ICYMI: Jon Stewart on Neglecting to Pick Up on Petraeus Affair During Broadwell Interview: 'I Am the Worst Journalist in the World'
On last night's episode of The Daily Show, after recapping former CIA director David Petraeus's "spyfall" from grace and expressing disappointment at the scandal's lack of, well, scandal, host Jon Stewart got down to brass tacks: Namely, his own failure to figure out that something was going on between Petraeus and…
Now Robert Pattinson Wants to Have an Awkward Chat With Rupert Sanders' Wife
OK, take this one with a grain of salt — it comes from a British tabloid, so a big grain — but the latest unverifiable rumor in the Kristen Stewart-Robert Pattinson saga is that RPattz wants to have a talk with Liberty Ross, the model wife of the man who had a fling with KStew.
Blogger Accuses John Boehner of Sleeping With a Lobbyist
D.C. blogger Mike Stark is circulating a video where he accuses House Minority Leader John Boehner of sleeping with a lobbyist—whom he names. Armed with a flipcam, Stark filmed his ambush at today's Pledge to America press conference.
Abstinence-Obsessed Republican Resigns Over Affair with Foxy Young Staffer
The cutest part of Indiana Rep. Mark Souder's alleged affair with part-time staffer Tracy Jackson? She played the role of interviewer on his YouTube show, where he fretted over "how hard it is to get kids to abstain from sex."
National Enquirer Retracts Claims of Obama Affair Video, Already
The Enquirer decided to spend the good will it earned from breaking an actual story — the John Edwards affair — on an incredibly shabby tale about an alleged Obama affair captured on video. They've already retracted the video part.
French President and Hot First Lady Both Accused of Getting Some on the Side
Mon dieu, the French, they are so insatiable. Nicolas Sarkozy and his young, frequently nude ex-model wife Carla Bruni have both been accused by French magazine Suchablog.com (does that work in French?) of schtupping a Junior Minister and musician, respectively.
Fabulously Snobby Divorce Scandal of the Week: Niall Ferguson's Fatwa Mistress Two-Step
Harvard professor, hedge-fund millionaire, and "court historian for the imperial American hard right" Niall Ferguson is leaving his wife for a feminist filmmaker he met at the Time 100 party. Sex! Scandal! Murderous Muslim clerics! This story has it all.
Sad Mark Sanford Still Thinks His Wife Might Take Him Back
Maybe the Argentinian lover wasn't his soulmate, after all? SC Gov. Mark Sanford is still begging scorned wife Jenny to take him back. Didn't you see her Barbara Walters interview, Mark? She's just not that into you, anymore.
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Mistress' Little Sister Puts the Smack-Down on John Edwards
John Edwards' former lover Rielle Hunter may be keeping mum while the former politician drags her name through the mud, but Rielle's kid sister, Melissa, is having none of it. She doesn't buy Edwards' claims that he isn't the father of Rielle's baby. She wants the man to take a paternity test. And she wants him to…

