Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Here's a letter that I sent today to the Wall Street Journal: David Perel offers good reasons why today "Everything About Politicians Is Fair Game" (September 11, 2008). But Mr. Perel overlooks what is surely the fundamental reason: tit-for-tat. Because...
Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
David Perel, National Enquirer editor-in-chief: While John Edwards and Sarah Palin have served as lightning rods for the debatable issue of how personal controversy affects public worthiness for leadership, the mainstream media vacillates between ignoring and rushing into these types of stories. So with apologies to John Edwards, Sarah Palin and untold other Democrats and Republicans,...
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
John Edwards’s affair. Bristol Palin’s baby. They tempt one to believe that the only moral consistency to be found in politics is hypocrisy, and same goes for the way each was covered. On the WSJ’s Op-Ed page today, David Perel, Editor in Chief of the National Enquirer, retells the oft-told story about the mainstream media’s snubbing the former...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Hey, did you know it's September 11th? Yeah, it is. And Moe and I are even both in New York! But it's the kind of day where we stayed out kind of late and therefore need coffee and less depressing news, so we focus on Joe Biden's self-esteem problems, Pakistan, what's not getting built at Ground Zero, and the intellectual allure of David Perel, Editor in Chief of the National Enquirer...
Radar (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... hard on another rumor: Sarah Palin had an affair. Is there anything to it'Hard to tell! But David Perel's team is bringing serious heat to the story. One Alaskan : My sources in Alaska say the incident occurred in mid 1990s, right around the time she became mayor of Wasilla. Todd Palin's partner in a Polaris snowmachine dealership in Wasilla, Brad Hanson, and Sarah were reportedly...
Radar (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Enquirer " width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /> Make that 2-0 for David Perel. Fresh off his success with the John Edwards story, sources tell Radar that an aggressive 36-hour push by Perel's National Enquirer reporting team forced Alaska Governor and John McCain's vice presidential candidate Sarah
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... (Say, that blonde hanging off his neck doesn't look like Bristol, does she?)Make that 2-0 for David Perel. Fresh off his , sources tell Radar that an aggressive 36-hour push by Perel's National Enquirer reporting team forced Alaska Governor and John McCain's vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to , an announcement which effectively puts an end to the that Palin had faked...
DBKP (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... by Bill Watterson, was a small window on human nature. 4 - John Edwards Affair: Interview with David Perel, Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer : July 23, 2008 by Mondoreb. Less than 48 hours after reporters from the National Enquirer corner then-VP candidate John Edwards in a men’s room at the Beverly Hilton, Enquirer Editor-in-Chief, David Perel, grants us an...
Gabrielle Cusumano (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... the Enquirer the blurry photo of John Edwards holding the baby of indeterminate paternity that David Perel ..." Neel Shah Is Rielle Hunter the National Enquirer's Source? Excerpt from Radar.com at: By 08/14/08 11:15 AMAnother issue of the National Enquirer, another round of sordid allegations about the extent to which John Edwards is lying about his affair with Rielle Hunter. The...
Les Jones (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
From the fine folks at McSweeney's . It's probably wrong that I think this is the funniest part: (DAVID PEREL learns that JOHN EDWARDS is visiting RIELLE HUNTER at the Beverly Hills Hilton and sets up an ambush in the hotel. When JOHN EDWARDS sees them, he flees to the bathroom.) REPORTER Mr. Edwards, come out. We live in a democracy. Information is the tonic That corrects hypocrisy....
Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Check out this good article about the National Enquirer's pursuit of the John Edwards adultery story . Contra Kaus , surely the most likely reason that the mainstream press was reluctant to follow up on the N.E. 's allegations is that the paper is, quite literally, supermarket trash, and thus presumed to be unreliable. Not so, says its editor David Perel: "[C]ontrary to what you might...
