A guy walks into a bar. He meets a woman. They talk, perhaps share a laugh. Then, nature takes its course . . . and she produces a series of short web videos for him, which he bills to his nascent Presidential campaign, to the tune of $114,000.00.
Man decides not to use the videos he commissioned (at a high price, from an inexperienced producer). They subsequently disappear from view, along with web pages associated with the woman. Neither wants to talk about it. At all. No comment, mum's the word, zip the lip.
The woman: Rielle Hunter, a/k/a Lisa Druck, who apparently described herself to Breathe Magazine as a "formerly hard-partying girl" who found enlightenment. The man: former Senator and current Presidential candidate John "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful" Edwards.
An interesting series of events, seemingly lacking of explanation. For more background, consult the Huffington Post (yeah, I know) HERE and HERE.
Perhaps there is a perfectly innocent explanation for spending that kind of money on cheaply-produced web videos you will never use, produced by a woman with virtually no known experience (beyond unspecified work on a single short film), who he met in a bar and happens to have a history of "partying" and who happens also not to be his wife, and then make all traces of the work and the woman disappear and her and her known associates refuse to comment.
I'm listening.
Hey, give a guy a break - he couldn't date the girlfriend of a mob boss, 'cause Rudy Giuliani put 'em in jail.
Thanks to "the indispensable" Jim Geraghty for finding something interesting about the Edwards campaign.



Comments (20)
There's got to be a top hat... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 7:48 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
There's got to be a top hat in their somewhere.
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1. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 7:48 AM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 07:48
2. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 7:55 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Where? Right there, on the top, tilted just a little. So, how do I say, chic.
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2. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 7:55 AM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 07:55
3. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:20 AM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
To avoid traps and ambushes, stay off of trails!
3. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:20 AM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 09:20
4. Posted by COgirl | October 11, 2007 10:55 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Oh my! Edwards is proving to be more "Clintonesque" than I would have imagined. The Enquirer link doesn't tiptoe around the issue at all.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/john_edwards_cheating_scandal/celebrity/64271
4. Posted by COgirl | October 11, 2007 10:55 AM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 10:55
5. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 11:04 AM | Score: -2 (4 votes cast)
Yep, a Malkin Bail-Out...
Or maybe a Coulter tag-in.
I saw the source: Coulter on Tucker via Newsbusters. Ann looked embarrassed to bring it up. A first!
The most interesting thing about the clip is that Ann gets foxier the older she gets. More cherubic cheeks at 40+. Clinique needs to hire this gal.
More Ann, less monkey.
5. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 11:04 AM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 11:04
6. Posted by Jim Addison | October 11, 2007 1:20 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
COgirl ~ Oh, my! They certainly don't leave much to the imagination . . . I never see that paper any more - used to be at every grocery check-out line. Glad to know they are still out there hacking.
Odd they can do better "investigative journalism" these days than the formerly MSM. Of course, it's only because organs like The New York Times and The New Republic shifted their emphasis to fiction, and passed the Enquirer on the way down from relevance.
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bD ~ Ann should be embarrassed after her joke about "I can't call him a f-----" which turned into an Edwards' fundraising lifeline. He didn't spend his time in the Big Apple singing show tunes and shopping Prada, now we know . . .
6. Posted by Jim Addison | October 11, 2007 1:20 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 13:20
7. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 4:07 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
"I never see that paper any more"-ja
The NE broke the Rock Hudson AIDS story 2 years before it became "news", and they pay big bucks to trash men and employees. Standard intelligence practice.
(Meanwhile Politico begs for tips from readers!)
(Politico Ron Paul breakthrough BTW!)
"bD ~ Ann should be embarrassed after her joke..."-ja
Her POSING for the cover of Time affirmed her court status as High Satirist. The lens, the aperture setting, the shoes. She's in on it.
7. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 4:07 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 16:07
8. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 4:16 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
On the one hand...
Addison: "Perhaps there is a perfectly innocent explanation for spending that kind of money on cheaply-produced web videos you will never use
on the other hand...
Huffington: "Within political circles, the videos were regarded as innovative, having successfully painted Edwards in a sympathetic, down-to-earth light. [..]
The webisodes were not, in any regard, a secret. Edwards' "behind the scenes" portrait had earned rave reviews in the blogosphere and even a small feature in Newsweek.
If they were never used, how did they get rave reviews and a write-up in Newsweek?
