pm November 10, 2009 Remember John Edwards' famous $400 haircut? It was that story, leaked to Politico back in April of 2007, that helped bring down Edwards as a "man of the people" kind of candidate in his second bid for the White House. And where did that tip come from? The Obama campaign. Politico's Ben Smith, who initially reported the "hair apparent" story, writes that David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama's race for the White House, fesses up to the Obama campaign's role in leaking the story: I was...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- While former Sen. John Edwards' political career may be over, 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's may just be starting, a Gallup Poll suggests. Edwards' favorable ratings dropped 27 points between July 2004 and January 2008. The decline was the steepest in consecutive polls since Gallup began using its favorable/unfavorable format in 1992, the Gallup Poll said Friday. The former U.S. senator from North Carolina was Sen. John Kerry's Democratic running mate in 2004 and ran for president early in the 2008 election cycle. He was rated favorably by 21 percent of respondents and...

Former presidential candidate John Edwards is said to be ready to admit that he fathered a love child. But Hades may have a skating rink before his wife, Elizabeth, signs off on such a confession. A source close to Elizabeth Edwards says the former Senator's wife is sniping at former Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter via an online pseudonym. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/27/2009-09-27_john_edwards_exmistress_rielle_hunter_targeted_by_elizabeth_edwards_in_blog_comm.html#ixzz0SL2aaST3 Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/27/2009-09-27_john_edwards_exmistress_rielle_hunter_targeted_by_elizabeth_edwards_in_blog_comm.html#ixzz0SL2aaST3 As a grand jury in North Carolina considers whether Edwards misused campaign funds to cover up the scandal, Elizabeth still can't abide his former mistress, Rielle Hunter. Word is Elizabeth vehemently opposed the plan, now in...

A federal grand jury is reportedly winding down its investigation into whether former senator John Edwards broke any laws when his political committees made payments to his former mistress, Rielle Hunter. But here’s a random question: why is Edwards, who quit the 2008 Democratic primary almost two years ago, still spending money from his presidential fund-raising accounts? Since January, the John Edwards for President committee along with a separate account, Edwards for President, have spent more than $625,000, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. That’s not much compared to compared to usual Washington standards (A House race,...

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...

John Edwards Promised to Wed Mistress; Dave Matthews to Play Ceremony Monday – September 21, 2009 11:51am John Edwards promised mistress Rielle Hunter that he'd marry her once his wife Elizabeth died of cancer, Edwards' former aide alleges in a shocking new book proposal. According to a copy obtained by the New York Times, Andrew Young claims Edwards told Hunter that the ceremony would take place on a New York rooftop and feature an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band.

The ickiest detail in The New York Times story on John Edwards? Well, according to the paper, a book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young says the one-time senator, one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate once promised Rielle Hunter they would marry on a New York City rooftop with the Dave Matthews Band making a special guest appearance. (While bands love publicity, I can imagine the DMB cringing at this particular association.) If I knew my husband was making plans with a girlfriend for wedding No. 2 – after my death – he could cancel any festivities because he would...

The Edwards Drama Awaits a Denouement By NEIL A. LEWIS CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The story of the spectacular rise and fall of John Edwards, with its sordid can’t-look-away dimensions, is moving slowly but deliberately to its conclusion here in North Carolina. Mr. Edwards, the one-term senator who came close to being elected vice president in 2004 and ran a credible campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, remains largely secluded at his 100-acre estate here. But a federal grand jury in nearby Raleigh is investigating whether any crimes were committed in connection with campaign laws in an effort...

SHE’S 87, STILL KICKING, and almost certainly still dieting, and the old bird has earned herself a scholarly biography the hard way; if Helen Gurley Brown’s journey from the outhouses and tent revivals of the Ozarks into the cocktail parties and four-color closings of the Hearst Corporation can’t make a corker of a story, nothing can. Bad Girls Go Everywhere, by Jennifer Scanlon, a gender and women’s-studies professor at Bowdoin, is a comprehensive report on HGB theory, which is in a revisionist phase. It rejects the earlier view, long held by giants of the women’s movement such as Gloria Steinem,...

