Wonkette
Among the more bizarre aspects of the tragic “John Edwards is a sex lizard” story that broke last year was the part where a long-term aide claimed that he, the aide, was the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby and took her in to live with him and his wife and children for a while, all bankrolled by that lawyer and Democratic financier who’s now conveniently dead. The aide, Andrew Young, is shopping around a book that will presumably spill the beans on the very important question of who the father of the little Edwards-looking tot really is, because why else would you buy the goddamn thing, right?
Young submitted a 20-page proposal and began a round of visits to New York publishers the week of June 15.Included in the proposal are photos of Edwards with the alleged love child. Under pressure, Edwards admitted to having an affair with Hunter but has denied paternity;it was originally reported that Hunter would submit baby Frances to a DNA test to determine her paternity, but she quickly rescinded that offer. The space for “father” on Frances Hunter’s birth certificate was left blank.
BLAH BLAH BLAH tell us something we don’t know, Sara Nelson, former editor of Publishers Weekly and author of this uninformative article! What are all your hot publishing industry contacts FOR if they can’t even look at this tawdry man’s tawdry proposal and confirm or deny whether he is, as your headline suggests, the father of Edwards’ baby?
John Edwards “Baby Daddy” to Tell All [The Daily Beast]
Are we totally sure that’s John Edwards in that picture and not John Barrowman?
I would totally buy that book and then burn it.
Sounds like one messed up movie plot to me.
Everytime this bs comes up, another starving child in New Orleans gets that shaft. You can’t talk about poverty as an issue anymore w/o someone cracking an Edwards joke. Thanks asshole.
I’ll wait for it to come out in comic book form. I won’t buy it then either.
Is that a picture of intern Riley holding a noseless mutant?
If the baby’s first words are about being the grandson of mill worker, problem solved.
They should call it: John and Rielle plus 10
The 10 comes from love child, Elizabeth + 4 kids + “baby daddy”’s family of 5.
The revelation will be that the baby’s mother is really Sarah Palin, which would mean that John Edwards poked her teenage daughter and Sarah kept is quiet. Family values, family values.
Two Americas.
One where John Edwards and Newt Gingrich piss on their cancer stricken wives.
The other is where the rest of us live.
It’s always so disappointing when the Enquirer doesn’t live up to our high journalistic expectations.
Andrew Young is taking the fall for Martin Luther King who is taking the fall for Medgar Evers who is taking the fall for John Edwards.
Wonder what he did for fathers day.
Edwards/Spitzer 2012!
Fidelity we can believe in.
That’s a picture of Edwards?
Looks more like that nurse from that new medical show on Showtime.
Although it was newsworthy to learn about Edwards’ disgusting stupidity & venality, I’m like: this story’s 15 min of fame is so ovah. As long as John Edwards remains hidden in some (one hopes) personal pergatory and doesn’t try to become a public figure ever again, there is nothing to see here, folks, move along now….
SendLawyersGunsAndMoney:
I thought John and Rielle’s love child was the last Cylon
You’d think at some point a person has made enough money that he can be honest about everything. And you’d be wrong. I’m just glad he didn’t win the nomination.
Momma, who’s my daddy?
Well, son, I’m not sure. There was Andy, John, Bill, Hillary, George, Ringo, some guy on a motorcycle, Condi, Rush, Dick, Osama (that’s o-S-a-m-a, learn to read!), Joe, A-rod, the turkey baster, Newt, John again, and, oh, there was Fabio–let’s hope it’s him, ok honey?
SayItWithWookies: It’s hard to give up the very thing that got you there.
Hard to believe this lying asshat is talking about getting back into the public arena. The first thing he should do is volunteer to sit over a tub of water on a dunking game on the Mall and sell chances to “dunk a dick” for $100, the money to go to the Steelworker’s PAC because they blew a bundle of time and money on this craphead who lied to them. They’re as betrayed as Elizabeth, but in a different way.
Next, he should wear funny glasses with a big nose or other disguise and actually go build “Houses for Humanity” with no cameras and no announcement, and also do it under an assumed name. Not to revive his career as a politician, but to reload his karma balance, else John Boy is coming back as a beggar in Mumbai, with only a cockroach–Newt–as his friend. Or as one of those miserably tortured Burma muslims I heard about on NPR this morning when I was half awake.
labdork: Wrong color shirt. Pink is the new turqouise.
SayItWithWookies: You’re no fun.
Pain-tit, ditto.
Rielle Fiftynames better know who the father is & be prepared to say who when the child is old enough to ask. We adopted folk are screwed badly enough (w/few exceptions) by the states when it comes to information about our own lives. We don’t need our own mothers hiding info from us as well.
Vulpes82: And are you sure that’s a real baby and not a Slitheen he’s holding? Does it fart and belch a lot?
Are we sure that’s not Larry Birkhead?
Manos: Hands of Fate: Edwards also serves as Fox News’ counterpoint to each and every Republican sex scandal. Screw him for that, too.
Is every politician with good hair an adulterer?
hobospacejunkie: McDuff: “Long story short, kid, I was real slut. And my biological clock was ticking so loud it was deafening.”
ph7: I’ve got a cancer-stricken wife… when do I get my hottie?
DustBowlBlues: AGREED. That made me cackle.
Look, if doesn’t involve a member of the GOP having some kind of dirty, unnatural, and preferably illegal buttseks, I’m all “meh — do. not. care.”
Random factoid: Rielle Hunter was the basis for a character who got Patrick Bateman’s hand stuck up her vagina in American Psycho.
The list of politicians whom I wish would go away is getting longer and longer…
ManchuCandidate: Isn’t that 11?
Son, she said I was her soul mate. The whore.