Newsweek.com has a new article out on “The Quiet Dignity of Rielle Hunter.” The key premise of the article that somehow “John Edwards’s mistress has been surprisingly silent in public.”

Nothing.

No crying TV confession, no Playboy centerfold, no book deal. Not a word from Rielle Hunter in front of a camera since Edwards was still a plausible candidate for the presidency and Rielle was just another one-time staffer, appearing on Extra to talk about the video “Webisodes” she made of Edwards on the campaign trail.

Newsweek.com

Of course, this profile misses the key factors that Ms. Hunter knew Edwards was not only married, but basically pursued the guy with reckless abandon, landed a massive six-figure contract for video that was never used and after she got pregnant lived off the largess of big-money Edwards’ donors. That sort of makes the Playboy centerfold, book deal and any other sort of monetary rewards unnecessary.

Toussaint swiftly delineates the core problems with the Newsweek.com article: [...]