That's Not The John Edwards Obama Knew

Mickey makes a good point about the media non-coverage of the John Edwards "Two Fathers" scandal - if the press wants to help out The One they ought to bury Edwards for him expeditiously:

Will the Pro-Obama Bias Turn Anti-Edwards? At this point, does Barack Obama want John Edwards to even show up in Denver, much less give a prime time speech? Even if the Love-Child saga progresses no further than it already has, an Edwards Denver appearance will inevitably be accompanied by renewed speculation about his seemingly scandalous and politically toxic behavior...

If you're an Obama strategist, mightn't you conclude that the best thing for your candidate would be if the press weighs in quickly and definitively concludes that Edwards is guilty, with the result that he and his whole sordid story go away until after November? ...

My free advice to Mickey is also a challenge to my readers - this "Love Child" scandal is going nowhere without a catchier name.  And no, I don't think "WaterChild" will get it done.

I am floating "Two Fathers", but that precedes my first cup of coffee, so I know we can do better.  As a fallback I am toying with the John Edwards "Heart is a lonely Hunter" scandal.  But, like John, I am hoping to find something special!

Comments

[Buford Gooch]

Peckergate

[Buford Gooch]

Babygate

[Buford Gooch]

Edwards Babymama

[Rick Ballard]

Silky's Little Slipup probably won't catch on but I like it.

BTW - This sort of puts Silky out of contention as an alternative in a deadlocked convention doesn't it? Not that the owner of the NE would ever do anything for the couple from Chapaqua.

[Buford Gooch]

My Little Silky

[Jim]

The Two Families Scandal. We really have two Edwards families. The classy family lives in the big house with dad. The low-class family is fatherless, gets gets jack-squat. This apartheid system was orchestrated by the rich white male involved. Etc.

[Buford Gooch]

"Hair" Apparent

[kim]

Sulky Pony?
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[windansea]

since Edwards is famous for channeling maybe we could work that in

[Buford Gooch]

Rielley Big Scandal

[Buford Gooch]

The Baby Channel

[Buford Gooch]

Or, in reference to the ancient Hart scandal, Monkey Business II

[Buford Gooch]

Come on, this is fun.

[Elliott]

As it has already dropped off the recent comments list, part five is here, along with a link to earlier installments.

[kim]

The Too Rielle Timin' Man.

Or the Rielle, Too, Timin' Man.
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[Rick Ballard]

9021uh0

[kim]

Surely, Elliot, you can work a man with a fake beard and moustache running into a Los Angeles hotel into your next opus.
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[Elliott]

Not sure what to call it, but I am happy to label any future comment by Mr. Two America's-One Contingency Fee a cri de cur.

[Jane]

YOu are on a roll Buford.

[kim]

And if I try hard enough, surely I can work two t's into your given name.
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[Elroy Jetson]

The Breck Bang!

[Buford Gooch]

Junior Miss?

[Buford Gooch]

Cancer Dancer?

[Buford Gooch]

Two Mamas?

[Buford Gooch]

Rielley Not Gay?

[clarice]

The Baby Trap

[Buford Gooch]

Slicker Willy?

[kim]

I'd like to hear the feelings of the wife of the man who claimed Rielle's baby was his, but I don't suppose I'll get to hear it. Inquiring minds want to know.
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[Buford Gooch]

Camilla Godzilla>

[ben]

Rielly Bad Breck Gate

[Elroy Jetson]

Yeah, Kim. It would seem these two men together have left quite a path of destruction.
They should get thrown in prison for, "conspiring to mentally abuse their own families".
What scum.

[centralcal]

Too bad it is the Silky Phoney who has a scandal expoding. If it was "The One" we could name it . . .

Oh!Bummer-gate!

[kim]

Breck, Who me, Oh bye now.
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[Buford Gooch]

Baby Breck?

[Buford Gooch]

Home Brecker?

[Buford Gooch]

Concubinage?

[Buford Gooch]

Zippergate II

[Buford Gooch]

Illegitigate?

[Buford Gooch]

I Rielley like "Illegitigate" :P

[centralcal]

While, Buford is digging through his thesaurus (grin), I am gonna change subjects briefly.

An article in the Hartford Courant (I think) suggests it would be a winning strategy for Elizabeth Edwards to speak at the Dim convention.

I am not so sure. The last few scandals where the stoic wives have been trotted out weren't received too well (remember Mrs. Spitzer)?

What do you all think?

[Barry Dauphin]

Onshore drilling in California.

[clarice]

I think the Hartford Current is NUTZ.It will only remind everyone of how sleazy Edwards is and how malleable the media was.

[MayBee]

Elizabeth Edwards is a pretty vicious person.
For some reason, many online Dems love her. OTOH, when my own Dem husband saw her on some television show speaking for the Dems, he said "Why is John Edwards' wife on there?" She may be received well at the convention, but if the Silky stuff turns out to be true, it would ultimately be embarassing.

As for the scandal, I'd go with the Jimmy Buffet-esque "Son of a son of a millworker"

[Jane]

What do you all think?

That's funny because it's the first thing I thought of, and the I thought "stupid idea".
People won't know whether to pity her or praise her. At least we know she won't be announcing her candidacy any time soon.

[Danube of Thought]

Heather Has Two Daddies.

[ben]

RestroomRefugeGate

[Curtiss]

His Grandfather was a Mill Worker.

[Sara]

I like "Hair" Apparent for cleverness, although I'm not for blaming the baby.

