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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 847483" data-attributes="member: 1246">Kudos to the Enquirer for the Edward's work...........Never pick a fight with people who like to fight, as the smart saying goes! While the mainsteam media -- papers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times (which in fact even barred their bloggers from mentioning the Enquirer’s name in the same sentence as Edwards’) -- shunned our reporting, we carried on with our shoe-leather reporting, finding additional sources, working hard to substantiate the story we knew was true that no one would carry except those in the blogosphere. It wasn’t “checkbook journalism” as the Pulitzer Committee would like to believe – but old-fashioned, Woodward and Bernstein-style reporting that allowed us to catch our man! Crack ENQUIRER reporters Alan Butterfield and Alexander Hitchen – in the middle of the night -- caught Edwards visiting Rielle and Frances at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles on July 21, 2008. We were finally able to begin to force Edwards to come clean about the lies he had told the public, his campaign staff and his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth. While Edwards admitted shortly thereafter to having an affair with Rielle on ABC’s “Nightline,” it wasn’t until January 2010 that he finally admitted paternity of his child, then nearly two years old. We can remind the public that our reporting wasn’t just about catching him cheating -- way back in August 2008, we first raised the issue of “hush money” being paid to Rielle and Andrew Young, a married Edwards’ aide who helped cover up the affair by claiming he was involved with Rielle and had fathered her child. And in our April 13, 2009 issue, we were the first to disclose that Edwards was the subject of a federal investigation by the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service -- and that a grand jury had been seated in Raleigh, N.C. to begin the Government’s probe, which we said could end in him going to jail if he was indicted and convicted.</blockquote>

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