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OPINION

Edwardses
Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades
privacy for payback

May 6, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • Maureen Dowd • infidelity • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • betrayal

(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards is taking married life day by day—or "maybe it's month by month"—she tells Oprah, in an episode to air Thursday. When asked whether she still loves her husband, she responds, "You know, that's a complicated question," the AP reports. "I wanted... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • infidelity • Election 2008 • Rielle Hunter

BOOK EXCERPT

 Elizabeth Edwards: 
 Road With John 
 Is Clear, But Long 

Memoir excerpt reveals reaction, recovery after John's affair

May 5, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Elizabeth Edwards memoir about coming to terms with her husband's disastrous affair, she tries to understand why he was "targeted” by videographer Rielle Hunter and why he fell for it. "I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

Edwards Admits Feds Probing Hush Cash

Candidate may have paid off mistress with campaign donations

May 3, 09 3:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards is being investigated by feds looking to see if he illegally used 2008 campaign funds to hush up mistress Rielle Hunter, the former candidate told the Charlotte Observer, confirming an earlier report in the Edwards-happy National Enquirer. Hunter, hired to film the candidate, was paid $114,000 by... More »

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John Edwards • campaign finance • federal investigation • affair • political action committees • Rielle Hunter • campaign donors

Edwards Cost Clinton Dearly: Penn

Ex-senator's fall from grace touches off second-guessing

May 1, 09 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn is kicking himself in the wake of reports that Elizabeth Edwards thinks her husband shouldn't have run for president, ABC News reports. If news of John Edwards' infidelity had forced him to drop out of the race, Penn said, “No question in my mind,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • Clinton 2008 • Mark Penn • political strategists • Iowa caucuses • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

 Edwards: I Cried, 
 Screamed Over 
 John's Affair 

New book reveals 'crying, screaming' reaction to news of affair

Apr 30, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards reveals her reaction to husband John’s affair—which she knew about nearly a year before the story broke—in her new book, the New York Daily News reports. “I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up,” she writes in Resilience, out... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • presidential campaign • affair • memoir • Rielle Hunter

Edwards Tells Elizabeth 'It's My Kid': Enquirer

Concerned ex-lover will go public, Edwards cops to love child first

Mar 4, 09 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards has come clean to his wife about the baby he fathered with ex-mistress Rielle Hunter, reports the National Enquirer (the publication that broke the news of the affair). Hunter has been “edgy” over cancer-stricken Elizabeth Edwards’ upcoming book, and the tabloid says John’s confession is an... More »

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cancer • John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • love child • political scandal • Rielle Hunter

(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards will publish a short memoir in May that will deal in part with her husband's campaign-killing affair, Fox News reports. The book, Resilience, will talk about John Edwards' dalliance, "and how she experienced it," says Elizabeth's publicist, who declined to reveal other specifics. The book also... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • political scandal • Rielle Hunter

 Edwards' 
 Mistress 
 Planning 
 Tell-All 


Fearing 'hush money' will dry up, Rielle Hunter turns to book deal $

Nov 5, 08 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards' former mistress is writing a tell-all book because she fears her "hush money" will dry up, reports the New York Daily News in a rundown of the National Enquirer's latest scoop on the fallen-from-grace Dem. An enterprising Enquirer reporter is said to have stolen one of her... More »

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John Edwards • affair • memoir • National Enquirer • book • celebrity tell-alls • Rielle Hunter

Edwards Plans First Return
to Public Stage

He'll speak next week at Hofstra, but without wife Elizabeth

Aug 30, 08 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards will emerge from his month-long seclusion to speak in New York next week, the AP reports. Edwards has not appeared publicly since he admitted his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter. His wife, Elizabeth, will not join him as scheduled at the September 8th speech at Hofstra University. Watchers... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • speech • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Hofstra University

Enquirer Editor Details Edwards Stakeouts

Tabloid chief slams NYT for missing huge story

Aug 22, 08 8:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer scored big this month by accusing John Edwards of an extramarital affair—but it worked hard for the news, the New Republic reports. The tabloid's reporters staked out Rielle Hunter for days and spent hours waiting for Edwards in a Los Angeles hotel. When... More »

