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Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Get Rielle

The life of John Edwards flame Rielle Hunter has been a novel, literally, with Bolivian marching powder, movie scripts called "It's All About Uranus" and electrocuted horses.

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Monday, August 18, 2008 12:24 PM

Get Rielle? WTF?

First of all who is this jouvenal person? Is that supposed to be a cute little pun? The article was indeed juvenile. It had no new information in it at all--- the background research consisted of using google. It's like being in 5th grade and copying out of the encyclopedia.

Secondly, why "Get Rielle?" It doesn't get rielle. Did they mean that in the sense of she is worthy for attack? As in let's all get her? Or did they mean it in the sense of "get THIS chick!" as in she is too ridiculous to be believed. Either way, the article doesn't live up to its title.

I think this woman should be targeted by the media (tabloid or otherwise) because she makes no bones about the fact that she decided she was going to get herself a rich and pwoerfufl man, she was going to "manifest" it in her life, and then she did just that. John Edwards was an idiot and no one has said anything about whether she's jsut the latest flavor of the month or not, but the point is, she is a grown (if stupid) woman who should be held accountable for her tacky behavior.

The true tragedy is that she's brought a child into all of this, permanently affecting the lives of John Edwards' family forever and certainly, creating a mess for that poor kid.

So go ahead---get Rielle. But do it well for god's sake. School is about to start and the fifth graders will be in short supply.

Monday, August 18, 2008 08:29 AM

Doesn't she look like ...

Frances McDormand in Fargo. There i wrote it , it's been bugging me for days - that feeling of "she looks so famialiar, "

Monday, August 18, 2008 04:07 AM

Edwards is a bore. It's Hunter that fascinates.

This may not be the fame she sought, but the world is getting to know a bit more about her, flaws & all. The Zelda reference resonated. She seems in many ways larger than life, iconic in ways, yet in others totally empathetic. When some of her past ...indiscretions... with all that 80s stuff... were described, I began to think ...if she were a man, and instead of the Richard Gere & the Dalai Lama she had found a televangelist & JC, she might just have what it takes to be president. :)

Isn't she living the American Dream? Living large, taking risks, and picking yourself up, learning from your mistakes and moving on? I hope for her sake, the media spotlight moves on & she can become yet another pop-culture footnote and get on with her life. However, hers is such a fascinating story, it may be a while.

Monday, August 18, 2008 01:46 AM

Jouvenal Delinguent needs a new major

What happened to Salon's supposed standards of quality journalism? What happened to NYU's? Objectivity, balance, tone of voice? Were your editors AWOL en masse?

Your resident hack-in-training needs to be dispatched to the National Enquirer if this is the best attempt at reportage that he can deliver to the Salon site. Instead of an incisive piece of writing, he barely succeeded in creating a hatchet job, though his blade proved rather dull. In my granny's time, they called this muck racking.

Sunday, August 17, 2008 07:40 PM

Addicted to higher consciousness? Addicted to enlightenment?

Please.

Girlfriend's addicted to c@ck.

And Edward's is nuthin but a hound dog.

Yeah, that kind of hound.

Same old story. Same old played-out, desperate people who want to be special so bad they'll do just about anything. With anyone. Anywhere, anytime. Especially at the worst time.

These are so dreary.

Sunday, August 17, 2008 07:36 PM

Rielle Or Not, Here I Come

Get a breath, Rielle Hunter has had a couple of set backs and some unfortunate events that will have disabled her ability to be a reasonable individual. Otherwise, she would not want to be with a married man. True preveldge has it's rewards, but how can losing a beloved pet horse a advantage. It is sick, and will only be mar on this ability to belong a family of great wealth. She should have been a celebrity of sorts, between living in a family with standing, and what you may have, there are obvious pit-falls. Running out of money has to be a costly one, this girl was also running around like a space cadet. When people start to look for drugs, is this ever the right track?

Rielle, was unsure of many things, as is life, what is certain in life? Some people are better at handling the deeper meaning of things, the generation of the previous had a big addiction with the deeper meanings of things. Gurus are not any more enlightened about being in control, except that for the time the enlightment is available it is darn nice, and controling in the way, that we would always like things to be on the up and up. But, there are exceptions, and those exceptions come with uncertainies, being on drugs exemplifies many experiences. Some of those experiences prove to be empty, a real downer for many. So in the trival pursuit of "guess who I really am", because I sure as heck don't know, she found what would prove to be another flimsy individual, some one who had pretty serious circumstances, and failed miserably in his attempt to show how truly involved he was with his wife's cancer.

Should this be a formidable candidate for President? Should this be a formidable candidate for someone to share lifes ups and downs, not really. Lastly he is believed to be the father of Rielle's baby, and niether has come clean about the child. I feel that is wrong, one day this little girl will see footage, and will have to decide what she thinks about the man she will call Dad. Men are too easy for their own good, they make little side streets, that are nice to read about in novels, but in real life, leave many women with more questions to query than they might like to admit.

Sunday, August 17, 2008 03:52 PM

mr satan

Kegel exercises may be beneficial in treating urinary incontinence in both men and women.

-wikipedia

Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:29 AM

All these ladies

Like Spitzer's whore. What's their secret? Can they unscrew a bottle with their Kegels?

Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:10 AM

Shorter Jouvenal

Crazy in the head, crazy in the bed.

Sunday, August 17, 2008 09:42 AM

I found this article interesting.

I read the letters and don't understand why so many readers had a condescending attitude toward Salon for publishing this piece.

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