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In Other News: Rielle Hunter, Without Pants

By Michael Scherer | @michaelscherer | March 15, 2010 | +

As part of her long awaited scorned-mistress-finally-speaks moment, Rielle Hunter takes off her pants for GQ. Then she poses–pantless, mind you–with stuffed animals in an article describing the total legitimacy of her love for John Edwards.

Not. A. Joke.

Now we get to guess what will happen next in this public farce of a political story:

a) John Edwards will begin selling Slap Chop on late night TV, replacing the fantastic slicer-dicer’s previous spokesman, who recently got charged with beating up his $1,000 prostitute after she bit his tongue.

b) Rielle Hunter will go on Oprah wearing no shirt, or maybe Dancing With The Stars with no shoes, or maybe the Psychic Friends Network with a displaced aura.

c) Playgirl will pay someone in the Edwards family by the inch.

d) Yet another, semi-confessional, face-saving, money-making book about this disaster.

e) The Dave Matthews Band finally gets the gig.

Yipee. I can’t wait.

UPDATE: Hunter apparently called Barbara Walters to say that she found the photographs “repulsive” and confess to screaming for two hours after she first saw them. Still not joking.

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  • http://forgottenlord.livejournal.com forgottenlord

    Bit his tongue? I could’ve sworn I’d heard it was the other part she would put in her mouth.
    .
    And a period of now more than a year isn’t really that recent

  • Ivy_B

    Reading the Daily Beast article that referred to this article was enough for me. Don’t need to be super-sleezed, thanks.

  • nflfoghorn

    I’m sorry, did you just submit this to get a rise out of…
    .
    No, that’s not it.
    .
    Was it to dismount from important iss…
    .
    Wait.
    .
    Here we go – I’m surprised you didn’t include the “Massa-bation” joke from SNL.

  • nflfoghorn

    Get a close-up, camera-guy.

  • jncc

    You’re right. This story is tacky and trivial.

    So why are you writing about it?

  • http://www.ghostnote.com Cookie Puss

    The commenters at Wonkette have it covered, Scherer. Maybe you could get an account over there (although they are much funnier than you.)

  • stuartzechman

    Just…shut up.

  • nflfoghorn

    “Then she poses–pantless, mind you–with stuffed animals in an article describing the total legitimacy of her love for John Edwards.”
    .
    And I thought Maury Povich had the sleaze-bucket market all to himself.

  • grape_crush

    In Other News

    This is news?

    As part of her long awaited…

    Awaited? By whom?

    I guess I just can’t figure out what the media’s fascination is with what John Edwards did with his p3n!s. It’s not like he’s under FBI investigation or anything…

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34392.html

  • Paul-no not that one

    Michael Scherer is the White House correspondent for TIME.

  • grape_crush

    A native of San Francisco, he graduated from U.C. Santa Cruz and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

  • Ivy_B

    Just heard Mark Thiessen on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and he made me reconsider how slimy I felt after this story. He is creepier because he’s serious. Ick.

  • Ivy_B

    He previously worked for Salon.com, Mother Jones, and the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

    No mention of Wonkette.

  • diecash1

    Thiessen is certainly creepy and he’s been making the rounds lately. He was on the Daily Show last week too.

  • destor23

    Glad you’re on top of this story, Michael Scherer. Look forward to a John Ensign update as I understand that he is some sort of senator holding an actual elected office.

  • constantweader

    Re: Update: how could an adult woman possibly have suspected that posing without her pants on might be ill-advised? And “screaming for two hours” is the perfect way to express consternation as coming off as the two-bit slut we all took her for before the pix. You go, girl. Johnny Baby Daddy loves you.

    The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

  • http://tinselwing.wordpress.com/ nicteis

    From Jay and Kate and Karen today I learned stuff I wanted to know. From Michael, I learned how to put the animal into journamalism.

  • ohiolib

    +yawns+ I almost care.

  • dumdedumdum

    At least she has some skin in the game.

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