John Edward’s, the two America’s, class warfare demagogue who sips chardonnay in his mansion while publicly asserting that he is the poor people’s candidate, is a master when it comes to media relations. No, I am not referring to his $400 dollar haircuts and parading his cancer-stricken wife in front of the cameras during his hopelessly failed presidential campaign, I am actually referring to the way the he leaked the news to the media that he did indeed father a love child with his mistress and was going to support the child financially. Of course, to remind the folks out there, Edwards was cheating and fathering love children while his wife was battling cancer. True class.

While everyone already knows that the Democrat presidential candidate is a hypocrite and a liar and an adulterer and a leftist and other more colorful words, what impressed me (yes, impressed) is how he timed his admission. He waited until the “Great Scott!” MA senate race, a race that had everyone’s attention in a headlock, to release the news. In a turn of more good fortune for him the distracting news kept piling on, unemployment numbers were higher than expected, the Dow tumbled more than 200 points on news of financial regulations overhaul, Obama’s one-year catastro-versary was taking place, and most importantly, the Haiti earthquake news was still on front pages. You may think of me as being callous for saying that he was waiting for disasters and whatnot to reveal the news, but ponder this: how long has he known about the love child, especially after he actively covered it up during his campaign? It is known that he has been sending money for about a year now, so why wait until the news was dominated by these events to admit it? The answer is clear: so that very few would notice. We should all take notice of the games that these politicians play with the media, timing is everything… and for a Democrat who decided to run for president at the same time Obama AND Hillary were, a Democrat who timed his affair for the period that has wife was fighting cancer and during a presidential campaign, this time he got the timing just right.

-AG

Update: I also forgot to mention that Edwards made this admission right before his aide, Andrew Young, was scheduled to give an interview describing how Edwards instructed him to fake a DNA test saying that he was not the father of the child. Like I said, Edwards’ timing is artful. This clip is also artful: