What a bunch of garbage. As Richard Cranium diaried yesterday, Slate was repeating the National Enquirer Edwards "love child" story. And he pointed out what a bunch of tabloid garbage the unsourced story was.
You'd think that would be the end of it. Another example of a supermarket tabloid making stuff up. But guess what? Today Faux News, America's favorite source of disinformation, is pursuing the story:
A hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child.
The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.
"What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked.
"His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.
The story goes on and on and on from there.
It's definitely time to send those cards and letters to Faux News to tell them that they're way out of bounds. They're at foxnewsonline@foxnews.com.