# Has John Edwards finally lost his mind? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687 "2012-03-03T23:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/1 "2012-03-03T23:44:55Z")
John Edwards doesn’t want his sex tape destroyed? 😕 What the hell has this dumb ass been smoking? They fought a court battle to take this tape away from Andrew Young and make certain it didn’t get released. The court is ready to destroy it and preserve Edwards and Rielle’s dignity & privacy. So why is Edwards fighting this now? > [@](#): > > John Edwards has asked a judge not to destroy a sex tape he made with his former mistress Rielle Hunter that was slated for destruction under a settlement reached last week, WRAL-TV reported. > > A request filed Friday in US District Court in Greensboro said Edwards “intends to request, by subpoena or other procedure, certain materials covered” by provisions of the injunction. > > Edwards asked the court to enforce an automatic stay “with respect to any transfer or destruction of items” until the request can be made. > **[John Edwards asks judge not to destroy sex tape](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-edwards-asks-judge-not-to-destroy-sex-tape)** > > John Edwards has asked a judge not to destroy a sex tape he made with his former mistress Rielle Hunter that was slated for destruction under a settlement reached last week, WRAL-TV reported. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/2 "2012-03-04T00:10:04Z")
Crazy like a fox. This turd eventually plans to make money off this-he figures somebody will pay big bucks for it. I’m not surprised-Edwards is a moral degenerate. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/3 "2012-03-04T00:22:01Z")
He wants to be able to still beat off to it. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/4 "2012-03-04T00:48:53Z")
He needs to make money someway and selling this may be an excellent source of income. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/5 "2012-03-04T00:52:26Z")
Meh, he’s not going to sell his sex tape. I suspect he wants the other items that were part of the lawsuit, either as evidence in his upcoming criminal trial or for personal reasons (they apparently include pictures of he and his mistress with their daughter). ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/6 "2012-03-04T00:56:00Z")
I have heard rumors that he and Rielle are still (very quietly) a couple. Anyone know if that’s fact or fiction? ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/7 "2012-03-04T03:30:33Z")
My money says he wants to pimp it out. Of course, it will be ‘leaked’ and he will get a reality show out of it. I think he’s such an ego maniac that he’ll want it all over the internet, and such a money maker that he can’t resist the extra big bucks he’ll get with his reality show. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/8 "2012-03-04T03:54:17Z")
OOps, forgot to add: of course, he’s already rich, but, unless I miss my guess, the kind of bucks in the reality show business ain’t nothing to sneeze at, any more. Plus, I bet he thinks it’ll be a good way to get back his constituency. In other words, yes, he’s lost his mind. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/9 "2012-03-04T04:09:12Z")
He was always an ambulance chaser. Funny how he used to be a champion for the left, tossing footballs with John Kerry (another blowhard) on an aircraft carrier during their campaign. If this doesn’t show you how horribly flawed Presidential candidates are on BOTH sides of the aisle, I don’t know what does. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/10 "2012-03-04T05:17:13Z")
Edwards finally lost his mind? I think that ship sailed years ago. Why would he want to sell the sex tape? He’s already quite wealthy. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/11 "2012-03-04T11:29:54Z")
Maybe he envisions a career as a porn star. He and Anthony Weiner could do a double feature. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/12 "2012-03-04T11:52:44Z")
It’s an important part of the family album that the parents and the baby will enjoy watching in later years: “Look, Baby, that’s your moment of conception!” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-john-edwards-finally-lost-his-mind/614687/13 "2012-03-04T17:37:26Z")
I believe he quietly-ish married her. I could be misremembering, though. And his children, from his first family, get a front row seat for all the crazy, Good Lord!