Well apparently it was all true. Who in the hell would have ever believed that The Enquirer would leak a true story? Today, John Edwards admitted to having an affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter. He told ABC that he repeatedly lied about his affair with Hunter, and also mentioned that the love child we’ve heard so much about isn’t his. John Edwards says the affair was a “serious error in judgement.” Edwards also stated that he has informed his wife, who is currently struggling with cancer, and has asked for her forgiveness.
You can bet this will definitely remove any chance of John Edwards becoming Obama’s running mate in the upcoming election.
Here’s our old story:
John Edwards is having an affair? No word on if this is real or not, but since when has the right been able to get this much control over releasing what comes out in the media? (Well unless they start their own channel or radio show). Rumors and the Enquirer are saying that Presidential candidate John Edwards cheated on his wife while she was undergoing cancer treatments. Holy bad decision making batman (well we’ll need to see a pic) but no seriously, this is bad, bad stuff.. especially since he’s dragging his wife out on the campaign trail with him!
Apparently the other woman, Rielle Hunter, (who he reportedly met at a bar) worked on the campaign with Edwards in the past, and regularly traveled across the country with him.
Check out the Enquirer for more updates or proof that this is a complete lie. I’m not linking there, I don’t want to catch anything.
Update: 7/23/08 It’s nice to see that the Enquirer has decided to ramp this story up again just as talks begin swirling about John Edwards running for Vice President on the Obama ticket. Stay Classy National Enquirer.
Enquirer writers might want to do some cheating of their own while wearing a John Edwards mask.
Still on July 29, it’s just much ado about nothing and seems to be the Enquirer trying to attract readers back to their out-dated tabloid.
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I can’t believe this is true. He was my fave. Now if it’s true, I now think Edwards is a bastard.
He seems so wholesome doesn’t he? Full of great ideas… Like a loving husband.
Must be a normal politician…
on Oct 27th, 2007
I don’t believe it. If it’s PROVEN to be true and he admits to it, I an through with American politics. In my seventy years I have been disappointed and disillusioned too many times,
to be taken for a fool again I hope it isn’t true.
on Dec 18th, 2007
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on Dec 20th, 2007
Consider the source — the Enquirer is owned by Hillary Clinton’s chief economic adviser, who was also Deputy Treasury Secretary during Bill Clinton’s administration. This smells like more of the same stuff that came out of New Hampshire last week….
on Dec 22nd, 2007
It is going to work in Edwards’ favor if this is a lie, because this will be great marketing for righteousness.
I am going to declare my faith in God and pray that this is a lie and that, if so, the liars will see their plans backfire.
on Jul 23rd, 2008
This world would be one messed up place if we relied on the Enquirer for news.
on Jul 23rd, 2008
Nice the kid wold be the First Bastard in the white house…oh wait they’ve all been bastards in the White House!!
on Jul 23rd, 2008
I agree with you Skeptic, what a crock of shiiiit!
David Hasselhoff for President 2008!
on Jul 23rd, 2008
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman!”
on Jul 23rd, 2008
Democrats are all alike. When will the 42% of people in this country that are too stupid to be Americans wake up, stop the hate, grow up, and become decent people - become Republicans? Dems are slime at every level of govt.
on Jul 23rd, 2008
Spoken like a true ignorant a-hole Johnny B! Please stay away from the voting booth.
on Jul 23rd, 2008
Hey Johnny B, who helped you get online today?
on Jul 30th, 2008
All this hoopla started up by the Enquirer, who even reads that anymore?
on Jul 30th, 2008
I don’t believe anything the enquirer says ever. Cheesy gossip rag
on Jul 30th, 2008
hey she’s not that bad looking, you go Edwards!
on Jul 30th, 2008
crazy coincidence that this only came up again when it was leaked that obama asked him to be vp..
on Jul 30th, 2008
Just another attempt to put a chink in Edwards’ armor. The guy is pretty much a saint, leave him alone.
on Jul 30th, 2008
that obama mask is awesome!
on Jul 30th, 2008
what imaginary “facts” are the enquirer reporters going to dig up if he does become vp?
on Jul 30th, 2008
The Enquirer is a right wing trash magazine, and we all know that the only thing that right wingers try to do with their “power of the press” is create controversy. so pathetic.
on Jul 30th, 2008
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on Jul 30th, 2008
Roomer has it she does anal. That’s a good enough reason for me to justify an affair. I mean come on have you seen Elizabeth Edwards lately. Ruff Ruff!
on Jul 30th, 2008
My husband is a cheating man whore. Buy my new book and check out my myspace page.
on Jul 30th, 2008
Hey JohnnyB- peddle your BS somewhere else!
on Jul 30th, 2008
Mr Hannity said: “I’m a family values guy, and [Edwards'] wife is sick and we wish her all the best. But I wonder if you think there would be a double standard if he were a Republican.”
on Jul 30th, 2008
“It’s completely untrue. Ridiculous,” he said. “I’ve been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years, and as anyone who has been around us knows, she’s an extraordinary human being: warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I’ve ever known.”
on Jul 30th, 2008
just leave the guy alone with this bs, his wife has incurable cancer and he’s doing the best he can.
on Jul 30th, 2008
What a Dick! And to think I was hoping this guy would be our next president.
on Aug 1st, 2008
I think we should blame the National enq., how dare they print this that we don’t like!
on Aug 1st, 2008
His disgraceful behavior and morality indicate what type of values he would bring to solving America’s many problems.
on Aug 8th, 2008
Hey lost-in-the-sauce-liberals: How do you like your John Edwards now?
Good thing the MSM toadies are so diciplined. They need to protect Elizabeth, you know. Well, or at least show her the same consideration The Best Husband & Father in the World shows her.
