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What Rielle Hunter Told Me

A seeker and a New Age spiritualist, John Edwards's other woman believed she could help him make history.

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  • Posted By: limobarbie @ 07/02/2009 11:24:22 AM

    Rielle Hunter (how do you pronounce that anyway? Ree-EL? Ri-lee? Ree-EL-ah?) is a first rate scumbag, slut and airhead. She doesn't come within a mile of the class of Elizabeth Edwards and she isn't good enough for Liz to wipe her little feet on! What kind of dirtbag has an affair with the husband of a woman who is desperately battling terminal cancer? Rielle Hunter. I feel sorry for her child--what kind of an example is she going to set for her daughter? Sleeping with married men isn't a life lesson one should pass on to a child.

  • Posted By: NeoPoliticus @ 07/01/2009 10:08:53 PM

    With enough egotism and hubris, you can rationalize anything.

  • Posted By: OneCrazyChick @ 05/09/2009 12:48:17 PM

    John Edwards is a jerk and his wife has every right to say what she did about Rielle Hunter. Hunter was on the road, traveling, working with and well aware of the fact that he was a married man with children. She is pathetic and a disgrace to her own child. I'm glad she's going ahead with the DNA test - it will be concrete evidence of what a skank she is. Edwards wife needs to divorce him and move on. John is an ass but I hope a special place in hell is reserved for the likes of Hunter who knowingly commit these acts and leave a crowd to deal with pain afterwards... scum.

  • Posted By: OneCrazyChick @ 05/09/2009 12:48:01 PM

    John Edwards is a jerk and his wife has every right to say what she did about Rielle Hunter. Hunter was on the road, traveling, working with and well aware of the fact that he was a married man with children. She is pathetic and a disgrace to her own child. I'm glad she's going ahead with the DNA test - it will be concrete evidence of what a skank she is. Edwards wife needs to divorce him and move on. John is an ass but I hope a special place in hell is reserved for the likes of Hunter who knowingly commit these acts and leave a crowd to deal with pain afterwards... scum.

  • Posted By: Libricrat @ 05/06/2009 10:20:39 AM

    She sounds like a true and genuine fruitcake. It's hard to believe he couldn't see how flakey of a situation this was. All I can say is Karma.

  • Posted By: bartsimpson2008 @ 12/28/2008 10:28:50 AM

    Wealthy white man cheats on his wife with blond bimbo. Haven't we heard and seen this story before?

  • Posted By: Cantabrigian @ 09/27/2008 4:19:07 PM

    Why did the political media leave the John Edwards "other woman" story to the National Enquirer?

    How many other stories are being ignored by the press because they get all tingly and excited over Obama?

    For example: Why have none of the papers printed that Obama mis-spoke "John" McCain's name last night?

    Obama could not remember that Senator John McCain was standing beside him in a debate last night.

    On the other hand, if that would have been Senator McCain who mis-spoke Obama's name that would have been on the top, front page of every major left leaning newspaper this morning!

  • Posted By: hsineexas @ 09/26/2008 12:04:18 PM

    I imagine Eckhart Tolle would be extremely disappointed to hear of someone was using his name, book, and principles as a basis to carry on a life of dishonesty and immorality. What a lunatic this lady has to be! And she and Mr. Edwards deserve any and all "Karma" coming their way, hopefully being in the form of one STD or another...

  • Posted By: Duude @ 09/03/2008 6:27:40 PM

    Rielle sounds perfect for Edwards, nuttier than a fruitcake. I really don't care what this floozy thinks about Mrs Edwards. Its not her business nor mine, nor the public. She's likely looking for a bigger payday, and this article is proof of those revenue flows. While John Edwards deserves all the embarrassment this affair has caused him, I think this prostitute has made enough for her trickin.

  • Posted By: JesusLovesMe_Arizona @ 08/28/2008 1:47:08 PM

    Sounds like GOLDENRULE218 needs some intense meds and a padded room. Most likely 218 was such an ugly old bitter miserable sap that the poor guy had no other choice but to find someone who had something to offer another person other than a bitchfest. No one likes anyone who thinks they are always right, espeically when they never are because of their own delusions and lack of mental care.
    218, get yourself to first asylym, check in, and do us all a favor STAY THERE
    It baffles me that you remain in society at all!

