edwards leads poll in Iowa.

[inconvertible]

ha, ha, ha.......just like I said. when americans go to the polls and get behind the curtains. they will go with the WASP, before they go with the black and the broad. believe it.

[braeden0613]

haha yeah that may be true...its gonna be a very interesting primary

[Nbadan]

Get this, the National Enquirer is set 'to break' a report tomorrow about Edwards having a affair and a love-child...and it's not the 'bat boy'...


The new cover of the National Enquirer -- hitting the streets on Wednesday -- will feature a shocking scandal story about a leading Democratic Presidential candidate fathering a soon-to-be-born "love child." National Enquirer claims John Edwards had an 18-month affair with female staffer on his campaign, who is supposedly now six-months pregnant and in hiding. Edwards and the staffer reportedly are vehemently denying the story -- although the newspaper purportedly has interviews with friends of the woman in whom she reportedly confided about the Edwards details. The newspaper also claims to have emails and other evidence supporting the story. With Edwards' "good husband" image associated with his ailing wife, this story -- if it has legs -- has the potential to destroy his campaign. Yes, it's a tabloid newspaper -- but remember that it was also a gossip tabloid that broke the Paula Jones sex scandal story about Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign. Stay tuned

Link (http://www.politics1.com/)

Actually, this is just a regurgitation of a report that ran in Oct2007 (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/10/breaking-news-j.html), and it didn't have legs then either....but if Drudge and his journalistic equal, The National Enquirer can get a few wing-nuts to believe it, he can always pull the story later with no one is the wiser, but damage done to Edwards....someone must be getting nervous...

[Nbadan]

The political world has been holding its nose for the last twenty-four hours while peering at the weekly tabloid National Enquirer, which published a story yesterday alleging that presidential candidate John Edwards had an extra-marital affair.

"The story is false," Edwards told reporters in South Carolina today, according to a reporter who was there.

What the tabloid's readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary.

The investment boutique which Altman founded and chairs, Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media, which publishes the Enquirer, in 1999, which it still holds with a partner. Evercore's president, Austin Beutner, sits on American Media's Board of Directors, according to Evercore's website.

A spokesman for American Media, Richard Valvo, said in an email that Altman has "no involvement in editorial, ever." He said that Evercore owns 20 percent of the company through an investment fund. Altman didn't respond to an email seeking comment or to a message left with his secretary.

"The MSM seems to be strenuously trying to not report it," Kaus wrote, and indeed, aside from a disapproving link to Kaus's item on the website of the New Republic, and gleeful coverage on the gossip blog Wonkette, the story has mostly stayed out of the old-line press. But it's unclear whether that reluctance is the result of Clinton-era neurosis about the topic of sex, or a less fraught sense that there simply isn't much to report here, particularly in the case of a candidate who lacks the media wattage and poll numbers of his rivals.

The Enquirer story cites anonymous emails from the un-named woman allegedly involved to another un-named source.

But Hunter reportedly issued a disgusted denial of the stories earlier today, via a spokesperson quoted by the veteran blogger Jerome Armstrong on MyDD (Armstrong emailed Politico that the spokesman was her lawyer, Robert Gordon):

The innuendos and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous....

When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.

This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it.

Politico (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/The_Clintonite_who_owns_National_Enquirer.html)

[Twisted_Dawg]

That rag magazine does break a few big stories now and then.

[jochhejaam]

Get this, the National Enquirer is set 'to break' a report tomorrow about Edwards having a affair and a love-child...and it's not the 'bat boy'...



Link (http://www.politics1.com/)

Actually, this is just a regurgitation of a report that ran in Oct2007 (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/10/breaking-news-j.html), and it didn't have legs then either....but if Drudge and his journalistic equal, The National Enquirer can get a few wing-nuts to believe it, he can always pull the story later with no one is the wiser, but damage done to Edwards....someone must be getting nervous...
Leave it to Dan to incorporate a rebuke of Drudge into the Edwards/Love Child story.

I try to avoid personal attacks, but honestly Dan, comparing Drudge to the National Enquirer puts you on the hot track for winning the 2007 PCVI (Poster Child for Village Idiots) Award.

More accurately, you're a sensationalist to the same degree as the tabloids.

[jochhejaam]

My apologies to Dan for the earlier reference that he's an idiot. Bad call on my part.