Potential readers should not be deterred by the vaguely Hallmarkish cover—and subtitle—of this book, both of which may be blamed on the publisher. I’m assuming that Broadway Books has a packaging-and-editing style all its own, because on page 88 it makes Elizabeth Edwards tell us something that “Edmund Wilson, the incomparable twentieth-century literary critic, said.” Perhaps someone at the firm felt that this would explain just exactly who Wilson was to a reader who didn’t know, but the effect is to be condescending and to diminish the impact of reading a senator’s wife who is well able to cite Edmund...

Only one recently-wronged political wife—Elizabeth Edwards—has written a book discussing her ordeal. But in its segment today on "forgiveness," Good Morning America ignored John Edwards and his wandering ways. When it came to polyamorous politicans, ABC focused exclusively—surprise!—on two Republicans: Mark Sanford and David Vitter. The release of the Libyan Lockerbie murderer, the Manson murders anniversary and the re-entry into the NFL of Michael Vick were the jumping-off points for the segment. But when politics popped up, the only examples bore the GOP label . . . View video here.

John Edwards and Rielle Hunter go on the Maury Povich Paternity Test Show to see who is the daddy! VIDEO

The National Enquirer is reporting what everyone already knew—that John Edwards is in fact the father of Rielle Hunter's child—and a North Carolina TV station says he may admit paternity. This news has been met largely with shrugs. Edwards is not only a failed candidate, he is a failed politician, with next to no influence among Democrats. Still, the news raises two tantalizing hypothetical questions: What if Edwards had won the Democratic nomination? What if he had won the presidency? First question first. It's easy to forget how close John Edwards came to being the Democratic nominee. When Edwards entered...

In an August 2008 interview with ABC John Edwards denies that he is the father of his mistress' baby. Edwards also says he is open to a paternity test.

Former Sen. John Edwards (D) is expected to admit that he is the father of a child born by his former mistress. So ends one of the most shameful political story in recent memory, as it ends a career. Edwards - who ran for president in 2004 and in 2008 (and was John Kerry's 2004 running mate) - was supposed to be the Democrat's best hope (before Barack Obama), in the model of Robert F. Kennedy. However, as his wife battled inoperable breast cancer, stories began swirling during the 2008 campaign that the former Senator at a love-child with a...

Oh my: yes, John Edwards was and is indeed the father of the baby, Frances, born to Rielle Hunter. That, at least, is what the National Enquirer is reporting. Yes, really, a US Senator was not only cheating upon his cancer stricken wife, he then had a child by his mistress and ran to be US President while covering the matter up. He even got one of his aides to make claim to paternity. At the moment of course we don't actually know that John Edwards is the father of Reille Hunter's baby: we only have one report of a...

Report: DNA Tests Proves Edwards Fathered Videographer's Daughter A secret DNA test proves former presidential candidate John Edwards is the father of the baby born from an affair with a campaign aide, the National Enquirer reported Wednesday. FOXNews.com Wednesday, August 12, 2009 A secret DNA test proves former presidential candidate John Edwards is the father of the baby born from an affair with a campaign aide, the National Enquirer reported Wednesday. The Enquirer, which last year broke the story of Edwards' affair with campaign videographer Reille Hunter and their alleged "love child," said the test was taken after Hunter tried...

BOMBSHELL WORLD EXCLUSIVE! John Edwards has secretly undergone a DNA test - and it proves he's the father of his mistress' love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Multiple sources confirm the bombshell development, and reveal lawyers for the disgraced presidential candidate are privately hammering out child support payments with his former lover Rielle Hunter. Edwards - who hotly denied he was the child's father when he publicly confessed his affair with Rielle on ABC's Nightline a year ago - has broken the news to his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, sources say. But The ENQUIRER has also learned that Rielle testified...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The former mistress of John Edwards arrived at a federal courthouse in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting Thursday -- an appearance that comes as federal investigators examine the two-time presidential candidate's finances. Rielle Hunter walked into the building through a back entrance and holding a young child. Edwards adamantly denied during his confessional interview with ABC News last summer that he had fathered a child with Hunter, and he welcomed a paternity test. His wife, Elizabeth, has said while promoting her book that she doesn't know if her husband is the father.

Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress, went inside the federal courthouse in Raleigh Thursday morning. A grand jury is meeting in the courthouse. FBI agents escorted Hunter into a back entrance ... Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina and two-time presidential candidate, is under investigation to see if campaign funds were illegally paid to Hunter. There is also widespread speculation that Edwards fathered her child.

