John Edwards reportedly asked his mistress Rielle Hunter to marry him…and why not? His wife’s only been dead for a few weeks. Wouldn’t wanna jump the gun or anything, now would we?
Since the “National Enquirer” was first to report all of the news surrounding his relationship with Rielle and their baby, so I’m more inclined to believe that they’ve gotten themselves another scoop. According to reports, he introduced Rielle to his kids and even told them to call her “mommy.”
What a callous prick. His kids are going to grow up knowing that daddy pulled a douche move right after their mother passed away. Why did he even wait to get engaged if he was going to go this route? Knowing him, he probably didn’t wait to propose.
John: My wife’s laying in her bed dying…wanna get married?
Rielle: Yes, Johnny, I love you. Can your kids call me “mommy” and everything?
John: Why not? She won’t be around long anyways.
Ha. Just kidding. He claims that the engagement rumors are way off base, of course. His spokesperson said, “I can tell you that it’s not true.”
Which part? That he got engaged over the holidays? Or the “mommy” part? I do not deny this story one bit….The Enquirer is getting their payoff for sticking their heads so far up his butt….aren’t they?
source: JOHN EDWARDS SECRET PROPOSAL TO MISTRESS – [national enquirer]
Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, has been advised by doctors that “further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive,” according to a statement from the Edwards family.
A source close to the family told CBS News, “She is dying.” The source said Edwards would likely die within weeks and possibly days. Edwards, 61, posted to her personal Facebook page a message to friends reading in part, “The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that.”
CBS News has confirmed that the Edwards family, including husband John, are now gathered with Elizabeth Edwards at the family home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope,” Edwards wrote in the Facebook post. “These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”
“…there are certainly times when we aren’t able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like,” she added. “It’s called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. It isn’t possible to put into words the love and gratitude I feel to everyone who has and continues to support and inspire me every day. To you I simply say: you know.”
Elizabeth Edwards — declaring, “I’m not just a cuckolded wife” — says she can easily relate to actress Sandra Bullock, star of “The Blind Side,” whose divorce from philandering husband Jesse James became final this week.
“I think about Sandra Bullock — who I don’t know at all — what an incredible year she’s had,” Edwards tells NBC Today show host Matt Lauer in an interview that aired Wednesday.
“She won the Academy Award for an incredible performance, and more than that, she took that story and integrated that into her own life in this healthy, happy way,” by secretly adopting son Louis in January. “And yet, the stories you hear are not about all those great successes, but about the failure of her marriage.”
Says Edwards: “That’s not who she is… I assume she wants to reclaim who she is in the same way I want to reclaim who I am.”
In the pre-taped conversation, she spoke for the first time about the breakup of what once was considered a devoted, loving family. It was part of a media blitz to promote the paperback version of her 2009 memoir, “Resilience,” with a new epilogue that came out Tuesday.
Edwards writes that she has one simple, powerful wish: to survive the incurable breast cancer that now has spread to her spine, skull and legs, for at least eight years to see her youngest child finish high school.
Mothering her own three children — Jack, 10; Emma Claire, 12 and Cate, 28 — at least until 2018 would allow Edwards, 60, “to finish the one job I know I did better than any other,” she writes in the epilogue.
The book’s final “next chapter” explains her decision to split from her law school sweetheart and former North Carolina Democratic senator. She is divorcing John Edwards, two time White House contender and her husband of nearly 33 years, over his long affair with Rielle Hunter, who bore him a daughter, now two years old.
Man, I really feel sorry for Elizabeth — first her husband of 30+ years fails her, then she gets diagnosed with cancer.
source: Elizabeth Edwards on Splitting From John and Relating to Sandra Bullock [politics daily]
What better way to end March than with Michael Steeleanswering questions about an RNC member’s expenses-paid $2,000 night at a Los Angeles bondage club.
Earlier in the month, Kevin Garn, Republican majority leader of the Utah state senate, admitted that he once skinny dipped with a 15-year-old girl and paid her $150,000 to keep quiet, and California State Senator and Republican family-values defender Roy Ashburnwas arrested for driving drunk in a state-owned vehicle after leaving a gay nightclub with a new companion.
