Aug
11
I still feel we should let couples suffer their marital discord in private but something about John Edwards — hmm, his decision to lie, perhaps? — makes me want to discuss this. The American columnist Maureen Dowd has Edwards’s narcissism down cold in this op-ed published last week. Edwards, much as I loathed to believe it, has gone down on his hands and knees and admitted he concealed the truth about his affair with Rielle Hunter (real name: Lisa Druck), a filmmaker who shot videos of him. His wife, Elizabeth, who is dying, is standing by her husband — asserting that the affair ended in 2006, before her cancer reappeared and well before he could have fathered Hunter’s love child. The Edwards’s repeated emphasis that the affair was over before the disease came back — that John Edwards was “oncologically correct” in his infidelity, as Dowd puts it — has become a sore point for me. It does not make it better.
