Why is it that the media have chosen to pillory Elizabeth instead of that filth Hunter?

[saracat]

I have heard literally nothing negative about that digusting garbage.John was despicable but it takes two to tango, why isn't Hunter ripped apart as well, or is her behavior accteptable?

[tonysam]

1. You'll find some even on DU who will make excuses for her

behavior, claiming the married partner bears more of the blame. Well, she pursued him KNOWING he was married, and I am sure she got pregnant on purpose.

Her family history isn't peachy keen; her dad was involved in insurance fraud when he had Lisa Jo's prized horse killed.

[Inspired]

2. Yes, I believe she got pregnant on purpose too.

John was a fool to fall for the 'I physically can't get pregnant' line. Hunter is sleezy and that makes John look all the worse.

[tonysam]

3. There was a novel written, The Story of My Life I believe it is,

where the main character was based on Lisa Jo Druck (I refuse to call this fraud by her fraudulent name, although "Hunter" is her real married name), and it was not flattering. Too bad JRE didn't read the book; it would have saved him and his family a ton of grief.

Wikipedia:

"Brat Pack" novelist Jay McInerney said that his former-girlfriend Hunter is the basis for the lead character Alison Poole, "an ostensibly jaded, sexually voracious 20-year-old,"<5><17> in the 1988 novel Story of My Life. McInerney described their relationship and Hunter's role as the inspiration for the character in an interview in 2005.<17><18><19> McInerney also said that he chose to write about her and her friends because he was both "intrigued and appalled" by their behavior.<17><18><19><20><21> Story of My Life, while ostensibly about the life of a hard-partying young social climber, carries within it a subplot that deals with the horse murders insurance fraud scandal, in which Lisa Druck was later revealed to have been a prominent victim, but which was, at the time of the novel's publication, entirely unknown to the general public, as it was still under secret investigation by the FBI. The narrative begins with Alison Poole's description of her father and says that when she was a teenager, her jumping horse "dropped dead," details that closely parallel Druck's early life.<22><23><24><7>

McInerney's novel ends with Poole disclosing that her horse was poisoned by her father:

“ I loved that horse. … When he was poisoned I went into shock. They kept me on tranquilizers for a week. There was an investigation—nothing came of it. The insurance company paid off in full, but I quit riding. A few months later, Dad came into my bedroom one night. I was like, uh-oh, not this again. He buried his face in my shoulder. His cheek was wet and he smelled of booze. I'm sorry about Dangerous Dan, he said. Tell me you forgive me. He muttered something about the business<.><22>

[saracat]

4. And the Youngs aren't any better. it really frosts me that it isn't pointed

out that their alleged conciences never bothered them till they didn't get the rewrd they assumed they'd get and neither of themm can be bothered to earn an honest living. Mrs. Young is allegedly a pediatric nurse and Young has a law degree, yet neither works! Of course now, who would hire either of them?

[tonysam]

5. There is nothing worse than opportunists

who make money out of somebody else's foibles.