Wonkette

• Reliable Source: Laura Bush on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s plantation remarks: “I think it’s ridiculous, it’s a ridiculous comment. That’s what I think.” [WP]
• Rush & Molloy: The National Enquirer stands by its story that Sen. Ted Kennedy has a 21-year-old “secret love child”. . . George Tenet, dropped from Crown, gets picked up by Harper-Collins. [NYDN]
• Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown: David Wade, Sen. John Kerry’s spokesman, issues feisty defense to upcoming GQ article that says Kerry “blew his best chance and that he’s ‘delusional.’” Wade: “I won’t lose sleep over the inside-the-beltway musings of a reporter too young to shave and the Chardonnay-drinking pals he met on the cocktail party circuit.” The reporter, though, is older than Wade. [NYDN]