Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Edwards-Hunter Affair: Enquirer reveals new information, says Edwards is 'still lying' about Hunter
The National Enquirer reports that John Edwards is still lying about his affair with Rielle Hunter (Sex, more lies, and videotape):
...Edwards' political operatives are still paying his mistress Rielle Hunter - and she was whisked away on a private jet two days before he confessed their extramarital affair on national TV!...Edwards secretly visited Rielle and their love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this year - a fact that proves he is still lying to America and his wife... [our] reporters caught Edwards, 55, making a late-night visit to 44-year-old Rielle and their daughter at the hotel on July 21 - which prompted us to release the first-ever photograph of him with his love child last week.
...After Edwards confessed the affair to his wife, he restarted it, and was sexually involved with Rielle when she became pregnant... Despite his denials, Edwards WAS aware that his former finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, was funneling money to Rielle.
Experts are now calling for a federal investigation into Edwards' use of campaign funds.
...Edwards denied he's the father of Rielle's daughter, who was born on Feb. 27, 2008. The ENQUIRER reported last December that Hunter had told close confidantes that he was the father... In denying he fathered Rielle's baby, Edwards told ABC that he would "be happy" to take a paternity test to prove he's telling the truth. (He has refused numerous previous requests by The ENQUIRER to take a paternity test.)
Edwards claimed he ended the affair in 2006, but sources say he restarted the illicit romance after confessing to his wife... Rielle soon became pregnant after the affair was rekindled, say sources.
DBKP asks another critical question -- one which our beloved mainstream media hasn't bothered to ask: Who in the Edwards' Campaign Ran the Cover Up?
At least CBS appears to be on the case (finally) with today's publication of a detailed story ("Report: $$ Still Flows To Edwards' Ex - He's Denied Knowing Of Payments To Former Mistress; Questions Raised About Their Source, And Legality"). Of course, the story's foundation is based upon the Enquirer's reporting.On the ABC News broadcast "Nightline" Friday, Edwards said, "I've never paid a dime of money to any of the people that are involved. I've never asked anybody to pay a dime of money, never been told that any money's been paid."
If the story is true, asked CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano, the question remains, where did the money paid by the former Edwards campaign finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, come from?
"So far," Enquirer reporter Rick Egusquiza told CBS News, "we don't know that they were illegal. If they were contributions from the campaign, then obviously, there's some issues there with legality. But at this point, we're still trying to investigate that."
CBS News legal analyst Mickey Sherman told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Wednesday Edwards might be in legal jeopardy if it could be shown the funds were used for purposes other than the ones they were meant for.
"If you raise money to run for (office)," Sherman explained, "and if you take that money that people have contributed to you based upon the fact that they think their money is going to a presidential candidate, and you give it to a girlfriend of a God-knows-what ... that's a crime. But the question is, how do you prove that? And, she was somehow working for the campaign (as its videographer), so was the money she got so inappropriately more than what she deserved -- that's going to be the issue the feds are going to have to look at. ... It would be a federal offense."
The allegations could not only have legal ramifications, Solorzano observes, they would shed considerable doubt on Edward's denial that he fathered Hunter's child.
The Guardian (UK) adds one of its unique insights:
Like John Edwards, only smaller: "A source" who has seen the baby daughter of Rielle Hunter, with whom John Edwards admitted having an affair, but not conceiving a child, says the infant "looks like John Edwards in a onesie." (Brit-translation: babygro.) That's actually a really troubling image. [New York Daily News]
Hey, the Guardian could have at least mentioned mois...

I published this exclusive photo days ago!
Makings of a Chem Weapon in a hotel near DNC: MSM yawns
Less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention takes place in Denver, the Rocky Mountain News reports that a dead man may have been constructing a chemical weapon ("FBI joins hotel cyanide inquiry; victim identified"):
...FBI and local authorities are trying to sort out the mystery of what happened to a man found dead at the Burnsley Hotel in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood... On Tuesday, the man was identified as Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, a 29-year-old Canadian......officials at the coroner's office suspected the presence of cyanide when they received the body. Hazardous materials teams from several jurisdictions, including the FBI, found a jar in the fourth-floor room where the victim was staying that held between a pint and a quart of an unknown substance [labeled cyanide].
