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 Edwards was not the only political figure to get caught with his pants down (pardon the pun; I just couldn't resist!)
Remember the governor of South Carolina who disappeared for two weeks, telling his staff he was going hiking in Appalachia while in truth he was in South America shacking up with his Latin lover?
But in the case of The Inquirer, it was John Edwards who got caught by its reporters leaving his lover's room at 3 a.m. after swearing that the affair had ended.  The supermarket rag was also the first to allege that his lover's baby was his child.
When the reporters obtained copies of the DNA that proved such and printed it, Johnny was forced to fess up.
Among other things, their reporting has also led to a grand jury investigation into whether he misused campaign funds to pay off his mistress to try to keep her quiet.
It seems for a fee or $50 bucks, anyone can throw his hat into the ring to try to win a Pulitzer. Of course, that doesn't guarantee that just anyones entry will be given serious consideration.
There are 21 categories running the gamut of print from poetry to public service. The public service Pulitizer is always given to a newspaper, so one would assume this would be the category in which The National Inquirer hopes to garner the $10,000 prize.
At first, the talk was that the Inquirer would not be considered because of its trashy tabloid history; however, the Pulitzer Committee has announced that it is indeed being given consideration.
I'll be very interested to see HOW this turns out. If they win , next year they can enter for breaking the Tiger Woods story. Heck, that's "public service" too! Just  look at the number of boring Tiger Woods commercials the public no longer has to watch.
