If you’re a “former close friend to [John] Edwards’ mistress” with something[s] to say about The Edwards Story, TV news wants you!
Pigeon O’Brien, whom a Fox News chyron this afternoon ID’d as “[Rielle] Hunter’s FMR Friend” (FMR=Former), wants the world to know that “Edwards lied on timing of affair.” O’Brien told Fox News’ Shep Smith that Rielle Hunter (her FMR BFF) told her (back in 2006, when she and Hunter were still in touch) that her relationship with John Edwards began several months before Edwards is saying that it did.
How can viewers know whether to believe Pigeon O’Brien? Even if Fox News’s Shep Smith really tried to pin her down (“You own a PR firm, is that right? Anytime someone comes on here to trash somebody, I try to figure out what their motivation is. What is your motivation?” and “Are you enjoying this process? TV stations and TV stations?”), how can viewers really know whether to trust her?
Smith got her to swear on her mother’s life on-air that her claim is true.
SMITH: You were talking before the segment began about how much you love your mother. If your mother’s life were on the line, could you be 100 percent sure that she was dating John Edwards [early in 2006]?O’BRIEN: Oh, 100 percent sure…
SMITH: …If your mother’s life were on the line…
O’BRIEN: Yes. And I love my mother…
(Every reporter knows what to do when your mother says she loves you — you check it out — but what do we do when someone says they love their mother?) Also? Pigeon thinks John is the father of Rielle’s baby because “Rielle would never have a baby with someone she wasn’t in love with.”
Which is exactly what Pigeon O’Brien told CBS News’s Maggie Rodriguez during her turn on The Early Show this morning.
RODRIGUEZ: Do you think that John Edwards is the father of her daughter?O’BRIEN: I do.
RODRIGUEZ: Why?
O’BRIEN: I don’t see any other explanation. She would not have a child with someone that she didn’t love, and she loves him.
O’Brien also shared with Rodriguez her claim that Edwards’s affair began earlier than he says it did. Next time, Rodriguez, get her to pinkyswear it.
It is obvious that Edwards is STILL lying about aspects of this affair. He needs to come out with the WHOLE truth once and for all, instead of digging himself into a deeper hole.
Check out the online video of Pigeon O'Brien's interview:
http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news/Edwards-Account-Challanged-Webcastr.html
Posted by Salamanca on Tue 12 Aug 2008 at 06:59 PM
I am disgusted that this case of infidelity has blown up to pigeon o'brien's desperate abandonment of loyalty or common sense in her attempt to layer her own pockets slandering another. Edwards himself has came forward and claimed he was not faithful. the timeline may be slightly off kilter, but the ridiculous media circus surrounding the issue has taken it too far.
Posted by sandy*cake on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 12:20 AM
I worked with Virginia "Pigeon" O'Brien several years ago. She didn't last six months on the job, because she was a manipulative trouble maker and all-around oily human-being.
I wouldn't trust a single word she says. I was flabbergasted that anyone, even if it is Fox News, would bother with her. They obviously didn't do any background checks on her. The mere sight of her made my hair stand on end.
Posted by miguel the dog on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 02:54 PM
How funny, Miguel, I thought she was crazy when she continued to bragg about the "INTEGRITY" that her friend Reille had! Goodness sakes, she's a home wrecker to come into a man's life that has little children at home with a dying wife! What is the integrity here?
WOOHEE? Where are we coming from on this? I was appalled as the interviewer was also.
Posted by graceydo on Wed 13 Aug 2008 at 08:20 PM
nevermind that john edwards is a lying cheat, would you trust a woman named PIGEON?
Posted by janet on Thu 14 Aug 2008 at 09:15 PM
Pigeon O'Brien stays stoned about 98% of the time and lives in a filthy stoner hovel. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her vermin-like a - -!
Posted by Scrabbly on Tue 19 Aug 2008 at 12:56 PM
the only comment that holds water on this post is the one Scrabbly wrote. she is just trying to line her pockets to get out of the hell hole that is her life. LOL!!!
Posted by voice of reason on Tue 19 Aug 2008 at 02:17 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/05/04/o.work.nightmare.bad.boss/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Posted by oh m on Mon 4 May 2009 at 06:45 PM
Knowing how things have turned out make this article even sillier than when it first appeared.
And I'll pinkyswear to that.
Posted by Mondo on Sun 7 Feb 2010 at 08:38 PM