Have you read anything by this woman?? Hiring her and then keeping her on when it was pointed out just how ugly and hatful this woman writing are...shows you what Edwards is made of...Another empty suit and a phoney ...
By Michelle Malkin · February 12, 2007 08:42 PM
"Blogmaster" Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards' campaign (the site is currently down). 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. In fact, he’s made no bones about the fact that his intent is to “silence” me, as if he—a perfect stranger—should have a right to curtail my freedom of speech. Why? Because I’m a woman? Because I’m pro-choice? Because I’m not religious? All of the above, it seems.
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.
The Associated Press has a typically fair and balanced--not--headline:
Targeted Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign
Here, let me rewrite that headline for you, AP:
"Godbag"-spewing Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign
(11:15pm Eastern update) - WaPo's Howard Kurtz has a story in Tuesday's paper, now up on the Web.
Marcotte vows revenge, Danny Glover points out:
Unencumbered by her work for Edwards, she vowed to strike back. "The main good news," Marcotte wrote, "is that I don’t have a conflict of interest issue anymore that was preventing me from defending myself against these baseless accusations. So it’s on."
So much for that sincere apology. Good news for the nutroots: She's free, free again to yell "Jeebus" all she wants!
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