Will The Media Run With “John Edwards Is The New Tiger Woods” Story?

Andrew Young certainly hopes so. The former John Edwards aide – who is admittedly leveraging all he can out of the former VP candidate’s sex scandal with Rielle Hunter – is now starting to hint at other women Edwards may have been involved with.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Young opened up that Hunter wasn’t the first woman his boss took back to his hotel room:

“ A lot of women,” he responded. “Well, I don’t know that there were a lot of women. There were several women that he told me about. It’s something looking back that I should have been suspicious of and like when were staying in hotels together he would go out for a ‘jog’ at two o’clock in the morning, and I would run into that more and more.”

“I’d go to knock on his door in the morning, there’d be towels stuffed underneath the door and I would hear muffled voices, or he would use my cellphone and the callback number would be some woman that I’d never heard of before,” Young continues. “There were signs there I just never paid attention to them because you know … in nine years, three times, we were running for vice president or president, and it was so chaotic, it was easy to overlook these things.”

Gawker picked up on the story, calling it “Did John Edwards Have a ‘Tiger Woods Problem’? Andrew Young Says ‘Probably’!”. And even they admit that Young is “just guessing.” But why now, when he had the last year to go around to the press and renegging on all that hush money?

Obviously triggered by Hunter’s interview in GQ, the John Edwards saga is breaking open much in the manner of Tiger Woods’ drama: As soon as one person is willing to talk, there’s a snowball effect wherein everyone wants a piece of the pie/their 15 minutes. But until other women start stepping forward – as they did with Woods – we’re going on the word of someone who is making a career out of airing Edwards’ dirty laundry, so we’ll reserve our judgment on the sex addict/golf pro analogy until then.