After studying the 58 scandals over the past 20 years involving all politicians or major candidates for city mayor and above—many involved crimes, others just allegations, but all wound up as tabloid fodder—some conclusions can be reached.
• The number sex scandals has increased dramatically over the past few decades, thanks to technology, new press standards and a post-Clinton belief that everything is fair game.
• Republicans have more scandals (32 to 26), but Democrats have bigger ones, based on our methodology (13 out of the top 20).
• Democrats tend to have more problems with harassment, staffers and underage girls; Republicans tend to have more problems with prostitutes, hypocrisy and underage boys.
Here’s the Top 20 Political Scandals:
#1, Philip Giordano
Party: Republican
Position: Mayor (Waterbury, Conn.)
Scandal Broke: July 26, 2001
To the applause of spectators, former Waterbury, Connecticut, mayor, lawyer and ex-Marine Philip Giordano was convicted of sexually abusing two preteen girls—just 8- and 10-years-old at the time. Giordano claimed innocence: “I did not do anything criminal.” Giordano was sentenced to 37 years behind bars in June 2003.
#2, Bill Clinton (Jones scandal)
Democrat
Governor/Presidential Candidate
May 6, 1992
Bill Clinton hits our list three times. By our methodology, the Paula Jones scandal rated the worst: Unlike Gennifer Flowers or Monica Lewinsky, Clinton’s alleged advances on Jones, when he was governor of Arkansas and she was working for the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, were not consensual. Jones sued Clinton in 1994, setting up a historic case. The Supreme Court ruled that sitting presidents could not wait until the end of their term to respond to litigation regarding their private actions. And it was Clinton’s testimony related to Jones that set up his Lewinsky-driven impeachment. He later settled with Jones for $850,000.
#3, Mel Reynolds
Democrat
U.S. Representative
August 12, 1994
When allegations surfaced he’d had sex with a teenager, Reynolds called the justice system “racist,” and claimed police did not investigate months earlier when Reynolds alleged the woman was trying to extort him. Reynolds maintained he’d only fantasized with the young woman over the phone. The jury didn’t buy it. He was convicted of criminal sexual assault and other charges in August 1995. He resigned shortly thereafter and was sentenced to five years in prison.
#4, Robert Packwood
Republican
U.S. Senator
November 22, 1992
Packwood was an advocate of women’s rights, a pro-choice Republican who had stood behind the Equal Rights Amendment and hired women to top positions in his office. But in 1992 The Washington Post published an article airing the grievances of 10 women, mainly former staffers, who said he had made unwanted and aggressive sexual advances starting in 1969. A Senate inquiry in 1995 found “substantial evidence” Packwood had abused his power, leading to his resignation.
#5, Roosevelt Dobbins
Democrat
State Assemblyman (Arkansas)
August 10, 2005
A 17-year-old girl stopped by Dobbins’ house one afternoon to use his computer to fill out a college entrance exam. They had been close—she considered Dobbins a “mentor,” according to the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette—but it went further that day. While he gave her $20 before she left, perhaps to keep quiet—the girl went home and immediately called the police. Dobbins pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment, and was sentenced to one year probation.
#6, Brock Adams
Democrat
U.S. Senator
March 1, 1992
For two decades, Adams used drugs and alcohol as aids in sexual abuse of female employees, according to eight anonymous women who cooperated in a 1992 Seattle Times article. Despite the anonymity, all eight signed statements confirming the veracity of their stories. One woman told paper, “I have no doubt he drugged me. I have no doubt he raped me.” Officials were more circumspect: Adams was never charged, but he served just one term in the Senate, choosing not to run in the 1992 election.
#7, Gary Becker
Democrat
Mayor (Racine, Wisc.)
January 16, 2009
Becker was arrested after meeting with an undercover agent posing as a 14-year-old girl, after they had communicated online and agreed to meet at a local mall. Becker pleaded guilty to second-degree sexual assault of a child and child enticement-sexual contact.
During sentencing it came out that Becker had an affair with a former secretary and used city funds for a rendezvous. He got three years in prison for the sexual-assault charges—a relatively light punishment considering the maximum 45 years he faced.
