The media chased John Edwards mistress from one side of the country to the other

When do we get to hear from Ensign's mistress and her husband?

Where is the media on this one?

Don

Evidently he's an octopus around women.

The story isn't half as juicy as the Edwards affair was.

happened. Plus... the cancer

He was and is still married to his wife and further Cindy and Douglas Hampton were not separated.
You either believe the family values 'sanctity of marriage' BS or you don't.

He's been the Repuke's golden boy for a while now.

The fact that he's practically the Senate's biggest bible beater, given that he's Pentacostal and vocally anti-gay, makes this really juicy.

I want to ask him a question up close and personal, though: Hey Johnnie, which happily-married gay couple in CA personally threatened and ruined your marriage?

Had he announced already the press would probably care more.

that made the edwards affair different than most

from one side of the country to the other.

Maybe the paparazzi and the tabloids, don't think any other entity could be included on that list.

And the Ensign affair lacks what those people are selling.....

of the citizens of the United State have no friggin' clue who Sen. John Ensign is.

As always, the double standard.

As soon as news of this affair was breaking, the first words I heard from Lawrence O'Donnel was about John Edwards. I expect that the extortion angle will keep this one in the news.

It took a while before most of the media was willing to report the story -- most until after the Iowa primary. Lot's of people in the press probably knew a lot, maybe starting with Ann Louise Bardach who is a columnist at Slate, HuffingtonPost, etc. and writes for Vanity Fair, New Yorker, and such -- Rielle Hunter stayed with her for two years after Hunter's divorce. I feel certain that the Obama and Clinton campaings knew almost as soon as the affair began.

Slightly off-topic: While doing a lot of research on "news" -- how and why it spreads, or doesn't, and about the new gatekeepers -- I found a number of really "curious" things that some of you might know more about.

1. Any truth to the story that the idea of the webisodes was first presented to the Edwards campaign by producer Cary Woods at dinner in DC and led to the Hunter/Edwards meeting? Or just a weird cover story? Was Woods an Edwards supporter and, if so, why would he suggest having Hunter anywhere near Edwards?

BTW Dangerous dining in DC with Woods; he had dined with Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake, the couple who claimed that the Scientologists were stalking them, just before they each commited suicide. Woods is in the middle of lots of things.

2. Who in the Edwards campaign was vetting staff, vendors, and donors? Even the most trivial background check on Hunter would have found her previous name, Lisa Druck, and a quick search would have revealed "Allison Poole", the party girl background, her father hiring a mob hit on her horse for insurance, her father-in-law was the DA in the JonBennet Ramsay case, and a lot more that should have scared anyone. Even without an actual affair, just having her around Edwards (and documented with video!) and then someone start reporting details of her past would have caused a lot of damage.

I knew who she was immediately when it was revealed that Hunter was Druck (thinking "Not her!"), and I could not believe that Edwards and those on his campaign could be this naive, careless, and self-destructive.

3. Who was threatening Edwards with exposure when he withdrew from the race? What made him do the quick endorsement of Obama? Was the timing of the exposure of the affair before the convention (eliminating a speech pushing populist issues, particularly health care) more than chance?

Just tie up a few loose ends here and I should have enough of a script outline to pitch it to Oliver Stone. :)

i just know there's more to this than meets the eye.