“The first time I laid eyes on Rielle Hunter, I could tell she was a story,” insists Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman, who, to be fair, did publish a “short story about how Edwards had brought this rather unorthodox woman, whom he’d met in a bar, into his campaign to make videos that showed off his unseen side” in the magazine’s Periscope section way back when. But Darman doesn’t get through the first graph of his post-John Edwards scandal reflection without saying this: “Edwards now admits that he had an extramarital affair with her. But at the time I had no reason to suspect there was anything between them.” In hindsight, Darman may claim he knew Hunter was a story — just not what type of story.

And that’s pretty much what every other media onlooker is going to claim, — you know, now that they’ve given themselves permission to address the issue.CONTINUED »

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