Media Follies

It's nice to hear the National Enquirer is truly a nonpartisan publication.

First Edwards, now Palin.

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Lisa Jo Druck continues her swindle of the National Enquirer by providing more "details" of how Edwards' "friends"--as opposed to Edwards himself--are paying her way.

She supposedly hopes to marry Edwards when Elizabeth kicks off. Unfortunately for this idiot, I don't think Elizabeth has any such plans.

But remember if you will Druck's dad was a world-class con man who died before he could go to trial for animal cruelty and insurance fraud.

Consider the source.

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According to gossipmonger Cindy Adams, the National Enquirer has more dirt to spill on John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, in Hunter's further attempts to shake down more money.

Levine claims the huge sum they've spent on this story is only a spit to "the enormous amounts we know Edwards is spending to keep it contained. But he can't. We've followed the money trail. He bought her [Rielle Hunter] a $1 million house in North Carolina. Few days before our headlines forced him to go public, he spent $150,000 just on a private plane to whisk her to some undisclosed place. She was moved in the middle of the night. Lots of money is being spent to keep her happy and away from the media.
"We have exclusive photographic evidence, pictures, videos, hard proof to further incriminate Edwards. He doesn't at this point know what we have, which is why I'm asking that we don't reveal too much yet. And which we will use unless and until he acknowledges paternity.
"She believes they'll be together in future because Elizabeth's health concerns make it just a matter of time. Whatever he's said, in her mind the clock is running. We know this..."

Call me a cynic. She's shaking down the Enquirer when she couldn't shake him down.

The New York Times tries to shore up its circulation with a similar story.

The funny thing is very little of the media have talked about John McCain's first marriage, where not only did he screw around on his health-impaired wife, he dumped her for a far younger, far richer woman.

For the record, "Rielle Hunter" is not the name she was born with. Her real name is Lisa Jo Druck, and her family background is highly distinguished:

Her father, the late James Druck, once paid a hit man to kill her prize horse, Henry the Hawk, by rigging wires to electrocute the animal by attaching electrical wires to its ear and rectum, according to an account told to Sports Illustrated in 1992 by horse killer Tommy Burns.

Druck had taken out a $150,000 insurance policy on the animal and was hoping to reap the benefits, Burns told the magazine.

Her dad was a really good guy, no doubt about it. Lucky guy, for he died before he could be prosecuted for animal torture and insurance fraud. He knew how to extort money until he was caught.

And what about Lisa/Rielle?

She was heavily into the partying lifestyle. Then she married some guy named Hunter in 1991, who also came from a distinguished family, only this time from the other side of the law. His dad prosecuted--if you can call it that--the Jon Benet Ramsey murder case.

Hunter wrote scripts which appeared to be of a New Age bent or something, and then legally changed her first name to "Rielle."

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The National Enquirer INSISTS the baby is John Edwards', despite the fact Rielle Hunter refuses to have a DNA test done.
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Along these lines, there is a reason why the tabloids "beat" the traditional media on stories like this.

H/T: Commenter Mary Louise

Miscellaneous

An interesting development about the unidentified little boy who was found dead in a southern Oregon reservoir in 1963 is here.
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This is one road I will sure stay away from.

More pictures of this road are here.

Take a look at the pictures of the "hiking trail" in China. Absolutely unreal. Holy shit.
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Although John Edwards is no longer on the national stage as a candidate of any kind, some people want him to address the affair and baby rumors.

The National Enquirer features some blurry pictures as proof Edwards is the daddy of Frances Quinn Hunter.

All I can say is if it's true, it is a goddamned shitty thing to do to his own family. And as for the "mistress," she's slime. What kind of a woman has a baby with a married man? What kind of a woman wastes her life on such a losing deal? What kind of life will that child have knowing her daddy is married?

Hell, somebody should ask Barack Obama those questions, especially the last one.
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Miscellaneous News

These passengers and crew were truly lucky.

More here.

I would never have held up as well as the passengers, I'm afraid.

Qantas is known for being one of the safest of all airlines.

An AP video is here. A passenger on the plane apparently videotaped some of it.

Apart from the oxygen masks, the flight seems fairly uneventful. There was applause upon the emergency landing.

Here is a video report with some passenger footage:



CNN interviewed the guy who recorded the video:




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How many more dopes will the Tour de France put up with before it is fully clean?
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Are racehorses today as hardy as those 30 or more years ago?
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A pair of National Enquirer "reporters" have filed a criminal complaint against the Beverly Hills Police Department about circumstances surrounding the John Edwards "affair."

More here in case you give a shit.
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Media Follies

So why aren't the media going after the "John Edwards love child" story? Why aren't the media giving him the time of day?

They never DID give Edwards the time of day; that's the point. And now that it is almost time for the Audacity of Hype to announce a running mate, it's time to get Edwards out of the way once and for all.

Not that Obama was going to pick Edwards--I suspect Bill Richardson will get the nod--but they need to get him out of the way as soon as possible.

By the way not all of the media has ignored the "story."

Interesting this clip doesn't even have his entire press conference. They didn't care about that.

He called the story "trash" and refused to address it.

Here is the video from the Houston Chronicle:





Note in this clip he was talking about poverty. Nothing about the Enquirer story. But who gives a shit about poverty?

Either

the National Enquirer received too many hits about the Edwards "love child" story, which was worded vaguely enough that it really wasn't what it was promoted as being, or else they heard from some attorneys. The story has been yanked from the site.

In any case, the issue has already gone to press.

Edit: Nope, they moved it to here.

Somebody wants Obama as the nominee. The article reeks of innuendo from an unnamed--aren't they all--"source."
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Drudge Has

some crap up trying to ruin John Edwards.

I wonder who the hell it is who planted the story.

Gee, I wonder why "they" are trying to take him down now.

This is the same woman who denied the story months ago.

According to the National Enquirer,

Oprah and longtime whatever-he-is Stedman Graham were on the outs, and Barack Obama was partly responsible for the fallout. They went through counseling to work through their problems.

Unfortunately for gossip lovers, the article says nothing about any affair between the two Os, just that they have a deep friendship, and that Graham was jealous of that and Oprah's other male friendships. If she has a crush on Obama, and I think she does, there is no indication they were or are doing the nasty.

Damn.

Campaign Notes.

Thanks to some quick thinking, Rielle Hunter, the woman the National Enquirer hinted MAY have had an affair with John Edwards, shot that shit down.

I wonder if a lawsuit is in the works.

Hunter wasn't actually named in the article, but other sites such as the Huffington Post threw that shit out there for public consumption. So did Mickey Kaus of Slate. You know, piles of innuendo, and we all know two plus two equals five.

It would have been inconceivable for somebody like Edwards to pull that kind of crap and be another Newt Gingrich.

Edwards has officially denied the ludicrous allegations.
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