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Edwards has been dogged by questions about his relationship with Hunter since last year when the issue first surfaced in the blogosphere and later became the subject of intense interest on the part of the National Enquirer. When the Enquirer last October first alleged that there had been an affair, Edwards and Hunter both vehemently denied it. Edwards claimed the story was "false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous." But according to ABC, Edwards acknowledged that the supermarket tabloid had been correct when it reported he had paid a visit to Hunter at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles last month. According to ABC, since becoming pregnant, Hunter lived under fake names in a series of expensive homes in North Carolina and California. Edwards denied paying hush money to Hunter but told ABC it was possible some of his supporters or friends could have made payments without informing him.

The Edwards allegations, the Enquirer's sensational cornering of him last month in Beverly Hills and the general media's reluctance to report any of the foregoing sparked an intense and growing debate in the blogosphere. Mickey Kaus, a tart, generally pro-Democrat blogger who writes for Slate (which, like NEWSWEEK, is owned by the Washington Post Co.), has been needling mainstream media outlets for months for ignoring the story. Over the last several days, the controversy spread to journalism Web sites, such as the Poynter Institute's page assembled by Jim Romenesko. By giving an interview to ABC, Edwards himself has now thrust the story into a national, mainstream spotlight, where, given some of the additional questions that his comments are likely to raise, it may well remain for some time to come.

With Arian Campo-Flores

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