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Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis

Posted: March 15, 2010 11:42 AM

John Edwards & Rielle Hunter: The First Big Lie

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Contrary to the rumors, John Edwards did not do "69" the first night.

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From page 3 of Rielle Hunter's new interview with GQ

Q: And you knew that in the first few seconds?


A: Upon sight. So I called him about a half hour later. And I got a voice mail in the room, so I hung up. Did not leave a message. Because I did not know what was appropriate. I knew he was married, and I didn't know if his wife was with him, you know; I didn't know what was appropriate. And this was not--there was no sexual intention here at all.

Q: Really? C'mon.

A: None. I really just thought I could help him. So I hung up. And about ten minutes later, my cell phone rang. And I looked down, and I said to my friends, "What is this number?" One of my friends said, "That's the Regency." And I said, "He's calling me back? I didn't even leave a message. How is he calling me back?" And he, you know, star-69'ed or whatever the caller ID was. And he left me this message, "Hi. Call me. I really want to hear what you have to say."

REALITY CHECK


I just telephoned the Regency Hotel -- where according to Rielle Hunter and multiple other accounts -- John Edwards was staying the night they met and where she telephoned him.

I spoke to a very nice lady on the Front Desk. Juliet Bird. I inquired about the telephone facilities in the guest rooms. "Are the telephones at the Regency Hotel equipped with "caller ID" or "star-69" facility?"

She told me that she had never been asked that particular question before and would need to check with a supervisor familiar with the hotel's telephone system.

She checked. The answer was -- as I suspected -- no. Neither of those facilities, or anything like them, were available on the telephones in their guest rooms.

What a surprise!

So either Rielle Hunter gave "Johnny" Edwards her cell phone number or left him a voice-mail with her phone number.

Or John Edwards is the most astonishing psychic since The Amazing Criswell...

 

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10:57 AM on 03/18/2010
No matter what anyone says about Elizabeth it is hard to omit the cancer part of this story. Reily Hunter can NEVER win this battle for public approval. Thinking otherwise is probably delusional.
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02:14 PM on 03/17/2010
Amazing Criswell--lol.

Love Ed Wood!

Diane

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Luv2Purple
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09:36 AM on 03/16/2010
LIARS & SCOUNDRELS in this drama all around the whole stinkin, scummy lot of em.
09:13 AM on 03/16/2010
And to think, this woman had the potential to become the First Lady of the United States of America, and Sarah Palin scares you people to death............geeeeeezzzzzz.
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politicali
Liberal means free, open and generous.
11:54 PM on 03/16/2010
please, let's not exaggerate things here! Edwards was gone from the race after the first 3 primaries, no chance there! Thank God for Obama!
10:49 AM on 03/18/2010
No one said Sarah Palin had a lock on scarry... There's room for Reily too ;)
06:32 AM on 03/16/2010
From the interview: "...I didn't really know what was appropriate." Oh really? Ya think?
10:50 AM on 03/18/2010
lol... how about not getting involved with a married man....
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McMarcia
05:21 PM on 04/29/2010
with a wife suffering from cancer, and 3 kids...hello! google worked pretty well in 2008, easy to find this out.
09:40 PM on 03/15/2010
I think we can thank Rielle Hunter for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that John Edwards should NEVER have another shot at a Democratic ticket. He was on our ticket in 2004. Remember that? We can take all the shots we want at Sarah Palin - who is amazingly unqualified by virtue of education, experience, and temperament. John Edwards proved to be in the same league on the basis of fundamental character. I'm not sure who I like less or fear more. We Democrats should look in the mirror and never make a mistake like the 2004 VP choice again. People MUST be given sufficient scrutiny to prevent placing either an Edwards or a Palin on the major party tickets. Thank God Edwards did not get the nomination in 2008.
06:24 PM on 03/15/2010
What? Hunter lied?

Of course she did. She and Edwards are both so caught up in their webs of lies they probably can no longer tell the truth from a lie. She's telling herself lies too if she actually believes Edwards would never lie to her.

(As a woman I know who was also a mistress now says, he lied to her when he told her loved her and then "cheated" on her with his wife.)

She's is lying about the photos, too. She posed wanting the world to see how "hot" she is and when the backlash happened, she started spinning lies about how shocked she is.

Poor little girl having these two for parents!
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AlisonCarnie
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04:53 PM on 03/15/2010
I truly believe one can tell an awful lot about a man by the woman to whom he is married ...

One of the many reasons I am besotted with Barack Obama is that on election night, when I was standing in Grant Park with 100,000 others (maybe you saw me ... I was the one with the chinchilla hair and red Chanel scarf!!!) the first words out of his mouth as the most powerful man in the world were ...

"I would like to thank the love of my life, my rock, my best friend ... my wife, Michelle."

Cerebrally view John Edwards through the women with whom he spent his time ... a bitter, angry woman who sold HERSELF down the road and a jarringly unattractive twit
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05:39 PM on 03/15/2010
What do you know of Elizabeth Edwards as she struggles with a terminal disease and contemplates leaving her two young children in the care of a father who destroyed their family by betraying and publically humiliating her. I could call you judgmental, mean-spirited, and lacking compassion and human feeling. but then, I don't know you, do I.
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notadumbblonde
Strong and independent
06:19 PM on 03/16/2010
Anybody can say that. Find another reason to besot yourself with BO.
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Carol Chromicky
04:38 PM on 03/15/2010
I think the photos say a lot, the choice of GQ, says a lot. This is just sad, the rationalizations, and the constant refrain about Johnny's "man-ness." She does pepper her speech with New Agey phrases but this sort of moral relativism gives people who explore alternative faiths a bad name.

As someone who is open, listens and makes eye-contact whenever I meet someone, I can definitely say "He is hot" is not an innocent remark and not one to make to a very publicly married man. This woman takes no responsibility for her actions in this tale......what a mess. I feel badly for all the Edwards kids, the three who are about to lose their mother and this new one, who has a very strange set of parents.
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PiedemontVA
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09:24 PM on 03/15/2010
Exactly, I like how she says she didn't hit on him, but in my book - going up to a man and saying "your hot" is something along the lines of hitting on him....
03:36 PM on 03/15/2010
They both make me sick. Please tell them both to fade into obscurity.
03:10 PM on 03/15/2010
It's that magical lurve connection thing. A guy knows just the right flower to give or just the right brand of chocolates to give, or just the right romantic poet to cite, and it works vice versa too. She knows somethings that are 'just right' and it generates electricity between him and her. So John's phone rang but he couldn't get it because he was just having a whizz at the time. She couldn't leave her number, but he knew just where to call, and Rielle got the message and now it's all written on the wall. Just ask Chuck Berry.
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02:57 PM on 03/15/2010
Good catch! I wondered the same thing when I read that article. She clearly had his number on caller id. Trying to sanitize what was perfectly obvious.
02:30 PM on 03/15/2010
When the "mistress" becomes the wife, that leaves a job opening. Just sayin.
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floodberg
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01:08 PM on 03/17/2010
Wonderful!! And it clearly pays very, very well. Unfortunately, Edwards is not taking any more applications right now. He is still "working through" the candidates.
02:28 PM on 03/15/2010
Can we all have them take a lie detector test before they even talk garbage again.
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02:04 PM on 03/15/2010
Maybe it was a Secret Service thing. I wouldn't be surprised if the Secret Service can track back all calls to the candidate from anywhere.