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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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  • @ Jane Doe II

    If George W. Bush's boy toy Jeff Gannon isn't worthy of press attention then why is John Edwards affair any more newsworthy. He isn't the President of the United States. When a male prostitute is a most frequent visitor to the white house, I would assume that underwear sniffers like you would be howling and shrieking with outraged hoots, hollers and catcalls.

    http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blfunnypic10.htm

    Please, let us hear you ROOOOOAR with indignation!!!

    Body language - putting your hand on the back of someone's neck says a lot. It really does put the person in the mood - regardless of gender.

    Not that there is anything WRONG with the President having a little gay sex now and then.

    After all, he and John Kerry spent and evening together in a coffin once - ooooh la la!

  • The payout for the video.

    She looks to be using a Panasonic VHX-200, which is an expensive camera which requires very expensive memory cards to record video onto. Charging a hundred dollars an hour for videotaping is not outrageous. Then it has to be put into a computer and that is done real time for the most part - an hour of video takes an hour plus to put into the computer and then you have to eidt them which is a time consuming process.

    100,000 for four months

    25,000 per month

    800 plus per day

    If she only spent four hours videotaping Edwards, that is 400 dollars

    assuming she got two hours of actual video that is an additional 200 dollars to input it into the computer

    Assuming that she is a fast as lightening editor and logged it as it was being entered into the computer and put it together in her head as she is watching it, that would be another 3 or 4 hours - let's say 3 for an additional 300 dollars.

    That adds up to 900 dollars so lets assume that she took a day off and it doesn't really seem like what she charged is that outrageous. She also had to go with him to Uganda? That is full time work and full time pay because that is not a place most people would want togo to unless they were HIGHLY paid.

    I'll do work for 50 per hour, but my camera isn't as desirable. If I had to hang out with a sleazeball pol, I would be charging a 100 dollars per hour too.

    Unless it was McKinney. She is a Hero.

  • Joan Walsh

    I'd charge you 50 per hour too.

    Unless you ran for office.

    /rimshot

  • I hope Rielle can swim

    Is "Bob in Pacifica" suggesting that Mary Jo Kopechne somehow steered the car off the bridge from the passenger seat and then drowned herself?

    That's the most offensive thing I've ever read here. And the stupidest.

  • I like you, Rielle!

    I think I like you, Rielle! For being a strange-o,for being a self centered person. Excuse me!

    You are different and committed no crimes I can think of. Sorry, it's the way of the world, we are attracted to all kinds of people, married or not. You are a creative person and I hope you resurface after this is all over!

  • L. Michelle

    Monica was immature but not naive. What follows comes from her own testimony to the independent prosecutor: She told her friends when she took off for D.C. for her unpaid internship after college that she was taking her kneepads because she planned to seduce Clinton. The government shutdown gave her the chance because paid employees were put on leave and interns, like Lewinsky, filled in. One day she wangled a way to get to Clinton by delivering pizza. When she entered his office, she pulled her skirt (pants?) part way down and flipped her thong underwear at him. The rest, as they say, is history.

  • I'm with rupert_c

    It's terrible that a homosexual was allowed into the White House. Don't they have guard dogs that can sniff for that sort of thing?

  • What are you people talking about?

    Sorry, we are not talking about Monica Lewinsky. ( I like her too, she endorsed a great lipstick from Sephora) Why are you so maniacally obsessed? OK!!!!! It happened. Sure it is inconvenient -- I am a Democrat -- I don't like it either, but let's face it , you just can't dictate people's personal life and morality.

    Let me go one step further and suggest that a great misservice was done when we outlawed whorehouses. There used to be bars/taverns/whorehouses in every single town, where our founding fathers and their rebellious countrymen met and did business,and make no mistake, there were women of the evening working there as well. It is only of fairly recent vintage that we are so hysterically opposed to "working women".

    WHAT IS WRONG with women plying their trade, and men paying for it, that is so terrible???

    If you ask me, the world would be a MUCH HAPPIER PLACE is men could get their rocks off without all this sturm and dreng (sp, sorry, don't speak german). GROW UP PEOPLE!!!

  • She seems like she is alot like Edwards wants to be

    I think Edwards spent his life climbing the ladder and being the perfect person, the perfect husband and father and attorney. Along comes Hunter, with her past that must have seemed glamorous to Edwards and her new age spiritualism and he sees it as a path to a new him.

    Not only is Edwards going through midlife but, he lost his son, his wife was sick and he lost the vice presidency. He did it all the button down way.

    And probably felt something missing.

    she may have represented the free spirit he wished he could be.

    And atone for regrets like his war vote when he was button down DLC guy.

    It may have been this that spurred him to publicly rebuke his war vote and go for the more populist thinking. Become more of the old populist guy of the past, of the 30s that he wanted to revive.

    I personally think she may have been more to him on a personal and emotional level then as much sexual.

  • "The candid movies were supposed to present John Edwards uncut"

    Literally?

  • @Kay-El

    They tried that and it worked.

    The problem was that all those specially trained gay sniffing guard dogs all ended up turning gay.

    /rimshot

    /sound of crickets chirping

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