John Edwards

Granted, we already knew John Edwards was a liar. Dude had denied rumors of an affair with Rielle Hunter for weeks, only to be forced to admit the truth last week due to pressure from the Democratic party.

According to Us Weekly and former FBI Unit Chief and polygraph examiner Jack Trimarco, though, Edwards continued to fudge the facts in his August 8 Nightline interview about the fling.

Trimarco analyzed portions of the interview - posted below - and says that Edwards' frequent attempts to dodge questions, along with his shady body language, imply he often lied during the conversation.

For example, Edwards was asked if the story of the affair was accurate. His reply?

"I've been in love for the same woman for 30-plus years.... Warm, loving, beautiful, sexy and as good a person as I have ever known. So the story's just false."

Thanks for that description of Elizabeth Edwards, Senator, but as Trimarco says, he's "not answering the question. He's buying time to give an appropriate, innocent response. They weren't asking, 'How great is your wife?' They were asking about the accuracy of the story.

Furthermore, when the photo of Edwards supposedly holding Hunter's baby was brohched, the cheating husband asked: "The picture in the tabloid?"

Tisk, tisk, responds Trimarco: "When a person is getting ready to tell a lie, they repeat the question back because they need time to formulate an innocent response.

Overall, there may still be more to this story. Trimarco, for one, certainly doesn't buy all of what Edwards was selling during the interview.

"It's pretty clear that when John Edwards is getting ready to tell a lie, his affect is inappropriate," Trimarco said. "He smiles a lot during this interview when he shouldn't be smiling. It's almost like a nervous preparation to get his lie out."

Do you believe John Edwards has admitted everything about his affair with Rielle Hunter?

The man claiming to be the father of John Edwards' mistress' five-month-old baby has remained quiet since the former Democratic U.S. Senator admitted to his affair with Rielle Hunter but denied fathering her love child.

No one even knows what Andrew Young looks like!

Just the same, he's been laying low but sticking by his claim that he's the father. Some close to the scandal say that Andrew Young is being used as a fall guy by Edwards - and is not the father of Rielle's baby.

A former well-placed campaign worker, who claims to have inside knowledge of the relationship with John Edwards during the time Rielle Hunter, a videographer, was working for his campaign, told FOX News in an email:

"There was no relationship between her and Andrew Young."

Frances Quinn Hunter, called Quinn, was born on February 27, 2008. No father is listed on the child's birth certificate in California.

It takes a pretty huge jackass to attempt to turn John Edwards into the victim after sleeping with Rielle Hunter and then covering it up.

Not to worry, though: Rush Limbaugh is up to the task.

On the August 12 broadcast of his national radio show, Rush Limbaugh said of former Sen. John Edwards' extramarital affair:

"I've got a theory about the motivations ... We know - we've been told that Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards... Ergo, if Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, is it likely that she thinks she knows better than he does what his speeches ought to contain and what kind of things he ought to be doing, strategy wise? Could it have been her decision to keep going with the campaign? In other words, could it be that she doesn't shut up? That's as far as I'm going to go."

But it wasn't as far as he went.

Rush Limbaugh later added, "It just seems to me that John Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk."

In case it wasn't clear what he meant, Limbaugh elaborated in a subsequent segment: "My theory, that I just explained to you about why - you know, what could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk."

Wow.

To sum up, the blowhard (who's thrice divorced, BT-dubs) believes that if Elizabeth Edwards channeled her inner Antonella Barba more often, John would never have strayed into the arms of Rielle Hunter. It's an interesting theory.

We could go on for pages about this, but instead, we'll turn it over to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Follow the jump for his take on Rush ...

John Edwards admitting his affair with Rielle Hunter on ABC's Nightline last Friday confirmed the National Enquirer's nearly year-long investigation of his unethical conduct - which Edwards still says is "99 percent" false.

Well, now the Enquirer has uncovered more information that suggests its reporting is anything but - and Edwards' story is shaky at best.

"John Edwards is still lying!" a close source to the former candidate said. "He lied to his wife, to Rielle, and through his TV interview!"

Videographer Rielle Hunter was paid big bucks - over $100,000 - to film just four short web videos of then-candidate John Edwards in 2006.

Other potential John Edwards-Rielle Hunter revelations today:

• It appears Edwards secretly visited Rielle Hunter and their alleged love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in L.A. this year - two more than he claims. He was caught red-handed July 21.

• Edwards did confess the affair to his wife, as he claimed on TV, in 2006. But he then restarted it, and depending on who you believe, was still sexually involved with Rielle when she became pregnant.

• Despite Edwards' heartfelt offers to take a paternity test (which Rielle Hunter conveniently said she's not going to allow), he has apparently refused several offers to submit his DNA to one in the past.

• Despite his denials, Edwards was very much aware that his former finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, was funneling money to Rielle.

• Moreover, Edwards operatives are still paying off Rielle Hunter, who was whisked away on a private jet two days before he confessed!

• Federal investigators are considering launching an investigation into John Edwards' use of campaign funds.

Amazing stuff. Stay tuned, we have a hunch this isn't over yet.

Where to even begin?

John Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, once appeared in movies starring Denzel Washington, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, Inside Edition reports.