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John Edwards • sex scandal • journalism • tabloids • National Enquirer • Rielle Hunter

Edwards Told Rielle They'd Be Together After Wife Died: Tab

Enquirer offers details of affair, financial deal

Aug 20, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer is on the John Edwards case again this week, with a story offering salacious details of the affair with Rielle Hunter (offered by "friends") and a photo of the baby the tab says is his. Edwards not only promised Hunter they’d be together after... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • affair • adultery • Rielle Hunter

Lawyers Who Quashed Affair Rumors Had Edwards Ties

Cover-up indicates affair began earlier than Edwards admits

Aug 15, 08 6:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two lawyers who acted seemingly independently in December to defuse rumors of John Edwards' affair had links to a key backer, the New York Times reports—lawyer Fred Baron, whose wife donated to Edwards' nearly defunct political action committee just as it paid Rielle Hunter $14,000 4 months after... More »

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John Edwards • affair • infidelity • Andrew Young • Rielle Hunter

Elizabeth Edwards' Anguish Lurks Behind United Front

But incurable cancer factored heavily into her decision to stay, say friends

Aug 14, 08 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Behind the staunch show of support in public, People reports that Elizabeth Edwards has struggled mightily since her husband began revealing in 2006 his affair with Rielle Hunter. Edwards didn't confess to the affair all at once but in "installments"—and though devastated, Elizabeth's terminal cancer factored powerfully... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • sex scandal • love child • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • Jay Anania • Hargrave McElroy

OPINION

NC Paper: We Tried to Confirm Edwards Affair

Editor says coverage was spot on, given what reporters knew

Aug 13, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - There has been much hand-wringing over the mainstream media’s coverage—or lack thereof—of the John Edwards sex scandal, but the News & Observer of Raleigh thinks it got it right. In a blog post today, the executive editor explains that the paper took the Enquirer’s... More »

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media • John Edwards • newspaper • journalism • Raleigh • National Enquirer • Rielle Hunter

 Tab Claims
 Edwards Continued Affair

Mistress was flown away before confession

Aug 13, 08 10:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer, having finally forced John Edwards to confess to the affair with Rielle Hunter that he had strenuously denied, isn't backing down on the parts of the story Edwards still swears aren't true. This week the supermarket tabloid insists that Edwards is indeed the father of Hunter's... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • marriage • affair • paternity test • Rielle Hunter

Opinion

 He's 99%
 Honest—Really!

Edwards falls short of any standard of truth-telling

Aug 12, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every sex scandal has a defining sound bite, and John Edwards’ declaration that “being 99% honest is no longer enough,” is destined for the hall of fame, writes Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post. The thing about honesty is that last percentage is a killer. Given the... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • marriage • affair • paternity test • Rielle Hunter

Lover Joined Edwards on Tour to Announce Prez Race

Blogger posts pix of 'inner circle'

Aug 12, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards brought former mistress Rielle Hunter on his campaign plane during his four-day presidential announcement tour, reports the Washington Post. Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, did not accompany her husband. A technology blogger invited along on the 2006 trip has published photographs of Hunter, who was working as a videographer... More »

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John Edwards • Hurricane Katrina • Elizabeth Edwards • New Orleans • presidential campaign • Flickr • Rielle Hunter • Robert Scoble

OPINION

Sympathy for Elizabeth
Big Reason Media Held Back

Mainstream media, not knowing what to do, fumbled reportage

Aug 11, 08 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mainstream media found itself in an awkward bind when evidence of John Edwards' affair began trickling in, writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. Why such a half-hearted effort to confirm the story? Kurtz doesn't think the liberal bias charge holds up and says sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards, disdain... More »

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John Edwards • press • American media • Rielle Hunter • MSM

Edwards Lie Cost Hillary the Nomination, Aide Says

...and hence the nomination

Aug 11, 08 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s former communications director is convinced that had the media outed John Edwards last year, Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. “We would have won Iowa,” Howard Wolfson tells ABC. “Our voters and Edwards’ voters were the same people. They were older, pro-union.” Obama... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Edwards • Iowa caucus • Howard Wolfson • Rielle Hunter

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