...A source familiar with the case said authorities were looking at the possibility that the chemical was sodium cyanide... The Department of Justice has classified sodium cyanide as a toxic chemical that, when mixed with strong acids, can be used as a chemical weapon.
The hotel is about 2 miles away from the Pepsi Center, where the Democratic National Convention will be held.
The Ottawa Sun reports that Dirie last lived in Ottawa:Dirie was a member of Ottawa’s Somali community and attended the Somali Centre for Family Services, said manager Addirizuk Karod.“He came to the centre with friends,” he said.
Dirie’s brother Hassan Dirie worked for Thrifty Car Rental on Bank St., but recently moved to Vancouver, Karod said... Members of the tight-knit community were trying to reach him yesterday but he wasn’t answering his phone. Dirie had been dead for six days when he was found, he said.
“How come nobody in the hotel noticed that he wasn’t coming or going?” he asked.
The Dirie family came to Ottawa as refugees years ago and had since become Canadian citizens, he said. Dirie’s father Abdirahman, who also lives in Ottawa, travelled to Denver when he received the news, he said... [and that] the Ottawa Somali community will want answers.
Cyanide is a fast-acting chemical that prevents the body from processing oxygen. It can be used in manufacturing, metallurgy and pest extermination.
Maybe Dirie was just trying to start a pesticide business.
As for the Somali Centre for Family Services, it has worked in the past with CAIR-Canada, the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), the Muslim Youth Division of Ottawa (MYDO), the Muslim Youth of Ottawa (MYO), Muslim Students' Association (Carleton), the Muslim Students' Association (Ottawa), Bilal Masjid, The Islamic Information Centre, The Islamic School of Ottawa and ICNA Canada for various events including:FIGHT IGNORANCE: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, ENGAGE YOUR MEDIA
CAIR-CAN Executive Director and lawyer Riad Saloojee will provide a comprehensive overview of essential rights and essential media skills.
Topics include: Can you take religious leave from work? Can you pray at work? What do you do if you are a victim of racial profiling? What do you do if you are visited by CSIS or the RCMP?
How do you write a letter to editor? How do you file complaints against media outlets? How do you avoid common mistakes in dealing with the media?
In July one "Adbdirahman Dirie" left a comment on a blog that discussed the killing of Somali Christians by Islamists and by Islamic Courts.
Please don’t talk s**t , that man [the Christian blogger] deserves what happened to him , simply because having the bible in one hand , and a bread in the other hand , is not a correct thing ,! Kill Them , Kill them , Kill them , that is my massage,!
I'm guessing Dirie was a Militant Quaker.
Linked by: Ace of Spades, Gateway Pundit, Jawa Report and Fausta. Thanks!
Edwards scandal quotes o' the day
The Philadelphia Daily News' Tattle column describes the CBS Early Show interview of Rielle Hunter's friend Pigeon O'Brien by co-host Maggie Rodriguez:
Rodriguez: "So for her this was about love . . . ?"
O'Brien: "Yes, very much so."
Rodriguez: " . . . not sex?"
O'Brien: "No! No, no, no, no, no! No, no!"
That's eight No's for those of you playing at home. Perhaps if Hunter or Edwards would have said "No" ... O'Brien described Hunter as "a very keenly intellectually engaged woman. She's very insistent upon rigorous dialogue . . ."
Edwards, in fact, enjoyed their rigorous dialogue: "Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Yes! Yes!"
O'Brien said that Hunter "digs very deeply," and that she and Edwards "connected very deeply."
Sometimes Tattle writes itself.
Heh.
Related: "Who in the Edwards campaign was responsible for the coverup?"
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Gore's 100-foot boat pushes Earth over the tipping point
Does Al Gore really buy into his global warming alarmism? At Pajamas Media, Steve Gill helps answer the question:
...he jets about in private planes that consume massive amounts of energy to spread his message of “conservation.”
...he travels in fleets of limos and SUVs to deliver speeches about the dire consequences of ignoring “man-made global warming” — and leaves the cars running throughout his entire speech in order to ensure that they will be nice and cool when he exits the building...His supposedly “green” mansion consumes electricity that dwarfs the consumption of the typical family home.
