“Barbara Walters” on The Daily Caller

Oprah Winfrey has landed the first TV interview with John Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter, RadarOnline.com has confirmed. (more)

Rielle Hunter’ s claim that photos she posed for in GQ Magazine, wearing only a men’s button down shirt and a string of pearls, were supposed to be portraits of her face only was met with astonishment this morning on “Good Morning America:” (more)

Rielle Hunter’s revealing interview in the new issue of GQ isn’t the only thing raising concern. The baby mama of disgraced politician John Edwards is apparently not pleased with how several suggestive photographs turned out in the magazine spread. (more)

It seems that John Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter had no idea that her photoshoot with GQ would make her look straight-up crazy. On “The View” today, Barbara Walters discussed a phone call with Hunter in which she asked the videographer about the GQ photoshoot: (more)

It’s not just the raw nature of the video, but its context—a married presidential candidate with a cancer-stricken wife, roughly a dozen weeks before his make-or-break moment, the Iowa caucuses—that makes it so damning. A leading candidate to be commander in chief putting himself in an easy position to be extorted. (more)

Open marriage? Maybe partly. (more)

Tea Party activists from across the country poured money into his campaign coffers and littered the blogs with pleas of support to Massachusetts voters for him. But Senator-elect Scott Brown, a Republican elected just two weeks ago to the U.S. Senate seat long-held by Ted Kennedy, does not give them all the credit for his victory. Barbara Walters, guest hosting ABC’s This Week pressed Brown on his thoughts on the grassroots movement that has claimed much credit for his win. “The Tea Party movement was important to your victory. How influential do you think the Tea Party movement is going to be?” Walters asked. Brown rejected her premise. “Well, you’re making an assumption that the Tea Party movement was influential, and I have to respectfully disagree. It was everybody. I had a plurality,” he said. “But it was part of it,” Walters responded. “Of course, it was,” he said. Brown — perhaps the Republican Party’s most popular for the moment — also refused to say whether he’d consider a run against President Barack Obama in 2012. “I have to tell you, I don’t even have a business card,” Brown said. “I haven’t even been sworn in. I don’t have any exploratory committees started. I don’t have any — anything — it’s — it’s overwhelming, and it’s extremely humbling.” (more)