More Then Meets The Eye

So, I didn't get much thought to the "love child" John Edwards story, because it was being reported by the National Enquirer.

Well, it looks like this story just might be true:

A hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child.

The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.

"What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked.

"His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.

So, he's obviously shaken by the event.  He's been in front of millions of people before, so it's not simple stage fright or something like that.  They've obviously hit upon something that Edwards doesn't like one bit.

Edwards this week has repeatedly refused to comment on the Enquirer report. Asked about it on Thursday at an event in New Orleans, he said: "I have no idea what you're asking about. I've responded, consistently, to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies and you know that ... and I stand by that."

Personally, if a tabloid came to me and said "you've fathered a love child", I'd laugh it off, simply because it's not true.  I'd call them out with their "evidence" and show them to be the liars that they are.

But John Edwards isn't doing that.  He could offer to take a DNA test and make the results public.  A simple cheek swab will show if he's the father or not.  Plus, he can have the samples destroyed afterwards if he's really paranoid about his privacy.

But he doesn't, and that speaks volumes.

Normally, I don't care about such things.  If say, another politician came out and said "I sleep around on my wife because the sex has simply dried up", then that's their business.  What I'm enjoying most about this is John's massive amount of hypocrisy.  He paints himself as a family man and now it's showing that he's not.

But it's not the first time he's been hypocritical.  We all remember the famous photo of him getting into an SUV while asking others to give up theirs:

And his hypocritical nature about a book he wrote.

And his hypocritical nature about terrorism.

And his hypocritical nature about "two Americas".

and the list goes on and on.

 

Travis