...Gore may now be extending his excessive consumption to the water as well. In an amazing display of conspicuous consumption, even for Al Gore, his new 100-foot houseboat that docks at the Hurricane Marina in Smithville, Tennessee is creating a critical buzz among many of his former congressional constituents. Dubbed “Bio-Solar One,” which may reflect some latent Air Force One envy, Gore has proudly strutted the small-town dock claiming that his monstrous houseboat is environmentally friendly. (Only Al Gore would name his boat B.S. One and not get the joke. Or perhaps the joke is on us...
Supposedly the boat is powered by biodiesel and solar panels. The boat's builder, though, says he has “no clue” about where Gore could get biodiesel at the lake.
When I was in college, I spent my summer piloting a 48-foot Stardust Cruiser party boat around for VIPs. I burned through two gallons of fuel every 15 minutes on a good day.
Webutante:It uses tons of fuel, but not to worry, it's tons of bio-diesel fuel. (Where do you suppose it stops for 500 gallons of bio-refueling --@ $4/gal=$2,000-- on the lake?) Oh, and as a backup, it uses solar power. Evidently, there are jet skis included, surely powered with solar panels that make everything okay.
Check out the lifelines.
If I didn't know better, I'd think these cords were supplying electricity to Moby Gore.But after listening to the Goracle, I'm guessing his vessel is just mainlining Crisco.
Hat tips: Bear Creek Ledger, Michelle Malkin, Steve Gill (at Pajamas Media as well) and Nashville is Talking.
Why do Democrats only hate American oil?
In May Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Saudi Arabia could slash oil prices by drilling for more oil.
If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day that translates to a reduction of 20 percent to 25 percent in the world price of crude oil, and crude oil prices could fall by more than $25 dollar per barrel from its current level of $126 per barrel...In turn, that would lower the price of gasoline between 13 percent and 17 percent, or by more than 62 cents off the expected summer regular-grade price...
Of course, Schumer also claims that drilling for the same amount of oil in the United States would not impact oil prices.
[Schumer said that] drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge would “take ten years and reduce the price of oil by a penny.” ...Schumer also called for an end to the speculation in energy markets that drives up prices.
What does Schumer have against oil that's produced in America?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) believes that releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) would help.
Pelosi sent a letter asking the president "to draw down a small portion" of the SPR's more than 700 million barrels of oil..."Releasing oil from the Reserve is a tool to manage our national and economic security, and when judiciously used will in no way jeopardize national security," the California Democrat wrote.
Thus, Democrats favor exploration of the SPR, which is supposed to be used only for catastrophic shortages, but believe that drilling for oil in the U.S. is "a hoax".
Can someone explain to me why Democrats only hate oil that's made in America?
Update: "Obama releases Exxon ad and hopes no one notices it's a lie"... You just can't make this stuff up...
Despite his new TV ad, Barack Obama has received more money from Exxon and Mobil employees than Senator John McCain.
Update II: "Tire-Gauge Industry Pumps Up Obama Campaign Coffers."
Scandalizer: photos of Hunter, Edwards together in late '06
The Washington Post's Trail:
Well, you gotta give him one thing: the man has chutzpah.Photographs distributed by wire services and posted online by technology blogger Robert Scoble show that former North Carolina senator John Edwards took his mistress Rielle Hunter with him on the plane during his late 2006 presidential campaign announcement tour... that's Hunter in the jeans and jester hat...
...Scoble blogged Friday about the four-day presidential announcement trip, after Edwards admitted the romance with Hunter.
...Wrote Scoble, "I had no idea that when former Senator John Edwards invited me to come along on his plane back in December of 2006 that I would have had a front-row seat to a sex scandal."
...Edwards said in a statement that his romance with Hunter ended in 2006. "With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then," he said.
...Edwards announced his presidential bid on Dec. 28 in New Orleans. His wife did not accompany him on the trip there.
...The wire service photos, below, show Hunter, whom Edwards met in a New York bar in 2006, traveling with Edwards on December 27 and riding with him on his plane to Reno, Nev., on December 29M of that year.
In other words, Hunter was still his traveling companion and close-up camerawoman at the end of 2006; thus Edwards confessional rings as true as his pronouncements that hundreds of thousands of homeless veterans wander the streets every night.
Put simply, his so-called "confession" appears as genuine as a Stradivarius air guitar.
