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Senator John Edwards confirmed his affair with Rielle Hunter and his ambush by NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters at the Beverly Hills Hilton! Edwards has admitted to repeatedly lying during his Presidential campaign -- and to his cancer-stricken wife. He told ABC News Bob Woodruff for Nightline that he is not the father of the love child although he hadn't taken a paternity test. His non-denial-denials to The ENQUIRER articles first reported in October 2007 were "The story is false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous." Edwards also confessed The ENQUIRER was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly...

The full version of Bob Woodruff's interview with John Edwards just aired on ABC, figuring Edwards alternately penitent, defensive, and dismissive of the tabloid reports that unearthed his affair. He also, in explaining his view that his dalliance could remain private, cited Republican John McCain's reported affair at the end of his first marriage almost three decades ago. "What I was thinking was this was something that was personal to my own family," Edwards said, citing other public figures having survived extramarital affairs. He recalled, he said, having heard "John Mccain talk about the mistakes that he’s made in his...

The Edwards on Nightline just concluded. It seems there were a few nuggets to be gleaned. Mr.Edwards was a victim, it seems of his own success. He was raised poor, then achieved local 'stardom' by age 30 - 31 years of age. Then he became a very young senator, then a young vice presidential nominee, and then on to become a presidential nominee. All of this went to his head (the one above and below his neck. Then he had a short trist in late 2006. He serviced Ms.Hunter, we are asked to believe, and immediately told Elizebeth. She was...

According to the Associated Press, former Rep. David Bonior, who ran John Edwards' recent failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, had harsh words for Edwards upon his confession of an affair with former staffer Rielle Hunter. Bonior, the former Michigan congressman, told the AP that he was disappointed and angry after hearing of Edwards' confession. "Thousands of friends of the senators and his supporters have put their faith and confidence in him and he's let him down," Bonior said "They've been betrayed by his action." Asked whether the affair would damage Edwards' future aspirations in public service, Bonior replied:...

AP's approach: 'Better to get it right even if we couldn't get it first' WASHINGTON - Reporters don't like being beaten on a major political story, especially by a supermarket tabloid. And being beaten up over not reporting one is even less appealing. But a sexual affair can have just two people who know the truth. Without witnesses, documents, photographs or some form of irrefutable evidence pointing to the truth, news organizations will not endanger their own integrity. That made it difficult to prove — and to print — the rumors that John Edwards had cheated on his seriously ill...

ABC News' Jennifer Parker reports: Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Sen. John Edwards has reacted to the news of her husband's affair, posting a blog titled "Today" on the liberal Daily Kos website and asking for privacy for her family. In the blog, Elizabeth Edwards says her husband told her about the affair in 2006 and they worked through it. "This was our private matter," she writes. She heaps blame on the news media for prying into her family's life, writing, "the toll on our family of news helicopters over our house and reporters in our driveway is yet...

Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old who recently gave birth to a girl who Edwards says is not his, has long been said to be the inspiration for Alison Poole, the "cocaine-addled, sexually voracious" 20-year-old lead character in "My Life Story," Jay McInerney's novel of 1980s excess and degradation.

John Edwards has finally admitted his long-rumored affair with Rielle Hunter, but he continues to deny that he is the father of her baby. I'm with Johnny on this one. The baby doesn't look anything like him.

Democrats Move Quick to Lessen Damage of John Edwards Affair Two-Time Presidential Contender Endorsed Obama, Has Not Ruled Out Convention Role By RICK KLEIN and JENNIFER PARKER Aug. 8, 2008 — John Edwards' admission that he had an extramarital affair puts pressure on Sen. Barack Obama to quickly distance himself from the former North Carolina senator and prominent Democrats are calling on him to announce immediately that Edwards will not have any role at the Democratic National Convention. By tradition, unsuccessful primary contenders are showcased at the convention, and Obama aides suggested before today's revelation that Edwards and other former...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A photograph taken by an NBC 5 employee shows former presidential candidate John Edwards with his videographer, Rielle Hunter, 42, on a stop in Dallas in 2006. The pair were in North Texas during Edwards' book tour. Edwards, who won praise and sympathy as he campaigned side-by-side with his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, admitted Friday he had had an extramarital affair with Hunter. Hunter was working for Edwards producing videos for his campaign. Edwards said he made a serious error in judgment when he had an affair and is ashamed of his conduct.

The first thing I thought of when I heard about John Edwards admitting that he was shtooping the Hunter chick was how my pet DUmmie ants would react. The moment I came home, I took a look at my DUmmie Ant Farm to watch them form the circular mill over this scandal. So let us all take a look inside the DUmmie Ant Farm at this THREAD titled, "Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate." As usual the DUmmie ant rantings are in scandalous Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, still laughing over Edwards "admission" that...

Dallas lawyer Fred Baron told The Dallas Morning News today that he made regular payments to the woman that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has confessed to having an affair with. Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money to Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location.

STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS August 8, 2008 Chapel Hill, North Carolina In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny...

David Shuster, arbiter of journalistic standards? The MSM didn't bother to pursue the Edwards story, yet Shuster, he of "pimped out" fame, had the chutzpah to look down his nose not once but twice on the National Enquirer during an interview this afternoon with Barry Levine, its Executive Editor. Levine, speaking with Shuster on MSNBC this afternoon at 4:20 PM EDT, laid out a number of open open issues, including paternity and the source of funding for Rielle Hunter's living arrangements.

Dallas lawyer Fred Baron told The Dallas Morning News today that he made regular payments to the woman that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards has confessed to having an affair with. Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money to Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location. He said she and another campaign aide, Andrew Young, who claimed paternity of Ms. Hunter’s child, were being dogged by tabloid reporters who believed she had an affair with Mr. Edwards and fathered his child. Mr. Baron would not say how...

Edwards: I Was "99 Percent Honest" [Byron York] His just-released statement: In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family and to my core beliefs. I recognized my mistake and I told my wife that I had a liaison with another woman, and I asked for her forgiveness. Although I was honest in every painful detail with my family, I did not tell the public. When a supermarket tabloid told a version of the story, I used the fact that the story contained many falsities to deny it....

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John Edwards. There, I said it. I guess it's too late to be dramatic, now that Edwards has talked to a MSM outlet (ABC) about his affair. I really meant to say something earlier, when almost every daily newspaper, including The Chronicle, was not touching a story broken by, gasp, the National Enquirer, but I was tied up. Most MSM in general had stayed away, picking at it with their noses held, as if looking for something valuable in a moldy dumpster. Of course the New York (City) Times said they were "looking into it" but certainly not printing a...

David Shuster, arbiter of journalistic standards? The MSM didn't bother to pursue the Edwards story, yet Shuster, he of "pimped out" fame, has had the chutzpah to look down his nose not once but twice on the National Enqirer during an interview this afternoon with Barry Levine, its Executive Editor. Levine laid out a number of open issues, including paternity and the source of funding for Rielle Hunter's living arrangements. BARRY LEVINE: I think this story is far from over in that regard. DAVID SHUSTER: And finally I mean, I mean, as a newsman, and I sort of, take that...

John Edwards, former Democratic presidential candidate, admits he had an extramarital affair while his wife, Elizabeth, was battling cancer.