The question of infidelity, especially infidelity among politicos, is crack for pundits.  So no surprise that Elizabeth Edwards' book tour appearance on Oprah continues to fodder mediahounds both inside and outside the Beltway.  After all, that's what a book tour is supposed to do.  Feed the beast.  Tittilate.  Gossip.  

But, actually learn something, take away a lesson from popular media?  Never.  

Here at The Naughty Bride HQ, we're small enough to use the news and wise up.  We have no way of knowing what John Edwards' unmet needs were (or remain) in that marriage.  We have no knowledge of what threw the Edwards' marital system off kilter.  All we know is that it took four little words to spin John right out of it.  Delivered by Rielle Hunter, who'd awaited him outside a restaurant to say them, they rocked him back on his heels.  

Elizabeth Edwards cannot deliver these four words to save her life (click here for the video clip via Salon.com).  Do you suspect that there's a little withheld eroticism in this woman's life?  Yeah, so do we.  She's articulate, she's brilliant, she's a great mother, a great political wife, and she's good to animals.  What she isn't -- is naughty.  (Or, wasn't until recently.)  

So let's all take a moment to practice delivering this line.  Even if you're a naturally naughty bride, we humbly suggest everyone get in front of a mirror and repeat them until the weirdness, the embarrassment and the spooky tinfoil heat in the pit of the chest disappears, because it's no easier to own your desire than it is to own the rest of your self.  

So pick an eye to focus on.  Then look straight into it and say: 

You.

Are. 

So.

HOT.