John Edwards Sex Tape?????

[WeDidIt]

:wtf:

:wow:

Sex, scorn and videotape

By BEN SMITH | 9/30/09 2:30 PM EDT

When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply.


When Edwards and his family arrived home, Young had made sure there was fresh milk in the fridge, a neatly trimmed lawn and neatly folded dry cleaning. When he arranged their vacation to Disney World in 2004, he naturally booked himself a ticket. And when Edwards’s mistress became pregnant, Young — at the cost of his reputation, his wife’s and his minister father’s — stepped forward to say the child was his.

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Young still lives in Chapel Hill, not far from the Edwardses. Having found it impossible to work again in politics, he spends his days playing with his children and working on the manuscript of his book for St. Martin’s Press — the leaked proposal promises lurid revelations of promises made to Hunter by John Edwards and of other Edwards affairs, details that many in Edwards’s circle still doubt.


And Young, with all the fury of a spurned lover, may be holding out yet another threat to his old idol, if it comes to that: an explicit videotape, two people who have seen it said, of Edwards and Hunter together.

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Full story at Politico

Okay, having an affair when you're going after such a high profile position is completely stupid.

Videotaping it is beyond stupid.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Disgusting.

:popcorn:

[EOTE]

3. Agreed. Completely grotesque.

Now pass the popcorn, please.

[leftstreet]

5. Reprehensible

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[janedum]

11. Ms. Hunter is a #$*(%@. She may have videotaped it WITHOUT Edwards' Knowledge.

[WeDidIt]

13. That's certainly possible

I'd say the reverse is equally plausible.

[Dr. Strange]

8. You know...

I don't think these kinds of movies are the right time/place for popcorn. :scared:

[madinmaryland]

24. *snort*

Buttered popcorn!

:hide:

[Dr. Strange]

27. Nice post, Orville Redenbacher.

[Taverner]

2. Well that was dumb

What was he thinking?

Oh yeah - that's it - he wasn't

[MineralMan]

4. Unsubstantiated crap.

Edwards is finished. Let him be.

[TwilightGardener]

6. How much money would it take for you to make up a lie about

cheating on your wife and having a baby with a mistress? He claimed a baby that wasn't his! As disgusting as Edwards is, this guy is worse.

[Solly Mack]

7. I have just one question.

Did his hair stay in place?

(I know,I know. Bad Solly.)

* This post does not mean I believe the tape exist.

[Echo In Light]

9. Too bad we didn't exist in a world where other's sexual peccadillos weren't such a big deal

[merh]

17. I think for Edwards, even if we were a more accepting society

where affairs didn't matter, the fact that his wife has terminal cancer and he was having the affair as he was running for president as the family man, while his wife was going for treatments would have done him in.

[joeybee12]

22. Yeah, because his actions affected a lot of other lives...

...his wife's, family members, us poor voters.

[merh]

25. yes

[EFerrari]

29. I'm afraid that before this load of laundry is through all the cycles

none of these people will come out looking bright and sparkly, including Elizabeth.

[merh]

31. why Elizabethe

do you think she knew - I don't think she did -

[EFerrari]

34. It's not so much the particulars but she married John Edwards.

And it's very rare that married people are all that different from each other. She certainly isn't responsible for anything he did but what they together decided to do about this situation, including this weird part about Young, is something else. Young may wind up causing just as much trouble as that woman did. It's too bad.

[Raine]

38. Cheating on a wife with teminial cancer in any world

will always be a big deal ... as it should be! :grr:

[Echo In Light]

45. For those directly involved, yes.

[Iggo]

49. Yeah. Thank god I'm not his wife...

...or I would be PISSED!!!

[Bobbie Jo]

10. Arrogance and stupidity are often confused. nt

[redqueen]

12. ...

Damn...

[SidneyCarton]

14. Please no, not another tape.

Please tell me this didn't happen.

