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The Leaked Mcchrystal Report Is John Edwards The 9/21/09 POLICY 9/20/09On CNN’s State of the 9/18/09CNN reports that 9/17/09 CNN states that 9/17/09Defense Secretary The Wall Street 9/16/09Obama tells the press 9/7/09 McClatchy reports 9/4/09 The Times reports THE LEAKED 9/16-17/09 Union, responding to McChrystal is not McChrystal has Gates, answering a Journal and Fox corps there is no that a number of that Obama’s questions regarding talking publicly about finished his report question at a news News report that impending decision military figures advisers are “split,” MCCHRYSTAL McChrystal’s rumored his desire for more requesting 30,000 conference about McChrystal may ask on sending more disagree with the with Holbrooke and request, Obama says troops, “because, to 40,000 more why McChrystal’s for as many as 40,000 troops. suggestion to send Clinton advocating his decision on troops privately, it appears troops but is waiting assessment hasn’t been more troops in a more troops. more troops, and REPORT made public yet, formal request later Biden expressing soon after midnight, the Washington Post publishes will not be dictated he’s been told by the to be told that he can urges everyone to in the month. reservations. on its website General Stanley McChrystal’s confidential by “the politics of the Pentagon: Don’t call send it to Washington. “take a deep breath.” report to the president that paints a dire picture of the moment.” us, we’ll call you.” state of Afghanistan and warns of “mission failure” 8/10/09 The Wall Street if more troops are not deployed. A story by Bob Journal quotes 9/2/09 The Los Angeles Woodward, who obtained the report, runs on page McChrystal as saying A1 of the paper that morning. The development 9/21/09 ODDITY Times reports plans 8/9/08 The Dallas Morning 8/9/08 ABC News reports 5/3/09 The AP quotes an that he has yet to makes a few late editions of newspapers across to replace support News quotes Fred that Hunter’s sister Edwards statement decide on whether to the country, including that of the New York units in Afghanistan Baron, a fund-raiser for has demanded a DNA that his campaign request more troops, Times, and receives round-the-clock play on with 14,000 “trigger- Edwards’s campaigns, test from Edwards; finances are being as well as sources who cable outlets. It is discussed on all the news puller” combat troops. who said he paid a statement from investigated. say he has considered shows and political blogs. Hunter money to Hunter’s lawyer stating YELTSIN: get requesting as many her out of North she will not do so DRUNK as 40,000. Carolina; no credit is makes most papers the given to the Enquirer’s next day, including the AND PANTLESS 8/31/09 McClatchy reports that the White House 8/8/08 story about the same Washington Post and at 1 a.m., USA Today posts on its web- Elizabeth Edwards 5/7/09On Oprah, Elizabeth feels it was pressured issue ten days earlier. the Times. site an article about historian Taylor posts an essay on and John Edwards to send 21,000 Branch’s upcoming book, The Clinton 8/20/09 CBS News reports the affair on dailykos. discuss the affair. She additional troops Tapes. It includes Bill Clinton’s recollec- that McChrystal will com. says that Hunter’s ATRICK MCMULLAN (REMAINING) P earlier in the year and tion of a previously unreported incident recommend 15,000 baby does not quotes an anonymous from 1995: A drunk Boris Yeltsin had to 45,000 resemble her own military official saying evaded his security detail and, wander- more troops. children. that General Jones ATERSON); ing Pennsylvania Avenue in his under- P 8/8/08 Edwards admits ( told McChrystal not P wear, attempted to hail a taxi in a search with SCANDAL the affair 9/21/09 for pizza. The Daily Beast links to USA to ask for more. AK/A Hunter in a statement P Today story, and it bounces around the and on ABC’s The Enquirer blogosphere. Conan O’Brien jokes about Nightline but denies 8/12/09 reports that it on the Tonight Show. he is the baby’s father. Edwards IS JOHN underwent a secret paternity test proving 9/14/09 The New York Post that he is the father of reports that Branch’s EDWARDS THE 9/16/09The New York Daily book will reveal another Hunter’s baby. 8/7/08 The Charlotte News reports that tidbit: that Jesse Observer reports that Branch’s book will reveal Jackson offered Democrats are pushing FATHER OF RIELLE 9/16/09 GQ.com posts an that Clinton wanted spiritual guidance Edwards to address the interview with (SOLDIER); OLI SCARFF/GETTY