Why would the Obama campaign care anyway? Obama is the product of a philandering husband who even committed bigamy, if that story is to be believed?

[tom]

Who's The Rielle Daddy?

[Sara]

I can hear the spin coming down the pike already. Here it comes ... Elizabeth Edwards knows she is dying. Her dying wish is for her Silky Pony to be happy so she has encouraged him to use this so-called Primary period to test drive her replacements.

[kim]

Foundling in the baggage of a traveling show.
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[kim]

Was Bill ever in love with any of his 'subjects'? I'll give that to the Poor Pony, he may well be in love. Filming such a narcist, promising such an ego a loving exposition, must have been an irresistible seduction strategy, one for which I suspect the angel's arrows found bipartisan targets. They don't call 'em love childs for nuthin'.
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[Jim O'Sullivan]

Maybe that's what he meant by "Two Americas."

[Jane]

Heather Has Two Daddies.

Love, love LOVE it - but it needs a "gate" somewhere.

[MarkO]

Hiltongate?

[Marilyn]

Curtiss - You refer to "His Grandfather was a Mill Worker". I haven't seen anything saying the child is a boy? Where did you see this?

[kim]

How about 'The Modified, Limited, Bathroom Hangout'.

Or 'Powdergate'
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[Ann]

The Clinton Connection

Roger Altman, who has a controlling stake in the National Enquirer, is a former official in Bill Clinton’s administration. Some wags believe the magazine poured resources into the love child story to scupper John Edwards’s chances of beating Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination.

Were the latest revelations timed to finish him off as a potential running mate? Despite the rumours, it is not likely. Few people think Clinton is still on Barack Obama’s shortlist.

Sleaze scuppers Democrat golden boy

[Danube of Thought]

I've looked for, but have not seen, any mention of the child's gender.

[Curtiss]

Marilyn: I have no info on the child's gender. Sorry for the unintended consequences. How about:

Son of a Son of Mill Worker.

Hmm.. that doesn't work either.

O.K. then, I'll go with: The Sins of My Father (whose father was a Mill Worker).

[dualdiagnosis]

Two Men and a Baby

[Ralph L]

Two America's, One Penis.

[dualdiagnosis]

Pimp My Chemo

[DrJ]

The audacity of poke.

[dualdiagnosis]

MILF Hunter

[dualdiagnosis]

Hilton Head

[ben]

Coiffedgate

[dualdiagnosis]

Pony Baloney

[dualdiagnosis]

Who's Your Daddy?

[dualdiagnosis]

Trick Pony

[BobS]

Love, Reille O'er Me

[BobS]

Breck Girl and It Girl Gate

[centralcal]

Jonathan Weisman (sp) in a Washington Post on-line chat claims that WaPo is "investigating" the NE/Edwards story. Yeah, I bet they are. (/snark)

However, he seems to think the NE was going to release the pictures "this weekend." Ain't seen nothing posted yet, wonder where he got that idea? More great, accurate reporting, I suppose.

[dualdiagnosis]

Tumorgate

[dualdiagnosis]

When John was cornered about his hedge fund employment he claimed he was researching poverty.

Maybe he will say he was researching breast cancer with Rielle.

[clarice]

Gallup says O has a nine point lead. PHEH

[bad]

Her dying wish is for her Silky Pony to be happy so she has encouraged him to use this so-called Primary period to test drive her replacements.

It is believable.

[centralcal]

Meanwhile, all is eerily quite in Chappaqua.

How many days until the convention?

[paul]

The only reason this story isn't running hard?

She's as ugly as Linda Tripp...

if he were banging Deb Lafave, it would be completel different.

obtw-
'cancer dancer' is pretty good.

[Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet]

Lee Stranahan, a pro-Obama regular on HuffPo, wrote a very balanced post making the point that the silence about Silky's foible from the MSM and leftyblogs really hurt the democratic party.

A must read.

Predictably, a post on Kos linking to Stranahan got over 400 comments, mostly insulting Stranahan. One even accused him of being a rethuglican operative.

One of his points -- this ain't going away. When it gets on Leno and Lederman (it has), the MSM won't be far behind.

[kim]

Jim, I liked Stranahan's discussion of the liberal media bias.
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[bad]

Paul

The picture being spread about was taken near the end of her pregnancy. She is an attractive lady, recent pictures prior to pregnancy are lovely.

[Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet]

Yeah Kim. It is interesting to read folks from the other end of the political spectrum that are paying attention and are at least intellectually honest.

[Captain Hate]

Silky Foal

[Danube of Thought]

I thought Gallup had O up seven, and Ras has it at five. I didn't see nine. But hell...

[Danube of Thought]

And Jane, the goddam Sox better get their act together in a hurry.

[Jane]

DOT,

Ain't that the truth. Good thing I am a fair weather fan!

[Ralph L]

From Jim Rhoads' link:
I'm a recovering libertarian and currently I'm a registered Democrat
Which means either you were mugged by a unicorn, or you've confused it with "libertine."

[mrobvious]

1. Night of the Hunter

[mrobvious]

2. The Red Pony

[Jim Treacher]

Fathergate.

[Ralph L]

If you called it "The Bastard Scandal", everyone would ask, which one?

[mrobvious]

After Treacher:

"Vater-Gate"

[Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet]

FDR: The New Deal

HST: The Fair Deal

Silky: The Riell Diell

[clarice]

Very very good Jim R.

[Wink]

Kiddaquiddick

[Wink]

Zipperquiddick

[Wink]

Bedroom Hunter

[bad]

daddygate

[bad]

papagate