John Edwards Owns Up

The MSM's silent soap opera is over.

From ABC: "In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her." (Reminiscent of Bill Clinton's admission that he smoked marijuana but did not inhale?)

Even in confessing, Mr. Sincere is still playing the angles, timing his disclosure for a late Friday night news dump when all eyes will be on the opening of the Olympics. (My confession: Edwards has always brought out the worst in me, a skepticism bordering on cynicism. More here.)

"It is time for me to step aside so that history can blaze its path," Edwards says.

Amen to that.

West Coast Social Note

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat supporting Hillary Clinton for ’08, is taking some heat off the Republican front runners.

Voters are being distracted from questions like the hotness of Fred Thompson’s wife and the serial marriages of Rudy Giuliani by the L.A. soap opera of the Mayor divorcing his wife and admitting to an affair with Telemundo reporter Mirthala Salinas.

"I don't believe that the details of my personal life are relevant to my job,” the Mayor said at a recent press conference. If he really meant that, he is not living in today’s LaLaland but in some Hollywood costume drama of the past century.

No word of Sen. Clinton’s reaction, but the news may be creating flashbacks for her.

Meanwhile, HBO should have Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones standing by for “Villaraigosa, the Movie.”