Slate’-s Jack Shafer (my favorite libertarian journalist –-both small “-L”- and capitalized “-L”-):

[...] visiting the woman who recently gave birth to the out-of-wedlock child of a married campaign aide is completely OK. But meeting her at a Beverly Hills hotel in the early hours of the morning and running from tabloid reporters when approached and hiding in a hotel bathroom for 15 minutes, as the Enquirer reports Edwards did, is not completely OK. Not if he wants to avoid the hypocrite label.

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See also Slate’-s Mickey Klaus.

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UPDATE: BusinessWeek

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