• May 27, 2012

Elizabeth Edwards Selling Furniture Now

by Sara K. Smith  10:22 am August 24, 2009

She has joined the merchant classHey look it’s an Edwards story that is *not* about how a self-regarding butthole managed to continually embarrass himself and his family of mill workers with his bathroom-dwelling, mistress-impregnating antics. It’s a nice story about Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, and her new furniture store in Chapel Hill!

Apparently this has been a dream of hers for some time now, to run a furniture store. This seems to be a popular ambition for many Southern ladies of a certain age, on par with many twentysomething LA gals’ dreams of opening cupcake stands.

Anyway, Mrs. Edwards has a furniture store, which opened on Saturday, and naturally a bevy of reporters flocked to her store and said, “Hey, how about your husband fucking that broad? Pretty crazy, huh?” Because honestly, who cares about furniture.

Edwards opens furniture store [abc11.com]

{ 56 comments }

KilgoreTrout_XL August 24, 2009 at 10:26 am

Aw, poor lady.

Hey, would someone be a lamb and retweet the fuck out of this shit? thx.

Humpback August 24, 2009 at 10:29 am

No beds. Just too painful.

GreatOldOnesParty August 24, 2009 at 10:31 am

“The grand opening came as the Edwards’ family deals with a federal investigation and tabloids that don’t seem to go away.”

Segue of the day.

emmasue August 24, 2009 at 10:33 am

oh god i am sorry but I do pity this woman.

Jon Boner August 24, 2009 at 10:35 am

John Edwards was given plenty of camera time during the coverage of this not-even-close-to-news event. He’s in charge of bedroom sales, pee pee pads, and clean linens.

It’s clear that he and wife have not one ounce of shame, embarrassment, or remorse from trying to screw the entire country. They’d make great Republicans.

germansteel August 24, 2009 at 10:37 am

Tell her not to hire Barney Frank to sell dining room tables, somebody. He refuses to talk to them!!

chowkster August 24, 2009 at 10:40 am

[re=393400]emmasue[/re]: You are not alone. I do love that woman too. There is (should be) a special place in hell for John Edwards.

Bypartizoa August 24, 2009 at 10:43 am

LEAVE…sniff…ELIZABETH ALONE!!!

Words August 24, 2009 at 10:48 am

What?!? Wonketteers, no “woodie” jokes yet? I’m disappointed.

Monsieur Grumpe August 24, 2009 at 10:49 am

All furniture comes with rating that estimates the amount of pain the furniture will inflict when smashed over the husband’s head.

shadowMark August 24, 2009 at 10:51 am

What will Jenny Sanford open?

finallyhappy August 24, 2009 at 10:52 am

I hate to bring this up but I never got my Mark Sanford article last week- even though there is a new investigation about him accepting flights on many private planes. I mean this story is about the wife of a cheater in NC- how about the SC cheater??

TGY August 24, 2009 at 10:52 am

[re=393413]Words[/re]: No, but sometimes it’s hard to find a good wood screw.

hockeymom August 24, 2009 at 10:52 am

[re=393396]KilgoreTrout_XL[/re]:

What’s up with the “re-tweet” stuff? Is that new to My Wonkette…or did I just miss the addition at some point?

DangerousLiberal August 24, 2009 at 10:55 am

[re=393398]Humpback[/re]: No love seats, even.

TGY August 24, 2009 at 10:55 am

[re=393423]hockeymom[/re]: MY EXACT POINT EXACTLY!

sowbelly August 24, 2009 at 10:58 am

Okay, everything in three minutes, clock me: furniture mother childhood charity store japanese antiques wholesale prices daughter federal investigation mistress “you ARE the father” tabloid DNA future? store family support … time? Jesus, we left out OH! STAGE 4 CANCER! Got it in 3!

ManchuCandidate August 24, 2009 at 10:59 am

Why do the love seats have seating for 3?

shadowMark August 24, 2009 at 10:59 am

[re=393421]finallyhappy[/re]: Ha. Beat your Sanford reference by sixty seconds and I spent a minute or two trying to think of a joke about “opening stores” being a psychological metaphor for “opening vaginas” and failing.

geminisunmars August 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

[re=393420]shadowMark[/re]: Jenny will open off-off-off Broadway in “Evita”.

AnnieGetYourFun August 24, 2009 at 11:01 am

God, I fucking hate cupcakes. At least, the modern day take on cupcakes. Didn’t they used to be moist?

DoctorCulturae August 24, 2009 at 11:03 am

Family, marriage, her illness: very complex, unknowable things. Who knows where the karmic payback will eventually land. All I can tell is either the Edwards’s are extremely superficial, which I doubt, or very resilient and plowing through the muck. Tis a pity.

Texan Bulldoggette August 24, 2009 at 11:09 am

[re=393423]hockeymom[/re]: Frankly if I never again hear the words Tweet, Twatter, Twitter, Tweeted, Twitted, etc. I’ll be a happy woman.

Looy August 24, 2009 at 11:10 am

So…. who’s furniture is she selling anyway. One week, Jenny Sanford moves her belongings out of the house, two weeks later Lizzy Edwards opens a furniture store. Hmmmmmmm? I think she otta call it First Wives Furniture. Does John have a bed left?

yargisbargis August 24, 2009 at 11:27 am

[re=393436]DoctorCulturae[/re]: Who knows where the karmic payback will eventually land.

I do! It will show up in her antique furniture store:
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/bedbugs-itch-itch-scratch-scratch/

hobospacejunkie August 24, 2009 at 11:31 am

Elizabeth Edwards Furniture really will…SAVE YOU MONEY!!