Rielle Hunter – real name Lisa Druck – is credited as Lisa Hunter in 1987's Overboard, starring Russell and Hawn, and 1991's Ricochet, in which she had a small role as a reporter opposite Washington, John Lithgow and Ice-T.

She also appeared in an indie flick titled Chicago Poems.

Meanwhile, Rielle Hunter's two sisters, Roxanne Druck in North Carolina and Melissa Druck in Nevada, have shamelessly cashed in spoken out about her to Entertainment Tonight and The Insider in interviews airing Wednesday.

The only known photo of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter together.

"I've seen the pictures of the baby - and she looks like John Edwards," says Roxanne. "She's got his eyes, jaw line and lips, but she does have Rielle's nose... My niece is not a bastard child, I just don't think it's right."

THG NOTE: So an infant apparently resembles John Edwards... but is not a bastard, despite being fathered by a man married to someone else?

Roxanne Druck also said the former presidential hopeful's "admission" of his affair with Rielle Hunter was vague and sketchy at best.

John Edwards’ explanation of his affair with Rielle Hunter includes a good number of obvious lies apparent inconsistencies, going against his assertion that he was telling “99 percent” of the truth before coming clean on Friday.

Edwards admitted to the affair with Hunter, saying it began in 2006. He denied it for months after reports by the National Enquirer in October.

But discrepancies between his story and the timeline of events raise doubts about whether Edwards' attempts to come clean are half-truths at best.

A former close friend to John Edwards’ mistress said late Monday that the former presidential candidate’s affair began in February or early March of 2006 - or 3-4 months before Rielle Hunter was hired to work for his campaign.

RIELLE-D UP: John Edwards isn't getting off that easy with us.

That's contrary to Edwards’ claim that the relationship began after Hunter was hired to film Edwards for a series of documentary-style web videos.

Pigeon O’Brien said by the time Hunter was signed on to the Edwards campaign as a videographer — for $114,000 — they were already getting it on.

“The affair began before [Rielle Hunter] was hired to work for the campaign,” said O’Brien. "She said that [John Edwards] was in love with her and she was in love with him and that the relationship was solid."

Before he was running for President in 2006, John Edwards made a series of short documentaries - filmed by none other than his confirmed mistress Rielle Hunter - that for a long time vanished from the Internet... until now.

Don't get your hopes up looking for anything exciting here. These videos are pretty boring. But it's interesting to see the hero worship that went on here. Rielle Hunter clearly admired the man - to an unhealthy extent, it turned out.

Here's one of her short films entitled "Plane Truths" ...

The self-described "new age spiritualist" believed she could help Edwards change the world. In a way, it turns out she did. Sort of.

Follow the jump for another Rielle Hunter video ...

The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she will not participate in DNA testing to establish the paternity of her daughter.

Rielle Hunter's lawyer, Robert Gordon, says his client is a common citizen who is not running for public office and wishes to maintain her privacy.

"Rielle is therefore making no statement on the matter now or in the future," Gordon said. "Furthermore, Rielle Hunter will not participate in DNA testing or any other invasion of her or her daughter's privacy now or in the future."

Friday, John Edwards admitted to having an affair with Hunter in 2006 but denied he was the father of Hunter's 5-month-old daughter.

John Edwards dodges a bullet as Rielle Hunter nixes DNA testing.

Edwards offered to take a paternity test to prove it, but Hunter's statement means the issue of who the father is remains an open question.

A former Edwards campaign staff member, Andrew Young, professes to be the father, but the baby's California birth certificate lists no dad.

After months of speculation, John Edwards, the Democratic party's vice presidential nominee in 2004 and a contender again in 2008, confessed to ABC News on Friday that he lied repeatedly about his affair with Rielle Hunter.

Elizabeth Edwards says husband John Edwards "made a terrible mistake" by having an affair with Rielle Hunter, but coping with the revelation was "oddly made somewhat easier" by her battle with an incurable form of cancer.

"None of these (problems) has been easy," she wrote on the political blog Daily Kos. "But we have stood with one another through them all. Although John believes he should stand alone and take the consequences of his action now, when the door closes behind him, he has his family waiting for him."

Elizabeth, 59, says her husband, 55, told her about the affair with Rielle Hunter two years ago – months before her breast cancer returned.

"John made a terrible mistake in 2006. The fact that it is a mistake that many others have made before him did not make it any easier for me to hear when he told me what he had done. But he did tell me. And we began a long and painful process in 2006, a process oddly made somewhat easier with my diagnosis in March 2007."

She says she wanted to keep it a "private matter" because it would be even more difficult to deal with on a public stage.

But, Elizabeth Edwards adds, "Because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter could no longer be wholly private."

Many people may consider the behavior of John Edwards to be disgraceful, following the Senator's admission that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter in 2006.

But the filmmaker - who met Edwards while doing a documentary on him - referred to the former candidate as an "inspiration" in an interview with Extra.

"He was very real and authentic," Hunter said in the 2007 interview, which you can watch below. "He was an inspiration to me. One of the great things about John Edwards is that he's so open and willing to try new things and do things in new ways."

Sadly, for fans of monogamy, that Rielle Hunter quote can now be taken in a very different, sexual context.