Edwards Admits to AffairHe’ll go on ‘Nightline’ tonight to explain; denies fathering campaign videographer Rielle Hunter’s child.
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Elizabeth Edwards Responds to John HeilemannIn an MSNBC interview, the former candidate’s wife claims she likes Hillary’s health-care plan and finds Obama to be “charming,” but still won’t make an endorsement of either.
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Keith Olbermann Thinks Elizabeth Edwards Should Be the Next President
Name: Keith Olbermann
Age: 48
Job: Host of Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and starting with the 2007 NFL season, Football Night in America
Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Fred Merkle. If you can imagine the Bill Buckner play — and blame — happening to a rookie first baseman for the Mets or Yankees, and the guy coming back to play another seventeen years, nearly all of them in New York, and play on five pennant winners here, you get some idea of this man’s mettle.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
Either the Three Filets at Quality Meats or the Crusted Tuna at Redeye Grill. But the BLTs at a long-gone deli in Hastings in the mid-eighties could not be defeated.
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Rich Little, Not So Funny! Who Knew?Karl Rove got into a fight with Sheryl Crow and Laurie David at the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night. Also at the dinner: Eliot Spitzer got Sanjaya Malakar’s autograph, and host Richard Little bombed. And Antonin Scalia chatted up blogger Ana Marie Cox at Christopher Hitchens’s after-party. James Carville owns several guns. Chevy Chase was mentally and physically abused as a child, according to an upcoming biography. Keith McNally is still at his street campaign against the giant Hotel Gansevoort billboard. Cynthia Nixon is still holding out hope for a Sex and the City movie. The widow of Dr. Robert Atkins is trying to remove trustees of his estate because they sued her for back pay.