#8, John Edwards
Democrat
Former senator/presidential candidate
October 10, 2007
The squeaky clean presidential candidate’s image took a 180-degree turn when the National Enquirer improbably broke the story of the senator’s affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, which happened while his wife was battling cancer. One illegitimate child, a tell-all book, countless ruined reputations, and a lawsuit later, the scandal is still making headlines, complete with an as-yet-not-public sex tape.
#9, Mark Foley
Republican
U.S. Representative
September 28, 2006
When a concerned congressional page received a series of emails from Foley asking his age, what he wanted for his birthday and a photo, he wrote to a staffer, “Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out.” ABC News released salacious and inappropriate virtual messages between Foley and a string of male pages, while more of Foley’s former pages came forward with stories of the congressman’s unsolicited virtual advances.
#10, Larry Craig
Republican
U.S. Senator
June 11, 2007
Craig was arrested by an undercover officer during a sting operation to investigate misconduct in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Craig sat in the stall next to the officer and began touching his right foot to the officer’s left foot. He then waved his hand beneath the stall barrier, all part of an alleged ritual at the airport in which men pick up men for encounters. According to the official report, during his police interview, Craig gave the officer his business card identifying him as a U.S. senator and said, “What do you think about that?” Apparently, not much as the investigation continued and Craig later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Democrat
U.S. Senator
October 17, 1992
Inouye’s misadventures in sex scandal-land began when Hawaii State Senator Rick Reed played on television a secretly recorded tape of Inouye’s hairdresser saying he forced her to have sex with him in 1975. The hairdresser recalled a visit to the senator’s apartment where he grabbed her, took off her clothes, and forced himself on her. Inouye, however, denied the charges. “I’m not suggesting that she is lying,” Inouye said, according to an Associated Press article. “She’s put on the spot like this and I don’t know why she’s saying these things.” The hairdresser said she didn’t consider the incident rape and demanded the ad pulled. Inouye’s political career survived.
#12, Bill Clinton (Lewinsky scandal)
Democrat
President
January 1998
The cigar, the stained dress, all the sordid details—the Monica Lewinsky-Bill Clinton affair remains the biggest sex scandal to ever hit Washington. Newsweek portrayed Lewinsky as an attention-hungry, driven, and slightly delusional young intern who would hang about the Oval Office, eager to catch glimpses of Clinton. Lewinsky and Clinton’s relationship was detailed in recorded phone conversations Lewinsky had with friend Linda Tripp. Clinton, of course, survived impeachment on related perjury charges and, with a faithful Hillary, went on to reclaim his public reputation. Lewinsky evaporated from the public eye, and in 2006 earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Republican
U.S. Senator
June 16, 2009
Ensign called for Bill Clinton’s head in 1998, but said he had no plans to resign when he admitted to an extramarital affair last summer. Between December 2007 and August 2008, Ensign carried on a relationship with one of his female campaign staffers, who happened to be married to an employee in his Senate office. He remains under investigation for allegedly trying to find lobbying work for that mistress’s husband.
#15, Eric Massa
Democrat
U.S. Representative
March 5, 2008
Numerous male staffers claimed that Massa groped and harassed them, and Massa quickly resigned as soon as the the scandal broke. In an interview with Glenn Beck, he said, “not only did I grope [a staffer], I tickled him until he couldn’t breathe.” Further investigation found that Tickle-Me-Eric’s touchy reputation dates back to his days in the Navy.
#16, Jim Gibbons (Scandal 1)
Republican
U.S. Representative
October 13, 2006
In 2006, a Las Vegas cocktail waitress accused Gibbons of sexual assault in a parking garage. Gibbons has claimed innocence. In his version, he was trying to catch the woman when she fell, but his press office later released misleading information about the incident, and police inexplicably waited a day to talk to Gibbons. The waitress, a single mother, has not pressed criminal charges, though a civil suit is pending. He was elected Nevada’s governor, setting the stage for another sex scandal (see number 49).
#17, Tim Mahoney
Democrat
U.S. Representative
October 13, 2008
Mahoney seemed to forget his campaign motto, “Faith and Family—Where I Stand,” during his affair with a former staffer. Mahoney got his job after Mark Foley resigned in disgrace, but drew just as much negative coverage after his attempt to cover up his secret love interest, including an agreement to pay her $121,000 to keep quiet. Mahoney was also heard threatening to fire her on the tape of a profanity-laced call. He did not resign, but lost his seat in 2008.
Republican
Governor (South Carolina)
June 24, 2009
When Sanford was a U.S. representative more than a decade ago, he called for Bill Clinton to resign and voted for three of the four articles of Clinton’s impeachment. As governor of South Carolina in 2009, he admitted carrying on an affair with a woman in Buenos Aires. Sanford made the announcement after a week-long jaunt to Argentina, during which he remained incognito and had his staff tell media outlets that he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.
#20, Sam Adams
Democrat
Mayor (Portland, Ore.)
January 19, 2009
Portland Mayor Sam Adams admitted having sexual relations with a teenage staffer in 2005, but during his mayoral campaign he denied any contact. Beau Breedlove, the teenage staffer, was a legislative intern who turned 18 in June 2005, the same year Adams took office. “In the past, I’ve characterized my relationship with Beau Breedlove as purely non-sexual and that is not true,” Adams told Willamette Week. “I want to publicly acknowledge I made a mistake and apologize for it.” Breedlove told the Oregonian days after the scandal broke that Adams kissed him twice before he turned 18, adding that he “never felt like a victim.”
GQ is blasting Rielle Hunter, who is said to be repulsed by the racy shots of her in the magazine’s April issue.
Hunter — a 45-year-old videographer who had a fling with John Edwards and gave birth to his 2-year-old daughter Frances Quinn — told Barbara Walters that she thought photographer Mark Seliger would’ve used some of the “beautiful headshots” he took of her.
Instead, they used shots of her wearing no pants as she lounged next to stuffed animals.
But GQ isn’t buying it and frankly, I’m not either.
“Did she say she thought they would be headshots?
Rielle is a smart woman. She knows what she wore and what she was doing in the photo shoot.”
GQ also released a video of the shoot to “GMA” today and at one point the videographer asks Hunter, “You want to take a look at this?”
Talk about wanting some attention!
Why did you allow the shots to be taken then?
source: GQ Blasts Rielle Hunter: “She Knew What She Was Doing” at the Shoot [us magazine]
Disgraced former presidential contender John Edwards and his wife have reportedly legally separated after he admitted he is the father of a baby girl whose mom he repeatedly bedded during his 2008 White House run.
After spending Christmas together with their three kids, Edwards and his wife quietly parted ways.
“[Elizabeth] said, ‘I’ve had it. I can’t do this. I want my life back,” Elizabeth Edwards’ sister, Nancy Anania.
“A long marriage is a tough habit to break, and when you throw in incurable cancer and young children, it makes you waver. But I hear peace in her voice that i haven’t heard in a long time.”
The couple have three children, Cate, 27; Emma Claire, 11; and Jack, 9.
Elizabeth, 60, who is still undergoing treatment for breast cancer, has had divorce papers ready for nearly a year and had not yet filed the paperwork. Elizabeth even gave her husband’s baby Christmas presents.
“She gave it a lot of thought, wrapped up a bunch of Christmas presents, took them to the baby and was so pleased when Quinn made a beeline to the toy carriage and doll. She even said to Quinn, ‘Go stand next to Daddy.’”
The revelations of the couple’s separation come as a former aide to John Edwards says in a new book that the former North Carolina senator told him he thought about leaving his wife — but also cited his love for her as a reason to keep details of an affair hidden.
Next, he’ll be setting up home with the mistress and helping raise the kid — then make his bid for the White House.
A new tell-all book written by a former campaign aide alleges that John Edwards and Reille Hunter captured their illicit romance on video. Gawker’s Ravi Somaiya:
Sources have told us that, in the throes of their affair, John Edwards and Rielle Hunter made a sex tape that contains “several sex acts.” And that his aide, Andrew Young found it on an unmarked DVD.