Jim89048 August 24, 2009 at 11:31 am

I’d carve a metaphorical notch in her wooden bedpost, or in lay terms, I’d hit that…

S.Luggo August 24, 2009 at 11:35 am

Will Liz give husband Pretty Hair a discount on cribs?

[re=393420]shadowMark[/re]: Answer – To this portion of the OT, over and over again: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/galleries/2007/2070330/full/caravaggio_painting.jpg

Buzz Feedback August 24, 2009 at 11:44 am

Will John be working in the mill where the furniture is made?

Lascauxcaveman August 24, 2009 at 11:50 am

I love furniture stores, for some crazy reason.

I think the thing I love most about them is about 20% of the goods I see in them are really cool, about 30% are so-so and about 50% are what-the-hell-were-they-thinking and who-the-hell-would-buy-that-shit?

Guppy06 August 24, 2009 at 11:56 am

So, basically, she’s the next Gay Icon(TM)?

Country Club Jihadi August 24, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Does she also sell bumpers with the furniture so that Rielle’s child doesn’t hit her head on the new coffee table John bought for her?

gurukalehuru August 24, 2009 at 12:05 pm

[re=393428]sowbelly[/re]: You left out the dining room table and, of course, the Miiiiiill.

queeraselvis v 2.0 August 24, 2009 at 12:07 pm

[re=393476]Guppy06[/re]: Nah. But she’s certainly in the running for the next installment of HGTV’s Design Star, Celebrity Edition.

gurukalehuru August 24, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Of course, the first two letters in Furniture are FU.

thefrontpage August 24, 2009 at 12:12 pm

Her partners in the furniture store are Eliot Spitzer’s wife, Mark Sanford’s wife, and Larry Criag’s wife.

pirate of blackwater August 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm

All the baby furniture come w/ paternity tests and hush money.

DoctorCulturae August 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm

[re=393446]yargisbargis[/re]: I was thinking more along the lines of…

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Michele_Bachmann

Seek August 24, 2009 at 12:16 pm

[re=393433]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: Like most modern improvements, Cupcakes are all about The Look. Nobody actually eats carbs, especially 20 somethings in LA, so it’s only important that they look good, not actually function as an edible treat.

Holding Out for a Hero August 24, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Nice picture of Mrs. Edwards. Other than that, I got nothing.

bored with gravity August 24, 2009 at 12:24 pm

[re=393420]shadowMark[/re]: Travel agency, specializing in back-to-nature hikes through Appalachia and sex tours through South America.

bored with gravity August 24, 2009 at 12:26 pm

[re=393447]hobospacejunkie[/re]: That’s only funny in Texas.

meyotch August 24, 2009 at 12:28 pm

[re=393433]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: You drop a straight line like that and I’ve got nothing. It’s going to be a long Monday.

V572625694 August 24, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Everyone’s sorry the Breck Girl was a lying cheater. When Elizabeth was campaigning for him, she seemed charming, well spoken, sophisticated.

But then she wrote a book about her life and Sparkin’ Johnnie, went on a book tour, and conditioned all interviews on Rielle Hunter/Lisa Dreck’s name not being spoken in said interviews.

At that point it became hard to sympathize with her anymore. Just another person whorin’ for $$$.

KilgoreTrout_XL August 24, 2009 at 1:10 pm

[re=393423]hockeymom[/re]: This tweeting thing is new as far as I can tell. Eds, please warn us before you do this kinda stuff, or at least confirm that it’s now cool, so we’ll like it. I was so conflicted! Thinking for myself is _hard_.

TGY August 24, 2009 at 1:17 pm

[re=393545]KilgoreTrout_XL[/re]: Yeah, it’s hard to be a dittohead. Twittohead? Whatevs.

Rodney Badger August 24, 2009 at 1:31 pm

[re=393420]shadowMark[/re]: Not her legs for Mark.

jasonelias August 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm

This is like a Lifetime movie starring Tess Harper and Richard Thomas.

joeybrill August 24, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Twats frighten me; they want me to sign up for something in order to retwit the article.

Is this like eBay? It took six months to close that account.

I love you dearly, but I don’t have the long term memory required for this twitter business.

shadowMark August 24, 2009 at 1:54 pm

[re=393575]joeybrill[/re]: The Wonkette becomes a class-oriented culture. Those who comment via comment and those who comment via Twitter. Now we can have a whole Romeo and Juliet thing when a comment Wonketeer falls in love with a Twitter Wonketeer. When they make the movie it can be Tom Hanks reunion with Meg Ryan.

TGY August 24, 2009 at 1:58 pm

[re=393536]V572625694[/re]: Just another person whorin’ for $$$

Maybe she’s part Swiss.

Extemporanus August 24, 2009 at 2:05 pm

[re=393447]hobospacejunkie[/re]: But is it “SOFA KING” cheap?

Ohio Wonkette Fan August 24, 2009 at 3:03 pm

She’s a great woman, but wow; I mean she was a true super hottie in college…; I’m just saying

JooJoo Bee August 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm

[re=393420]shadowMark[/re]: An overflowing can o’ whupp-ass, if she’s smart.

Bruno August 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Does she offer easy credit and low low prices? I don’t want to start repaying for like 3-4 years.

Don’t worry Lizzy, you can re-package the debt and sell it on to stupid bankers in the meantime.

LoweredPeninsula August 25, 2009 at 7:42 am

[re=393448]Jim89048[/re]: “I’d carve a metaphorical notch in her wooden bedpost, or in lay terms, I’d hit that…”

Yeah, Elizabeth is some kind of hot with a personality to match, and she doesn’t get credit for that for some reason. Sorry, Michelle and Hillary; Elizabeth just does it for me.

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