Update: What Edwards' Campaign Knew About Affair:
KOFINIS: Listen, I — you know I am personally pretty devastated, and I can only imagine the staff and others that worked for him a lot longer than I did, how they feel. I don't understand, you know, how this all came about...
...He made a terrible, terrible mistake, and he's paying about it as severe a price as you can in a, if you will, public, you know — you know, humiliation, and that's pretty severe... But, again, my focus is on his family, and in particular Elizabeth, and wishing them that, you know, the best that they can figure out a way to get through this as best they can.
Update II: The Swamp implies that Edwards is still spinning fables, based upon information gleaned from Rielle's friend Pigeon O'Brien.
[The affair] started early in 2006, months before Edwards has acknowledged, O'Brien said...
O'Brien also contends that Edwards is the father of Hunter's child, which Edwards has denied -- with O'Brien maintaining that Junter [sic] was in love and would not have the child of someone she didn't love. She went into all of this in great detail on the air today.
...Ms. O'BRIEN: As of--as of his statement on Friday evening, he is lying about the timeline of the affair and other details about it, yes.
...It started in the winter of '06. They became involved at that point, not later in the summer when she was hired to work for the political action committee.
...It started at the other end of '06, in February, March of '06.
RODRIGUEZ: Do you think that John Edwards is the father of her daughter?
Ms. O'BRIEN: I do... ...I don't see any other explanation. She would not have a child with someone that she didn't love, and she loves him.
Update III: Gateway Pundit: "Edwards Took Rielle Hunter On "Two Americas" Tour ." Heh!
All photos by Robert Scoble with the exception of that marked National Enquirer. Linked by: Instapundit and Jammie Wearing Fool. Thanks!
Monday, August 11, 2008
The staunch and unshakable positions of the American left
There is a country that is currently waging a war for oil.
And where stand the anti-war Democrats? ANSWER? Code Pink? Democracy Now? Peace Action? Stop the War Coalition? Indymedia? NoWar?
Did you hear those crickets?
There is a country utterly destroying the environment, responsible for 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities and which has admitted nearly a half million deaths a year from smog alone.
Where are the environmentally conscious, anti-drilling Democrats concerned with global warming? The National Resources Defense Council? The Sierra Club? The Green Cross? Conservation International? Earth First? Earthjustice? Earthwatch?
I'm pretty sure those soft rustling sounds were some bindles of tumbleweed rolling through town.
If you needed cold, hard proof that today's hard left has pegged the needle on hypocrisy, well, I think you have it.*
*Note that conservatives never have to resort to sex scandals, a practice in which the opposition revels (consider Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig and Bob Packwood).
And where stand the anti-war Democrats? ANSWER? Code Pink? Democracy Now? Peace Action? Stop the War Coalition? Indymedia? NoWar?Did you hear those crickets?
There is a country utterly destroying the environment, responsible for 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities and which has admitted nearly a half million deaths a year from smog alone.
Where are the environmentally conscious, anti-drilling Democrats concerned with global warming? The National Resources Defense Council? The Sierra Club? The Green Cross? Conservation International? Earth First? Earthjustice? Earthwatch?I'm pretty sure those soft rustling sounds were some bindles of tumbleweed rolling through town.
If you needed cold, hard proof that today's hard left has pegged the needle on hypocrisy, well, I think you have it.*
*Note that conservatives never have to resort to sex scandals, a practice in which the opposition revels (consider Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig and Bob Packwood).
The Edwards Interview: what was left on the cutting-room floor
Mondoreb at DBKP has been all over the Edwards story from the outset. Mondo discovered that not only was the mainstream media covering for Edwards all along, but even now ABC left some critical interview footage on the cutting-room floor.

The key links of interest:
Blogger News Net: What the public didn’t see were the parts of Edwards’ interview with Bob Woodruff that ended up on the editing room floor. DBKP took a look at the ABC Nightline transcript and found an interesting tidbit sliced and diced by ABC: Edwards claims the photo of him purportedly holding Hunter’s baby released in the Enquirer August 6 issue is a fake...
WOODRUFF: And that picture is absolutely you and you are holding that baby.
EDWARDS: The picture in the tabloid. I have no idea what that picture is.
WOODRUFF: But you’ve seen it right?