It looks like Barack Obama has disappointed the DUmmies to the extent that they are now looking for a new hero. And who have they chosen? None other than an old hero, the ambulance chasing philanderer known as...John Edwards! Yes, unbelievably the Breck Girl now has strange new respect in DUmmieland as you can see in this THREAD, "John Edwards was RIGHT..." Too FUnnie! You sure know how to pick them, DUmmies. So let us now watch the DUmmies idolize their new/old hero in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, wondering if Edwards is still channeling...

Last night during his national press conference, President Barack Obama maligned doctors as doing unnecessary operations based on greed, not the best interest of the patient. He said: “Right now, doctors a lot of times are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that’s out there. … The doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, ‘You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid’s tonsils out,’” Obama told a prime-time news conference. The president added: “Now, that may be the right thing to do, but I’d rather have...

Do you know what the most often performed operation is in the United States? With heart disease being the number one killer in America, you might think it would be related to that, perhaps bypass surgery or angioplasty.It's cesarean section. In 1965, only 4.5 percent of children were delivered via c-section. Today, 31 percent are. That's a huge increase for a procedure that was once reserved to emergency situations. And as the Los Angeles Times notes, it has resulted in "an explosion in medical bills, an increase in complications -- and a reconsideration of the cesarean as a sometimes unnecessary...

Is Mark Sanford's behavior contemptible enough to make him King of Heels, or does that (dis)honor belong to John Ensign, Eliot Spitzer or John Edwards? ... Let's compare [them] low-blow by low-blow ...

...last week I thought Mark Sanford could survive the adultery. But I don't think he can survive his weirdly exhibitionist public meditations on the adultery. I doubt many of his constituents share his view of the gubernatorial office as a personal growth experience the entire state can benefit from, and he might at least run some of the talking points of his thrice-daily confessionals past the staffers: "South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford may be sleeping in the doghouse permenantly after telling the AP that his mistress is his soulmate, but that he'll try to fall back in love with his...

NYDN: Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people's minds off his own cheating scandal.

Andrew Young found the purported sex tape while he and his family were unpacking at their California home, the Daily News reported John Edwards and his former mistress Rielle Hunter once made a sex tape, the New York Daily News reported Sunday. The tape was discovered by former Edwards' aide Andrew Young, claims a Daily News source who saw Young's book proposal. [snip] Young reportedly found the purported sex tape while he and his family were unpacking at their California home, the Daily News reported.

Well, we have a couple Democrat scandals coming across the plate courtesy of John Conyers and John Edwards. Oh, and in case you were distracted by all the Michael Jackson music video tributes, terrorists are still killing people and the Iranians are still dying on the streets. Beyond that, our one-party "democratic" system is taking huge strides to shove universal healthcare and Cap and Tax legislation down the unwilling throats of Americans. Here are your Sunday digg suggestions. If we missed anything you think should be on the list, let us know! http://diggsandburies.blogspot.com/

Aide Claims John Edwards Made Sex Tape Updated 11:15 AM EDT, Sun, Jun 28, 2009 Related Topics:Rielle Hunter Former aide Andrew Young says John Edwards is the father of mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter. A former aide to John Edwards claims the ex-senator and his mistress made a sex tape, according to someone who saw the book proposal. Former aide Andrew Young -- who signed a deal with St. Matin's Press to pen a tell-all book -- says in his proposal that he is not the father of mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter and that the ex-senator, who has denied paternity, is...

What she calls her husband's "glaring indiscretion" may not have soured Elizabeth Edwards on the idea of marriage, but she concedes that it has irrevocably dashed her and her husband's dreams of living in the White House and, indeed, any hope of her husband winning any elective office whatsoever. Mrs. Edwards, the wife of former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, was at the National Press Club Thursday evening for a question and answer session to promote her new book "Resilience." Mrs. Edwards revealed her husband has determined his affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer, has made...

John Edwards admits federal investigators are asking him questions. Federal subpoenas were issued Friday related to Mike Easley. As the separate federal probes into a former senator and the former governor are emerging, Democrats are taking steps to replace the Republican prosecutor who is spearheading the inquiries about the highest-profile North Carolina Democrats of the past decade. All the nearly 100 top federal prosecutors across the country serve at the will of the president. Any replacement for U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding, a Bush appointee who has kept a priority on public corruption cases from Raleigh to the coast, will...

