Thanks to Wonkette Operative Lauren for sending this strange thing she spotted on the AP news. The Edwards Saga just keeps getting creepier.

JOHN EDWARDS WAS GROSS TO MAUREEN DOWD, TOO: “Back in 2002, Edwards sent me a Ken doll dressed in bathing trunks, Rio de Janeiro Ken, with a teasing note, because he didn’t like my reference to him as a Ken doll in a column. In retrospect, the comparison was not fair — to Ken.” [New York Times]

Aging pretty-boy multi-millionaire John Edwards was a senator for a few years after a lucrative career as a personal-injury lawyer. For some reason, this made him John Kerry’s pretend vice president, which led to a sweeping Edwards’ fail in this year’s Democratic primary. And now he’s shutting down the scholarship program he started for poor kids at a North Carolina high school. MORE »

Do you still remember the “Presidents Day Plagiarism Outrage” of 2008? Well now there’s another one — and this time, instead of fancy word-user Barack Obama being blamed for repeating such phrases as “I have a dream” and “The Declaration of Independence,” which were earlier spoken by a different black politician, it’s Hillary Clinton who got caught biting rhymes from yet another “black” politician: ex-president and “first black president” Bill Clinton! MORE »

Yes, it’s boring having to write about the poverty or the economies twice a week for the New York Times and make big money and win Pulitzer prizes and all, but is it so much to ask that this week’s Bob Herbert column not plagiarize last week’s Bob Herbert column? MORE »

CHECKING IN WITH FORMER WONKETTE EDITOR ALEX PAREENE: It is just like the old days when Pareene & Layne would spend Election Nights typing horrible things to each other over G-Chat. But this time, it’s apparently about John Edwards refusing to ever concede to anyone, because of the Mill, and Pareene works for Gawker in New York.

“The Democrat candidates Barak Obama, John Edwards and Bill Richardson have just informed the Michigan Democratic Party that they will not participate in the public Michigan Primary Election scheduled for January 15, 2008.” [Political Machine]

The jobs report is in and everyone in America works at a shitty fast food place! So take advantage of the tight market and ask your shift manager for some health insurance, or at least a clean apron.

Will big U.S. job gains raise inflation risks? [MSNBC]

From: Tracy Russo
Date: Jun 7, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Edwards Blog Post
To: Wonkette

Hey there -

Just wanted to make sure that you know that blog post from the Edwards Blog you folks write about is the Edwards blog equivalent of a diary on DailyKos, right? From the community, not from the campaign?

Thanks,
Tracy

Oh, hey,

Yeah, we kind of noticed you let any crazy retard post ridiculous bullshit on John Edwards’ official campaign site. That was kind of our point. MORE »

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It’s so great that presidential candidates have “blogs” where “idiots” write a regular stream of gibberish that’s at least tangentially related to an election to be held in November 2008 — otherwise, how would we know John Edwards’ “Second Life” headquarters was vandalized in the alternate dimension of computer-game world? MORE »