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Associated Press
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Aug 30, 08 4:27 PM CDT
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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 were wary: “I don't think the dust has settled sufficiently,” said a political science professor at Duke.
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Associated Press
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Aug 26, 08 8:35 AM CDT
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As the Democratic stars are shining over Denver, Elizabeth Edwards barely glimmers in seclusion in North Carolina, reports the AP. Cancer-stricken Edwards was expected to lead the convention charge toward health care reform, but sympathy is running short for her by Dems who believe that her failure to lift the lid on the couple's explosive secret could have seriously damaged the party.
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New Republic
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Aug 22, 08 8:05 PM CDT
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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 the hopeful snuck in via a stairwell, a reporter leaped out and asked about his "love child."
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New York Times
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Aug 15, 08 6:28 AM CDT
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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 her contract ended. The cover-up, made by lawyers for Hunter and Andrew Young, the Edwards aide who claims to have fathered her child, suggests the affair may have gone on longer than the former candidate admits.
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People
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Aug 14, 08 9:38 AM CDT
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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 into her decision to stick with her marriage.
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National Enquirer
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Aug 13, 08 10:30 AM CDT
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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 child—and that she became pregnant when the affair resumed, after Edwards confessed to his wife Elizabeth in 2006.
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Washington Post
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Aug 12, 08 11:41 AM CDT
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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 size of Edwards’ “1%,” it’s pretty hard to imagine he’s reached the 100% promised land now.
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Washington Post
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Aug 12, 08 4:59 AM CDT
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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 for the campaign. Another photo in the National Enquirer shows Edwards and Hunter exchanging enthusiastic smiles on the trip.
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Washington Post
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Aug 11, 08 3:24 PM CDT
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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 for the National Enquirer , and even staff cutbacks for such investigations played bigger roles.
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Newsweek
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Aug 10, 08 4:21 PM CDT
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Flirting with John Edwards on a plane 2 years ago, Rielle Hunter looked like a schmoozy blonde trying—and failing—to tempt a presidential hopeful. But as Newsweek reporter Jonathan Darman got to know her, he realized she was documenting Edwards on video—and wanted to help him with New Age spiritualism. She called Edwards her latest project: If he only used his heart, not his head, she said, he could "change the world."
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CNN
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Aug 10, 08 3:22 PM CDT
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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.
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New York Times
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Aug 10, 08 11:41 AM CDT
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The real John Edwards shocker was not so much his affair, but his admission of narcisissm—yet even that confession was oddly self-loving, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times . While "it isn’t like we didn’t know that the son of a millworker was a little enraptured by himself," and “certain men assume that power confers sexual privilege,” his self-absorbed confession that he felt “special” and “invincible” leads Dowd to rescind an earlier comparison of Edwards to a Ken doll as “not fair—to Ken.”
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Washington Post
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Aug 10, 08 6:45 AM CDT
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John Edwards’ former lover refuses to get a paternity test “now or in the future” for the baby Edwards denies he fathered, the Washington Post reports. Rielle Hunter’s lawyer said she is a “private person” who is “not running for public office” and “wishes to maintain her privacy and her daughter's privacy.” Hunter and former Edwards fundraiser Andrew Young have said that Young is the father.
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