I really, really wish Rielle Hunter would just go away!!!

[CatWoman]

:nuke:

[tonysam]

1. She won't. There is too much money to be made for this con artist. n/t

[roguevalley]

47. she did those pictures to slam Elizabeth: look at me, I'm young, I'm

not sick. She is the trashiest cow out there.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

51. In the GQ interview, she says Elizabeth needs to take responsibility for her part of the affair

!

[Dorian Gray]

55. I didn't realize

that Elizabeth was sleeping was also sleeping with Rielle.

Oh, she wasn't.

The affair is all on Edwards and Hunter. Elizabeth may not be a perfect human being, but she had no part in the affair.

Hunter had kept quiet up until this point. I thought that was smart on her part because now that she's spoken publicly, she looks like trash.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. A real piece of work, isn't she?

What a self-absorbed, narcissistic twit. She and Edwards deserve each other.

[EFerrari]

3. The Gang that had No Boundaries.

Seriously, if this were a script nobody would buy it.

[spanone]

4. so ms. hunter took off her pants for the pics and now she's 'repulsed'

sorry ma'am, you can't have it both ways

[CatWoman]

6. wonder if that's John's shirt she's wearing?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Even if it's not, I'm sure she intended that assumption to be made.

[spanone]

8. i can't understand her repulsion...she can't be that naive

[mzmolly]

34. Don't you mean "Johnny's shirt"?

;)

[tonysam]

12. She blackmailed JRE by getting pregnant, so what in the hell is she doing

claiming she is a victim, for God's sake?

Because of the baby, JRE is stuck with this creep for the rest of his life.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. It takes two to tango. Edwards is equally culpable in this disaster.

He stuck his dick where it didn't belong. Sometimes that causes babies.

[asjr]

27. He is culpable in this disaster and I would

bet up until she met John she used birth control!

[polpilot]

43. Goddammit they're in love!!! Leave them alone!!

John Edward...Moron Extraordinaire'

[dawg]

88. He is more culpable.

Who's trust did Rielle break?

[spanone]

20. lay down with creeps and you deserve to be stuck....he deserves her

[karynnj]

26. That was a risk Johnny took when he had unprotected sex

He is not innocent. In addition, though there will always be a link via the toddler, he is not stuck with her for the rest of his life.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

52. LOL, yeah he's a real victim here.

[City Lights]

58. Awwwww, powr widdle Johnny!

:nopity:

The creeps deserve each other.

[snagglepuss]

68. +1

[Jennicut]

73. Perhaps he should have worn a condom then.

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[Generator]

39. Come on now!

If you wear pearls, going pantless is perfectly classay.

[Hekate]

54. With... baby toys as props? That's repulsive all right. nt

[goclark]

59. What's with the toys? What a piece of trash

Sad

[marshall]

61. She's basically the same as Levi Johnston

I remember the photos of him changing a prop baby's diaper while not wearing a shirt--lol, together he and Rielle have a complete outfit! Then he went on to the Playgirl spread, which I did not see but I hope to goddess didn't include babies or baby props.

It's all about money. But on Rielle's side I think she also wants "Johnny" back. And Edwards may end up going back to her since he has no other place to go.

[Raschel]

79. Not really. Hunter's plot was carefully planned. Levi was having sex with Bristol before

Palin was plucked from the sky to run for VP.

Palin gave Levi the boot and attacked him.

Hunter slept with Elizabeth's husband and attacked her.

[marshall]

84. Levi was banging the governor's daughter

True, he's not quite in the league with a savvy gold digger like Rielle, but he was doing the best he could in the great white north.

[deaniac21]

64. I wonder if she knows Tiger?

[Arkansas Granny]

74. I'm sure she was repulsed by this one also.

Did she honestly think that it would be a good idea to pose for photos like this or that they wouldn't be published?

[blondeatlast]

78. Good Lord, she looks like Orly Taitz. nt

[babylonsister]

5. Really. And the photo ops; she's a self-serving gal, isn't she. Or as

tweety said, 'grotesque'.

