She was fiercely devoted to astrology and New Age spirituality. She'd been a New York party girl, she'd been married and divorced, she'd been a seeker and a teacher and was a firm believer in the power of truth.

Quoting the article about Rielle:
She said, as an actress and as a spiritual adviser. She was fiercely devoted to astrology and New Age spirituality. She'd been a New York party girl, she'd been married and divorced, she'd been a seeker and a teacher and was a firm believer in the power of truth

At lunch at the Soho House in late spring of '07, Rielle told me that she and novelist Jay McInerney were working on a "genius" idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them.

What a piece of work.

Fox

What a piece of work.

Fox

I haven't seen a cheater yet that wasn't stupid, immature, or both.

And I've got her "lurve" right here...

Oh...

Wait...

Nope...

Sorry...

Stepped in bull poo...

(shrugs)

Same dif...

Don't hurt yourself with all that tap dancin', Krazy

We all agree with you, but you're beating the Rep. vs. Dem thing to death. :RollieEyes:

This ain't TV and equal time, it's the story of the day.

A seminal book for her had been Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now."

At lunch at the Soho House in late spring of '07, Rielle told me that she and novelist Jay McInerney were working on a "genius" idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them.

krazy, you get a little carried away with the political partisanship, my friend. This has nothing to do with politics. Just settle down, good grief.

Krazy is trying so hard to divert attention frm the Breck Girl that he is going to hurt himself!

The show might've been more interesting if it was about a hot young blond who has all the money she'll ever need, and hooks up with a local up-and-coming politician in an attempt to acquire the power to match all that money.

Heck, the season finale could even end with her nearly reaching the White House.

Kimmy, ya never know, they could be SOUL-MATES!!! DUH!!

Don't hurt yourself with all that tap dancin', Krazy

In any case, using the "Breck Girl" smear on Edwards is a partisan activity, ML, and you go ahead and say "settle down" and claim it's just fun and funny, but in reality it is a right-wing political tactic. You can't call Edwards the "Breck Girl" and claim your comments are not partisan. It's a lie.

You can't call Edwards the "Breck Girl" and claim your comments are not partisan. It's a lie.

Keeping It Rielle
By MAUREEN DOWD
August 9, 2008 NYT

John Edwards’s confession was a little bit breathtaking.

Not the sex stuff. That happens here all the time.

And certainly not covering up the sex stuff. That happens here all the time, too. First people uncover; then they cover up.

Nobody’s ever had sex with that woman until, suddenly, they have.

The stunning admission Edwards made to ABC’s Bob Woodruff, and in a written statement from Chapel Hill on Friday afternoon, was that he’s a narcissist.

He admitted that wallowing in “self-focus” out on the trail and thinking you’re “special” can result in a solipsism that “leads you to believe you can do whatever you want, you’re invincible and there’ll be no consequences.”

Auto-psychoanalysis by the perp. That’s really rich. When Bill Clinton acknowledged an affair, after equally adamant denials, he simply went into an old-fashioned spiral of penitence, his allegedly long, dark night of his alleged soul.

Even in confessing to preening, Edwards was preening. His diagnosis of narcissism was weirdly narcissistic, or was it self-narcissistic? Given his diagnosis, I’m sure his H.M.O. would pay.

The creepiest part of his creepy confession was when he stressed to Woodruff that he cheated on Elizabeth in 2006 when her cancer was in remission. His infidelity was oncologically correct.

So narcissist walks into a New York bar and meets a legendarily wacky former Gotham party girl — whose ’80s exploits were chronicled in a novel by her former boyfriend Jay McInerney because the behavior of her and her friends “intrigued and appalled me.” When you appall Jay McInerney, you know you’re in trouble.

The president manqué gives Rielle Hunter, formerly Lisa Druck, more than $114,000 to shoot vain little videos for his Web site (even though she’s a neophyte), one of which is scored with the song “True Reflections” about the Narcissus pool, which goes: “When you look into a mirror, do you like what’s looking at you? Now that you’ve seen your true reflections, what on earth are you gonna do?”

