Posted on 04/29/2010 12:34:40 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Despite many people telling her it wasn’t the best idea to sit down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview, Rielle Hunter - politician John Edwards' mistress - decided to do it anyway.
"I feel in my heart it’s the right thing to do," Hunter said Thursday, especially now that "Johnny," as she calls him, has admitted paternity of their daughter, Frances Quinn.
Hunter said she wanted to set the facts straight about who she is, and that while she understands the judgment that has been heaped upon her, she doesn’t see herself as a home wrecker or gold digger, she told Winfrey.
“I have been unfairly judged,” Hunter said, adding that she believes people reacted so negatively to her relationship with Edwards because “a lot of people bought into the myth of the marriage as being a storybook story, being so perfect and wonderful, and I destroyed it,” she said.
While some have called her a gold digger, she “wasn’t after him for money, fame, attention. I was never after him. I met him and there was a very strong connection and attraction,” Hunter said. And as for the home-wrecking accusations, Hunter observed, "It’s not my experience that a third party can wreck a home. A home is wrecked before a third party comes into the picture."
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Apparently it’s located just below his belt buckle.
His authentic self? A cheater scumbag? What a noble cause. /s
President and VP. And the media knew who he was just as they knew that Obama was still smoking tobacco.
ping
Bill Clinton told Monica Lewinsky that he would leave Hillary for her.
Guys will lie to get in a girl’s panties.
Jimi Hendrix and others told dozens of girls that a “song” was written about them.
Well, his authentic self sure is a jerk.
Nothing is my fault, I did nothing improper and there is no right and wrong. There just is.
Oh, Rielle, you are just soooo... I dunno.. new-agey!! What a mental midget liberal. Redundant, I know.
“If I was searching for my authentic self, I doubt I’d look for it in some skank’s cooter.”
You’re not John Edwards.
Political parters, sorta like the Clintons.
LOL!! Classic ho talk.
And glad of it.
My favorite quote that I often told my daughter many years ago is from Robert E. Lee: “Do not believe what the young men tell you”.
Love it, now did he know human nature or not??
John Edwards’ wife was aware of the affair. It wasn’t a sudden thing. She has claimed that she thought it was over. But she was willing to cover it up to get in the White House, as you point out.
The media blacked out the story to keep Hillary in a 3 way race for delegates. Whether the people at the Enquirer ran the story for personal benefit or because the publisher is reportedly a friend of the Clintons is beside the matter. The MSM knowingly covered up this story.
Mark Halperin at Time defends the action saying they didn’t have enough to go on. He also defends the coverage of unconfirmed rumors that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist.
The media punked America in 2008. Welcome to Soviet Pravda style journalism.
Absolutely believable.Every time you said "sure,I'm free" we saw the "authentic" John Edwards...aka:Father Of The Year 2004.
Sounds great for an excuse. But if true, then why not just wait until the party is divorced since the marriage is so bad. Then bed the guy.
It doesn’t matter how awful the marriage was, that’s not of her business anyway. The fact is he was still married and she’s a home wrecker. It would also appear a gold digger as well.
Yep, now we all know his authentic self.
What should she have said-”I’m no cheap whore; this guy is LOADED”? Some questions are asked strictly for the entertainment value of the idiotic obsfucations. Everyone knows the real answer that we’ll never hear.
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