Deirdre Imus + Lis Wiehl = I-Man Beatdown

Lis Wiehl and Deirdre Imus stopped by this morning to talk about cheating husbands, Deirdre’s latest charitable venture, and marital murder-for-hire. But mostly, they gave the I-Man a bad time. Thanks, ladies.

Wiehl, a Fox News legal analyst, is a former prosecutor who is married to the defense attorney “Icky” Mickey Sherman. Word on the legal street, according to Wiehl, is that John Edwards will be indicted for mismanagement of campaign finances from 2008.

Though the charges have nothing to do with Edwards’s more flagrant scandal—having an affair with Rielle Hunter, knocking her up, denying paternity of the child, all while his wife Elizabeth battled cancer—Imus wondered if Edwards is worse than Bill Clinton, who had an affair but not sexual intercourse with Monica Lewinsky.

“They’re equally bad,” sad Deirdre. “Putting your penis in another woman that you’re not married to—whether you’re emotionally attached to them or love them, that’s all details.”

Somewhat uncomfortably, this moment of TMI segued into talk of Deirdre’s new Kids-Love-Kids program, where kids in the U.S. will prepare goody bags filled with treats to be delivered to children in Haiti.

In collaboration with Operation Goody Bag, a New Jersey-based nonprofit that has sent more than 125,000 goody bags to troops overseas, and with the Catholic Medical Mission Board, which has been on the ground in Haiti since 1912, the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology will kick off Kids-Love-Kids tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock at the Hackensack University Medical Center.

“We’re sending over 6,000 goody bags; there’s a couple of hundred already in Haiti,” she said. At just four dollars per bag, the cost of putting a big smile on the face of Haitian child is not very high at all.

While Imus supports this and all of Deirdre’s other ventures, he was critical of some of the bag’s contents: organic gum, organic lollypops, and organic gummy bears. “Just what the kids in Haiti want,” he said, eyes rolling.

Obviously heated, Deirdre shot back, “This is talking about actually caring, rather than throwing some Snickers bar or some junk in there that’s just going to rot their teeth!”

Sensing strife, Wiehl appropriately brought up the story of a Long Island woman accused of hiring a hit-man to off her husband. Instead of killing the guy, Imus had a better idea for how this woman could have carried out her plan.

“Give him a goody bag,” he said. “Make the bastard eat that.”

-Julie Kanfer