The tape, say both our sources, is explicit and reveals that Edwards “is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says ‘whoa’. She’s behind the camera at first.”
When rumors of the affair first broke Young was so loyal to Edwards that he pretended that he was the father of Hunter’s daughter Frances Quinn, now 2. But part of Young’s disillusionment with the 2004 vice presidential candidate and 2008 candidate came one day as he went through a stack of DVDs at Rielle Hunter’s house.
Ravi’s soliciting copies of the tape. I’ll pass, thanks.
Thus far, David Corn has the best line on this:Â “John Edwards’ mission in life: to make Tiger Woods look good.“
Edwards has remained pretty silent and out of the spotlight since he confirmed his affair with Rielle last year, but it seems Andrew isn’t so eager to remain silent as he is releasing a tell all book.
Andrew has reportedly signed a book deal with St.Martin’s Press, in this book he not only confirms that there is a sex tape but also says Edward’s is indeed the father of Rielle’s daughter (Edwards has denied this).
Andrew said he found the sex tape while unpacking at his home in California, he and his wife let Rielle stay in their home for eight months for an undisclosed amount of money.
Rielle apparently confided in Andrew during a talk they had, she said Edwards had discussed getting married with her if his wife Elizabeth died of the cancer she suffered from. They even discussed what muse they would be playing at the wedding.
Andrew’s character has been questioned in the past though, Elizabeth Edwards has said she partly blames Andrew for the affair since he knew about it and would help them talk on his cell phone, she also accuses him of stealing her late sons baseball card collection.
No word on when Andrew Young’s book will be released, but an editor has said the book’s proposal “was impossible to put down.”
Do we really need to see a sex tape between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter?
Paula Abdul’s Idol blunder, Nikki Blonsky’s airport brawl, Miss USA’s tumble – it’s all the “oops!” and blunders we just can’t forget.
Ryan Phillippe gets an unusual request from Jay Leno
LET’S FACE IT
While promoting his Iraq war film Stop-Loss, Ryan Phillippe got an unusual request from Tonight Show host Jay Leno: “Can you give me your ‘gayest look?’” “Wow,” Phillippe replied. “That is so something I don’t want to do.” Leno later apologized, admitting, “It was a dumb thing to say.”
Paula Abdul finds Jason Castro forgetable
SOUR NOTE
American Idol’s top 5 contestant Jason Castro had performed the first of two songs during a Neil Diamond-themed episode in April when Paula Abdul told him, “The second song, I felt like your usual charm was missing for me. It kind of left me a little empty and the two songs made me feel like you’re not fighting hard enough to get into the top four.” Oops! Later, she called the gaffe “an honest mistake.”
Lindsay Lohan battles the booze on New Years Eve
JUST A SIP
So much for that New Year’s resolution! Just two months out of rehab, Lindsay Lohan was caught sipping from a bottle of champagne while ringing in 2008 in Capri, Italy. “The good news,” her lawyer stated at the time, “is that Lindsay stopped herself, called her sponsor, and got herself back on track.”
Nikki Blonsky's airport brawl
VACATION NIGHTMARE
A vacation in paradise turned ugly when the family of Nikki Blonsky was involved in a brawl with the family of Top Model contestant Bianca Golden at a Turks and Caicos airport. “Things got out of hand in an argument over seats in the departure lounge,” a police source stated in August. Charges were filed and Golden’s mother ended up in the hospital while Blonsky’s father ended up in jail.
Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus forget the seatbelts
BUCKLE UP
“We got caught up in the moment of filming, and we made a mistake and forgot to buckle our seatbelts,” Billy Ray Cyrus said in a statement, following the February release of the hit 3-D movie Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour, in which he and daughter Miley Cyrus were seen riding in a Range Rover without their seatbelts fastened.
John Edwards, politician gone wrong
COMING CLEAN
After denying he had an extramarital relationship, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards confirmed in August that he had an affair with a 44-year-old woman who had worked for his campaign. “I made a very serious mistake, a mistake that I am responsible for and no one else,” the senator said in a statement. “I told [my wife] Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, [and] asked God for his forgiveness.”
