National Enquirer: John Edwards Caught With Mistress Rielle Hunter and Love Child at Hotel - Woof!

Not only does it appear--according to the National Enquirer--that Senator John Edwards (a top contender for the Obama vice presidential nod) cheats on his wife, he does it with a woman who's not even as pretty as he is! Our evidence? At right, a picture of the alleged other woman, Rielle Hunter, a self-described filmmaker whose company was hired by a pro-Edwards group and paid $114,000 to produce videos for his campaign and worked closely with him. Apparently so closely that his DNA jumped into her uterous and fertilized one of her eggs!
This isn't the first report of Edwards and Hunter: back in December of 2007, the National Enquirer first reported their affair and claimed The Pretty Boy was the father of her unborn child. That is, until a married campaign aide of Edwards came forward and claimed HE was actually the father . . . which threw the mainstream media off the track for a while. But, apparently Johnny couldn't keep it in his pants and decided to meet up with Hunter at Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21. We'll let the National Enquirer tell the rest of the story:

Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer -- met with his mistress, blonde divorcée Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn't leave until early the next morning.
Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness.
But a months-long NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation had yielded information that Rielle and Edwards, 54, had arranged to secretly meet afterward and for the ex-senator to spend some time with both his mistress and the love child who he refuses to publicly acknowledge as his own.
Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.
Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.
Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men's room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.
Said reporter Hitchen: "After we confronted him about seeing Rielle, Edwards looked like a deer caught in headlights!