He has an affair with Hunter, while he’s honing his speech on the imperative to “live in a moral, honest, just America.” A married former aide says he’s the father when she gets pregnant, even though she’s telling people Edwards is the dad. And one of his campaign donors pays off Hunter to get her resettled with the baby out of North Carolina.

But the Breck Girl wants a gold star for the fact that he sent his marriage into remission when his wife was in remission. That’s special.

In his statement, he bleats: “You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare.” Isn’t stripping bare how he got into this mess?

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And Maureen Dowd just referred to him as the Breck Girl the other day. You gonna call her a partisan right winger too?

oh no, another "vast right wing conspiracy!" HalliburtonHalliburtonHalliburton! Polly want a KarlRoveKarlRoveKarlRove!!!

I reckon this thread is going to the ghetto shortly.

Like fighting by flailing your arms.

There really is no "debate" just alot of liberal tap dancing.

Whenever partisans see one of their guys getting attacked they think the other guys don't get equal treatment.GC

Unfortunately, that doesn't work for most 5 year olds and I don't see much success with that tactic here. Two wrongs don't still don't make a right.

I doubt you even see it as two wrongs.

I rest my case! lol

It's about time to get your daily feeding from Rush!

[/sheep]baaaaa! baaaaa![sheep]

Maybe Rush should take audience-building lessons from Al Franken, who had a grand total of ONE person attend a recent campaign rally. :RollieEyes:

Maybe Rush should take audience-building lessons from Al Franken, who had a grand total of ONE person attend a recent campaign rally. :RollieEyes:

country music crowd

but it's beyond a stretch to call the disappointing St. Cloud event (the one the wingnuts are having so much fun with) a "rally"

I wouldn't call it a "rally" either. So we agree.

It was meant to be a small event.

And it WAS! How often in life do we get what we want? I haven't been much lately. I'm going to have to take lessons from someone who's a success at it. How much does it cost to move from California to Minnesota?

On CBS's "Early Show" yesterday, co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed alleged Hunter "friend" Pigeon O'Brien. Given the obvious - you never tell secrets to someone named Pigeon - O'Brien took her 15 minutes of fame and ran with it.

According to O'Brien, Edwards and Hunter met at a bar, he lied about the time line of the affair, the baby was his because Rielle loved him and wouldn't have a baby with someone she didn't love (not exactly faultless logic), and Hunter is one step away from sainthood.

"She's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful person in a very ugly position, and I really feel for her," O'Brien said. "I think that - I really have never known someone so insistent upon integrity and honesty and openness."

Never? Who are your friends?

Rodriguez: "But someone who has an affair with a married man you say has integrity and honesty?"

O'Brien: "I think she thought that he had quite a bit of integrity, and I think that that appealed to her about him. Sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we pick people to fall in love with that maybe aren't the greatest choice at the time. I can't judge her in that, I can't fault her in that. . . ."

Hey, we'll fault her. He was a married man with a sick wife, and he was running for president. Unless it's your goal to become a home-wrecker or blackmailer, how can that relationship possibly work out well?

Rodriguez: "So for her this was about love . . . ?"

O'Brien: "Yes, very much so."

Rodriguez: " . . . not sex?"

O'Brien: "No! No, no, no, no, no! No, no!"

That's eight No's for those of you playing at home. Perhaps if Hunter or Edwards would have said "No" . . .

Some other highlights:

O'Brien described Hunter as "a very keenly intellectually engaged woman. She's very insistent upon rigorous dialogue . . ."

Edwards, in fact, enjoyed their rigorous dialogue: "Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Yes! Yes!"

O'Brien said that Hunter "digs very deeply," and that she and Edwards "connected very deeply."

Sometimes Tattle writes itself.

As for when O'Brien and Hunter fell out as friends, O'Brien said: "We lost touch in about May or June of '06, right before she began work on the webisodes. I think she was gearing up to really engage in the big piece of work that she was doing for him, so her head was in a different space . . ."

It took awhile, but now we know where her head was and what her big piece of work was.

Please excuse me while I go hurl a chunk of hypocrital mas.