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John Edwards deletes two bloggers
Posted on February 7, 2007 4:58 PM
There's no need to wait for Wimbledon. Not when we have left-wing and right-wing politics in the good old US of A volleying back and forth over whatever little issues they can dig their sharpened claws into each day.
Today, it's the news that Presidential (snicker) hopeful (fat chance) John Not Kerry Edwards has sent a couple of bloggers hired for their communication skills off the campaign railroad. Who to believe? Salon, perhaps?...
The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps -- John Edwards has fired the two controversial bloggers he recently hired to do liberal blogger outreach, Salon has learned.Or maybe The Jawa Report, discussing Marcotte?...
The bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, formerly of Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare's Sister, had come under fire from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs. A statement by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, which called Marcotte and McEwan "anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots," and an accompanying article on the controversy in the New York Times this morning, put extra pressure on the campaign.
This isn't about curse words. This was about holding this vile psycho to her own vulgar words, and then holding John Edwards to those words as well once he hired Marcotte and McEwan to positions as official spokesbloggers. Quoting Marcotte accurately is not "attacking" her - it reveals her.Yes, in this world, there are places like China and Burma that would ruthlessly suppress such political expression. They're missing out on the best free entertainment outside of Sesame Street.
Fired, Amanda Marcotte, Melissa McEwan, John Edwards