Here is a tip for women out there. If you absolutely hate talking about your husband having a love child with another woman, then DON'T write a book about his affair and then go on a publicity tour promoting the publication. Because if you do, you are sure to be asked highly embarrassing questions about the love child as happened to Elizabeth Edwards when she appeared on "The View" yesterday. Take a look at the video in this Huffington Post THREAD, "Elizabeth Edwards Talks Possible Love Child On 'The View'" and you could almost hear her mind screaming out...

Even a juicy political affair and an appearance on Oprah didn't help Elizabeth Edwards sell a lot of books. To say that her new memoir, Reflections, underperformed would be an understatement. The book trailed behind Michael J. Fox's memoir and Mark Levin's Liberty, only opening with a scan of 18,853 units. To put that into perspective: Fox's book scanned 36,321 units this past week, with a total of 138,128 since it's release. The battle of the books is on!

John Edwards' marriage is over, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. His cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth kicked him out of their bedroom more than two years ago when he confessed to cheating on her, and the two are now living apart, sources say.

The National Enquirer serves up a double play this week with two marriages in crisis. To your left is Elizabeth Edwards kicking her cheating husband John Edwards out! And, to your right is Kate Gosselin “losing all 8 kids.” A good week for The National Enquirer? I’d say lucky. Because shortly, you will see three - yes three - Jon & Kate covers. The move to put the Edwards’ story on this week’s cover was a very smart one. In addition, the specific cover lines on each story make this an overall strong sell. The Edwards line “She Kicks Him...

In addition to a sympathy tour on Oprah Winfrey’s show, Elizabeth Edwards was interviewed by National Public Radio on Thursday. But All Things Considered co-anchor Michele Norris deserves credit for channeling some of the resentment of voters – both Edwards voters and others – who feel defrauded not just by John, but by Elizabeth, who consented to completely fraudulent media stories celebrating her wedded bliss. Deep into the interview, Norris asked the toughie:

Evolutionary scientists feels Darwin's theory incapable of understanding scumbags  Noted atheist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins believes that John Edwards is damned to hell.Dawkins, author of the God Delusion and the Selfish Gene, as well as host of The Family Feud, said the former Senator, presidential candidate, and one-time human being should be forced to pay eternally for philandering while his wife lay stricken with breast cancer.Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, has written an account of the infidelity called, Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities. The working title, "I hope my husband's testicles drop off," was passed...

There are many elements of tragedy about the John Edwards scandal story currently being unfolded again in public, and on Oprah, due to the publication of his wife's (almost) tell-all book. However, let's face it, all this renewed attention to the foibles of John Edwards is sure to cause yet more late night comedian jokes. And perhaps the funniest bit of comedy yet is the unintentional humor provided by Huffington Post blogger, Henry Blodget, who provides financial advice to Edwards' mistress in such excruciating detail as to be highly comical. Keep in mind when reading Blodget's blog entry, "The Business...

If you're familiar with Maury Povich's talk show, you've no doubt been exposed to his infamous "Who's Your Daddy?" segment, in which multiple men are given DNA tests — and told the results — in order to determine the identity of a single mother's child. Here in Washington, there's plenty of buzz about whether former presidential candidate John Edwards is the father of onetime mistress Rielle Hunter's year-old baby. Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for an interview slated to run Thursday and said that she had "no idea" whether her husband is the father of Hunter's...

John Edwards' furious mistress is demanding he submit to a DNA test, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively! Rielle Hunter - the longtime secret lover of the disgraced 2-time presidential candidate - wants definitive proof that Edwards is the father of her 14-month-old love child Frances and is working with a lawyer to take legal action, say sources. The blonde divorcee - who gave birth in February 2008 - was slammed in the explosive new book Resilience written by the ex-senator's cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth.

It has been nine months since former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) put his megaphone down, stopped talking about the "moral shame" of 37 million Americans who live in poverty every day, and started addressing his own "moral shame." Since John confessed on ABC's "Nightline" to his affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, there has been a slow drip of stories: from timeline inconsistencies to Rielle's move from Santa Barbara back to New Jersey. And now a federal grand jury is looking into whether or not the campaign used money to cover up his affair. Most of America had forgotten about...

