John Edwards Affair: Mainstream Press Still Acting as Gatekeepers

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John Edwards Scandal: Bob McGovern,Mystery Man

Rielle Hunter's Mystery Man
--Besides John Edwards



Rielle Hunter, the mother of the John Edwards Love Child, that is finally starting to register on the national consciousness, has a mysterious friend.

No, besides John Edwards.

Bob McGovern was named in the latest round of Enquirer updates to the John Edwards Love Child Scandal as the person who drove both Rielle Hunter and John Edwards to their meeting in the Beverly Hilton. It was at this meeting that Edwards was cornered by the Enquirer's reporters and photographers and took sanctuary in a public men's room.

Click for over 45 DBKP stories on the John Edwards Scandal:

Simon Scowl, Deceiver [What About Bob?] has a complete piece on Mr. McGovern and asks some interesting questions.

McGovern, if you’re just joining us, is the gentleman who allegedly rented the rooms at the Beverly Hilton last week as a favor to John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, the baby girl who Edwards says isn’t his, and the veritable legion of National Enquirer reporters waiting outside. McGovern is also listed on the “board of directors” of Being Is Free (Hunter’s once-deleted, now-resurrected website), and may be the “Bob” who Hunter once described as her “savior, healer of all healers.”

Now, if you go to the Google cache of MargaretSweet.com, the site of some kind of astrologer or palm-reader or something, there’s a page called “Helpful Dudes.” But despite the plural, apparently there’s only one dude who Margaret Sweet considers helpful:

Scowl posits that Hunter may have been carrying Edwards' child, but it was McGovern she was really thinking about all the time. Simon has his reasons.

He also has a journalism project for the willing.

We found it an interesting read while waiting for the latest Edwards news--other than him running from reporters again.

With the Mainstream Media news blackout slowly ending, Bob may not be a mystery much longer.


by Mondoreb
image: Deceiver

John Edward ScandalEdwards Bolts from Reporters, Questions

Edwards Flees From Reporters 2nd Time in 10 Days
See, Johnny Run



It may be too late for John Edwards to try out for the 1000 meters at the Beijing Olympics, but he's certainly getting in some practice running from reporters.

Using a side area, usually reserved for the kitchen staff, John Edwards, fled from reporters, "at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer."

The Raleigh News & Observer account below (via PJ Gladnick at Newbusters):

About a dozen reporters and photojournalists attended a speech Edwards gave to an AARP Foundation symposium on poverty and aging in Washington. Afterward, he avoided most of the waiting reporters, at least some of whom wanted to question him about recent reports in the National Enquirer that alleged an inappropriate relationship with a former campaign videographer.

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On Wednesday, Edwards apparently ducked out a side area used by the kitchen staff in the fourth-floor ballroom of Washington's historic Hotel Monaco. Edwards emerged from a lower-level handicap ramp near the rear of the hotel with two men. When approached by a Charlotte Observer reporter, Edwards said, "Can't do it now, I'm sorry" and quickly walked past.

Raleigh News & Observer: Facing questions, Edwards evades reporters
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Gladnick updated his article above with the mention that Edwards' whole "Two Americas" Traveling-Poverty-Salvation Show was--just an gimmick?

UPDATE: In what could be seen as an indirect acknowledgement by Edwards that this alleged scandal might have destroyed his political future, comes this report titled, "Edwards ending college program," in today's Raleigh News & Observer:

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is pulling the plug on a scholarship program he started at an Eastern North Carolina high school -- a program he once promised would be a model for the nation under an Edwards presidency.

Edwards' presidential hopes have evaporated. And he recently informed Greene County officials that he would end the pilot program at Greene Central High School.

To the suspicious mind of your humble correspondent, it looks like John Edwards' whole poverty tour shtick was just that...shtick. Once it looked like his scholarship program would serve him no purpose, Edwards ditched it immediately.

Say it ain't so.

Patterico has caught the LA Times in some blog post sleight-of-hand shenangigans, regarding the John Edwards/Reille Hunter rumors, as posted by Andrew Malcolm:

by Mondoreb

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John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child: Enquirer Reporters File Criminal Charges

Enquirer Reporters File Criminal Charges
Hotel Security Interfered with Questioning Edwards




Brilliant. Bloody brilliant.

Two reporters from the National Enquirer, Alan Butterfield and Alexander Hitchen, have filed a criminal complaint with the Beverly Hills Police Department against the Beverly Hilton's hotel security for unlawfully keeping the reporters from questioning Edwards during the events at the hotel.

NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters Alan Butterfield and Alexander Hitchen filed a criminal complaint with the Beverly Hills Police Department on Thursday, July 25, charging that hotel security acted unlawfully while the reporters were trying to question the former senator.

Now over 40 DBKP stories and growing:

The Enquirer notes--no doubt with some satisfaction:

Edwards now could be contacted by police to give an eyewitness account of what occurred.

The twist in a story that has had many twists: the Enquirer reporters were registered guests at the hotel--and Edwards was not.

Hotel security tried to stop the reporters from questioning Edwards in the basement of the hotel at approximately 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, July 22 after Edwards came off an elevator and appeared to be attempting to leave the hotel unseen.

The security detail intervened while the reporters were attempting to question Edwards and, according to the Enquirer, "not only did one security guard threaten to break their camera but that security also violated several statutes of the California Penal Code, including false imprisonment and preventing a guest from entering land."

The Enquirer also stated that "Police recorded the criminal complaint and will turn it over to detectives."

It's been speculated and rumored that the entire escapade was caught on the hotel's security video surveillance system, which is obviously now, evidence in a criminal complaint. Much harder for it to "disappear" now.

ALSO at DBKP.com today: * John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Love Child: LA Times Censors Reporters on Story * John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Gary Hart: Video Denial Trifecta * John Edwards-Rielle Hunter Affair: Love Child Scandal Jokes

Finally, Edwards will have to go on the record--the police will not take an attack on the Enquirer as an answer to their questions. It's sad when the police have to fulfill the role of the supposedly "adversarial press".

Will this excite any interest among the MSM gatekeepers?

Perhaps--but doubtful.

But that doesn't make the filing of the charges any less inspired.


by Mondoreb
Image: National Enquirer
Source: JOHN EDWARDS AFFAIR: CRIMINAL COMPLAINT FILED!