Stirring the John Edwards Cover-up Pot
DBKP is not the only one stirring the John Edwards affair and cover-up pot. Others are adding in tasty bits which have all the makings of a rich, filling scandal stew.
Deceiver has not only a complete coverage of who's saying what, it also is adding to the impressive collection its own "Rielle Hunter Film Library".
You’ve seen her star turn opposite Denzel Washington in Ricochet. You’ve thrilled to her bikini-clad dancin’ in Overboard. Now TMZ has unearthed what may be Rielle’s finest moment onscreen: Her 2002 appearance on the Game Show Network’s Lingo! (If only To Tell the Truth hadn’t gone off the air…) Introducing herself to host Chuck Woolery, Rielle claimed to be “a writer” and added, “I also do a lot of yoga and chant. Mostly about how Elizabeth Edwards is a total bitch.” Okay, I might have thrown in that last part. No word yet on how much she won, but it couldn’t be nearly as much as she’s getting from this latest game.
Rush Limbaugh gave DBKP a shout out Wednesday on his show!
LBG's "John Edwards Affair: Dr. Strangelove, the “Favorite” Film Edwards Never Saw" caught the attention of El Rushbo and he used it as a modern-day parable. From Rush Limbaugh.com: Story #2: A Shining Example of the Breck Girl's Phoniness
RUSH: A fascinating story today on a blog called Death by 1,000 Paper Cuts. This story, I think, is a microcosm by the Democrat Party and their willing accomplices in the Drive-By Media. Let me just share the details with you. In August of 2004, John Edwards, the Breck Girl, participated on a program the Turner Classics Movie channel, and they are doing a series, Party Political and the Movies. This aired in 2004. And what these political personalities, people, were asked to do by Turner Classic Movies was to pick their all-time favorite movie and explain why. So Edwards picked Dr. Strangelove. "I believe that one of the messages Stanley Kubrick was trying to send was putting this kind of power and this potential Holocaust in the hands of human beings no matter who they are is an extraordinarily dangerous thing."
Well, here's the thing. Edwards had never seen the movie. Edwards had never seen Dr. Strangelove when he picked it, and the next element of the story is that he didn't even pick it, is his wife Elizabeth did.
Rush then quotes from LBG's story and emails started coming into the mailbox from well-wishers alerting us to the EIB notice. [Note: Thanksx100 to IC at KG3 and Snoop at PPP for the audio clips of the broadcast. We were busy on a story and missed it live!]
PJ Gladnick, of NewsBusters, lauded our coverage of the John Edwards-Fred Baron travel records in Edwards Scandal: Blogosphere Leads Investigation That MSM Neglects.
As NewsBusters editor Matthew Sheffield recently wrote, the John Edwards scandal demonstrates why the public is moving to the Web for news. A big reason for the public relying more and more on the Web for news is that the blogosphere is willing to do the investigative footwork that the mainstream media often neglects. A perfect illustration of this are the revelations made today by the DBKP blog about the suspicious aircraft leasing arrangements made by John Edwards' moneyman, Fred Baron:
The entire article is worth the price of admission, but some of the comments that follow the article could have very well been written by sheepish MSM reporters trying out spin at NewsBusters what they practiced around the water cooler--when they should have been out investigating the myriad threads of what's turning into the madcap cover-up of Edwards, et.al. (Yeah, I know it's a long sentence--but it's late, or early.)
A thousand thanks to Gladnick and NewsBusters: sometimes you feel like you write in a vacuum. Pieces, such as PJ Gladnick's, (as well as the response of readers) assure you that that vacuum only has power around the MSM.
Frank Nedelkoff, The New Nixon, notices another of the ever-growing collection of coincidences that have popped up in the John Edwards scandal(which Nedelkoff labels "Riellegate") at almost every turn.
I’ll point out once again that, when it comes to coincidences, I’m still intrigued by the fact that the Center For Promise And Opportunity, the well-funded nonprofit foundation set up by Edwards ostensibly to fund a mammoth scholarship program for poor students across the nation, abruptly went out of business (along with the scholarships it sponsored at the single high school where it manifested concrete results) a week or so before Rielle Hunter fled to St. Croix (a place with easy air access to various discreet financial institutions) and the former vice-presidential nominee went on ABC to confess his “liason.” Whither went its assets?
While Fred Baron may not exactly be an idiot savant in the memory department (if readers remember Baron responding to the questions of the NY Times), Nedelkoff reports that Baron will likely remember where he's to be next week: the Democrat Convention in Denver.
Update: the blog of the Dallas Morning News reports that although John Edwards seems to be skipping the Democratic convention next week, Fred Baron will continue his 20-year tradition of attending it. The post also quotes an Obama campaign source as denying that Baron is involved with planning events for the campaign in Colorado, as had been previously reported.
