Wed 13 Aug 2008
Maureen Dowd disses Jay McInerney ‘76.
Even in confessing to preening, [John] Edwards was preening. His diagnosis of narcissism was weirdly narcissistic, or was it self-narcissistic? Given his diagnosis, I’m sure his H.M.O. would pay.
The creepiest part of his creepy confession was when he stressed to Woodruff that he cheated on Elizabeth in 2006 when her cancer was in remission. His infidelity was oncologically correct.
So narcissist walks into a New York bar and meets a legendarily wacky former Gotham party girl — whose ’80s exploits were chronicled in a novel by her former boyfriend Jay McInerney because the behavior of her and her friends “intrigued and appalled me.” When you appall Jay McInerney, you know you’re in trouble.
Cheap shot! McInerney deserves better.
One of Rielle Hunter’s old boyfriends did everything but call John Edwards a bum Saturday.
“To say that he slept with her but he wasn’t in love with her - that’s not very chivalrous,” said “Bright Lights, Big City” author Jay McInerney, who dated Hunter in the late 1980s. “He’s trying to distance himself from her.”
“I don’t feel my questions have been answered with regard to Edwards,” McInerney told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “It was a half-assed confession.”
Indeed.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Yet once more, who are these people and where did they prep?
And why is this supposed extension of the life of Williams so concerned with people of whom the best that can be said is they have earned the right to be beneath notice?
Rechtal Turgidley, Jr
Quark Island, maine
August 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Well said, Rech.
Not only ‘beneath notice’, but ‘noticed for being beneath’…
August 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Jay, you’re only ‘76, but all the hard living to which you have confessed is already too much evident in your visage. Take care of yourself!
August 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
“disses”
Word! punk ass bi-atch, word.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
There is only one man running in this election who cheated on his sick wife. John McCain.
August 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
In fact- he left her for a woman half her age.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Isn’t there evidence that puts Edwards girl-toy in his life outside of the period Edwards claims their romantic relationship was “operative”?
August 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Evidence is that they were not together 99% of that time.
August 13th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Somehow I knew that MoDo’s column would end up on here when I saw the McInerney reference. *sigh* Seriously, who cares? Edwards couldn’t buy press while he was running, and now we’re supposed to pay attention?
But anyway, since you’ve dragged this pitiful story back again…as far as him “deserving better,” please tell me how that comment is an insult to someone who has very, very publicly discussed his partying, drug-taking, and wild living?
August 13th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Not that wild really.
I agree. All of this talk about a non candidates love child is just stupid. Who cares. Why not post something about the issues. How about the war in Georgia and our lack of ability to do much of anything about it right now… morally or militarily.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
how about John McCain presumptuously interfering with foreign policy by announcing to the public that he speaks to the Georgian president every day? Why do that? That’s not your job, McSame. Unless he’s so confused about his own identity (am I McCain or am I Bush?) that he now actually believes he is George W Bush?
(i’m sure i can find an eph connection somewhere…is there an eph advising mccain? ever? one who dated a mccain advisor for a couple months? I KNOW–One of our most famous “alums” made money in booze. Cindy McCain’s family made money in booze. EPH!!!!)
August 13th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
What Jay McInerny thinks about John Edwards?
Well, I’m certainly on the edge of my seat. Could there possibly be anything in the world of less import? What’s next? Brittney Spears on the AIDS epidemic in Africa?
August 14th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Our family respects proper behavior and decorum.
The political and public arena ravenously absorbs its own children.
To focus on the indiscretions of a renowned individual merely feeds our unremarkable conversations.
Adults, whose only quality lies in personality destruction, betray their inherent lust for the predisposition of human virtues, essential to existence.