$14K for 100 hours of tape.

From a AV producer?

That doesn't seem like an unreasonable amount of money.

/off to read the article.

John Edwards' political action committee paid his mistress $14,000 after she stopped working for it to obtain 100 hours of unused videotape she had shot for his unsuccessful presidential campaign, an associate told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The woman, Rielle Hunter, already had been paid $100,000 for the programs.

The explanation - which Edwards' advisers declined to discuss on the record - is the first effort to justify the payment in April 2007 to Hunter. That payment came months before Edwards' chief fundraiser quietly began sending money himself to the pregnant woman.

Well, OK, sure. I can see the reason for speculation here. But still, that doesn't seem entirely out of the realm of reasonableness. But I certainly don't know enough about the video production world to know whether or not this is highly unusual.

it was probably custom made.

Skleenar: But I certainly don't know enough about the video production world to know whether or not this is highly unusual.

I would have bid that gig much lower. Without knowing the specifics, it seems a bit high.

Well, custom video of pregger sex costs a bit extra than the standard fare.

It would have been cheaper for him to just pay for the (much hotter) chick Spitzer was banging.

ManRay: Skleenar: But I certainly don't know enough about the video production world to know whether or not this is highly unusual.

I would have bid that gig much lower. Without knowing the specifics, it seems a bit high.

Plus, and I DNRTFA, I had previously heard she was a novice. Big tag for someone with little experience.

I'm not vested in this issue. So I'll put it in the "credible" column and move on. Obama's not going to touch him now.

Sybarite: It would have been cheaper for him to just pay for the (much hotter) chick Spitzer was banging.

I think I may have said this directly to you before, but: WTF is wrong with these guys?!

Like Clinton, if you're going risk it all for a little strange, do it big! Get some quality tail. Those two picked the nearest convenient chick. Not worth it at all IMHO.

Diogenes: Sybarite: It would have been cheaper for him to just pay for the (much hotter) chick Spitzer was banging.

I think I may have said this directly to you before, but: WTF is wrong with these guys?!

Like Clinton, if you're going risk it all for a little strange, do it big! Get some quality tail. Those two picked the nearest convenient chick. Not worth it at all IMHO.

I don't know, looks pretty big to me.

NightOwl2255: Are there magnets in her boobies? They look like they're repelling each other.

Diogenes: Big tag for someone with little experience.

Exactly. Sounds like the kind of thing you might give to your worthless brother-in-law to shut him up about giving him a job.

So, it sounds fishy to me, but I am one of the people that wonders why this is is news right now.

Must this shiat go green? No one cares about Edwards and his trollop.

Diogenes: NightOwl2255: Are there magnets in her boobies? They look like they're repelling each other.

They are certainly repelling me.

Skleenar But still, that doesn't seem entirely out of the realm of reasonableness.

Youporn is just low-quality amateur crap.

moops: Youporn is just low-quality amateur crap.

Didn't expect someone to get mad about the quality of youporn in this thread...

lol

beerrun: Well, custom video of pregger sex costs a bit extra than the standard fare.

14k for that is a bargain. Better than paying 300k to the babysitter to keep her trap shut.

Let it farking go...

Um, I know professionals that charge $150 an hour. This really isn't unusual.

/those would be videographers
//not the "other" kind of professionals you pervs

Is there some blackmail aspect to this we're not getting?

Um, I know professionals that charge $150 an hour. This really isn't unusual.

It is for the level of video "professional" she is. Even the kindest comments have been on the "amateur" end of the scale. Not much training, no real experience.

It's two or three times the going rate for someone who's pretty good, and supplies their own pro-grade (high price) or prosumer-grade (low price) equipment. For her level of experience, it's about ten times as much.

For someone doing a long-term project (and yes, 100 hours of video certainly qualifies), it's about four times as much as she should have been paid, at best. With intensive, continual shooting (no editing, just raw footage), that's a month of work for $14,000 - for an amateur.

moops: Youporn is just low-quality amateur crap.

Sorry I can't get the Coen Brothers to direct my porn, but they're kind of busy.

"Fox News ...."

/really, do you need to read any more?
//no

/I feel that this is my obligation.