Title: “The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down”

Author: Andrew Young

Rank: 11

Blurb: “Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator’s mistress.”

Review: “Edwards’s eyes blink 50 times a minute when he speaks.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Good Karma Divorce: Avoid Litigation, Turn Negative Emotions into Positive Actions, and Get On with the Rest of Your Life,” by Michele Lowrance

Footnote: The tape’s in a safe-deposit box.

The Politician [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Stinque endorses Dwight McKenna for Orleans Parish Coroner. Stinque will also endorse the incumbent Orleans Parish Coroner, Frank Minyard, if he comes back with anything near as delicious.

Oh, fuck it: Stinque endorses all candidates for coroner nationwide. How can we not?

Ad For Orleans Coroner Candidate: My Opponent Is Dr. Frankenstein! [TPM]

Comedy Central needs to sign her for a series now:

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Friday that she has been in conversation with Democrats and Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus about a way forward on health care reform.

“I have talked with several of my Democratic colleagues, including the chairman of the Finance Committee, just sorting through these issues, and the process, and what will unfold,” Snowe told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Friday afternoon. “Hopefully, [Democrats] will take measure of what needs to happen now, build some support, those things can happen so that it’s not [so] breathtakingly expansive that [it] creates consternation by the American people at a time will can ill-afford intrinsic costs.”

Fuck, that’s hilarious! Excuse us, we need to pee. Or something.

Snowe talking to Dems [Politico]

Generations ago, a doomed young girl hiding from Nazis wrote a diary about her experience. Since she was 13 when her self-imprisonment began, she was interested in more than just her surroundings:

“There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can’t imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!”

While Anne Frank’s father omitted that and similar passages when the diary was first published in 1947, the Anne Frank Foundation published a complete edition in 1995, allowing other 13-year-olds around the world to understand the full breadth of her experience.

Well, except in Culpeper County, Virginia:

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PimpGate perpetrator James O’Keefe, now under parental supervision in New Jersey, complains that the media is blowing up his crime all out of proportion:

It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story. MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me. And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting. The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.

Initial reports, based on a vaguely worded FBI statement, said O’Keefe and his fellow future felons had entered Landrieu’s office under false pretenses with listening equipment for the purpose of bugging her phones. Clarified reports now say O’Keefe and his fellow future felons entered Landrieu’s office under false pretenses with hidden video cameras for the purpose of unplugging her phones.

We don’t know about you, but the first scenario sounds a lot more cool than the second. But if O’Keefe prefers the story that he’s a fucking idiot, that’s fine by us. What the heck, it’s still a felony.

Statement from James O’Keefe [Big Government]

Scott Roeder convicted of murdering abortion doctor George Tiller [LAT]

It’s Friday, which means it’s time to play Guess the Party!

Regular readers know how our game works: We select three politicians at random, cleverly disguising their identities so you don’t know which party each belongs to. Can you tell which is a Democrat and which is a Republican?

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