War Room - Salon.com: "Edwards campaign fires bloggers
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.
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..."
My guess is that neither was actually fired, but both offered their resignations in order to rein-in the nutosphere so Edwards could actually run a campaign rather than get involved in this silliness. We'll see. The controversy changes my support not one iota. Any complaints about language and hate coming from the likes of Donohue and Malkin constitute the ultimate case of the pot and the kettle.
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