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John Edwards Sex Tape Surfaces

Not to be outdone by naked hikers along the Appalachian Trail to Buenos Aires or naked campers south of the Appalachian Trail, we now have John Edwards and Rielle Hunter naked on videotape. It could have been taped somewhere on the Appalachian Trail. We’ll see.

The videotape emerges in the ex-Edwards aide’s book proposal, contract for which was recently inked with St. Martin’s Press. Andrew Young says in the proposal, according to the New York Daily News today, he found the videotape in 2008, sometime after Frances Quinn Hunter was born in San Diego that February and the Youngs moved out of the house they’d been sharing with Hunter since January that year. (This seems a bit different from earlier reports, which had Hunter doing the moving out.)

A couple other bits:

St. Martin’s Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.

No!

According to our source, Hunter confided to Young that she and Edwards talked about getting married should the candidate’s cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, pass away, even discussing what music they’d play at their wedding.

Elizabeth Edwards is said to hold Young partly to blame for her husband’s affair, since Young knew it was going on and sometimes used his cell phone to conference the senator and his girlfriend. Young has told friends that, in revenge, Elizabeth arranged for the media to learn about a youthful misdeameanor in which Young was arrested for stealing a sign from a biker bar.

Elizabeth also suspects Young stole the baseball card collection of her late son, Wade, according to a source who says that she told Young in an e-mail that other former staff members “have passed lie detector tests.”

Young’s proposal, which one editor said “was impossible to put down,” also contends that Sen. Edwards frequently clashed with running mate John Kerry during their 2004 race for the White House. And before Edwards owned up to his affair with Hunter, Young says he told him that Barack Obama had promised he’d make him attorney general if he didn’t pick him as his 2008 running mate.

I will never understand, as long as I live, why Kerry picked this dickhead hypocrite as his running mate.

Ah, I had wondered if Andrew Young was “Jim.”