A Look Back: Don’t You John Edwards Apologists Feel Stupid Right Now?

Bertrand Russel is often quoted as having said, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

Personally, I may not always succeed, but I try to keep an open mind about things, especially anything I read in the paper. Bizarre ideas and rumors often end up being true. At various times people have thought the world was flat, the sun revolved around the earth, machines could never fly and that Lisa Marie Presley could not have possibly married Michael Jackson. They were all wrong.

It is interesting that based on recent events, the National Enquirer story about John Edwards seems to be true and John Edwards seems to have been a bald faced liar.

In hindsight, truly intelligent people may have been skeptical about the National Enquirer, but would not have dismissed the story as an impossibility. Thanks to the Internet, we can know look back in time many months and find out who kept an open mind, and who was dead wrong and totally gullible to John Edwards lies.

For a look back see

The LA Times comments from an article about the Edwards affair printed last October.

The people who time proved were correct made comments like:

“I would be shocked if Edwards did NOT have the affair.”

“I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the Enquirer. They have broken several high profile stories in the last few years.”

I won’t print the comments here of the people who now look like idiots, but you can visit the site and read them for yourself. They are all of the people who support John Edwards without question and called the LA Times sleazy for even reporting the rumors of the affair.

Hindsight and Internet archives can create some pretty entertaining stuff.