John Edwards (Politician)

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Former Aide of John Edwards Says He Feared for His Life; Secret Service Agent Identified; Newark Terminal Shut Down Due to Baby

A former campaign aide to John Edwards testified yesterday that in a conversation with the former presidential candidate in 2008, he feared for his life. Andrew Young has spent nearly four days on the stand in the federal corruption trial detailing his part in helping Edwards keep mistress Rielle Hu ... More >>

Rightbloggers Declare Former Future President Herman Cain a (What Else?) Victim of Obama, Media

Last weekend former GOP pack leader and accused horndog Herman Cain finally called an end to his flailing Presidential campaign/book tour -- or rather "suspended" it, allowing the enterprise to keep drawing money. Some normally opinionated rightbloggers tip-toed away from the embarrassing subje ... More >>

Sarah Palin Screwed Basketball Star, Did Coke and Pot, And Cheated On Todd

​ It seems the idiocy-spewing family-values robot is human after all. According to The Enquirer, a tell-all book about Palin that will come out next week says she once scored with future hoops star Glen Rice (less than a year later, she was pregnant and eloped with Todd). She did coke off a ... More >>

John Edwards Mugshot: A Photoshopper's Dream

​The grin, the fancy haircut, the blue tie -- it's all there in ex-Senator and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards' mugshot, released today by the U.S. Marshals Service to the delight of the internet everywhere. Edwards pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and violating campaign laws for ... More >>

John Edwards' Defense: Here's What It Should Be

​Disgraced ex-White House aspirant John Edwards has been indicted for violating campaign laws in supposedly funneling gifts to his girlfriend Rielle Hunter and then-aide Andrew Young in order to keep the affair hidden. Edwards insists he didn't break any laws, but he should drop that tack lik ... More >>

John Edwards National Enquirer Source Tells Her Story at The Huffington Post

​Pigeon O'Brien, a publicist and ex-magazine editor, has confessed at the Huffington Post that she was the National Enquirer's source for their early coverage of then-presidential candidate John Edwards's affair with Rielle Hunter. Beyond spinning an interesting yarn about her long up-and-down ... More >>

Todd Palin Had an Affair, According to the National Enquirer

​The House of Palin is crumbling, at least if you're willing to believe the most notorious liars in media, the National Enquirer, who report today that Todd Palin, the famed "First Dude" and father of five, cheated on Sarah Palin, potential presidential hopeful, with a "female massage therapis ... More >>

Did John Edwards Propose to Rielle Hunter? Should We Even Care?

​People are shocked -- shocked! -- that John Edwards has had the gall to propose to baby mama Rielle Hunter a mere three weeks after his wife Elizabeth died of cancer. And then, of all things, to introduce her and their baby to his kids, via the New York Post, in a meetup at the Macaroni Grill ... More >>

Elizabeth Edwards Has Died at the Age of 61

​Elizabeth Edwards, lawyer, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards -- from whom she separated in 2009 after 32 years of marriage (and his extramarital affair/out-of-wedlock child with Rielle Hunter) -- mom of four, breast cancer sufferer, has reportedly died of cancer. The 61-year- ... More >>

Baby Mama Drama: Rielle Hunter Cheating on John Edwards?

Rielle Hunter​Remember the presidential hopeful with the expensive haircut, John Edwards, and his hippie dippie campaign videographer-cum-mistress, Rielle Hunter? They've managed to pretty much stay out of the spotlight since the whole National Enquirer grainy photos, pregnancy cover-up, wife ... More >>

Ann Coulter Sells It Hard in the Style Section

​Only a few years after Ann Coulter called John Edwards a "faggot," she spoke to a room of conservative homosexuals at Homocon 2010. Marriage, she told them, "is not a civil right - you're not black." Presumably, they clapped for her. ("She boasted of having several gay friends.") The New York ... More >>

Al Gore Deemed "Crazed Sex Poodle" by Allegedly Manhandled Massage Therapist

​Oh, National Enquirer. We knew exactly what to think of you (not much) until the day you broke the John Edwards love child story. (That was some good stuff!) And now, whenever you come out with the story of so-and-so's affair or drug addiction or secret baby lair, we wonder: Could you be tell ... More >>

What Are New York's "Boyfriend Politicians" Doing to Single Women in the City?