It doesn't appear that they were some big secret, Jim.
8. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 4:16 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 16:16
9. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 4:22 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
and the videos have (unofficially) resurfaced - link
9. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 4:22 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 16:22
10. Posted by jpm100 | October 11, 2007 4:57 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"Within political circles, the videos were regarded as innovative"
Did you actually watch them and think that?
10. Posted by jpm100 | October 11, 2007 4:57 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 16:57
11. Posted by jpm100 | October 11, 2007 5:07 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
What is the most interesting is the sources this is coming from.
Huff Post & Slate
Its hard to say what they expect. Lack of a smoking gun during the campaign actually made Clinton look simultaneously like a victim of a smear and a hero to scumbags who wouldn't mind cheating themselves. A smoking gun prettymuch killed Gary Hart. A lot depends on whether there's more to come.
They could be trying to trash his electibility so the nutroots will finally come over to the Hillary or Obama fold. I fully expect a Hillorama ticket. So it probably doesn't matter where they go.
11. Posted by jpm100 | October 11, 2007 5:07 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 17:07
12. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 5:24 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
I thought they were well-produced and professional - not what you'd expect from the drug-addicted child-abusing ex-hooker Addison painted this woman out to be...
12. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 5:24 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 17:24
13. Posted by Scrapiron | October 11, 2007 6:24 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Is there any garbage in the liberal world that a liberal won't defend? Doesn't appear so by reading the liberal comments, dumb as they are. Conservatives go after anyone ,even the president, when they don't agree with him. That's a big difference in the normal person, conservative, and the 'liberalism is a mental illness' crowd that prove the statement true every day. I'm more scared about the damage the liberals have done and will do to the country than all the terrorists in the world.
13. Posted by Scrapiron | October 11, 2007 6:24 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 18:24
14. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 7:00 PM | Score: -3 (3 votes cast)
Someday Scrappy will learn to read, then he might notice that no one was defending Edwards. Until then the world has to live with us off-base screeds.
And at least us liberals aren't linking to the National Enquirer as an authoritative source, lol. Puhleeeze COGirl and Jim... if you need to pull in the National Enquirer to make your case that this is a "scandal" - your case isn't made - quite the opposite.
14. Posted by Lee Ward | October 11, 2007 7:00 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 19:00
15. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 7:38 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Alright! We got us a Convoy!__I mean, Thread!
Scrapiron: this story was/is being pushed from the "right". It's Malkin Clean-Up, Aisle 5.
*Pay no attention to the b_tch in the bushes*
And your "conservative-liberal" paradigm has been out of date since the "compassionate conservative" assumed office.
You do realize that No Child Left Behind begins every PS student with an "A" instead of x at the beginning of the school year. So illiterate Johnny is an "A" student on Day 1. For "self-esteem" purposes. Now THAT'S "liberal".
15. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 7:38 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 19:38
16. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 7:41 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Scrapiron: Por favor!
Tell the main board to knock off the Good Morning America impressions. The estrogen is overpowering!
Suicide is NOT the answer!
16. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 7:41 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 19:41
17. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:25 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Cool wiki. http://politicalbase.com/
Seems to be new/incomplete, yet detailed.
Example: click "who has Leonard Nimoy contributed to?" hyperlink. Replace L.N. with, say, "General Electric". Out pops the staff!
17. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:25 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 21:25
18. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:34 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
PS: Rush is one cheap SOB. Too sleepy to Google possible Rush fronts. Don't know his Guatemalan maid's name. "Sideshow Bob" draws bupkis.
18. Posted by bryanD | October 11, 2007 9:34 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 21:34
19. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 11:01 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
"When you look into the mirror, do you like what's looking back at you?". Love them lyrics. Don't you, bD?
Well, they say love is blind. Here's video proof.
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19. Posted by kim | October 11, 2007 11:01 PM |
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Posted on October 11, 2007 23:01
20. Posted by bryanD | October 12, 2007 5:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"When you look into the mirror, do you like what's looking back at you?". Love them lyrics. Don't you, bD?"=kim
"Self love is not so vile a sin as self neglecting."
-Edward de Vere, alias Shakespeare
Not that I know what you're trying to say,
But Shakespeare trumps Ebonics anyway.
20. Posted by bryanD | October 12, 2007 5:28 PM |
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Posted on October 12, 2007 17:28