Did you see over the weekend the report that a cornered John Edwards may finally admit to having fathered Rielle Hunter's baby? Located in the Times piece is news that Andrew Young, one of Edwards' inner circle, has turned on him, and is shopping around a tell-all book proposal. For the record, I can see where someone who participated in a disgusting cover-up would feel as if he had to cleanse his own moral taint by confessing all, but it seems to me if the penitent were truly concerned with atonement instead of capitalizing on the betrayal of a friend, he would do the tell-all interview for free, with a journalist. It's just slimy to shop around your betrayal like this. Nevertheless, this is a pretty amazing bit from the Times story:
The notion that Mr. Edwards is the father has been reinforced by the account of Andrew Young, once a close aide to Mr. Edwards, who had signed an affidavit asserting that he was the father of Ms. Hunter's child.Mr. Young, who has since renounced that statement, has told publishers in a book proposal that Mr. Edwards knew all along that he was the child's father. He said Mr. Edwards pleaded with him to accept responsibility falsely, saying that would reduce the story to one of an aide's infidelity.
In the proposal, which The New York Times examined, Mr. Young says that he assisted the affair by setting up private meetings between Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter. He wrote that Mr. Edwards once calmed an anxious Ms. Hunter by promising her that after his wife died, he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band.
Breathtaking, innit? What a Southern gentleman the Silky Pony has turned out to be. Excuse me, but I have to upchuck.
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Connie, so it works about as well as everything else here. Figures.
Of course, Hector. I was speaking hyperbolically and in no way meant to presume against divine mercy.
This whole sordid affair is but one reason Michael Medved refers to John Edwards as "Con" Edwards.
I still remember that hilarious Youtube video of Edwards primping his hair over and over to the tune of "I feel pretty". Check it out, if you haven't seen it. It's hilarious.
Well, I guess Edwards is front runner for cad of THIS century, because it was still LAST century, a few years ago, when Newt Gingrich served divorce papers on his wife as SHE lay dying of cancer in the hospital. He couldn't keep it zipped up a few more months, so she could leave this world holding her husband's loving hand? Not for life, just until she was gone. I know people whose dying spouses TOLD them, when I'm gone, find yourself another... A great example of "Family Values."
OK, I guess I'll have to be the one to expose the 500 lb. elephant in the living room. John Edwards was no longer attracted to his wife and probably has not been for years, long before she got cancer. She, unfortunately, let herself go (before the cancer), gained a ton of weight and (not her fault) aged very badly. Sling away with your arrows, but reality is reality. He is a cad for sure, but he is a man and it must be hard to get turned on by a woman who looks like your mother.
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