IMAGES (CLINTON); ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES (GORE); ALEX to Chelsea Clinton P Hillary to be Al Gore’s affair and that it could Following up on the Taylor Branch in HUNTER’S BABY? 8/13/09 vice-president. during the Monica cost him his speaking Enquirer’s story from which he describes the question remains in the center of the mainstream-news cycle that day Lewinsky affair. slot at the Democratic 8/12, WRAL-TV of how he got involved National Convention. following a story in the Sunday New York Times. That piece is discussed on Raleigh, North Carolina, in the project and his NBC’s Today show, and CNN alone covers the story on four of its programs. reports that Edwards relationship with the POLITICS Jay Leno jokes about it. The Wall Street Journal’s law blog explores the likelihood 9/21/09 will admit paternity. Clintons. of Edwards’s being indicted. Salon.com notes that the Times story covered the 8/27/07A blind item in the same ground as a report from WRAL-TV in North Carolina over a month before. New York Post’s “Page 8/6/08The Enquirer prints Six” asks, “Which OBAMA photos of Edwards political candidate Two stories from HOTO (YELTSIN); LEWIS WHYLD/A 8/14/09 P and Hunter with the enjoys visiting New WRAL-TV and P baby. York because he has GIVES the Enquirer, about ATRICK MCMULLAN (REMAINING) P a girlfriend who lives Using aide Andrew Edwards’s coming The AP, the 9/19/09 downtown? The pol 9/19–20/09Washington Post, the Young’s book proposal revelation that he PATERSON tells her he’ll marry her The AP cites two Speaking to as a source, the Times is the baby’s father, 9/20/09 9/20/09 The Charlotte Drudge Report, and when his current wife unnamed advisers reporters, Paterson 7/31/08 posts online a long story make headlines in Observer reports that countless other sources is out of the picture.” who say the pressure says that he is newspapers, on cable HS: JIM MCKNIGHT/A THE SHOVE about the Edwards P Hunter’s baby has repeat the Times’ came from “National running for office affair, hinting that he news, and on CBS’s a new york Times article from two days no father listed on Sunday story. Democratic Party and won’t discuss might be preparing morning show. earlier about the White House’s attempt her birth certificate leaders.” any conversations to admit publicly that to kick Paterson out of the New York and offers a PDF PHOTOGRA WONG/NEWSMAKERS (BRANCH); JESSE D. GARRABRANT/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES (JACKSON); CHARLES DHARA he has had about /GETTY IMAGES (MCCHRYSTAL); WILL RAGOZZINO/GETTY IMAGES (JOHN State governor’s race fuels anticipation he fathered Hunter’s P The Enquirer download of the 10/10/07 staying in the race. of President Obama’s visit to Albany that child. It also talks of reports that certificate online. Edwards morning. The New York papers all run Edwards’s early plans is allegedly having for a fake DNA test and stories. The Times reports that despite 8/19/09The Enquirer reports an affair. marrying Hunter in his public avowal, Governor Paterson is that Edwards is 8/15/09Edwards’s lawyer tells New York with Dave privately mulling withdrawal from the The Enquirer reports moving Hunter gathered media that 9/19/09 The Times, citing 7/30/08 Matthews performing, 2010 election. The New York Post reports that to a house in his Edwards plans to anonymous sources, Hunter had were Elizabeth Edwards that Paterson’s August remarks neighborhood. make no statement publishes a story on 9/20/09Newsday and the been receiving to pass away. The story about existing racial bias in the HS: MANAN VATSYAYANA/AF 10/10/07The Huffington Post its website claiming $15,000 a month about the child. P Post reprint claims media were likely the catalyst appears on page A1 of uncovers Hunter’s from an Edwards that the White House from a Times story for Obama’s intervention. The the Sunday paper. deleted website, and colleague. wants Paterson out the day before. Daily News quotes a Harlem notes that Hunter of the governor’s race in PHOTOGRA EDWARDS); NEILSON BARNARD/GETTY IMAGES (ELIZABETH EDWARDS); resident who believes that once dated Jay New York in 2010; Paterson should not run McInerney and it runs on page again. Obama’s visit is was the basis for a A1 of the paper the 7/22/08The Enquirer reports dissected by the political character in his book next morning. on its encounter with 6/2/08The New York Daily 12/19/07The Enquirer reports The Daily News blogs and covered in the 11/29/07 Story of My Life.
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