Need a quick non-Edwards break? The Morning Scramble goes around the Net in five minutes--or less.
AND
Political Party Poop has the scoop on Obama: Obama the same today as yesterday (1995, that is) and The Incredible Disappearing Candidate.
Back to the Edwards scandal.
Doug Ross has an "Exclusive Photo: Denver offers haircuts for the homeless" that proves guess that "There's a John Edwards joke lurking somewhere in that story."
Radar reports that the "NYT Hot On Story Of John Edwards And The Mysterious Duke Graduate".
New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski is on a story. Serge, you'll remember, is the reporter who brought us the tale of Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the young working lady who consorted with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. What's Serge up to?
Since December, DBKP heard plenty of whispers, buzz and other talk on this subject. When it came time to "name names", however, the only thing we (mostly) heard was [crickets].
Apparently, the NY Times is trying to out-hustle the National Enquirer--for once.
From Williamson Republic (TX), comes the story of "Maldonado Refuses to Give Up Money Associated With John Edwards Scandal's "Hush Money Man".
After a request by Williamson County Republican Party Chairman Bill Fairborther that HD 52 candidate democrat Diana Maldonado return money associated with John Edward’s “hush money man” Frederick Baron her campaign said that they will not be returning the money.
Baron has been at the center of controversy for paying what has been characterized as “hush money” to Edwards’ mistress and he has admitted to moving her into hiding.
There's more to this story at WR.
There's a LOT more, but two big developments await before 0600 EDT.
Stay tuned for more curious circumstances.
by Mondoreb
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August 10-16, 2008
Volume 27
I'm Trench Reynolds.
I blog about crime.
This is DBKP's This Week in Crime for August 10th-August 16th, 2008.
At craigscrimelist I made another short post about more teens involved in prostitution. And again more people think they're not victims.
The most interesting link I posted at CrimeNe.ws this week was a rare occurrence, someone on death row who actually took responsibility for his crimes.
At News of Doom we had several disturbing stories this week but the one that disturbed me the most was a story about a Florida DJ who had his eyes cut out.
The news was light this week at MyCrimeSpace but the story that was in the national media spotlight for a bit was about the missing Malibu twins. Luckily they were unharmed for the most part.
At TheTrenchcoat Chronicles the story that righteously raised my ire was a story about two parents who sued a school district for their son getting shot and killed there. You'd think they would have a case but read the post to find out why I think they're trying to collect blood money.
Speaking of blood money at Bad Breeders I posted a story about how I think there are some who are trying to collect their own blood money in the case of missing child Caylee Marie Anthony.
This weekend I've also opened a message board called The Open Trench. You can discuss any story from my blogs or any topic at all.
As usual if you want to follow my blogs you can use Twitter, the RSS feed, or Netvibes, and also Friend Feed.
That's it for this week. I'm Trench Reynolds for DBKP.
You will come to know when the bullet hits the bone.
by Trench Reynolds
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Obamas Excellent Adventure
"John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor."
--Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
If anyone needed any proof that the Mainstream Media is the PR wing of the Democrat Party, they need look no further than Barack Obama's Excellent Adventure. Obama is being attended to by the breathless anchors of ABC, NBC and CBS News.
The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play....The plan is for Williams, Gibson and Couric interviews to be parceled out on successive nights in different countries, giving each anchor a one-day exclusive.
What about the Republican candidate, John McCain's foreign trips?
Well, McCain--regardless of how hard he tries to win the respect of his buddies in the press corps--doesn't have the "D" after his name, so he gets no anchor coverage on his trips.
"John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor....When McCain visited Britain, France and Israel in March and met with their leaders, no network anchors tagged along. NBC and ABC sent correspondents; CBS did not. None of the evening newscasts covered his trip to Canada last month. And McCain's swing through Colombia and Mexico two weeks ago was barely covered, although NBC and ABC sent correspondents."
--Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
Isn't everyone--except McCain--a winner here?
After all, Obama gets to pretend his trip gives him "foreign policy experience", the Evening News anchors get to pretend that they're covering real news, instead of a campaign-manufactured event, and the Mainstream Media gets to pretend that they're an unbiased news source.
The only losers are those few people who still think that the Mainstream Media serves up news instead of public relations pieces for the Democrat Party.
[For a rant by MSNBC News President Phil Griffin about Fox News, see MSNBC prez on Fox News: "You can't trust a word they say". It's an amusing look into how the Mainstream Media see themselves.]
All of the left-wing components of the Mainstream Media are facing tough times: layoffs, falling stock prices, downsizing. In none of the press releases accompanying these announcements, has there been one mention of the root causes of these gloomy happenings; i.e., the Mainstream Media continues to peddle a product that few are buying these days.
Liberalism and socialism, to be exact.
Again, if any proof is needed, Exhibit A is Obama's Excellent Adventure.
by Mondoreb
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* Obama's Big Trip
* 3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad
What We Call News
What we Call the News
The latest offering from the folks at jib jab pokes a little--truthful--fun at the Mainstream Media.
Enjoy!
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Jib Jab's productions are popular because they play no favorites: they make fun of everyone.
by Mondoreb
hat tip: Ernest Hancock, Freedoms Phoenix
CULTURE WATCH, Volume 19
by Nancy Morgan
Right Bias
Progress continues apace in Iraq. The flow of investment dollars into Iraq from European, Asian and Western companies indicates that we, and the Iraqi people, have finally turned the corner. Iraqis are getting the hang of law and order and seem to like it.
Marines in Afghanistan have chased most of the Taliban from the world's largest poppy-growing region. That's the furthest south the Marines have been in years. Meanwhile, IED deaths in Iraq are down 89%.
The mainstream media continues to ignore the much improved situation in Iraq, focusing instead on trying to lay the blame for the flooding in the midwest and the fires in California on:
GLOBAL WARMING
Bad news for the eco-warriors. As gas prices continue their upward spiral, everyday Americans are starting to wise up. A whopping 67% now believe that we should drill for oil off the coasts of Florida and California.
Not to be deterred by reality, radical environmental group Greenpeace has called for all coal-fired power stations to be shut down by 2030. And leading eco-alarmist scientist, James Hanson, is demanding we put oil chiefs on trial for spreading doubts about global warming. I kid you not.
In the year since Father Earth, (Algore) took steps to make his Tennessee mansion more energy-efficient, his energy use has surged 10%.
Congress continues to obstruct any and all measures that might actually bring down the price at the pump, focusing instead on, well, other stuff, as outlined in this week's article Our Public Servants. The good news is that ordinary Americans have finally wised up to them, as evidenced by a new Gallup Poll showing only 12% of Americans now have confidence in Congress. This is the lowest rating in 35 years. Just so.
GOOD NEWS:
Finally, a little attention is being paid to the rule of law. Illegal immigration prosecutions hit an all-time high this March, with arrests up 50% from April and a whopping 73% from 2007.
The IRS is finally stepping up its probe into race-hustler Al Sharpton's finances, sending a flurry of subpoenas to his most generous corporate donors. This could mean corporations won't have to spend all their time and money proving they're not racist and will be free to concentrate on profits.
PS. No matter what the left says, 'profit' is not a dirty word.
English as our official language is gaining momentum as proponents keep going to the ballot box with measures that discourage bilingual ballots, notices and documents. Time to hablas english.
CULTURE:
Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the (misnamed) UN Human Rights Council. And speaking of "human rights", police in Britain have spent 100,000 pounds trying to find a chemical and biological attack suit to fit over a Sikh officer's turban and beard. Alas, no luck so far.
In good news for Democrats, a new state rule in Florida allows 115,000 felons to be given back their civil rights, including the right to vote and hold office. Lovely.
Another disaster diverted as a bank-robber claiming to have a bomb was stopped by a customer armed with a--gasp--gun. Media silence ensued.
Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers say. A new study points out that scientists who falsify, fabricate or plagiarise data are becoming more numerous.
Good news for juveniles who are languishing in New York juvenile detention centers, trying to decide which gender they want to be. A new policy allows these confused, sensitive youths to wear whatever uniform they chose, be called by whatever name they like and even to avail themselves of special housing if they feel other prisoners discriminate against them as they prance around in miniskirts and make-up.
Gloucester, Mass. is reaping the results of all those edgy progressive attitudes they've been spouting. Apparently, several 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds decided they wanted to get pregnant. 17 of them did. A 24 year-old homeless man was one of the sperm donors. The town fathers are shocked--shocked!
Heinz has launched a homosexual-themed TV campaign that features two men sharing a kiss. Question: What do two men swapping spit have to do with selling mayonaise?
WEIRD STUFF
A Japanese firm has introduced a robotic girlfriend for all the lonely men out there. The robot, unlike feminists, kisses on command. Speaking of lonely men, a Singapore man was sentenced to 14 years in jail and 18 strokes of the cane for sniffing women's armpits.
Picture this. A 5'9" black-headed python was found in a toilet bowl on the tenth floor of an Austrian apartment complex. It's believed the snake had been residing in the plumbing for some time.
A Virginia man demonstrated its possible to regularly dine at fast food restaurants without signing your own death certificate. He lost 86 pounds on the McDonalds diet. Snack on that, while its still legal.
In what I hope will become a sign of the times, a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in last weeks' municipal election. Apparently they preferred him to his living opponent. Cool jeans.
Till next Monday, keep smiling.
by Nancy Morgan
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina, where she writes "Culture Watch" weekly.
Article may be reprinted with attribution. Bio available on request.
