CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Video: Former Dem VP candidate goes on trial today. “Eight years ago, he ran on the Democratic ticket for the second-highest political office in the country. Four years ago, he vied for the nomination in a tough three-way race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Today, John Edwards begins another battle — to stay out of federal prison.”

According to an Obama spokesman, it’s not news. Of course not. He’s a Democrat. “Meanwhile, Edwards still lives ‘in a sprawling house on about 100 acres with two of his children, Emma Claire, 13, and Jack, 11.’ Their mother is dead. Their dad faces 30 years in prison for letting friends help him hide his adulterous affair from the public.” Nope. Not news.