Day: January 29, 2010

Smoking Gun: John Edwards’s ex-mistress is seeking to suppress what appears to be a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician.

TNR: TSA officer to passenger: “Someone ought to do something about those machines–it’s like we don’t have any privacy in this country anymore!”

Chattahbox: Dale “Niggar” Robertson “photoshopped Obama with a pencil-thin mustache, wearing an oversized zebra-striped fedora trimmed with white fur, a garish purple band and a black feather.”

TNR: And would he be the only plausible Democrat to win the U.S. Senate seat?

WaPo: Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have announced that they will not attend the National Tea Party Convention next month.

WaPo: MSNBC host David Shuster got into a shouting match Thursday afternoon with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart over the arrest of four men trying to tamper with phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Gawker: And compounding the TMI factor, Edwards “is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says ‘whoa.'”

Editors Weblog: The Drudge Report got 3.2 million visitors in January, against about 2.9 million for the Huffington Post. The race is on.