Not 60 Minutes. Not 20/20. Gentlemen's Quarterly. I guess they'll wanna be nominated for a Pulitzer now.
Rielle met "Johnny Reid" on a New York City street corner. Who'da thunk it?
The Raleigh N&O is all over the story. A number of comments had been posted by the time I got to it, but they're all gone now (Afternoon Update: they're back up). Very strange. But again (given the love-affair with the Edwardses that the N&O is still getting over) somehow not.
With civil litigation pending, it's hard to wrap my head around any good reason for Reille to utter a word publicly. But a closer look reveals this to be part of some sick, warped game plan to discredit Andrew Young. Rielle gives the newest Edwardian plot-to-obfuscate away in the interview: Young was the mastermind behind the magical mystery tour. John Edwards, the man who wanted to run the United States of America was his hapless victim.
And OBTW, "the wrath of Elizabeth is a mighty wrath" (of course that was a given - given some of Elizabeth's friends).
You can just see the wheels-of-delusion turning behind all that blond. If Young is indicted for campaign fraud, then she and the poor, innocent, gullible, misunderstood, incredibly-hot Johnny Reid can live happily-ever-after.
After Elizabeth dies.
That's what I call "living truth". Anybody else wanna bathe yet?
Until today, silence had actually given Rielle more credibility than any of the other players in this mess (including Elizabeth). But that is no more. It went the way of the pants that are missing in the GQ photo-shoot.
The gang was there on the N&O thread, and a good many of them were gagging: "Please stop (covering this tabloid trash)!"
But I disagree. (Insert English accent), "Please sir, we want some MORE." And here's why:
First, we had to sift through Elizabeth's self-serving work of fiction. Then we had (John and) Rielle spending the last month in Court, pulling out all the stops, trying to paint Andrew Young as a liar and a thief. Trying to get Young to swear under Oath that every single tiny thing in his book was the absolute truth was about laying a legal trap. But Young, a lawyer himself, didn't take that bait . . . for reasons I could easily believe.
You see, it's very easy to conceptualize that things got KINDA STUPID on that tour-of-duty-from-hell.
It's quite simple, chickadees. ALL of the maneuvering in civil court . . . and this incredibly-in-bad-taste interview . . . was/is about making Young the scapegoat . . . and discrediting one of the Feds' key witnesses in any future indictments against her beloved "Johnny Reid". It's called legal strategy.
Like a SLAPP suit.
The Edwardian lawyers think We-the-Ordinary-People are all gullible and stupid. After all, a lot of us (let me re-emphasize NOT ME) voted for him.
Moreover, the notion that Johnny Reid Edwards is sooooooo "concerned" about "perjury" now (because it's all about him) . . . when a constituent-victimized-by-it didn't bother him one bit while he was a Senator (just like it's never troubled Candidate Spag) . . . really, Really, REALLY BURNS my tail.
And/so every self-serving ditzoid musing by a scantily-clothed Rielle (let me just say, that was CREEPY!!!) needs to be ON THE RECORD.
The comments are gone at the N&O (Afternoon Update: They're back up). I've filed a help-ticket, but I'm sure I'll get back the standard "terms of service" excuse. And this time that's believable too - because I expect the story was inundated with negative comments from readers who have no use for these two-losers-in-lust.
It's a shame though. I really liked one comment and was going to use it here. It was from a regular commenter/"ordinary" sort on the N&O boards (Afternoon Update: I don't have to paraphrase):
I'm sorry I encouraged my daughter to go to a good college and then into medical school. Now she's working like a dog to make her residency, when all she had to do was get pregnant by some rich guy and she'd have a guaranteed payday for life.
Speaking of we ordinary saps and getting ahead in life (or ANY KIND of justice in this state), there's another story up at the N&O today . . . they're shining a week's worth of "sunshine" on "cronyism" and corruption.
I e-mailed (reporter) Dan Kane, and prodded him that it might be a good time to take a second look at my story (suffering under no illusion that he would). This was his response:
Thanks for writing. There are a lot of these kinds of cases and we can't write about every one. Your case goes back years, and involves a hospital outside our area, so I probably won't take it up.
Hope you are doing well . . .
Now the point kind of is that I could be doing a whole lot better. So I fired off a response:
The fact that it goes back years without a backwards glance from a news reporter doesn't speak very well of our newspapers, does it?
And I'm curious. You say there are "a lot" of these kinds of cases. I've been reading your paper for quite a while now, and I've yet to read about a single story remotely like mine. Could you direct me to one?
But hey, keep all that top-notch, better-late-than-never journalism & uber-up-lifting stories on liars-and-their-kooky-skanks-overcoming-adversity coming.
Late Afternoon Update:
Mr. Kane responded with a couple of e-mails citing (recent) links to stories the N&O has done on whistle-blowers employed by the state. "We've reached the point where we're gonna have to agree to disagree", he says.
We reached that point long ago.
I'm NOT a state employee. I'm a former public servant who worked for a "non-profit". And "non-profits" in this state might as well have a license to KILL. No one cares and no one is doing ANYTHING about it - especially not report on it.
And after a while, because of all of the corruption that your newspaper (and others) couldn't be bothered to cover back when it happened (because back then Sleazely and Edwards and all the rest could do no wrong) . . . and because it's my life that got de-railed . . . the excuses ring very hollow.
Reillity is that cronyism and apathy is not just a problem in state government. And it's the reason the National Enquirer is up for a pulitzer.
As opposed to Dan Kane and the N&O.
Evening Update:
This has been the MOTHER of "I told you so" days for those of us who were charter members of the "I HATE John Edwards" club. The sheer level of utterly shameless skanktitude is still sinking in.
Well, maybe not quite so shameless. Rielle is reportedly upset with the pictures published by GQ (!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)
Really. It's just so hard not to fall off your chair laughing.
Maybe she misread her stars? That poor, poor baby.
Meanwhile, Newsweek (as opposed to Dan Kane and the N&O) is reporting that Edwards used the "non-profit" Center for Promise & Opportunity to funnel payments to Hunter.
Kinda makes my point (Dan) about "non-profits" getting away with murder in this state . . . BECAUSE NO ONE IS LOOKING OVER THEIR SHOULDER . . . OR REPORTING ON THEIR MISDEEDS.
