Will the Edwards’ Truth Stand Up?
By reformedhippie. Filed in 2008 Elections, Culture |
This has been troubling me ever since the piece on Nightline last Friday night…
WOODRUFF: Why did you continue to deny it [publicly] and not tell the truth?
EDWARDS: Because I did not want the public to know what I had done. Fair and simple. And there’s also a lot of these you know supermarket tabloid allegations are just lies, they’re complete lies. But this, this mistake, is the truth.
Everyone knows that rags like the National Enquirer are gossip and rumor merchants. They thrive on this stuff. And a lot of American’s swallow it hook, line and sinker. It is tabloid journalism. But every once in a while they get something right. They got this one right. But it seems like the Edwards’ are attempting to discount the truth by throwing in subliminal suggestions that this is just tabloid journalism… inconsequential… does not really mean much considering the National Enquirer published it… even Elizabeth Edwards does the same thing:
Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private.
The fact remains that on this one point the National Enquirer was correct… John Edwards did have an affair. What is wrong with reporting the facts and holding the players accountable? Of course John did not want to get caught. Nobody does. But when you are caught up with don’t try and discount the truth by alluding to the veracity of the source.
What about the rest of the story? Who is the baby’s father? Where did the “hush” money come from? All sorts of questions will abound and some may never be answered since, thus far, the Edwards’ and Hunter are remaining mum. And can you blame Rielle? If I was being paid $15K per month I would not rock the boat either.
But if the Feds will ever investigate where the money came from… follow the paper trail… Edwards may find himself temporarily relocating to different housing.
Tags: coverups, John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, scandal