And on a wholly different track, why film it? What makes you think that you are any better looking while performing than any of the numerous people already in the porn trade? Filming sex is an invitation to disaster, unless you want to see yourself on TMZ.com, there is no good reason to film yourself.

[aikoaiko]

15. A really good sex tape could totally rehap John Edwards.

Look what it did for Pamela and Paris.

[Happyhippychick]

16. Edwards is the only politician that I would want to see in a sex tape. Shallow, I know. But true.

[frogmarch]

48. LOL Thanks for

taking the edge off my anger for a few minutes. :-)

[grasswire]

18. consider the source

Politico.

And consider the phrase "two unnamed people who have seen it".

I say bushwah. I say the guy needs to sell books.

[Cant trust em]

19. Has this popped up on youtube yet or something?

It sounds like folks are claiming that it exists, but haven't released it yet.

[joeybee12]

20. Just when you think you've heard it all about this twisted tale...

...yeah, really stupid...the whole thing shows he's stupid.

[sinkingfeeling]

21. So says Young, 'with all the fury of a spurned lover' and Politico.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

23. The first paragraph of that story is bizarre

"When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply."
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So when Edwards wanted a Diet Coke, Young, who was driving, had to get it for him? Were they stored up his ass?

Also makes it aound like the Tahoe did not have cupholders.

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. Mr. Young was Edwards be-otch. OMG, a total tool.

[redqueen]

35. If so, perhaps that's why he's doing this now. (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. probably. He did everything for Edwards but wipe his ass.

[XemaSab]

40. I suppose it's possible to hold a camera

and use a tissue at the same time.

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. lol. true.

[PassingFair]

47. Here's a pic.

Now THAT is a LOYAL employee.

Shame on the Edwards if this is all true. Both of them.

[MilesColtrane]

28. I'm sure he'll tell us that he was just poling the electorate and pressing the flesh.

What a moronic shitheel.

[Arkana]

30. Oh God.

This...this doesn't ACTUALLY exist. Right?

























Guys?

[WI_DEM]

32. John Edwards has always been a political chameleon and fraud

[Mrs. Overall]

33. Unfortunately, high profile politicians' lives are public--

I feel very sorry for Elizabeth.

John Edwards has been a total dick regarding his family. His political career is over.

[liberalpragmatist]

36. Honestly, I'm pretty skeptical about most of Young's allegations

The things he says - including the sex tape bit - may be true. But they may not be. What we're getting is unsubstantiated gossip by a spurned aid. And if you read the whole profile, Young comes off as a total creep, who's clearly looking to cash-in and exact revenge. Not exactly hallmarks of reliable testimony.

Now, Edwards is a fool. But you couldn't script this whole sordid mess any better - John Edwards, Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young all come across as some of the flakiest, cast of characters I've ever seen in a political soap opera. They deserve one another.

The people I feel for in this whole mess is the rest of the Edwards family, especially Elizabeth. Yeah, Young's account doesn't paint a particularly flattering picture of her, but does anybody blame her for thinking him a creep?

[TexasObserver]

37. But his father was a mill worker!!

I'm on perma pissed with John Edwards over this.

Fuck around on your wife if you must, scum bag, but don't ask Democrats to send you money to pay for your paramour. Elizabeth deserves better.

[undeterred]

41. So does she call him "Mr. President" on the tape?

[HipChick]

42. absolutely terrible..

but how long before we can see the tape..:evilgrin:

[kskiska]

44. Elizabeth Edwards knew

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Edwards endorsed Barack Obama on May 14 and began talking to his former aide again soon after that. But the relationship had grown tense. Young was under the impression that Edwards would, after dropping out, step forward and claim paternity — which he showed no inclination of doing.

Elizabeth Edwards, meanwhile, had been leaving messages on Young’s and Young’s wife’s voice mail, two sources say Young told them, demanding that he reassert his paternity to clear the cloud over her husband.…

[redqueen]

46. Wow.

I really want to think this is all untrue.