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  • September 2008

    • Is Pornography Adultery? Time to Sharpen the Debate

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Sep 14, 08 12:09 PM CDT

      Is Pornography Adultery? Time to Sharpen the Debate

      (Newser) - Does looking at pornography constitute cheating? If so, a lot of men are in trouble in today's age of instant access. Ross Douthat explores the issue in the Atlantic and finds the extremes of the argument unhelpful. No, digital smut won't bring about the end of civilization, but don't be too quick to write it off as harmless, either. "The Internet era has ratcheted the experience of pornography much closer to adultery than I suspect most porn users would like to admit," he says. More »

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      Internet  • marriage  • women  • prostitution  • pornography  • men  • adultery  • infidelity

  • August 2008

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

      National Enquirer  |  Aug 20, 08 12:30 PM CDT

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

      (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 his cancer-stricken wife died, the tab claims, but he called to reiterate the promise after he confessed the adultery on national television. And he “wouldn’t hear of” an abortion when she became pregnant, the paper says.  More »

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

    • Affair Could Topple Edwards

      CNN  |  Aug 10, 08 3:22 PM CDT

      Affair Could Topple Edwards

      (Newser) - Although opinions are mixed on the future of John Edwards' political career, most analyists take a dim view, CNN reports. Clintonite James Carville believes that "his political career is in shambles," and Gloria Borger thinks his "lies are "going to put an end, probably, to his political career." Edwards' former rivals for the Democratic nomination aren't saying much. More »

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

    • Edwards Backer Paid Mistress to Move

      Dallas Morning News  |  Aug 9, 08 4:40 PM CDT

      Edwards Backer Paid Mistress to Move

      (Newser) - A former Democratic Party official said yesterday that he paid John Edwards' ex-mistress to leave North Carolina, the Dallas Morning News reports. Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer who led the party finance committee for 4 years, said he was trying to keep Rielle Hunter from tabloid reporters. “I made a decision on my own, without talking to Edwards or anybody, to try to help them move to a community to try to get away from those folks,” said Baron. More »

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      John Edwards  • affair  • Rielle Hunter  • adultery

    • Rielle Hunter: High Profile, Then Out of Sight

      News & Observer (Raleigh)  |  Aug 9, 08 12:57 PM CDT

      Rielle Hunter: High Profile, Then Out of Sight

      (Newser) - John Edwards' former mistress has been a part of high-profile social circles in New York, and Los Angeles, but finding old friends willing to talk about the Rielle Hunter they knew is a tough task, the News & Observer reports. Hunter started out partying with a literary crowd in New York, where she did drugs and was a "seeker of truth." More »

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

    • What Edwards Was Trying to Tell Us—and Not Tell Us

      Portfolio  |  Aug 9, 08 8:50 AM CDT

      What Edwards Was Trying to Tell Us—and Not Tell Us

      (Newser) - John Edwards employed classic damage control methods in finally confessing his affair yesterday—ie, announcing it late on a Friday so it would fade over the weekend, and giving an exclusive interview to ensure a sympathetic questioner and avoid a feeding frenzy. Jack Flack, writing in Portfolio, parses Edwards’ statement for efforts to own up manfully while portraying the transgression as brief, meaningless, and, most important, old news. More »

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      John Edwards  • affair  • Rielle Hunter  • adultery  • confession

    • Elizabeth Edwards: John Confessed 2 Years Ago

      Daily Kos  |  Aug 9, 08 6:39 AM CDT

      Elizabeth Edwards: John Confessed 2 Years Ago

      (Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards says her husband “made a terrible mistake” in having an affair, but he confessed to her 2 years ago, she writes in a Daily Kos post, months before her breast cancer returned, and "we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March of 2007."  She says her family had faced a lot of challenges together, and would get through this, too. "Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him." More »

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

    • 'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'

      New York Times  |  Aug 8, 08 6:40 PM CDT

      'I Made a Serious Error in Judgment'

      (Newser) - John Edwards released a statement late today acknowledging that he had an extramarital affair and inviting "people who believed in me" to beat him up, saying, "You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself." The ex-senator said he "started to believe that I was special and became increasingly egocentric and narcissistic," the New York Times reports. More »

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

  • June 2008
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  • April 2008

    • Clemens Had More Women, Source Says

      New York Daily News  |  Apr 30, 08 10:17 AM CDT

      Clemens Had More Women, Source Says

      (Newser) - It wasn't just country singer Mindy McCready that Roger Clemens carried on with, a source tells the New York Daily News. The former Major League pitcher apparently had several lovely lady friends whom he jetted across the country in his plane and presented with expensive jewelry. One of them admitted to knowing Clemens, but had no comment about their relationship. More »

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      Roger Clemens  • performance-enhancing drugs  • perjury  • Brian McNamee  • adultery  • defamation