Targeted Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign

Breitbart and Associated Press ^ | 12 Feb 07 | Mike Baker

[SkyPilot]

RALEIGH NC - - One of the chief campaign bloggers for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Monday after conservative critics raised questions about her history of provocative online messages. Amanda Marcotte posted on her personal blog, Pandagon, that the criticism "was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign." Marcotte said she resigned from her position Monday, and that her resignation was accepted by the campaign.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded last week that Edwards fire Marcotte and a second blogger, Melissa McEwan, for remarks he deemed anti-Catholic. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, called the messages personally offensive, but decided to keep Marcotte and McEwan on staff.

"No matter what you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I can't do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn't have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I won't do it," Marcotte wrote Monday night.

[BenLurkin]

"A pretty face don't mean no pretty heart"

[Charles Henrickson]

Asmadasa Marchhare Alert!

[Graybeard58]

I am old and almost blind as a bat to go with it, is that the best you can do for picture size?

[BenLurkin]

As if she was a victim instead of the perpetrator.

[NapkinUser]

This women's anti-Catholic rants were the same junk being raised about Kennedy back in 1960. Some "progressive".

[hophead]

"What about the other one?"

A matter of time before these bigots are gone.

[JRochelle]

Bill O'Reilly had a fit about them tonight on his show.

He will take complete credit for the resignation. :)

[pissant]

Sorry!

[Graybeard58]

So's my Weimaraner, but I wouldn't want to hear her political opinions either.

Your Weimaraner would probably make more sense that the liberals do.

[ellen_rometsch]

So does One-Term Edwards get credit from the Daily Kos crowd for not firing her? Doesn't this smell like a plea bargain? I won't fire you if you quit in a week and blame it on those evil catholics.

I'm getting paranoid.

[JRochelle]

I disagree. She was ranting against all Christians who believe in the immaculate conception.

[Graybeard58]

Well, if you posted a bigger pic,the dial ups would be griping. Sometimes you just can't win.

[CFC__VRWC]

At least your weimaraner gives you love and companionship. All Amanda's good for is getting into the trash, eating it and then puking all over the Internet.

[JRochelle]

I think the Edwards campaign was surprised at the outrage against these two nuts.

But Elizabeth Edwards has been know to post over at DU and so I think she is just used to the cesspool that is the liberal blogesphere.

This was her doing.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Try this one on for size... thats one angry looking chick!

[pissant]

Behind every lib POS politician is an equally vapid wife.

[DuncanWaring]

The picture in post #3 is fairly presentable.

This one is "ugly to the bone". You can just about see the droplets of bile oozing from her pores.

[DuncanWaring]

I wouldn't call Hillary "vapid".

"Most Dangerous Woman On The Face Of The Earth", maybe, but not "vapid".

[icwhatudo]

What a sick souless frigid bitch.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Might be a good idea to wear a steel cup around her....