  • Posted By: JesusLovesMe_Arizona @ 08/28/2008 1:45:52 PM

    Sounds like GOLDENRULE218 needs some intense meds and a padded room. Most likely 218 was such an ugly old bitter miserable sap that the poor guy had no other choice but to find someone who had something to offer another person other than a bitchfest. No one likes anyone who thinks they are always right, espeically when they never are because of their own delusions and lack of mental care.
    218, get yourself to first asylym, check in, and do us all a favor STAY THERE
    It baffles me that you remain in society at all!

  • Posted By: Phoenix17 @ 08/27/2008 3:13:26 PM

    This lady sounds like someone with some mental and/or emotional issues. I don't like making generalizations, but sometimes they are spot on. A person who is so into astrology to the point of asking basically a stranger what their sign is seems a bit off, especially when she includes in that conversation that she has had "many lives." On top of that, she met poor Elizabeth Edwards only once, yet blames her for all her troubles. It is clear that this lady has not done any serious self-reflection. How about shacking up with a married man and trying desperately to get his attention. I don't think it takes a psychiatrist to figure out she has serious problems.

  • Posted By: Liz R @ 08/26/2008 2:26:17 AM

    I know there are 1,000,000+ much more important things in this world to read, think and/or do something about, but the petty side of me just has to say to Rielle.. uh, gee, don't you think the WIFE of the MAN you are at minimum MAKING AN OBVIOUS PLAY FOR - or already sleeping with - just might give off negative energy toward you? Sounds like you're a pretty young brain, and that it will be quite a lot longer (your next life?) before you realize the reason you weren't defended by him (and subsequently explained away to the press) is because you aren't as important to his old soul as his wife, kids, and future are, not then, not now, not ever. And for the rest of us this story isn't relevant, let's move on.

  • Posted By: Agalag @ 08/25/2008 9:51:17 PM

    John Edwards has an ego the size of Manhattan! What a jerk! And Rielle Hunter is no better. She obviously became so enamored with Edwards, that she had his child at age 42. Lucky her, now she has the next Ghandi's spawn! What kind of man cheats on his wife while she is battling a deadly disease? Just once I'd like to see one of these wronged woman actually DIVORCE the jerks they are married to. Just think of the great example that Hillary, or Elizabeth Edwards, or Mrs. Spitzer would be if they got rid of their cheating spouses? What kind of message does this send to women--put up with your man no matter what he does? Get real, women! If your husbands is a cheater, he's probably also a liar--the trust is gone! Spare your children! Believe me, no matter what your social status is, you'll be so much better off.

  • Posted By: cwhcobb @ 08/25/2008 11:48:16 AM

    Newsweek please continue to follow this story closely...

  • Posted By: cwhcobb @ 08/25/2008 11:47:06 AM

    Newsweek please continue coverage on John Edwards there is so much more to this story and it has not ended...

  • Posted By: regazza @ 08/13/2008 1:48:36 AM

    Barf. Its between Edwards and his wife.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 2:24:51 AM

      Not really. It is more complicated given John Edwards was campaigning for President while having the affair (the mistress' friend said today that it definitely goes back to early 2006; and it gets messy from there with investigators digging into confirming when the affair started, before or after hiring her for job not quealifed for, then her pregnancy and the hiding of her by relocating her (and another guy that is saying he is the father and not Edwards) by relocating her (and him?) at least a few times or more. Given all this there are some big heavy hitter investigations that will be going on from now until everything is fleshed out to the degree it needs to be. Very messy. Very sad situation for Mrs Edwards and family.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 2:34:11 AM

        Maybe from a personal healing of the Edwards, what you say is true. But I cant imagine this scandall go away too soon until the whole e.g. money trail investigation of possible campaign funds used towards supporting Ms. Hunter is confirmed to not be paid by Edwards supporters vs. he or another person claiming to have used his monies to keep Ms. Hunter comfortable are investigated and put to bed one way or another.

        • Posted By: loriw @ 08/13/2008 2:24:43 PM

          If campaign money was used to pay off Hunter (or what ever that sleezy woman's name is) that would really,really suck!

          • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 5:36:00 PM


            I know, Im hoping that Edwards just paid out of his pocket cuz he is a multi millionaire that could afford to do so. I dont get what I heard on the news, that some type of associate of Edwards (Barter? forget the name) is claiming that he has been helping support Hunter the past few years using his dollars. Dont get that . Time will tell.

            • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/15/2008 5:18:38 PM

              sharenews and loriw: pathetic, frustrated yentas.

              • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:04:06 AM

                elizabethpaige you are wrong again, I'm Presbyterian.