EDWARDS: I did see it and I cannot make any sense out of that. When I went to this meeting you’ve already asked me about, uh, I was not wearing a t-shirt, I was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up. I don’t know who that picture — I don’t know if that picture is me, it could well be, it looks like me. I don’t know who that baby is, I have no idea what that picture is.
WOODRUFF: But are you saying you don’t remember holding that child of Miss Hunter?
EDWARDS: I’m saying you asked me about this photograph, I don’t know anything about that photograph, I don’t know who that baby is. I don’t know if the picture has been altered, manufactured, if it’s a picture of me taken some other time, holding another baby — I have no idea. I was not at this meeting holding a child for my photograph to be taken I can tell you that.
WOODRUFF: You did say you did meet her at a hotel in California.
EDWARDS: She was there, Mr. McGovern was present, and that’s where the meeting took place.
WOODRUFF: But you don’t remember a baby being there?
EDWARDS: No.
In related news, Celebrity Cafe quotes author Jay McInerney, for whom Rielle Hunter was both a lover and literary inspiration. McInerney says Edwards’s apology was “half-assed.” ... "To say that he slept with her but he wasn't in love with her - that's not very chivalrous. He's trying to distance himself from her.”
And at Blogger News Net: Was John Edwards the “99% honest” man on Friday? At DBKP, we noticed one falsehood almost immediately, which was confirmed the next day. John Edwards said that his affair with Rielle Hunter ended in 2006. He said it three times in his statement: it must have been an important point... It was–and is. It allows Edwards to claim he is not the father of Frances Quinn Hunter. We weren’t the only ones who noticed that point...
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Exclusive Photo from the Iraq visit: Obama with Gen. Petraeus


"Of one thing, I am certain. Your so-called 'Surge' will never work, General Petraeus."
Larwyn's Links: Why oh why did we kick Hillary to the curb?
Editor's Note: Larwyn is in the process of moving, but I was able to connect with Larwyn's spiritual aura (hat tip: Rielle Hunter) to produce the following links.
Jammie Wearing Fool: Key players at the Democratic National Convention: A radical Islamist and Jeremiah Wright in a skirt.Pajamas Media: The mainstream media and Democratic pundits (but I repeat myself) are publicly fretting over kicking the Clintons to the curb and nominating a man with “tissue thin” record.
Gateway Pundit: Its two... two... two citizenships in one!
Macsmind: The fact is... the mainstream media hid the Edwards affair. And Instapundit (via Vanderleun) asks the critical question appropos of Eason Jordan: So now that we know that the press covered for Edwards -- just as, pre-invasion, they covered for Saddam -- that raises a question: What else are they not telling us for fear it will hurt the Democrats' prospects?
Astute Bloggers: This is not a media that cares about the American people being informed; this is a media that only wants to manipulate the people and the way the people vote towards its own (outdated, bankrupt) ideology.
Charlie Foxtrot: Chokin' Hope.
That ain't a captcha, baby, that's just text!
Check out the "captcha" on the Broadcasting & Cable Online website:
Doesn't it look a bit... well... simplistic? It doesn't even look like a JPG or GIF. And since I was able to highlight the individual characters... harrumph! A View Source revealed:</style><script type="text/javascript">
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Heh. I'm sure the spammers will never figure that one out.
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Exclusive Photo: John Edwards with Baby

Update: The AP reports that Rielle Hunter will not demand a paternity test:
The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.
Rielle Hunter's lawyer, Robert Gordon, says his client is a private individual who wishes to maintain the privacy of herself and her daughter.
In a statement, Gordon says that Hunter is ruling out any kind of testing that could establish who the daughter's father is.
RIP, Bernie Mac
A talented actor and a heck of a comedian.
He was only 50 years old. E! Online has the complete obituary. We'll miss him.
Modern-day Democrats: a scary crew indeed
They appear more fit for a sit-com than serving as the brains behind the federal government.
Hey, I think they may be cooking up those magic solar energy beans so we won't have to drill for oil!Idea: Reliapundit.
An introduction to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
If you've ever wondered what Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is all about, RedHat has an excellent webcast featuring Daniel Walsh, one of the lead developers. The webcast provides the history, rationale and current state of the proejct.
The FedoraProject's Wiki also offers some excellent resources.
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