Cuz’ we wouldn’t want her to find out who she’s really married to. The same way Hillary Cinton was shocked to discover Billy-Jeff receiving oral testimony.
The truly great part, is that a $100 million trial lawyer like John Edwards will never allow this slander to continue. He’ll sue the National Enquirer off the planet, right?
Right?
Right?
Right?…
on Aug 8th, 2008
How sad for his wife. This is so trashy… John Edwards is a slimebag. A true democrat. Those dems are so hypocritical… And they wonder why they lost the middle america faith based vote! I wonder why…!
on Aug 8th, 2008
OMG … I’ve been in love with same woman … blah blah blah. That’s why he slept around ? What a piece of crap… and the mistress is FUGLY! If I were his wife, I’d give him his walkin’ papers.
on Aug 8th, 2008
Apparently it was all true. How sad and pathetic is that?!?!? I have completely lost any faith I had in John Edwards. Yikes
on Aug 8th, 2008
Whatever you ignorant right wingers. Way to come out of the woodwork when a democrat finally does something wrong. Who taught you how to use the internet anyway?
on Aug 8th, 2008
democrats lost the middle america faith vote because middle america is f’n retarded and will apparently only vote for a candidate that is as dumb as they are.
on Aug 8th, 2008
i don’t think he would have made a good runningmate for obama anyway
on Aug 8th, 2008
i am actually surprised by this, i find this hard to believe
on Aug 8th, 2008
Well it was before his wife was diagnosed with cancer, but that still does not make it right
on Aug 8th, 2008
wow, i can’t believe this
on Aug 8th, 2008
I just hope that this doesn’t lead to another 4 years of republican control of this country. We’ve suffered enough.
on Aug 8th, 2008
This won’t affect Obama at all, America has had enough.
on Aug 8th, 2008
good to see the repubs online, welcome to the internet gramps!
on Aug 8th, 2008
this guy was too whitebread to run with Obama anyway, of course we do need the dumb hick vote…
on Aug 9th, 2008
1st of all, she is ugly as a skunk.
2nd, the man is a bastage and has always been a bastage…
For those of you who think you are sooo disappointed in the man, and you are over the age of 50. Shame on you for being so stupid and lacking in perception..
I had this Charlatan’s number from day one…It was not difficult to see through all of his BS as he went forth into his own life, not even thinking about his wife’s needs.
I am a guy, and I love my wife. If she ever even had a hint of something as bad as Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with, there is no way I decide to go after the presidency of the United States..
The guy showed me early on that he was a total a$$ and if you all saw something in him or his words that tripped your trigger, then you are why we have such a state of affairs going on in this country today..
You all spend way too much time watching Wheel of Fortune, Cribs, American Idol, and have a rear section the size of New Jersey..
on Aug 9th, 2008
Whap represents those Americans that don’t watch Wheel of Fortune, but do stay up late at night and surf the blogosphere. Why don’t you go spend time with your wife now? Yeah not buying it.
on Aug 9th, 2008
Soo.. who’s going to be Obama’s running mate? Where’s he going to find another hick so he can get the dumb american vote?
on Aug 9th, 2008
I had just got home from our weekly date with my wife, Ken. And I could really care less what you believe..
The man is crap, always has been crap, and always will be crap.
So go watch your TV and then tell me how much you failed to get done today.
on Aug 9th, 2008
One more thing….
Edwards’ words, not mine..
” In the course of several campaigns, he said in a statement, “I started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic….”"
My words…
Became???
Let me tell you, this guy was all of the above from the get go..
on Aug 9th, 2008
there’s quite a few ignoramuses in this thread, but Whap is taking the cake. and not sharing it with his wife either.
on Aug 9th, 2008
Jill, when you figure out what it is that you are talking about, come on back..
Until them, “STEP AWAY FOR THE KEYBOARD AND HEAD BACK TO YOUR TV”
on Aug 9th, 2008
Just so we all understand.. “The Whap” is playing the role of a person that doesn’t watch “American TV” and is therefore “ignorant about US politics” while he apparently spends all day ignoring his wife and kids to browse the internet. If you need something fun to do on a Saturday night there a plenty of kids that could use a mentor, perhaps even your own!
on Aug 10th, 2008
I don’t think he would have secured the southern vote anyway. Plus, what we really need is the Latino vote. We need a Mexican with a southern drawl.
on Aug 10th, 2008
Bill Clinton cheated on his wife and was still the best president most have us have seen in our lifetime.
on Aug 10th, 2008
SEZ YOU !
on Aug 10th, 2008
Agreed, it just brushed off of Bill’s shoulders, why should it affect John Edwards? It shouldn’t. If your main concern with a politician is who he’s doing the nasty with, then you need to start paying attention to bigger issues. The fact that he wants to bang another woman after years of marriage makes him human, and I’d rather have a human in office than some detiorating POW that doesn’t even know what the internet is.
on Aug 10th, 2008
Oh man, did anyone see G.W. Bush’s interview on the Olympics? I am so ashamed that other countries may have seen that. What a baffoon.
on Aug 12th, 2008
I knew this guy was phoney… If it had only happened after running as Veep, Oh Boy that would have been the best
on Aug 15th, 2008
Mikel,
I don’t care who the hypocrite does the nasty with either, but when campaign funds pay for it, doesn’t that even in your mind change the issue.
Follow the money! and the lawyers. (usually the same)
on Sep 16th, 2008
Douche-baggery, meet John Edwards. Mr. Edwards, I’d like you meet Douche-ba…oh, I’m sorry. I see you’ve already met.
on May 6th, 2009
WOW I CAN’T BELIEVE HE DID THAT TO HS WIFE! SHE HAS CANCER!! BUT THTA’S STILL WRONG…..WOW OUT OF ALL PEOPLE I WOULD’VE NEVER GUESSED IT WOULD BE HIM.