[deaniac21]

66. She has one breast for each John Edwards.

[Iggo]

9. Who?

Oh yeah. It took me a second.

In other words, she'd probably be a little farther away if people here would quit bringing her up.

[babylonsister]

11. tweety is spending an entire segment on it; sort of difficult to

ignore for those watching, but I get your drift.

[Iggo]

14. Ah. Context bites me in the ass again.

Ouch...lol.

[CatWoman]

15. they are discussing her GQ article on Hardball right now

and I'm not about to send an email to Hardball with that request.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Your point is taken, but she's such a train wreck

it's kind of hard to resist watching or commenting.

[saracat]

10. She is just discovering how ugly she is? Seriously? She "posed" for the pictures.

I am sure she never cried for what she was doing to Elizabeth.She is human garbage.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I'm so with you...

x(

[CatWoman]

17. I know I'm going to piss you off

but her hair kinda looks like your dog's hair :rofl:

[Rhiannon12866]

He just woke up in that pic and needed brushing...

;)

On edit: It's also his natural color... :evilgrin:

[CatWoman]

24. he's so adorable

:)

[Rhiannon12866]

37. Thanks!

He's a very good boy, the friendliest dog in the world, unless he's barking at me. :-(

Jack :loveya:


BTW, your kitties are still making faces at me! :scared: :hi:

[WinkyDink]

19. Don't start a thread.

[CatWoman]

25. are you the thread police?

how about you don't respond to it.....

[Raine]

42. Don't you just love posters who complain

about a thread being posted but can't stop themselves from posting a response in it ... bwahahahaha. :silly: :rofl:

[nonconformist]

21. CNN has a video clip of her GQ photo shoot

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/showbiz/2010/03/15/vo.rielle.hunter.photo.shoot.gq&hpt=P1

Does she seem repulsed?

[spanone]

22. seems more like she's cashing in than repulsed.

[Bunny]

29. Dear god what a dreadful, ridiculous excuse for a woman.

What's with the would-be sex kitten poses?

[customerserviceguy]

23. Nope

and the reason Johnny won't spurn her is that he needs her to stay on board for the coming investigation into misuse of campaign funds.

Besides, if he married her, she might not have to testify against him.

[pengillian101]

89. Wow, bet you're right!

"the reason Johnny won't spurn her is that he needs her to stay on board for the coming investigation into misuse of campaign funds."

I never thought of that!

[karynnj]

28. This is actually the first time she has spoken publicly

I wish John Edwards would never go before a camera again - ever. He is the one who caused this to be dragged out over years - by repeatedly lying about the truth. Had he told the entire truth back in 2008, it would long since have been over.

Now, the biggest concern is that he might possibly have misused money collected for his poverty foundation - which is sick.

A nonprofit group that John Edwards set up to fight poverty paid $124,000 for Web videos and photos to the former Democratic presidential candidate’s mistress, say four lawyers familiar with the payments. The Center for Promise and Opportunity wrote the previously unreported checks to videographer Rielle Hunter in late 2006, the same year Edwards acknowledged he started a “liaison” with her. (Edwards contended originally that he cut off the relationship that year. He admitted more recently he’s the father of Hunter’s daughter, born in February 2008.) The checks have since been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in North Carolina as part of a sprawling criminal investigation into nearly $1.5 million in payments from various Edwards entities and campaign contributors that were for Hunter’s benefit, say the lawyers, who asked not to be identified talking about an ongoing probe.
<snip>
The payments to Hunter were made at the same time that Edwards’s political action committee was separately paying her a similar amount to produce Webisodes promoting Edwards as a political figure. (The Webisodes became a source of controversy within the campaign; some aides thought they were “goofy and unpresidential,” says a former top Edwards aide who also asked not to be identified due to the ongoing probe.) But the payments from the tax-exempt center could raise separate issues if federal prosecutors determine that Edwards misused the group’s assets, since the rules for such tax-exempt groups are stricter than those for political committees.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/03/12/edwards-used-nonprofit-to-funnel-money-to-hunter.aspx

[Gaedel]

30. Edwards

If he paid $1.5 mill for that, he is too dumb to be president.

