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"John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter was on Oprah today, and I understand she'll be back on John Edwards tomorrow night. Well did you hear her on Oprah, she told Oprah, she did not believe that she played a central role in the breakup of the Edwards' marriage. Really? So, getting pregnant by a married guy, having his kid, that's not what broke up the marriage? You know what broke it up? Fighting over the remote. I'm sure that's what it was." (NBC)

Well not many would agree. After an interview with the queen of talk, John Edward's mistress Rielle Hunter again gave America more reasons to shake their heads. 

In the interview Hunter talks about her relationship with Edwards, her GQ photo shoot and her feelings about the whole situation.

Feelings that, as one correspondent told CBS's "Early Show," just don't seem to fit.

"I just kept thinking in my mind, this is a delusional woman, she does not live on the same sort of plane that I do. I looked at her, her body language was very sort of zen like and earth mothery, and everything's just fine. Well it's not fine. There is a whole household back at the Elizabeth Edwards' house that is devastated by this. She doesn't seem to think that she's responsible, she doesn't think she's a home wrecker, but in fact she is."  

Former Edwards aide and paternity scapegoat, Andrew Young seemed to share similar feelings. Both Young and his wife discussed their reactions to the interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Andrew Young: "I think my gut reaction was the lack of regret...about anything. I watched the interview twice and the only thing she expressed any regret for, not hurting the families, not hurting the kids, not hurting the voters, the only thing that she expressed any regret for was about the GQ photo shoot. That was something that really...as long as their cosmic needs were satisfied everything else was subordinated."

Cheri Young: "Mine essentially the same, you know she deflected the blame onto everybody else."

Throughout the interview, Oprah touched on several topics, some of which Hunter didn't want to discuss. 

One writer for the New York Times likens the interview with Hunter to an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, both being tough customers....

"Ms. Hunter and the Iranian president have a disconcerting way of saying preposterous things in a calm, complacent tone; both are serenely impervious to contradiction or sarcasm."

Some critics say that Hunter's interview with Oprah could have been a chance for her to ditch the home-wrecking monster picture the media has painted. But as Time Magazine points out, Hunter missed her chance at a blank canvas. 

"It was compelling TV, but in the end, Hunter didn't seem any more understandable than when The National Enquirer first discovered her. ... One day, perhaps, mistresses will find their champion. But it isn't Rielle Hunter, unless denial is the sport."

So what do you think? Is Rielle Hunter a home wrecker? Or is she just misunderstood?