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National Enquirer not through with John Edwards

August 15th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Pretty Boy John

From the folks that broke the Jesse Jackson lovechild story, literally caught Bill Clinton with his pants down and had, short of E!’s riveting nightly trial reenactments and the best damn O.J. coverage on the planet is about to hammer a few more nails into John Edwards‘ coffin.

Now that the ex-presidential hopeful has admitted to having an affair, it’s still remains difficult for many so-called “legitimate” news organizations to give the Enquirer its due. The Associated Press has finally decided to report that Fred Baron, Edwards’ national finance chairman, has been secretly sending his pal’s mistress/documentary “filmmaker” Rielle Hunter a little walking around money. The Enquirer brought us this story on August 4.

The New York Times once commended the “rag” for their superb coverage of the O.J. trial. In this article about lawyers possibly covering up the Edwards’ affair, the Times won’t even dignify the NE, writing off its dogged investigative coverage as “tabloid reports” and never once referencing the paper by name.

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The Life of Rielle Hunter: Filmmaker and John Edwards’ Mistress

August 9th, 2008 by Scott Marks

“Where do I put the quarter?”

Joel Wicklund from Chicago, Illinois writes, “I know you do gossip here Scott, but isn’t it usually entertainment related?”

Excellent question, Joel! What is more entertaining than seeing a politician, Republican or Democrat, tripping over his own penis while purporting family values and using his cancer-stricken wife for photo-ops in a henious attempt to attract the sympathy vote? Talk about a great gossip yarn: Love, hate, violence, action, death… in a word, emotion! What Sam Fuller would have done with this material, particularly when you consider the tabloid angle.

God Bless the National Enquirer! I am proud to say that the National Enquirer has been a welcome visitor to my home for almost 30 years. The initial allure was eye-catching headlines like “Adam and Eve Were Astronauts,” or “Boy, 9, trapped inside refrigerator forced to eat own foot to stay alive.” (The latter headline came from a National Lampoon parody, but you catch my drift.) They also manage to unearth mounds of Hollywood dirt. When it comes to gossip, I’m like a celebrity Dirt Devil sucking up every crumb of conjecture and the Enquirer has the dirtiest floors in town.

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