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| Edwards Admits Fathering Love Child, Reportedly Separates From Wife |
| 2010-01-21 |
| Former presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted fathering his former campaign videographer's child. Oh! I am so surprised! Oh, Ethel! My pills! In a statement released to NBC News, Edwards said, "I am Quinn's father. ... It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me." "My Dad, Breck Boy, told the entire world I'd been fathered by a guy who'd had a vasectomy. I'll just never forgive him!" Friends of the family said that Edwards and wife, Elizabeth, have separated, NBC reported. Threw him out, did she? Wonder if she had a nine-iron in her hands ... The admission comes after months of denials from Edwards that he fathered former mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn. The revelation also comes a week before his former campaign aide, Andrew Young, is set to appear in an ABC News interview saying he posed as the father when the scandal first broke as a favor to Edwards. "Yeah, sure. No problem. I doesn't matter if I've had a vasectomy, does it?" "Not legally." The two-time presidential candidate also admitted to providing financial support to the child and said in the statement that he has "reached an agreement with her mother to continue providing support in the future." "To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry," Edwards said. Young's interview is scheduled to air on ABC next Friday, but may be pushed forward. Previous reports have claimed that a secret DNA test proved Edwards' paternity to the child. The test was taken after Hunter tried to get financial help from Edwards for Frances. Edwards admitted in August 2008 to an affair with Hunter that he says ended in 2006. That year, Edwards' political action committee paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. A federal grand jury last year investigated whether Edwards broke campaign finance law by paying "hush" money to Hunter and Young over the affair. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #9 Edward's confession of serial lying, the end of Air America and the end of the Ted Kennedy legacy all in 48 hours. Good things in three. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-01-21 20:36 |
| #8 Give the Dems credit for doing one thing right--they didn't nominate Edwards in '08, and they didn't appoint him to any position of responsibility. Not after the National Enquirer broke the media embargo on the story, anyway. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-01-21 17:23 |
| #7 It sounds like she's a harpy who enjoyed humiliating her husband in front of the staff, and he's a cad who married the equivalent of the boss's daughter... a match made in hell. All three deserve one another, and only the children suffer unfairly. Even if the cancer may kill her, which also happens to good people. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-21 17:18 |
| #6 Always trust content from Kausfiles! |
| Posted by: Pstanley 2010-01-21 13:44 |
| #5 Elizabeth Edwards is not the saintly woman she was portrayed as by any means, but I have enormous sympathy for her. Her jerkass husband goes off and has a fling with some airhead video producer, and gets the airhead bimbo knocked up, and publicly humiliates Elizabeth when his cover gets blown--and all while the woman is counting down to her inevitable death from cancer. Any man who does that to his wife is a pig. Give the Dems credit for doing one thing right--they didn't nominate Edwards in '08, and they didn't appoint him to any position of responsibility. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-01-21 12:50 |
| #4 Yeah. Both can chase after the same segment of the student body. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-21 11:38 |
| #3 Yes he could compete with Lynn Stewart to land a professorship in the NE to teach ethics |
| Posted by: jack salami 2010-01-21 11:32 |
| #2 Sounds like Edwards could use an Professorship appointment at some swanky liberal arts college to help him get over this difficult time. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-21 11:23 |
| #1 "To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry, |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-21 11:18 |