Sharon Stone gets a healthy dose of bad karma
BAD KARMA?
Asked on the red carpet in Cannes about the earthquake in China that killed 80,000 people, Sharon Stone said she was “not happy with the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans” and wondered, “Is that Karma, when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?” The actress later admitted, “I misspoke. I could not be more regretful of that mistake.” Still, she wasn’t invited to the country’s Shanghai International Film Festival, which she had attended in 2007.
CAUGHT ON TAPE
“Rehab” singer Amy Winehouse was seen smoking what The Sun claimed was a crack pipe in footage posted on the U.K. paper’s Web site in January. Police questioned the singer, but Winehouse was not arrested and no charges were filed. She was, however, initially denied a U.S. visa. It was later issued – just not in time for her to pick up her trophies in person at the Grammy Awards.
Bai Ling has worst Valentine's Day ever
WORST VALENTINE’S EVER
On Feb. 13, Bai Ling was arrested at Los Angeles International airport for allegedly shoplifting $16 worth of celebrity magazines and batteries from a terminal convenience store. Her excuse? Valentine’s Day blues. It was an “emotionally crazy” day, she said later, blaming a “huge problem of breaking up [before] Valentine’s Day.”
THE C-WORD
It was a mistake that went viral in seconds: While discussing The Vagina Monologues with playwright Eve Ensler and Meredith Vieira on the Today show, Jane Fonda said the “c-word” on live television. “It was a slip and obviously she apologizes, and so do we,” host Vieira said after a newsbreak. “We would do nothing to offend the audience. So please accept that apology.”
Miss Teen Louisiana Lindsey Evans is busted for skipping a restaurant tab and pot possession
DINE-AND-DASH Miss Teen Louisiana Lindsey Evans didn’t only tarnish her crown, but she also lost it after getting arrested for skipping out on a $46 bill at Posados Cafe in Bossier City, La., in October. Police were summoned to the restaurant and found a purse, which contained the 18-year-old’s driver’s license and what officials suspected was marijuana.
Naomi Campbell beats down the police at the airport
AIR RAGE
She strikes again: After a disturbance aboard a British Airways plane, police officers were called to escort supermodel Naomi Campbell off the aircraft. “She threw a few things around the cabin and then spat at the cops.” Campbell pleaded guilty to four charges and was sentenced to work 200 hours of community service and to pay a $4,500 fine in June.
Tatum O'Neal gets busted for cocaine
CLOSE CALL
“I made a giant, horrible mistake that I regret and feel really ashamed and embarrassed about,” Tatum O’Neal stated after police arrested the Oscar winner for allegedly purchasing two bags of cocaine from a dealer near her Manhattan home. “I got close to relapsing,” she later told Oprah Winffrey. “It was close enough. Too close for comfort.”
**Honorable mention goes to Miley Cyrus and her digital camera.
I am assured by the folks at National Enquirer that these are THE PHOTOS EVERYONE’S BEEN WAITING FOR!
The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is releasing the photograph that the world has been waiting for – the first-ever picture of John Edwards and his love child!
The stunning “spy photo†shows the former presidential contender holding his infant daughter Frances Quinn Hunter at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles – where the ENQUIRER caught him visiting the baby’s mother, his mistress Rielle Hunter.
Edwards is holding his love child while standing in front of a distinctive striped curtain. The same window covering hangs in each one of the hotel’s guest rooms – and is clearly visible in photos of guest rooms on the hotel’s Web site.
“These photos are damning proof,†said a source close to the situation. “He’s been caught lying about his affair with Rielle and their love child for many months – and now the proof against him is piling up. His elaborate coverup is unraveling at the seams.â€
TO SEE THE EXCLUSIVE SPY PHOTOS AND LEARN ALL THE SHOCKING DETAILS pick up The ENQUIRER– on sale now!
Or, it could be John Edwards with some random baby and all PhotoShopped. Who knows these days?
But the Enquirer is certainly right that a whole lot of people are interested in this story, even if its coverage has been almost exclusively limited to the tabloids and blogs.
Via memeorandum, where the discussion will soon heat up.
