Beltway Snark

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extra-marital affair with a novice film-maker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 42-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter’s baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.

Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby’s birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.

Maury! Maury! Maury!

I’m telling you, the National Enquirer is right more often than they’re wrong. And if that ain’t his baby, then why is he sneaking out to Cali to see her? But wait, it gets better.

According to friends of Hunter, Edwards met her at a New York city bar in 2006. His political action committee later paid her $114,000 to produce campaign website documentaries despite her lack of experience.

Edwards said the affair began during the campaign after she was hired. Hunter traveled with Edwards around the country and to Africa.

Edwards said his wife, Elizabeth, and others in his family became aware of the affair in 2006.

Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife’s cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards has since been diagnosed with an incurable form of the disease.

What an effin’ tool.

UPDATE – Hot Air is all over this one with the updates. Lots of fun stuff, like how ABC got the blockbuster exclusive (possibly by forcing Edwards’ hand?)

UPDATE ver 2.0 – Hehe….it’s Edwards’ new theme song!