It’s hard to find good scapegoats these days. After taking the fall for the O.J. Simpson book deal last year, Judith Regan is back with a $100 million defamation suit against News Corp.

In her case, Regan claims that HarperCollins told her to lie about her affair with Bernard K. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner. How Regan and Kerik got together remains a mystery, but conservative America is starting to seem like one big high school.

According to the suit, Regan told a company executive in 2001 about her relationship with Kerik, whose memoir she published following the September 11 attacks. After Bush nominated Kerik to be homeland security secretary, one executive told Regan to “lie to, and to withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik" according to the suit.

The company allegedly told Regan to cover up her relationship with Kerik to protect Rudy Giuliani, who had recommended Kerik to Bush. Of course, Kerik’s own sketchy background including, but not limited to, accepting free construction work from a contract company which may have had ties to the mob, tax fraud and hiring an illegal immigrant, would provide more than enough embarrassment to Giuliani even without the Regan affair.

Regan also continues her claim that she had never made the anti-Semitic comment that News Corp. used to fire her over the O.J. Simpson book. The suit also contends that Rupert Murdoch and Jane Friedman, the president of HarperCollins, loved the book until everyone else was like, “are you for serious?”

Whether this suit will be dismissed and ridiculed like Dan Rather's remains to be seen. The sad truth for Regan is that Don Imus’s lawsuit/redemption story is her best case scenario.