The news that federal prosecutors are investigating John Edwards' presidential campaign payments to his mistress brings a sense of satisfaction. The phoniest man in American politics is finally getting the comeuppance he so richly deserves. With his $400 haircuts and investments in predatory lenders, all while saying ending poverty was a "moral issue" and the "cause of my life," Edwards set new standards for hypocrisy as he sought the Democratic nomination. His contrived compassion was a joke among rivals. And that was before we learned he had an affair with a campaign aide. Yet any sense of justice served is...

How the mighty have fallen. John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, are back in the news because of a book written by the latter about her philandering husband. Even the New York Times which less than a year ago shunned any mention of the John Edwards scandal which was all over the Blogosphere has weighed in on his fate in the form of a Maureen Dowd column: Elizabeth Edwards would have made a wonderful candidate herself. But she poured everything into John. And then John betrayed her. And then John betrayed his staffers, going ahead with the 2008 campaign, letting...

Despite John Edwards' denials that he fathered a baby with his onetime mistress, his betrayed wife Elizabeth said she has "no idea" whether the former presidential candidate is a new dad. In an exclusive interview set to air Thursday, Oprah Winfrey asks Elizabeth Edwards about rampant speculation that he is the father of campaign videographer Rielle Hunter's one-year-old daughter. "I've seen a picture of the baby. I have no idea. It doesn't look like my children but I don't have any idea," Edwards told Winfrey. Edwards talked about the state of her marriage, her husband's infidelity and her ongoing battle...

Asked if she is still in love with her husband, Elizabeth Edwards told Oprah Winfrey “that's a complicated question.” And when Winfrey asked about marriage, Edwards said, “Neither one of us is out the door so I guess it's day by day, but maybe it's month-by-month.” Edwards' appearance on Oprah Thursday marks her most extensive public comments since former Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. John Edwards acknowledged an affair last summer. Winfrey interviewed both Edwards at their sprawling, 28,000-foot Chapel Hill home. Her publicists released a partial transcript Tuesday of what they called “a no-holds-barred conversation, where no topic...

The DUmmies just can't let go of their erstwhile hero, John Edwards. Despite everything that has happened, they still cling to him to the extent that they are peeved at his wife for writing an (almost) tell-all book about the Breck Girl. I say "almost" because I understand she didn't address whether the daughter of his mistress is really his. I think we already know the answer to that but apparently, Elizabeth prefers not to face that ugly fact. It's strange that the DUmmies are attacking Elizabeth because she is one of the very few public people to actually...

It's hard to remember now but only a little over a year ago, John Edwards was THE choice of most of the DUmmies for the nomination. Of Hillary, The One, and the Breck Girl, the latter was overwhelmingly preferred. Even the carefully non-committal Pied Piper Pitt claimed Edwards was his preference but, in typically safe fashion, only AFTER Edwards dropped out of the nomination race. This shows you just how much the DUmmies were able to discern just how much of a phony Edwards was. And now that Edwards is being investigated for funneling campaign funds and maybe his...

RALEIGH Federal investigators are sifting through the records of money that helped John Edwards' presidential campaign to determine if any was used to keep quiet his affair with Rielle Hunter. Edwards, a Democrat and former U.S. senator, acknowledged the investigation to The News & Observer. “I am confident that no funds from my campaign were used improperly,” Edwards said in a statement. “However, I know that it is the role of government to ensure that this is true. We have made available to the United States both the people and the information necessary to help them get the issue resolved...

In her new memoir, Resilience, John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, said she was sick to her stomach when her husband confessed his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. She writes, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up." Which is probably the same way her husband reacted when the National Enquirer broke the story of his affair and chased him through a parking garage at the Beverly Hilton. Elizabeth, who has an incurable cancer, said Hunter seduced her husband by telling him he was "so hot" and that though John confessed the affair to her in 2006, he...

John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter is "ready for her close-up" with her first national TV interview since the cheating scandal wrecked his career, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. In a startling change of heart, Rielle Hunter has decided to face the cameras and has narrowed her choice of interviewer to either "ABC News" correspondents Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters, say sources. "Rielle had previously assured John she wasn't going to spill the beans," said a close source. "But she's changed her tune after thinking Elizabeth Edwards might disparage her in the upcoming interview she's already taped with Oprah Winfrey. "The...