Edwards Scandal Breaks the Late Night Barrier
By Rizzuto

Wed Jul 30, 2008 - Last night, Late Night with Conan O'Brien showed some balls by addressing the Edwards love-child scandal. Funny, Conan decided it was important enough to poke fun at while NBC still fails to act.

I've been looking all day for a clip, but alas since Red Lasso has suspended its services it's been pretty hard to come up with. Instead, here's the transcript:
Conan: I'm sure many of you have heard the rumors about former Sen. John Edwards having a secret love child with a woman who used to work for him. Yeah, and when the story first broke, Edwards denied it. One of his former political aides claimed that it was he, not Edwards, that had made the woman pregnant. Well since then however the woman has confided that Edwards actually is her baby's father. And last week The National Enquirer caught Edwards visiting the woman in a hotel.

I want to talk about this just for a second. Now, I don't know about you but I find this whole thing really disgusting.

What kind of a guy would cheat on his wife, make another woman pregnant, and then still pretend to be an upstanding family man?

It's ridiculous. I mean, I guess some jerks, in the public eye think they can do whatever sleazy little thing they feel like doing and then just scurry away like a weasel.

Now only a spineless dirtbag would leave his trusting wife at home and then sneak off for a quickie with his out of town baby mama. It just makes me sick.

A guy who probably spends less money supporting his army of illegitimate kids than he does on imitation Italian suits and over-priced hair gel.

And rather... rather than take responsibility for his despicable actions, he gets some underling to take the heat for him, some innocent, insignificant schlub too stupid to realize he's being used.

If you are as outraged as I am by all this, please address your angry emails to: cowardlyadulteroussleazeball@NBC.com.
The joke was that throughout Conan's rant, they kept cutting to Max Weinberg who sat silently behind his drum set. Apparently the media blackout doesn't extend to late night.

h/t for transcript: Freedom Eden





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