The national media doesn't get what the National Enquirer is putting down!

If the drapes match, the DNA probably does too.

 Rodney Dangerfield used to say he couldn't "get no respect."

Neither it seems can the National Enquirer.

The tabloid has been on the trail of former Senator and former Presidential candidate John Edwards and his possible love child for months. And on July 22, acting on a tip, they nailed him up to something at the Beverly Hilton coming out of a women's hotel room at 2:40 AM. Now we all know nothing good happens at 2:40AM unless it is illegal or illicit. John Edwards knows that too, which is why he freaked and ran to hide in a hotel bathroom until security came to escort him out of the building. When asked later what the Hell was going on, Edwards said, "I've responded, consistently, to these tabloid allegations by saying I don't respond to these lies."

Since then this explosive story has been on a slow boil.

In the age of US, In Touch, OK!, the Drudge Report, The Rad Report, Starpulse, Fox's PopTarts, ET, Extra, CNN's ShowBiz Tonight, and a slew of TV shows and newsstand and online publications looking to find the dirt first and fastest, the Enquirer should be paid homage for its trailblazing celebrity journalism. Instead the Enquirer's coup is being ignored by most of the mainstream media as simply downmarket fodder of a gossip rag. OK if Edwards was just another washed up B level contender but here is a man who endorsement was psychologically pivotal to Barack Obama in the primaries. Consequently, Edwards was widely being discussed as a possible Attorney General in an Obama administration.

I'm as weary of hearing about bias in the media as the next hack, but can you imagine how many helicopters and reporters would have been deployed if this was Mitt Romney we were talking about?

Unlike the compliant or complacent mainstream media, the National Enquirer has changed the course of American history with catching Johnny boy with his pants down. They even might have saved us from another lying A.G.

Might also be good to take a history lesson or two to remember that it was the Enquirer who nailed the suspect at the scene of the crime when they found a picture of O. J. Simpson wearing the exclusive Bruno Magli shoes that he claimed never to own.  When it came to the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, all the King's Men and the King's cameras couldn't catch the slippery and prime suspect former running back but the National Enquire did. Their evidence certainly played a role in O.J. losing his civil trial.

The Enquirer also uncovered the illicit and toe-sucking activities of Dick Morris as he was cavorting with hookers while helping Bill Clinton plan his political resurrection and reelection in 1996. Science needs something to happen three times to be considered a fact. Here another one, the National Enquirer that s after-hours activities to helping bring off the arrest of Mikhail Markhasev, the man who killed Bill Cosby's son Ennis in 1997.

Now it looks like they've caught John Edwards in a hypocritical and deceitful web of his own making. 

The former North Carolina Senator and 2004 VP candidate, whose 2008 campaign for the White House often seemed to be more about touting his highly accomplished wife Elizabeth and her battle against terminal cancer, has been linked to Rielle Hunter, the supposed "other woman" for over a year. When the Edwards campaign heard the media might have something on him, the story just got "Elvis abducted by Aliens" weird. Andrew Young, an Edwards' operative, who is also married, announced that the baby Hunter had a few months back was his. There is of course no father's name on the birth certificate to tell us who is telling the truth.

It tells us a little about ourselves if John Edwards had a child with a woman who isn't his wife while running for President. It tells us a lot about what's really going on if the National Enquirer is ignored for having broke the story.

Some call it trash, let them. No one said the truth was going to be pretty.

Just ask Gennifer Flowers.