Friend Of Hillary Owns Paper That Claims Edwards Had Affair
Hillary Clinton and Roger Altman
Politico:
The Clinton Administration official who owns National Enquirer
The political world has been holding its nose for the last twenty-four hours while peering at the weekly tabloid National Enquirer, which published a story yesterday alleging that presidential candidate John Edwards had an extra-marital affair.
“The story is false,” Edwards told reporters in South Carolina today, according to a reporter who was there.
What the tabloid’s readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton’s key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary.
The investment boutique which Altman founded and chairs, Evercore Partners, bought a controlling stake in American Media, which publishes the Enquirer, in 1999, which it still holds with a partner. Evercore’s president, Austin Beutner, sits on American Media’s Board of Directors, according to Evercore’s website.
A spokesman for American Media, Richard Valvo, said in an email that Altman has “no involvement in editorial, ever.” He said that Evercore owns 20% of the company through an investment fund. Altman didn’t respond to an email seeking comment or to a message left with his secretary.
American Media has also published lurid and negative stories about the Clintons since its acquisition.
Yesterday’s National Enquirer story was mirrored by a pair of stories in the Huffington Post — whose public face, Arianna Huffington, is a harsh critic of Clinton. The Huffington Post stories implied that the Edwards campaign was concerned about its relationship with a film-maker, Reille Hunter, who had shot web videos for Edwards. The stories stopped short of directly suggesting the candidate had a relationship with her, something Mickey Kaus made explicit on Slate yesterday.
“The MSM seems to be strenuously trying to not report it,” Kaus wrote, and indeed, aside from a disapproving link to Kaus’s item on the website of the New Republic, and gleeful coverage on the gossip blog Wonkette, the story has mostly stayed out of the old-line press. But it’s unclear whether that reluctance is the result of Clinton-era neurosis about the topic of sex, or a less fraught sense that there simply isn’t much to report here, particularly in the case of a candidate who lacks the media wattage and poll numbers of his rivals.
The Enquirer story cites anonymous emails from the un-named woman allegedly involved to another un-named source.
But Hunter reportedly issued a disgusted denial of the stories earlier today, via a spokesperson quoted by the veteran blogger Jerome Armstrong on MyDD (Armstrong emailed Politico that the spokesman was her lawyer, Robert Gordon):
The innuendoes and lies that have appeared on the internet and in the National Enquirer concerning John Edwards are not true, completely unfounded and ridiculous….
When working for the Edwards camp, my conduct as well as the conduct of my entire team was completely professional.
This concocted story is just dirty politics and I want no part of it.
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These fucking people are better than Hollywood dopes and drunks!
Heh-heh-heh!
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October 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pmWhen the finger points at Hillary she always screams “its a right wing conspiracy!” If Edwards is guilty he’ll blame Bush. And the MSM will make sure that both of them will look like victims of the Republican party. Problem solved.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:24 amC’mon now people…
Everyone knows that that guy is gay.
Really, like I’d buy that story about him having sex with a woman. His kids are probably all in vitro babies….
October 12th, 2007 at 1:42 amHe ain’t man enough to have an affair.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:43 amWill he sue the inquirer?
I wonder if this was a vengeful response to Elizabeth Edwards turning down hillary’s lustful advances?
October 12th, 2007 at 4:24 amA FOB-inspired story? ROFLOL
October 12th, 2007 at 5:19 amHillary probably paid a hooker to go join the campaign and sleep with him. ha wouldnt doubt it, those Klintoons are pretty damn sneaky..I mean i still want to know what really happened to vince foster
October 12th, 2007 at 6:37 amKurt Vince was killed by the Clintons, or their kronies.
My Dad went to a basketball game back when the Monia thing was in full swing, all pun intended. Sitting a row in front of my Dad and his friend were four Secret Service agents who overheard my Dad and his friend talking about the scandal.
They told my Dad that the real scandal would never make the press. When pushed for more details the agents just said “She has more bimbos in and out of the Whitehouse than He does.”
Chelsee must be invetro as well. It explains why Bill was going elsewhere….but maybe I would too if my wife looked like Hillary!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:07 amHowie, I have no doubt that the Clintons killed or had him killed..How many others around the Clintons mysteriously died or “killed themselves” over the years? something like 30 isnt it? something is definitely going on there
October 12th, 2007 at 10:48 amcheck out this post howie..34 deaths surround the Clintons and some were flat out murdered, others were “accidents” or “suicides”..thats alot of deaths with connections to the same people. here is the link about it if anyone wants to read this
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/clintbodycnt.html
October 12th, 2007 at 11:00 am“She has more bimbos in and out of the Whitehouse than He does.”
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j97/stars5501/Hillary.jpg
October 12th, 2007 at 1:17 pm[…] I can understand why many of you were reluctant to give this story credibility when the main source was the National Enquirer, but it seems that where there is smoke there may be fire… The paper, is after all closely associated with the Clinton political machine! […]
October 15th, 2007 at 9:45 am
December 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pmI JUST FOUND THIS! Look at who the producer is!
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news-politics/edwards-webisode-1-plane-truths.html
Before he was running for President, John Edwards made a series of short documentaries that later vanished from the internet…until now. Produced by Reille Hunter and Mimi Hockman for Midline Groove Productions.