Andrew Young, former aide to John Edwards, will appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today.

Young is the author of the Edwards tell-all, "The Politician" and despite what anyone may try to tell you, not Elizabeth Edwards' BFF.

Young has been spending a lot of time lately in the Orange County court house, battling over a "personal" (i.e. "sex") tape in his possession, which allegedly features John Edwards with his former mistress Rielle Hunter.

It's a good thing those contempt charges didn't keep him out of Chicago...

You're probably in one of two camps: Either you're sick to death of this x-rated homegrown trainwreck, or you can't wait for the next installment of "All My Love Children." If you're in that second camp, you'll want to set your DVR to catch all of Andrew Young's interviews as he jumps from show to show promoting his new book, "The Politician." So far, it looks like Young belongs to ABC, but if that changes, we'll add updates here.  

Friday, January 29
*20/20 (10pm, ABC) - Exclusive interview with Bob Woodruff...
*Nightline (11:30, ABC) - The hijinx continue...

Monday, February 1
*Good Morning America (7am, ABC) - Young's first live interview...

Let the jokes begin (again).

On last night's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Jon Stewart brought his viewers up to speed on the latest in the John Edwards saga, declaring the former Senator's admission yesterday that he is the father of Rielle Hunter's baby, "a shock to idiots."

He also said of Edwards' hope that his youngest daughter would one day forgive him, that he believed Edwards could end most of his sentences with that sentiment for the rest of his life: "I'm looking forward to the football games on Sunday, hopefully some day she'll forgive me."

Stewart also speculated it was all part of Edwards' plan to announce his new line of perfume: "Forgiveness, by John Edwards. For the day she grows out of hating you for denying you were her father."

Watch the clip of the "Daily Show" segment below:

Our reporters are working on stories spurred by John Edwards' admission in a statement today that he is the father of Rielle Hunter's little girl. 

Every morning, we have a news meeting at 9:45 to discuss what we are working on that day, for our online site, newsobserver.com, and for the next day's print edition.  Today, Thursday, we had a special meeting after the 9:45 session to discuss the Edwards story.

Because the news broke around 7 a.m., when the statement was released for publication, and then started popping up on every news web site from Bar Harbor to San Diego within minutes, including our own, the story would be nearly 24 hours old by the time the Friday paper hit the driveways. 

That may be, in fact, the way the Edwards folks intended it, that this disclosure would run its course for 24 hours on TV and online, and so newspapers would be less inclined to blow it out on their front pages in the Friday papers, because it would be old news.

That is one of the effects of 24-hour cable and 24-hour Internet. News has a shorter shelf life. Big news has a very short shelf life. 

That puts more pressure on people like us.  We deliver a lot of our news online, the minute we finish gathering it.  But we also produce a print product that people still want to buy and read. Some of these folks have gotten the news already on their laptops, on their phones, and through cable news.

So in the case of the Edwards story, we have to develop the story in a different way, with more context and layers of information. What people want to know online, typically, is What just happened? The answer being:  Edwards finally fessed up to being little Frances Quinn Hunter's daddy, despite previous, strenuous, look-the-American-people-in-the-eye denials.

In print, we can explore questions like: Why did he admit this now? Where does he go from here? What do political types make of all this? What about Elizabeth, his wife? How does this fit in with the federal investigation of Edwards?

And we can reconnect this latest news with the arc of Edwards' life, one of the most astonishing rises and falls in American political history.  With a better turnout for the Democratic ticket in Ohio, John Kerry would have beaten George Bush in that state and won the 2004 election. And John Edwards, an obscure Raleigh personal injury lawyer until a dozen years ago, would have become vice president of the United States. 

Reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin have written a narrative of the 2008 presidential campaign, which includes a lengthy account of the political meltdown of John Edwards.  It has been excerpted in New York Magazine.

The  book is called Game Change.  It goes into great detail about Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter and presents Elizabeth Edwards in a somewhat different and highly unflattering light. The book has also caused Harry Reid considerable heartburn.

Next up for Edwards on the bookshelves: The book by Andrew Young, his one-time aide who claimed for a while to have fathered Hunter's child.  Edwards, meanwhile, has fessed up to the affair with Hunter but has not, as yet, publicly acknowledged paternity of her baby.

Edwards has been spending his time lately building houses in El Salvador.

Today on Fridays Live with Oprah, Oprah and her guests -- Ali Wentworth (wife of George Stephanopoulos), Gayle King, and Mark Consuelos -- discussed Thursday's Elizabeth Edwards interview.

Ali jumped in right away with this sage advice: "Keep it in your pants or don't go into politics."

If you missed Oprah's interview with Elizabeth Edwards today, we've recapped it here for you.

Oprah arrives at the Edwards home in Chapel Hill in an SUV and is greeted outside by the entire family, minus Cate: John, Elizabeth, Emma Claire, and Jack. Big hugs all around.

Oprah notes that Elizabeth looks good, though she has terminal cancer. They go into the house and John takes the kids away. "Can we talk to you later on?" Oprah asks. "We'll see," John replies.