Casual Bloomberg and his lady love​You date and/or live long enough in New York City, and sooner or later you run into the complaint, usually expressed after numerous beverages, that there are "no good men in the city" -- you know, they're all taken, or married to their careers, or taken and m ... More >>

National Enquirer Recycling Obama Sex Scandal, Powered By John Edwards Goodwill

​Did President Barack Obama have an affair with Vera Baker, a campaign aide on his run for Senate in 2004? Definitely (maybe), says the National Enquirer! Probably, says the Drudge Report, amid vivid Vietnam-style flashbacks while muttering "Lewinsky" repeatedly. Everyone else is hedging their ... More >>

Rielle Hunter is a Delusional Homewrecker!

​That's what Entertainment Tonight correspondent Diane Dimond thinks. Dimond's not buying the innocent act Hunter performed on Oprah yesterday--you know, how there was already trouble in the Edwards household when she came along and sprinkled her rancid pixie dust.

2010 Pulitzer Prizes: The Breakdown!

​It's that magical time of year again when the uppity nerds of Columbia University bestow upon the people their picks for this year's Best Writing Stuff. And we're going to attempt to add some context to these proceedings as they happen. So, here, we're live-blogging the Pulitzer Prizes. Unfor ... More >>

Gossip Folks: The Oprah-Rielle-Blowjobs-DMB Connection

​Consider this column still "in beta" or whatever, but we're gonna start rounding up some of our local gossip for you. We don't have a better title for it right now, and if you have one, we'd love to hear your ideas. In the meantime, we've got Oprah's big "get," Cindy Adams and Her War at Home ... More >>

John Edwards Cops to Affair, Love Child; Wife Releases Separate Statement

​Former Presidential candidate John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter and child by her, first reported by the National Enquirer and more slowly covered by mainstream news sources, is now and for the first time admitted by Edwards. The onetime North Carolina Senator has released a statement a ... More >>

Musto's Year in Review

The year in pictures—pictures of me!

Let Sarah Palin Dress To The Nines!

Daily Flog: Edwards, faux Rockefeller both screwed; Olympic preening; a gated NYC; Bush's pardons list; defense of high gas prices

Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

Rocks and Shit in Brooklyn Assembly Race

John Edwards Backs the 'Iraq/Recession' Campaign

The Beast of 2008 Stirs

Upon Further Review: The Cheney-Edwards Judges Fumbled

The Slick One Tonight Is Cheney

The Real President Stands Up

Even sitting at a desk, Cheney walks all over beta-male Edwards

Probing for Mr. Nasty

John Edwards must go hunting for Dick Cheney's darker side

The Elephant in the Democrats' Living Room

Obama Has to Tone It Down

Save Your Disarming Smiles

Peace . . . and Quiet

A mostly mellow day in Boston on the eve of the Democrats' convention

Big Number Two

Spooky Dick Cheney, serving up dripping red meat, defending the honor of Halliburton

Veep as Vamp

Bush surrogates sissify John Edwards. But will it backfire? Plus: What did Whoopi say?

Smile—That's the Ticket!

With Edwards in the room, Hillary's not exactly the life of her party

A John Edwards Almanac

Notes from a year with the man who would be veep

Kerry Picks Edwards and Business as Usual

At least Ralph Nader will be happy

Burning Bush

Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

Vote Kerry (or Edwards, or Kucinich)

Voice Writers Make Their Pitches for the March 2 Democratic Primary

Ready for Seconds?

If Kerry's No. 1, Think About No. 2

Letters

Forget the Debate

Democrats' Debate Fizzles; Dean Goes for an Image Make-Over

John Edwards's Goody-Two-Shoe Politics

North Carolina Senator Claims He Will Not Accept a VP Nomination

All Quiet on the Northern Front

But a General Alarm Spreads Through the State

Ignoring the Voters, Democrats Pile on Pitiful Dean

John Edwards's Mudslinging Ways

What Would Demos Do?

The Contenders' Exit Strategies

Dems for Death

How the Candidates Come Down on Capital Punishment