The problem is that this is a story that has been out, waiting to be researched, for over a year. Only the Enquirer did the homework. Now why could that be? Such a major potential story on a man running for President, and they don’t even research it?
The Enquirer even says they have been researching this story literally for months, and when they had the chance to place Edwards at the hotel, with the woman and the child (leaving at 2:40 AM) they jumped at it.
There is a lot more evidence to this story than to what Woodward and Bernstein used.
It has long been my opinion that Watergate was a Drive-By Meida coup d’état.
Then there's Roberts' line about the Enquirer lacking "sensitivity." With five reporters scrambling to ask Edwards about his alleged affair, the Enquirer was certainly showing sensitivity to the truth in all its shades.
No, they were covering their flanks and trying to insulate themselves from legal action by gathering more evidence.
Or maybe she's saying the tabloid should be sensitive to Edwards' feelings by ignoring the story, as the Washington Post and Times and others have done, as though the truth can be kept bottled up at whim, and as if it's a newspaper's role to help perpetuate a lie, to keep Elizabeth Edwards in the dark until — what? — until she passes away?
No, the WaPo and Times and others have only been sensitive to charges of insensitivity on their part. They don't care about Ms. Hunter, Mrs. Edwards, or any of their precious babes. They care about looking like they care.
Moreover, somewhere in the future if Mrs. Edwards should die of her illness, the players (Edwards, Rielle Hunter, the Beard who claims to be the father, and the tight-lipped MSM) will all come forward and make the bald-faced claim that whatever lies were told and whatever truth was suppressed, they all acted out of decency (!) and compassion for Mrs. Edwards. Haloes will be passed out like party favors.
I don't believe this story- yet. I don't believe that the NE would follow Edwards, wait for him until the early morning, but NOT have a camera ready. They ALWAYS have a camera with them. Show me some proof- not just a NE “reporter” saying that's what happened, right now it just smacks of gossip.