DRUDGE is reporting a Kerry intern-infidelity bombshell will sink his campaign. Is there anything to it? Beats me. Stay tuned. My one fearless prediction: “JFK” jokes will abound.

UPDATE: Josh Claybourn suspects Chris Lehane’s hand in this. If so, isn’t Kerry sure to get the nomination?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Steve MacLaughlin is following reactions to this story, and reports that:

The Dean Blog has been on fire with comments and the John Kerry Blog has comments full of back-and-forth between Kerry and Dean supporters. The John Edwards Blog has comments that read like kids on Christmas morning.

Big Media, so far, seem to be holding back on this one. Of course, it’s only been a couple of hours.

MORE: Yep, looks like a Lehane operation.

STILL MORE: Kaus has posted now.

And now Wes Clark is endorsing Kerry? That seems rather, um, odd, though Capt. Ed thinks he knows why.

MORE STILL: When this post went up, there was nothing but Drudge’s cover page. But this later Drudge post makes it sound as if the woman worked at AP.

AND MUCH, MUCH LATER: May, 2009 to be exact. Reader Bill Jones emails me with a litany of complaints about partisanship, and claims that I fanned this scandal. Seems to me my treatment here was suitably skeptical, with notes that it seemed to be coming from the Dean Campaign. (And nothing I do is more than a drop in the bucket compared to a headline on Drudge). The scandal, which never amounted to much, ultimately collapsed, of course — but viewing it in retrospect, past the memory of how the press covered for Edwards in 2008, makes me doubt that much digging got done.

And it’s hard not to chuckle at this irony: “The John Edwards Blog has comments that read like kids on Christmas morning.”