Hillary Clinton Camp Accuses Edwards of Wrecking Her Nomination
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Edwards “Anti-Poverty PAC” and finance Chair Paid $114,000 and $15,000 or so a month to mother of Edwards alleged bastard daughter. Andrew Young and wife move into her exclusive Santa Barbara home.
Records indicate that an Edwards PAC, the One American Committee, which was set up to fight poverty, spent $114,000 for the production of several short Web-based videos. The videos were produced in 2006 by Rielle Hunter; the same woman with whom Edwards has belatedly admitted committing adultery.
A key question is, Why would Edwards direct his “anti-poverty” PAC
to pay an arguably inflated price to a relatively inexperienced individual for three third rate videos?
Additionally, according to Fox News, Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer and former campaign finance chairman for Edwards, gave money in the $15,000-a-month range to Hunter.
In addition to denying the adulterous sexual affair, the later night visit to Hunter and her bastard daughter at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Edwards is doing his best Sergeant Schultz 
routine claiming he had no knowledge of Baron’s payments and that he learned about the cash given to Hunter from the press. Hunter now lives in a rented multimillion dollar home in a gated section of Montecito, an exclusive area near Santa Barbara, Calif.
In a bizarre twist Andrew Young (a top Edwards aide who claimed to be the father of Hunter’s child) and his wife are reportedly roommates of Hunter at the Montecito home.
Hunter and business partner Mimi Hockman apparently set up Midline Groove Productions in 2006 to produce the Edwards Web videos. Its website has disappeared but the Edwards videos have resurfaced via an anonymous posting on YouTube.
Hillary Clinton supporters are now claiming it was Edwards who cost her the Democrat nomination, and had he emerged as the party nominee to have this scandal surface he could have eviscerated the Democratic Party. It is a bitter irony that Bill Clinton’s impeachment was for perjury over his sexual tryst with White House fellatrix Monica Lewinsky.
Comment by Dizzy Dezzi on 12 August 2008:
Richard, could you please stop using the word “bastard” when referring to children born out-of-wedlock?
For starters, the word is out of date, much like “groovy” and “Daddy-O”.
My oldest son was born out of wedlock, but he’s no more a “bastard”, than John McCain is a “spring chicken”.
Of course, you can feel free to use the term when referring to politicians…
Comment by Management on 12 August 2008:
Hi Dez: I thought a lot about your request to Richard to stop using the term “bastard” rather than the not “out of date” term “born-out-of-wedlock.” Too PC for me.
I note that “bastard” has been in our lexicon, our written laws and courts for longer than my hetero divorce record, as Deb constantly reminds me. While many, but not all legal consequences have changed, historical social meanings in many quarters also have not changed while yours did.
Since it is not one of those words Carlin increased his fame with, it does remain in most dictionaries as the FIRST of several meanings: a child whose parents were not married at the birth. It may not be politically correct among some, but it remains very meaningful for many.
Your request was thoughtful, funny and I do understand your point of view, given some of the alternative meanings below the first.
Thank you for your postings, unrestrained, clever and cutting constituting unrestrained political free speech about and relating to public persons. More importantly, as demonstrated by this very request, you also are a model for collegial comments and comment responses on hypocrisy.com, whether directed to posters or visitors. Thank you!
Comment by Ivan Risidin on 12 August 2008:
Good discussion. I hope collegiality reigns despite extreme differences in opinion. I am proud to be associated with such a forum, unrestrained while courteous.
Ivan
Comment by Dizzy Dezzi on 12 August 2008:
Just because the word is used in the dictionary does not mean that it SHOULD be used. We could go around and around about the “n-word” too and I feel just as strongly about that word as I do the “b-word”. In general, I don’t necessarily always go in for being politically correct, but there are still words that are hurtful (such as in general, we don’t refer to obese people as fatsoes or unattractive people as horse-faces on this site). But, if it is too much to ask for polite people not to refer to my son or other children like him by such a derogatory term as “bastard”, then maybe that is too much to ask. Simply stating “love child” or “child born out of wedlock” get the points across. In the context that it is being used here it is obviously meant to send a strong message that the child born out of wedlock is BAD (never mind that it’s not his/her fault). I have enjoyed my time here at Hypocrisy, but if some of you insist on using the dictionary to defend yourself while using a word that is clearly hurtful (no matter what Websters says…btw, growing up, white people used to use that same excuse to call me a “nigger” whenever it suited them, so you’ll excuse me if I call “b-s” on this one, too), then I have nothing more to say.
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Comment by Management on 12 August 2008:
Dez: When others refused to write for hypocrisy.com because of offense they took at your writing, you never heard a word about it from me or anyone else. Today, something written everyday probably offends someone. Hypocrisy.com was not formed to eliminate offense on the web.
Our posts are hard hitting about PUBLIC PERSONS yet we do our best to minimize personal attacks in the comments. Many comments have been removed and off site discussions do occur. But we will not create a List of Dictionary Words That Cannot Be Said On Hypocrisy.com. Nor would you ever advise me to do that, because you know that is a slippery slope.