Posted on 08/19/2008 3:40:51 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
Brett Baier just reported on FOX news that John Edwards called the editor or the Charlotte Observer to ask he not print the story being put out that day by the National Enquirer because Elizabeth had cancer and this would be a bad thing for her cancer. He hastened to add that it was for Elizabeth that he made this request. Besides that, Edwards said the National Enquirer was tabloid trash. Edwards also pointed out that all of his friends in Norht Carolina read the Charlotte Observer.
The dude is shameless.
Sounds like a good song idea!
John Edwards is a bad thing for her cancer.
The truth is bad for Dems.
LOL! I would bet all his friends read the National Enquirer, too. They just won’t admit it.
As if Liz doesnt know her husband is still lying...
Wow, and not one denial in the whole thing!
Don’t worry John, your friends probably have skeletons in their closets, too.
Ok, maybe they haven’t been boinking a campaign staffer while their wife is battling cancer, but .....
Edwards said the National Enquirer was tabloid trash
Given the truth of the story he tried to bury, Johnny-Boy has taken trash to a new level. He has always been the piece of garbage that finally caught up to him.
Having his wife and friends find out about his affair is something he should have thought about before he did what he did. I can not write the words that best describe him!
That was funny.
A former Senator and vice-presidential candidate misused campaign contributions and money pledged to fight poverty so he could bring his mistress on the campaign trail with him during the presidential campaign where he was constantly making appearances with his widely admired cancer-stricken wife then fathered the mistress's child sometime around the time he was getting a Father Of The Year Award and then asked his loyal aide who already has a wife and kids to falsely claim paternity while the fake dad and the mistress were funneled money so they could move to be near the mistress's psychic healer friend while the former candidate continued to meet the mistress and baby until he was caught by tabloid reporters and hid in the bathroom and then confessed on national TV a couple of weeks later but both he and his wife continued to lie during that interview and in subsequent statements.
Great job of compression, but now Mr. Stranahan will have to update it to include the News & Observer part.
I have not yet written the song but I did, along with about 10 other freepers, write some limerics, and virtually all rhymed Ms.Druck with similar words,like truck, muck,stuck, and so on. Not very creative, but good for a laugh.
So what was the story?
“I can not write the words that best describe him!”
He’s the sleazy hairball that clogs up the bathtub drain?
The story is, Edwards called a newspaper to have a story spiked. He lied and the Observer complied. It seems not to shine too nice of a light on Edwards or the Observer. If a republican had called and requested a spike, the story would have been front page, above the fold.
I really feel so badly for Elizabeth.
Her husband believes that cheating on her to the point of fatherhood is fine for her cancer. But that her finding out about it is not so healthy. Thus fake love and care is more important than the real thing. Would he also exchange her chemo for saline solution?
Shallow pretty boys laugh at John Edwards.
This story will never die until Mr.Edwards procures some humility and lays it all out,....hopefully before he sends more of his friends to the penetentary.
About 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, former Sen. Edwards reached me on my office phone. . . .The N&O and Charlotte Observer are different papers, though owned both by McClatchy and they do share staff.
By the time Edwards called, we had decided not to publish the story in the Friday paper. But Edwards didn't know that. I wanted to hear what he had to say. We still could have reversed our decision.
Edwards told me that the allegations were not true.
He said The N&O was the paper that arrived on his doorstep every day, the one read by friends of him and his wife, Elizabeth.
He said he'd never called before to complain or state his case. Given Elizabeth's health -- she has cancer -- he said it was especially important to him that the story not run in The N&O.
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