Edwards Fathered Hunter's Baby, Say Hunter's Sister And Friend

***UPDATE 8/13 11:30 AM***

The New York Daily News' gossip section today features a quote from someone who has seen Rielle Hunter's baby:

"She looks like John Edwards in a onesie."

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Entertainment Tonight and The Insider will air interviews on Wednesday August 13 with the sisters of John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter (real name Lisa Druck). Roxanne and Melissa Druck took the opportunity to talk about various aspects of the scandal. According to a press release advertising the program:

Roxanne tells [Entertainment Tonight] that if she could speak to Elizabeth Edwards, "I'd giver her a big hug and say I'm sorry for what they both did. I feel a lot of empathy for Mrs. Edwards. I'd love to tell her how sorry I am for her children. I'm very ashamed my sister had an affair with such a public man."

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Roxanne goes on to say, "I've seen the pictures of the baby she looks like John Edwards. She's got his eyes and jaw line and lips, but she does have Rielle's nose."

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Last Friday, Sen. John Edwards acknowledged having had an affair with Hunter, but denied tabloid claims that he is the father of the baby girl Hunter delivered in February. "My niece is not a bastard, I just don't think it's right," Roxanne said.

This morning on CBS' The Early Show, Pigeon O'Brien, a friend of Rielle Hunter, said that John Edwards lied about the timeline of the affair and said she also believed that Edwards is the father of Hunter's child.

RODRIGUEZ: He says it started five months later when his campaign hired her.



O'BRIEN: Yeah, that's not true. That's not true. It started in the
winter of '06. They became involved at that point, not later in the summer when she was hired to work for the political action committee.



O'Brien also thinks Edwards is the father of Hunter's child. "I don't see any other explanation," O'Brien told Rodriguez. "She would not have a child with someone that she didn't love, and she loves him."

Comments

[Cherubim]

John and Elizabeth Edwards are two beautiful spokespeople for those
of us in need. i pray the "New World Order" will all them to come back to us soon.

[HopeandChange]

Two America's. One for my wife and one for my girlfriend.

[StrategicThinker]

One for people who understand the difference between politics and pu**y and one for people who live for gossip.

[mayzebra]

ET!!! Arent those the guys that insisted Brangelina had twin GIRLS and a month early. The Enquirer is more reliable.

[skeller]

Yeah, who needs science, all we need to establish paternity is look at a baby. As if all babies don't look more like each other than like any grown-up, other than Winston Churchill--who presumably is not the father.

[dgscol]

She is either renting or is receiving payment from the Enquirer. John Edwards cannot afford to put up a bimbite in a place like that.

[OhMy]

Can you say campaign contributions? His campaign was paying her $100,000 to shoot video, what else was being paid for??? Hmmmm

[Aesthete]

Unless and until all parties involved are willing to submit to paternity and DNA tests, I say "forget about it!"

[HopeandChange]

All the votes he lied to obtain in the primary should go to Hillary. She won the popular vote, which used to matter to some people.

[PG]

Congratulations... that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard today.

[Ddorsey]

She wouldn't win with his delegates. She didn't win the popular vote, and why would his votes go to Hillary, his stances were more similar to Obama, if anything they would be split 50-50.
But this wouldn't happen, so I don't even know why I acknowledged something so rediculous.

[Ndw]

Why? It seemed to me that most people that were pro-Edwards were going between him & Obama. I had Obama first, then Edwards. Hillary had her staunch supporters, & I don't see any of those who were waffling between her & Edwards. If anything, he took votes from Obama.

[realityczech4u]

So now John Edwards and this non-issue have their own "Big News Page". If this trend continues, Huffpo will be advertising on the "checkout" pages of online shopping sites.

[MPCarr]

How is this a "non-issue?" Former presidential candidate and possible VP running mate, prominent Democrat, has affair, lies, 'fesses up but still lies, illegal use of campaign funds to mistress, affair possibly altered primary results, all right before the Democratic Convention.

This is an issue on steroids.

I am glad I don't have a friend named "Pidgeon."

[Cherubim]

To quote the WisePiper:

"Welcome to the Edwardian Post.

All Edwards, All the Time.

God love real journalism."

[Ndw]

Gee. I manage to avoid reading articles that don't interest me, or that bother me. Why don't you?

[FunGuy13]

Being a finance & tax guy my question is this...what are the tax implication for Ms. Rielle Hunter who moved from a rented NJ house to a $3.5 Mil manse in Southern California....I am sure the IRS will be asking her lots of questions very soon...You can be very sure than when this happens the paper trail that will cometh forth will be very damaging...

[vegasobserver]

John Edwards talked about "Two Americas".

Problem is there are two John Edwards...

The sincere crusader for the poor, and the slick, blowdried narcissist.

[BradPittsburgh]

The National Enquirer is not done exposing him.

[schicklett3]

Wonder why Edwards is denying the baby is his? If he's come clean with everything then why deny the baby? It makes no sense.

[FunGuy13]

It's called Elizabeth Edwards & the $200 million she will get in a divorce settlement ;-)

[WorldsGreatestActor]

hahahahahahahahahaha! no doubt!

[OhMy]

If you were Liz, wouldn't you insist? I know I would.

[Samirah1368]

wow, with sisters like that....

[UnknownSoldier]

I Fathered that baby

[vegasobserver]

I aM tHe BAbY, hi DaDDY!!! XXXOOO

[OB08]

What is the difference between McSame's affairs and Edwards'.....McSame has several affairs while he was married to his first wife before he dumped her for a millionaire airhead. Why is McSame running for the highest office in the land knowing his history with women? They are both scums....

[vegasobserver]

Here's the difference:

1) McCain didn't openly deceive the public about it while carrying on the affair during a presidential campaign

2) McCain and his ex-wife were having marital problems anyway

3) McCain's ex wife didn't have terminal cancer

4) McCain didn't father a baby out of wedlock with Cindy, while he was married to his ex-wife, and then lie about it to his ex-wife and to the public while pursuing the presidency

Doesn't mean McCain will make a good president... I'm a Democrat and an Obama supporter all the way. But that doesn't blind me to Edwards' faults, or his lies.

By the way, I was originally an Edwards supporter early in the campaign before he lost his chances of winning. It was probably his concern about the affair and the baby that made his campaigning less effective and caused him to lose.

In any event, the fact that he lied so brazenly means he deserved to lose.

BTW, this is MUCH different (and much worse) than Bill Clinton getting blowjobs under the Oval Office desk by Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton didn't father a baby.

Clinton wasn't campaigning for president when the affair happened.

Clinton's wife didn't have terminal cancer.

And Clinton didn't lie to campaign donors and divert money to his mistress to shut her up, which it looks increasingly like Edwards did.

[schicklett3]

No, the only problems in the McCain marriage is that John was running around on his wife. She wasn't causing the problems, John was. She was in a wheel chair for gosh sakes!!!!!!!! John McCain felt he deserved better. He truly is a scum.

[highlyamused]

apples and oranges

[steamboat]

And McCain didn't violate campaign laws, the IRS, what have you, with a possible exchange of $3-8 million in 'hush' money.

[ohjoy]

"Clinton didn't father a baby."
"Clinton wasn't campaigning for president when the affair happened."
"And Clinton didn't lie to campaign donors and divert money to his mistress to shut her up, which it looks increasingly like Edwards did."

... "as far as I know ..."

[Ndw]

None of them are 'ok' in my view, but neither McCain nor Clinton held themselves up to a glowing, holy light, nor paraded their wives as evidence of their virtue, nor issued sanctimonious, pious statements about fidelity & 'character,' as it relates to marital fidelity. Edwards did.