As a prologue to the pending indictment of Senator John Edwards for conversion of presidential campaign moneys for personal use, the bizarre has become commonplace.

First up is that “force field of love”, Ms. Rielle Hunter, mother of Mr. Edwards other America daughter, Ms. Frances Quinn Hunter. In this case it's not “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, but “Thus Spake Parathrustas”. In her first interview since allowing “Johnny” to be a man, Ms. Hunter bares her version of reality. The GQ interview reveals more than Ms. Hunter appears to realize.

Here are some interview highlights:
1) When Ms. Hunter first met Mr. Edwards, her business card read “RIELLE HUNTER. BEING IS FREE.” (Ms. Hunter was silent about the cost of paternity.)
2) Ms. Hunter finds Mr. Edwards to be “a huge, huge humanitarian. He is very kindhearted and sweet. He's very honest and truthful.”
3) As a result of lying to all but Ms. Hunter, Mr. Edwards is “a much wiser and a much better and a more truthful and a more integrated human being.”
4) A “force field of love” overrode her moral feelings about infidelity, so she had sexual relations with Mr. Edwards on the first night of meeting him.
5) Ms. Hunter can’t be a “home wrecker” because infidelity can only happen if the home is already wrecked.
6) Ms. Elizabeth Edwards has emasculated Mr. Edwards psychologically within their marriage.
7) Ms. Hunter has “such compassion” for Ms. Edwards even though she knowingly slept with her husband as she fought active breast cancer.
8) Mr. Edwards “he had a lot of problems going on [related to running for office] that nobody knew about. ” She refers to relations with women OTHER than Ms. Hunter, as well as other unnamed problems.
9) Ms. Hunter got pregnant AFTER Ms. Edwards announced her cancer’s return.
10) Mr. Edwards renewed his wedding vows with Ms. Edwards knowing Ms. Hunter was pregnant with his child.

Not to be outdone by a verbal bareing, we have leakage from the alleged Edwards-Hunter sex tape. The Daily Beast reports that according to those who have viewed the tape, the video was made about twelve weeks before the 2008 Iowa caucuses.

“On the video, both participants are naked. Hunter is propped up against the hotel bed headboard, with John Edwards belly-down on the bed between her legs. As Hunter, the campaign's official videographer, holds the camera, a smiling Edwards performs oral sex. Because of the camera angle, Hunter's face is not visible, but her distinctive jewelry is. Not only does candidate Edwards know he's being filmed, one source says, he's also clowning around and 'graphically performing for the camera'.”

No word on the condition of Mr. Edwards' hair during the taping and whether or not a stylist was called in.

For most Orange County residents, a filed police incident report is a public matter. It is not withheld from public release. However, the failed trailer park run at the presidency of Mr. John Edwards isn’t about ordinary Orange County residents.

Turns out that on 10 October 2008, Ms. Elisabeth Edwards, now estranged wife of Mr. John Edwards, reported that the no-good whoring bum (aka Mr. Edwards) came to eat dinner with their children after a sports event. Ms. Edwards told him they were dining with the babysitter, and he had no business being there. Mr. Edwards challenged her saying it was his house as well. Then Ms. Edwards claimed Mr. Edwards took her wallet, which contained $320, credit cards and a cell phone. As Mr. Edwards left the Edwards Carrboro trailer park compound, he was asked to give the wallet back. He said he didn’t have it.

That report wasn’t released to the public by Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass until February 2010, almost 15 months later. (See N&O Blog Story.) Coincidentally, “The Politician”, a “tell all” book by former Edwards campaign stooge, Mr. Andrew Young, was released just prior to that Orange County Sheriff’s release.

According to Sheriff Pendergrass, an NC state statute allows incident reports to be kept confidential temporarily in cases where the documents’ release could endanger the victim’s physical or mental well-being. However, Sheriff Pendergrass gave no evidence as to why he believed there was any such endangerment for a national figure such as Ms. Edwards, and why the need persisted for 15 months.

Sordid is as sordid does.

So it should come as no surprise to Pulpsters that the John Edwards - Rielle Hunter affair is driving even further into the trailer park. Virtue challenged Ms. Hunter is suing Mr. Andrew Young (the Edwards aide who lied about fathering little Frances) for some trailer park trash – sex tapes starring videographer Hunter.

Mr. Young says he has an alleged sex tape depicting the former senator and his then-mistress Rielle Hunter. Mr. Young says the tape in question clearly shows Mr. Edwards right in the middle of a ”sexual encounter” with a visibly pregnant woman wearing a thumb ring similar to one that Ms. Hunter frequently wears. ”[My wife and I] just fell on the floor. We were agape. It was disappointing to see the person you had such hopes and dreams for be so careless.”

So Ms. Hunter got a restraining order right here in the Orange County courts. On January 28, 2010, she filed a motion against Mr. Young in a North Carolina court. It seeks the return of photos and videos, including one she says she made in 2006 while working in depth for Mr. Edwards. According to a sworn affidavit by the always truthful Ms. Hunter, ”In or about September 2006, using my video camera, I authored a personal video recording that depicted matters of a very private and personal nature. In 2006, I was also having an intimate relationship with Edwards.”

There seems to be conflicting stories about how the tape got into Mr. Young's hands. According to Ms. Hunter, the tape was in a ”hat box” in her rental home. It was taken from her without her knowledge or consent to ”generate publicity”.

According to Mr. Young, he and his wife Cheri found the tape in ”a box of trash filled with crinkled paper and tapes” left behind by Ms. Hunter. Meanwhile, a police report has surfaced that reveals Edwards' marriage was crumbling just months after he admitted the affair with Hunter in August 2008. (See NY Daily News Tape Story.)

Mr. Young full understands the way justice is dispensed in progressive Orange County courts. ”We may lose the battle only because we don't have the money or power that John and Elizabeth do. “We also don't have friends in the judicial system like they do. But we do know the truth and we have the determination to get it out.” (See People Tape Story.)

No word when someone will wake up the local media to report this incredibly newsworthy national story happening in Orange County.