                • Posted By: sk47 @ 08/16/2008 2:51:26 AM

                  wrong, you are pushy and a know it all, coupled with being judgmental.

                  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:25:49 PM

                    At least I'm not schizophreniza/ multiple personality disorder like you do Lady Lucille.

                    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/17/2008 4:39:26 PM

                      Okay, RN, ('nurse saving lives') what's up with 'schizophreniza'?

                      • Posted By: loriw @ 08/21/2008 10:35:00 PM

                        generally good speller....really bad typist.

                    • Posted By: sk47 @ 08/16/2008 3:05:14 PM

                      The term "multiple personality disorder " not longer exist as a diagnosis and hasn't for years. It was replaced with another diagnosis term...........but of course you wouod know that because you are a nurse.........excuse me while I laugh!

                    • Posted By: sk47 @ 08/16/2008 3:01:14 PM

                      You are worse.

                • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/16/2008 10:48:47 AM

                  Okay, a Presbyterian yenta.

                  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:30:00 PM

                    Elizabethpaige are you dis'ing the Jewish people because I respect the Jewish faith. Please do not dis the Jewish faith with me again please.

                    • Posted By: sk47 @ 08/17/2008 8:13:03 PM

                      STFU

                    • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/17/2008 3:32:37 PM

                      English words of Yiddish origin: i.e. bagel, chutzpah, schlep, yenta, do not 'dis' Jewish people or the Jewish faith. As usual with know-it-alls, you reveal your ignorance.

      • Posted By: JoeDoaks @ 08/13/2008 6:21:17 AM

        So here we go again...more innuendo about $$$ and 'a wider DNC conspiracy'....What a load of horsesh*t...If you aren't a paid plant from the "Karl Rove School of Right Wing Nazi Campaign Tactics" and following this disgusting goose-stepping conspiracy mantra to a tea...I'll eat my f**k**g flat hat! And who are you kidding...Hiuh? You have about as much concern about "Poor Elizabeth and their Family" as Castro had for JFK! So Listen up Buttercup...Stop this Crap...You are an embarassment!

        • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 5:31:17 PM



          As I explained elsewhere in this blog, I am an Independent, not a repug in sheepskin. Loriw already explained that in this blog . You go ahead and believe what you want. BTW, you might want to check into a class on ANGER MANAGEMENT. . . . your mean-spirited dialogue is way not becoming of you and says alot abut your credibility about anything you post in the blogs on this site.

          • Posted By: JoeDoaks @ 08/13/2008 11:22:18 PM

            Boo Hoo... Now you have to get "Lori" to do your fighting for you ??? Uhhh...she must be your only supporter, huh? But then again...I would not put it past the RNC to send you somebody to stand up for you....since you have yet to deny what you have been doing in here? How about telling all of us why you keep cutting and pasting all that crap about a conspiracy each and every chance you get on the bottom of all the legitimate bloggers answering this thread? This is so pathetic... Answer the question....

            • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:02:39 AM

              Actually I don't need anyone to fight for me I am wiry enough to take care of myself and believe it or not Sharenews and I have been on different sides of the issues from time to time but one thing is for sure....
              we both recognize stupidity when we read it!

  • Posted By: Carol32836 @ 08/13/2008 1:24:20 AM

    I'm sorry but I guess I hail from the Victorian Age. I really don't think John Edwards affair is relevant to the troubles we're experiencing but when a man in power is making critical decisions for our country and he's having an affair, I have a problem trusting his judgment all around

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 3:33:50 AM

      . . . not to mention that this woman was 'kept' (given a 100K job to do video documentaries that she had no experience with), she was moved around multiple times for living environments (especially when she became pregnant, she was set into a gate 11 million $ community), and who knows what else; and using whose funds? John Edwards? The Edwards campaign funds? Other? That is why this story will not be going away too soon given there is the need for a followup investigation.

      • Posted By: loriw @ 08/13/2008 3:01:21 PM

        holy crappolla batman! 100K US dollars!!! I'm in the wrong business. I'm printing new business cards as we speak. Does anyone know any politicians who need documentaries done? And before anyone assumes anything...my services will not include anything outside of documenting the candidate.

        • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/15/2008 5:56:43 PM

          So now you're all set to give up your two jobs for a measly $100,000 and a business card? What about your dedication to "saving lives as a nurse"? Exaggeration or outright lie, self-praise is no recommendation.

          • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:08:49 AM

            You bet! With my two jobs I couldn't make that kinda dough in a year. Besides saving lives isn't all it's cracked up to be cause you have to wipe a lot of butts in between codes. Really sucks esp. on holidays when I'm working and all my friends and family are out having fun. I have to work off shifts, double shifts...
            See as a photojournalist I can set my own hours, works maybe 3 hours a day when I want to work...no holidays and no BUTTS!

            • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/16/2008 11:09:39 AM

              Listen up, National Enquirer junkie: ,No one believes for a minute that you are a 'nurse saving lives'.

              • Posted By: loriw @ 08/16/2008 1:33:51 PM

                That would make you wrong again because I am a RN and have been for a very long time. Also I have never even read a single copy of that rag National Enquirer. Three strikes- your OUT!
                You're not very good at this Lizzy.

                • Posted By: elizabethpaige @ 08/17/2008 4:05:04 PM

                  loriw, you say you don't read that Enquirer 'rag'. Let me quote one of your 'informative' posts:

                  "Posted By: loriw @ 08/13/2008 14:21:03

                  "Comment: I heard the Enquirer did a follow-up article and the baby that Hunter
                  (or whatever her name really is) had. The Enquirer got exclusive photos of the baby
                  and the baby has the head of an alien! So I guess the baby isn't Edward's after all.
                  Sounds like Hunter slept with more than just a lot of married men, she also slept with
                  married aliens."

                  Oops!

                  • Posted By: loriw @ 08/21/2008 10:30:41 PM

                    That was a humorous dig at the Enquirer which i have never read. The Enquirer puts alien heads on just about everyone's baby on their cover photos.
                    This makes you WRONG AGAIN Lizzy!

                • Posted By: sk47 @ 08/16/2008 3:12:46 PM

                  And you are?? Your bedside manner is lacking severely and the only "rag" you read is the one that you use to wipe your stinking "butt."

        • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/13/2008 5:47:53 PM

          You crack me up!!

          Yeah, actually it is actually more than 100K . . . Like 127K or something. So I just rounded it off. Unreal.

    • Posted By: JoeDoaks @ 08/13/2008 2:48:49 AM

      So...Your point of view is from the "Victorian Age" ...Huh? Well let's see...If my translation is correct from a historical perspective that age could best be described as "We'll Keep On Doing What Human Beings Have Always Done...Yup...Just Like Before...BUT...Now ...We Just Won't Admit To It...And We'll Conceal It From Plain Sight" and so men and women have been 'pugg-knuckling' through the ages. Here is my take on this notion of "Trust"....If it comes down between someone who is relaxed and secure in their being because they just got some 'trim' and a critical decison on national security must be made...He get's my "Trust" over all your up-tight, sexually repressed Richard M. Nixon-Mitchell-Liddy-Haldeman-Macgruder-McNamara-Rumsfeld types...Hands Down! Do you think if those Muppets in the Middle East were getting laid more often that perhaps just once in a desert moon (uhh those ships-of-the-desert liasions don't count) there would be so many wars and upsets over there? Hmmmm. Jesus Palomino...We men can't even stay awake afterwards when its done right...let alone have the energy to fight a war! LOL

  • Posted By: DeborahA @ 08/21/2008 9:59:43 AM

    Hunter should consider herself lucky Elizabeth Edwards didn't make eye contact. She would have seen Hunter for what she is.

  • Posted By: Americanlady @ 08/20/2008 10:36:34 PM

    How can a man who loves his wife and children choose to place her in a position of excessive stress during her cancer, and add to the already noble stress she lives with being a politician's wife. I think he displays poor self control, immature judgement skills, egotistical delusions of grandeur and incomplete thinking short of consequences. Is this the best we've got? Surely there are men of duty, conscience, courtesy and chivalry who would never disgrace their family, their supporters and their fellow citizens in this way? It is definitely time to declare John Edwards a has been who never was qualifed to sit as the world's second most powerful man. He is distasteful and a coward who placed his physical needs ahead of the party and his family, as though his bodily functions were more important than the future of our nation. Leaders must be above blackmail and seduction. In this day and age, no one can hide their moral failings and more and more we will be forced to scrutinize those who wish to command our respect. Elizabeth Edwards is a dutiful wife and would have been a great asset, but God has decided He may need her and so I wish her peace and serenity at a time when our nation should pray for her to live the remaining years of her life with calm love and not distress. God bless you and your family dear Elizabeth and thank you for all of the years you gave to America. You may have been the better leader my dear.

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