Here’s John Edwards on CNN, trying to keep the nutroots at arm’s length but still pandering as much as possible. [Video]
A vintage nutroots whine, brought to you by the fellow travelers at Salon.com: Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign, by Amanda Marcotte. I announced that I was taking the job on Jan. 30, and the same week, I noticed a small flare-up of oddly aggressive and misogynistic comments ...
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Here’s video of Jane Fleming of the Young Democrats of America, defending the ranting bigotry of leftist bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan: Dem Fleming defends bigoted Edwards bloggers. Jane Fleming also defended radical Shi’ite imam Al-Husainy and his speech about doom, oppression, and occupation at the DNC winter meeting. Is there ...
Looks like we won’t have Amanda Marcotte to f****** kick around any more. She’s bailing out of the Edwards campaign, nobly crushed under the massive, well-financed pressure of the “right-wing noise machine” who just can’t stand to see a woman be successful, g****** it. (Hat tip: Killgore.) UPDATE at 2/12/07 6:46:43 ...
In their stories about the uproar over the Edwards campaign’s hiring of two foul-mouthed nutroots bloggers, the mainstream media have been portraying the controversy as coming mainly from “right-wing Christians,” in an attempt to downplay the seriousness of the issue. But Marcotte and McEwan’s disgraceful writings have also been noticed by ...
The Associated Press’ Nedra Pickler chimes in with a classic MSM whitewash for Marcotte and McEwan, with no real examples of what they’ve actually written: Edwards to Retain Embattled Bloggers. You just knew this was coming, didn’t you? On Tuesday, Donohue called for Edwards to fire the bloggers, citing posts that ...
It looks like John Edwards is going to be just fine with the deranged, obscene hatred posted at Pandagon.net and ShakespearesSister.blogspot.com by Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan: John Edwards ‘08 Blog. The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte’s and Melissa McEwan’s posts personally offended me. It’s not how ...
In a typically unbiased article, Salon.com’s Time Grieve reports that the right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps. 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 ...
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Presidential candidate John Edwards has hired one of the nastiest, most hateful and foul-mouthed left-wing bloggers to be his campaign “blogmaster,” Amanda Marcotte of pandagon.net. (Of course, she and her compatriots at Pandagon have attacked LGF on several occasions like rabid ankle-biting chihuahuas.) And it’s backfiring, big time. Does John Edwards ...
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