[tammywammy]

44. +1 n/t

[Blue-Jay]

31. Ya know... It doesn't really bother me for some reason.

I voted for Edwards twice. (Ohio primary and for VP in 2004)

Maybe I'm a little upset that he turned out to be a family-values-style-gingrich. Sure, Ms Hunter is milking the controversy for all it's worth, but Edwards pissed me off and deserves what he's getting.

Reminds me of Gary Hart: I agreed with his political views (still do). Both of those dipshits made their own beds.

[Raksha]

53. Reminds me of Gary Hart too...

and I like it that you called Edwards a "Gingrich." No need to explain what THAT means! I voted for Edwards in the 2008 primary and I'm embarrassed about it--wish I'd voted for Kucinich in the primary like I did in 2004.

[goclark]

60. Ms.goclark met John Edwards

when he was running with Kerry.

He had a Rally in Culver City CA and there were about 400 people there.

When he did his exit I was standing on the front row behind the ropes and he saw me and walked passed lots of people to shake my hand and say hello. He was extremely handsome.

I always thought it was because I was African American but now that I know what a scum he was/is ~ Ms. goclark was looking pretty good that day. LOL

[RFKHumphreyObama]

32. Well, it takes two to tango and John Edwards decided to dance with her

So it's really his fault that we even know her name right now. Another thing we can thank John Edwards for. And I say this as someone who used to be a big supporter of him

[Neecy]

33. I just feel sorry for Elizabeth...

Talk about piling on - she was trashed in Game Change, trashed in the book by Edward's aide, and now trashed by Hunter, which has got to be the lowest blow of all. She must be absolutely reeling. And Edwards has remained silent while the mother of his children is being savaged by his mistress and just about everyone else in town. Nice.

[spanone]

46. i can't help but think she knew what a shit her john was...she should have walked..imho

[SemiCharmedQuark]

50. Did you read the GQ interview? She blames ELIZABETH for the affair.

Claims that Elizabeth "emasculated" Johnny.

[marions ghost]

57. yeah that "emasculation" concept caught my attn too...

What weirdness. Do men really have a fear of "emasculation?" Is that fear so powerful it makes someone stay in a marriage for 30 years? So is this the job of a mistress--to re-emasculate? It's like a paradox--if you need to be re-emasculated, how did you lose your masculinity in the first place and if it takes a WOMAN to re-emasculate you, is that whole scenario not rather...wimpy?

C'mon men, is this real? WHERE does this thinking come from? I'm mystified--this whole concept is so far from my world.

[karynnj]

62. Not to mention her view is that disagreeing with them is "emasculation"

Doesn't that reduce the wife to having a Geisha like role. (Note there is no feminine version of the word "emasculate", but if there were, it would describe the effect of Rielle's idea of what a woman should do.)

[marions ghost]

63. good point

The whole notion conjures up ideas of extreme sex roles.

So--Is Rielle worried about her femininity???

:P

Rielle is not in touch with her "masculine" side, but Elizabeth is???

:P

John's masculinity needs constant reinforcement?

:P

[karynnj]

65. It is interesting

What is strange is that Edwards, at least in 2004, spoke of often of a partnership of equals and often mentioned things that he spoke of Elizabeth suggesting. It was this as much as anything that led to their marriage being idealized. This did not make him "emasculated", but if anything seen as stronger because he had chosen an adult relationship with an obviously strong woman. Had Edwards been married to a beautiful trophy wife, whose interests did not extend beyond raising their family and having a social life, I think he would not have had the support that he did. Elizabeth Edwards, to some degree, made people worried that he was too slick, think there had to be more there.

Think of it, no non RW lunatic, ever questioned Bill Clinton's of John Kerry's masculinity, though both Hillary and Teresa are very strong, intelligent women.

[marions ghost]

70. oh yes, agreed:

"if he had been married to a beautiful trophy wife, he would not have had the support that he did."

Certainly if he had been married to Rielle, it would have been a total disaster! :crazy: He needed Elizabeth to make it appear that he had a marriage of equals, since that's what women voters generally look for. But alas, he's made of the same old need for a "bad girl and a good girl" immature stuff as Bill, it would seem.

