Serves me right, I guess.
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.
Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.
Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.
I really don't care if he had an affair--I still think Americans need to grow up about this shit. But it makes me much less inclined to defend the next person who is being smeared, I will admit.
Amanda Marcotte says it better, though:
My official stance is that unless it's a matter of hypocrisy, it's none of your damn business. So, if someone has a history of dogging gay people, prostitutes, people who have sex outside of marriage, etc., their business is now public property because they treat your business like it's public property. Edwards, as far as I know, has never been a "sanctity of marriage" wanker, and so this is officially None Of Our Business, and anyone who dogged him on this story should be fired on the principle that they don't know journalism from rooting around in the trash. Hypocrisy is a story; human weakness is not.
That's why I defended Edwards--he was not sanctimonious or anything like that. It's only a story when the pol is telling people that adultery is bad, that his opponent is an adulterer, and that only sinners and heathens reject the Lord and commit adultery--and then gets caught blowing someone in a public toilet with a cucumber wrapped in tinfoil up his ass.
Nothing after the jump, and nothing for Edwards after this. I'm thinking it's time to sink into obscurity, there, Senator. Thanks for, well, damned near nothing. |
