Then why would you even bring it up?  He asked for privacy.  

Yeah, this whole "scandal" is ridiculous.  The tabloids lached onto it months ago and everyone involved said it was a lie.  Now it comes up yet again.  I'm not an Edwards supporter, but I fell absolutely terrible for the entire Edwards family.  They're such decent people and don't deserve to be treated like this.  

Sorry, Occams razor may work for us, but full and public statement from both the father and mother ain't good enough for Mickey Kaus. He's gonna need a full gynecolgical exam from Ms. Hunter in the Slate lobby, pronto.

Once this dies off Mickey, here's a real hot tip...A friend of a cousin, whose aunt is a good friend at the Duncan Hunter campaign who used to know a guy who saw Fred Thompson once on Law and Order told me (second err..third hand?) that my neighbor who moved to Qatar 15 years ago is actually Mike Huckabee's and Hillary Clinton's secret love child.  

Better get moving on that before another Huffinton Post intern scoops ya.

or something? Why issue a statement now? I don't get it.

Edwards has to hope the MSM don't follow up on this. Affair denial headlines don't look good.

I would not trust the enquire magazine since they are mostly a gossip magazine.

Ayway , rasmussen has Clinton leading by 3-4% , but Obama leads among the "certain to attend" caucus goers.

Obama also leads among the "2004 caucus attendees" which is a huge blow for Edwards since his supporters kept suggesting that he has the most experienced caucus goers who attended in 2004...

Keep in mind that this is at least the third poll which shows Edwards does not have any edge among people who participated in 2004 caucus.

The only good news for Edwards is that he leads among 'second choice' BUT Obama is not far behind.
Edwards 28
Obama   23
Richardson 15
Hillary 15

this poll may showHillary with the lead , but the fact that she's STILL doing so poorly among second choices is a big problem.

The narrative of an Edwards rise is just bullshit.

Hillary and Obama seems to start pulling away from him big time.

Ive heard how when you tighter-screened polls favors Edwards , but polls after polls have shown that the tighter screened poll , the better it is for Obama.

Would some please explain Jerome's relationship to this woman, or to this story?

...this poll may showHillary with the lead , but the fact that she's STILL doing so poorly among second choices is a big problem.

Everyone knows that Clinton's campaign is finished. I heard it on TV. All the pundits say so.

If she even manages to finish a distant third, it will be viewed as a major comeback.

sick, even if somehow he did have an affair if no one wants to come foreward it's none of anyones business anyway. I hope they the Enquirer pulls it or supermarkets in Iowa refuse to put it on their shelves.

Andrew Young is a friend of mine, and to see him and his family, as well as Ms. Hunter, dragged through the mud by the national enquirer is tremendously depressing.

He is a good and talented person who obviously made a mistake.  It's a private matter and should remain so.

By the way, my challenge to Mickey Kaus to meet me somewhere and make his statements in a forum where people can respond still stands.  The fact that a friend of mine is involved in this story just makes me even angrier at the sleaze merchants like Kaus.

did a legit newpapaer print this

Edwards at best rates third in polls of the Democratic Party presidential candidates, but still clings desperately to the hope that somehow he can pull out a win. However, with these allegations floating around, it's going to be a difficult uphill battle.

what the fuck?

it's not a "couple" expecting a child. Young is married and has children of his own. Hunter's unborn child was rumored to have been fathered by Edwards. Young is a good friend of Edwards', had been with him in various capacities since 1998. He was the campaign's Director of Operations. Yes, the National Enquirer is engaging in baseless rumor-mongering. But the actual facts apparently compelled Young to issue this statement, possibly hoping that it would put the Edwards as daddy rumor  to rest.

Why does the media fear populism?

n/t

FWIW, Kaus and the right wing blogs have carried false innuendoes with respect to Hillary Clinton as well.

One can only hope that responsible journalists will NOT publish these lies, for doing so definitely shows a reckless disregard for the truth.

Let's flush this stuff down the toilet...pull the lever folks...and return to the serious business of electing a president.

Well:

The DEMs in this primary are acting like the rethugs have done in GEs!!!!

This story showed up on my Google News Reader today as published in tabloids and some other rags that I had never heard of, I would think that was enough to give it legs on the net and cause the denial to be issued.

Whatever the outcome, the videos are back up on the web.  Here is a link to the four webisodes that Rielle Hunter produced for Edwards that seemingly got the whole ball rolling.  Not sure what it proves but you certainly can take a look for yourself.

http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news-poli tics/edwards-webisode-1-plane-truths.htm l

Last week, The Enquirer's headline was:

STEADMAN HAS HAD ENOUGH W/OPRAH?
(and OBAMA was to blame)

This week it's JOHN EDWARDS.

DO you REALLY think it's a coincidence?

Do you REALLY think it's a coincidence considering that a huge Clinton booster just BOUGHT THE ENQUIRER?

Come on, people.

IF the Edwards campaign takes it up, then it becomes a 'legitimate' story, because right now, the ' legitimate' press could only say,
' According to the National Enquirer'.

AS soon as the Edwards camp issues a DENIAL, then they could lead with ' The Edwards camp issued a denial about the story of John Edwards having a love child.'

I'm sorry, but I'm a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist like that.