I say there's no way he will ever marry Rielle. She's not his image of a wife. She's his image of a mistress.

I'm glad Elizabeth is divorcing him. While she's no perfect ideal, at least she's getting some distance from him. She will be stronger for it.

John can only pick up bimbos from now on. What self-respecting woman would go near him??? :puke:

[CTyankee]

86. Twety "got it" right away -- RIelle never gave "Johnny" advice, Elizabeth always did.

A mistress is there for comfort and fun, no worries. Wives are nags and no fun.

How 19th century of him!

[Forkboy]

35. I have so little interest in this story. Lots of shitheadedness to go around.

I just responded to say hi!!!!

:hi: :loveya:

[Canuckistanian]

36. Technically, she's not the one who's pushing herself on us

It's the media pushing her on US.

If they didn't want her on your TeeVee day and night, she wouldn't be on. Period.

This is done for a reason, don't you EVER forget.

[WillowTree]

38. Yeah. And she should take "Johnny" and his tiny little johnny with her.

[Raine]

40. They both need to walk off into the sunset together

never to be heard from again, what a sickening pair. x(

[sendero]

41. Is there really anything more disgusting..

.... than someone who kisses and tells?

Yeah, someone that kisses and cashes in.

[anigbrowl]

45. Well, planning for life after your spouse dies of cancer would be right up there...

This Hunter woman is obviously an opportunist. On the other hand, nobody forced Edwards into her arms. I'm relieved that Edwards' campaign didn't get anywhere, though. Imagine how much worse this would be if he'd got the VP slot or the presidency.

[sendero]

56. Oh I agree..

... they are both pieces of work.

[apples and oranges]

48. Elizabeth got to tell her side of the story, Rielle should get the

same chance. John Edwards is the one who should be bashed.

That being said, the pictures are sleezy as hell!

[PhD]

49. There's no good guys in this story

John, Elizabeth, and Rielle all look sleazy.

[Mike Daniels]

67. The woman's lack of empathy is astonishing

Her whole "what happens between two consenting adults" attitude and moral relativism prove that she deserves the reputation she's acquired.

I only hope that she's as generous with the "consenting adults" attitude when Edwards skips around on her in the future.

[marions ghost]

71. it's possible

that mentally, he's already left her. Where will Johnny pop up next? Stay tuned...

[karynnj]

76. There have been no reports that they are together, which I assume

they could do now that the Edwardses are separated. Given the public nature of the affair, I doubt it would impact the divorce. Although his life will be complex, with two ex- families( one being just Quinn), he likely will find someone, probably younger, who, in spite of everything, is attracted by his good looks and his wealth.

Edwards really will have a tough time finding something that he can do with the rest of his life - and it will be hard to ever again have healthy relationships with Elizabeth, his children and any future woman. He really has messed things up.

[marions ghost]

77. yes

I think he's too far gone to reinvent himself. Sad end for an intelligent man who had it all. He lives eternally in the twilight of what might have been.

I suggest a monastery, listening to the sound of crows cawing.

[karynnj]

80. I like your suggestion - it has a nice gothic feel to it

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[leeroysphitz]

69. Well wishing won't make it so... n/t

[snagglepuss]

72. As someone who bought into Edwards. I couldn't disagree more.

I am fascinated in seeing how utterly wrong I was about his character.

[gmoney]

75. Her Wiki is pretty fascinating... her dad was implicated in the Horse Murders scandal

Electrocuting thoroughbred horses for insurance money?

Dated novelist Jay McInerney and was the inspiration for his book "Story of My Life" about hard partying socialites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rielle_Hunter

[grasswire]

81. I think she hates John Edwards.

If she loved him, she would never do this.

She wants to ruin him. That's the only explanation for this exposure.

Well, that plus the money.

[upi402]

85. yep, good thing Edwards didn't get the nomination

We'd have Hunterism instead of corporatism.

[hex29a]

87. Not just her!

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

The Mikado

:D

Uh, the underground is not DU, it's Gilbert & Sullivan :-)
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