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April 12 2008 20:07
In this report:
* Obama tries to spin his "god-and-gun-lovin' hillbillies remarks
* Obama explains why he'll support abortion
* Obama Says CEOs make too much money and shareholders should say something--and if they don't, he will make them
* Hillary tells Bill to "Shut up about Bosnia!"
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Breaking video reports include:
* Petraeus on the Hill
* Thief Robs 7-11 with a machete
* Michael Savage vs. CAIR
* Man in Wheelchair Robs Drive-Thru
by Mondoreb
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Nigerian doctors, slashers under the car and rat poison on your envelope glue--just a sample of news you may have received in your email during the last year. Newspapers, telegrams, TV, cable, the Internet and emails are how people get their news. Many times, email news is of a special type.
[Top Email Forward News from the Past Year] at DBKP.com.
Paul Revere jumped on a horse to alert his fellow citizens. People now use emails to "spread the news". And what news it turns out to be.
We got an email from Vickie, the Goth chick, who used to be the barista at the coffee shop we frequented at one time. She apparently received it from someone who had received it from a guy in the U.K.
We're printing it because we've gotten several of the following emails sent to us over the last year. How many of the following stories have ended up in your email?My thanks to all those who have sent me emails this year.
How did we ever live without the Internet?
I must send my thanks to whoever sent me the one about rat sh*t in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet towel with every envelope that needs sealing.
Also, I now have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.
I no longer have any savings because I gave them to a sick girl (Penny Brown)who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time.
I no longer have any money at all, but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special e-mail program.
Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split $7 million with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.
I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me, and St. Theresa's novena has granted my every wish.
I no longer use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day. Thanks to you, I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.
Because of your concern I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.
I no longer can buy petrol without taking a man along to watch the car to prevent a serial killer won't crawl into the back seat when I'm filling up.
I no longer go to shopping malls because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.
I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda,Singapore and Uzbekistan.
Thanks to you, I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum.
And thanks to your great advice, I can't even pick up the £5.00 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.
If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large seagull with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00pm next afternoon and the fleas from 12 mangy camels will infest your backside, causing you to grow a hairy lump.
I know this will occur, because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician.
By the way....a South American scientist, after a lengthy study, has discovered,that people with low IQ who have infrequent sexual activity,always read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse.
Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.
by Mondoreb
hat tip: Scott, Vickie
Source: Top Email Forward News from the Past Year
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DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER UPDATE: Tuesday 5:53 EST
Dog lands at LAX and is asked "Have you talked to Tucker? Have you guys made up?"
VIDEO HERE
Monday was relatively quiet. A judge dismissed one of the last charges against Duane "Dog" Chapman stemming from his famous Mexico caper with the Max Factor heir. And he landed at LAX with wife Beth and others.
Dog will appear on Larry King LIVE on CNN on Wednesday.
TMZ's take:Still in the dog house for his liberal use of the N word in a taped phone call with his son Tucker, potty-mouthed "Bounty Hunter" Duane Chapman had little to say on arrival at LAX this morning.
With wife Beth in tow, the gold-chain-wearing ex-con and father of nine (!) revealed only that he has not made up with his young pup -- who allegedly recorded the verbal assault on his girlfriend, Monique Shinnery. Shocker.
by Mondoreb
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When you're looking for succinct, usually-hilarious reaction to news, you could do worse than read Mark Steyn, the doomsday-slinging prophet of European demographic decline. The revelation that The New Republic knew that its crack war zone reporter was not what he was cracked up to be gets the once-over from Steyn at the Corner:
No disrespect, Kathryn, but count me among those who raised an eyebrow over your five o'clock Scott Thomas Beauchamp post. It's not about Beauchamp "confessing". Given the alarm bells Beauchamp's original piece set off among those familiar with the subject matter, and given that the anecdote on which the entire premise of the essay hangs has already been determined to have occurred in Kuwait rather than Iraq, all The New Republic had going for it were its editors' insistence that (a) Beauchamp was standing by his story, and (b) the military were preventing him from speaking to them.Steyn goes on to relate some facts about TNR's ownership.
It has now been revealed that (a) Beauchamp declined to stand by his story, and (b) the editors spoke with him and knew this weeks ago. Presumably The New Republic's readers are relatively relaxed about the editors colluding in slandering the troops at a time of war: only uptight squares get hung up on that sort of thing. But they ought surely to be concerned at the abuse of trust perpetrated by the magazine against its own readers.
Few remember that back in the early 1960s, the best-selling beer in America was--Carling Black Label? CBL's "Hey Mabel--Black Label" was much more recognized among consumers than Budweiser's "When You've Said Bud, You've Said it All".
For consumers of news and the truth, The New Republic is soon to be consigned to the forgotten name brand remainder bin.
TNR will then join CBL.
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