What John Edwards - and we - keep failing to learn
It’s never a good idea to let an avid fan get into your house or your pants, not even if they’re just folding them when they come back from the dry cleaners. Movies like Play Misty for Me, Misery and All About Eve were made to teach us this and if you don’t learn anything from a Hollywood that’s trying so hard to convey simple values, then what the hell do you expect? One’s PA should be smarter than one’s self and nothing says ‘smart’ like reserved disdain for the employer. (see Arthur’s Hobson, Wooster’s Jeeves and Blackadder the Third) . John Edwards didn’t learn from these things if the press on former aide Andrew Young (who will appear on 20/20 tonight), who comes off uncomfortably like Eve Howard is any indication. Waylon Smithers and "butt boy" are two ways he’s been described, though the scandals, of course are all Edwards fault – Young was only the messenger. There’s only so much blame you can put on the camera if you look like hell in the picture.