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Edwards' blogger resigns
Michelle Malkin

"Blogmaster" Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards' campaign. Of course, it's all the right wing's and Catholic activists' fault (a blame-avoidance strategy I highlighted on The O'Reilly Factor tonight before news of Marcotte's resignation broke). Writes Marcotte this evening:

I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what’s right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics (I’m anti-theocracy, for those who were keeping track). Bill Donohue—anti-Semite, right wing lackey whose entire job is to create non-controversies in order to derail liberal politics—has been running a scorched earth campaign to get me fired for my personal beliefs and my writings on this blog.  ...

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Amanda Marcotte Has Resigned from the Edwards Campaign 
Greg Tinti

But not because she wrote anything hateful that could potentially reflect poorly on Edwards.

No, she resigned because of Bill Donohue's witch hunt and "scorched earth campaign" to get her fired for her personal beliefs and writings and because she's a non-religious pro-choice woman.

... Regardless, it was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign. 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. I resigned my position today and they accepted.

Your heart goes out to poor, poor Amanda, doesn't it?

No, mine neither.

And seriously, why is that everytime liberals get criticized for something they've said or written, they immediately start crying that their freedom of speech is being taken away? Maybe it's because they can't defend what they actually said?

Memo to Amanda: speaking out against your hateful writings is not an assault on your freedom of speech. It's something called "criticism." Look it up. No one ever said that you didn't have the right to say what you did; many people, on the right and left I might add, just thought someone who had written bigoted things didn't belong on a presidential campaign.

Get over it. ...

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Edwards' Bleeping Blogger Resigns
Lorie Byrd

Michelle Malkin posted a link to Marcotte's resignation announcement and has a roundup of links.Here is a bit of Marcotte's announcement: [...]

Blah, blah, blah...it was all the rightwing godbags' fault, blah, blah, blah. No way could it be because of her inability to control her filthy hate-spewing mouth. We might not ever know what happened behind the scenes. Did someone in the Edwards campaign convince her that she would be a liability? Did they get wind that someone in Hillary's camp was just waiting for the most opportune moment to take maximum advantage? Did Marcotte decide that she didn't want to spend the next two years in North Carolina after all? Who knows? What we do know is that now it is on. Does that mean that now she will really start showing her feisty side?

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Marcotte Quits, Sun To Rise In East In The Morning 
Ed Morrissey

Amanda Marcotte resigned her position in the John Edwards presidential campaign today after spending the last week defending her past essays on her group blog. Having weathered the initial storm, Marcotte apparently decided that the controversy would prove too distracting for the Edwards campaign: ...

And let's face it -- this story would not have had much more momentum in any case. Democrats were unlikely to anger the netroots by openly using it against Edwards, for two reasons. One, the eventual nominee will need these activists after the primaries, and secondly, Edwards is no threat to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama anyway. By next week, no one would have bothered following the Edwards' campaign blog to check for signs of a meltdown.

Instead, as a number of bloggers have noted, Marcotte decided to take the opportunity to play the victim. Contrary to her assertion that we "right wing shills don’t respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills," we Catholics drew attention to the fact that she engages in vituperative and demeaning attacks on religion and that Edwards appeared to have endorsed that by hiring her. Along the exact same lines, I would have criticized a Republican dumb enough to hire Fred Phelps as a spokesperson, as would Marcotte herself. She simply refuses to accept the fact that she wrote incendiary and bigoted essays about Christians and embarrassed Edwards by agreeing to work for him after doing so.

UPDATE: Patterico points to a review Marcotte wrote about the movie Children of Men this weekend that may have given Edwards a reason to push her off the bandwagon: ...

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My Silky Pony
Michelle Malkin

All is not well in Ponyville.

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A blogger at John Edwards site wonders:

I think we know the answer. Dean Barnett underlines it:

As for Edwards, he looks irredeemably pathetic. There’s a simple reason for this - he is irredeemably pathetic.  ...