Edwards' Bimbo Eruption?

Now this is getting interesting.

The National Enquirer (I know but they've broken stories the MSM would never reveal) reported that Rielle Hunter, a campaign staffer for Edwards, is pregnant and that Edwards is the father of the child. Hunter supposedly denies it and says another staffer who is married with children is in fact the father. This on a day when Edwards gained the Iowa lead in at least one poll. I don't think Iowans will vote for a man if he cheated on his cancer-stricken wife and knocked up another woman.

Is this another case of someone falling on the sword to protect a Dem candidate from destroying himself? How involved are the Clinton's since they have well-known ties to the Enquirer and lastly, as a Democrat, does this help or hurt Edwards?

I used the word "reported" above because the story is not loading at the Enquirer site. They either got served with an injunction or voluntarily took it down. Who knows, but the fact that Drudge teased it can not be good for the Edwards campaign and in my opinion only helps Obama. Drudge has it at his site as "developing" yet Doug Ross has a screen shot at the link above of the article so it must've been posted then taken down I guess.