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Targeted Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign
Breitbart and Associated Press ^ | 12 Feb 07 | Mike Baker

Posted on 02/12/2007 6:09:38 PM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1skank; 1slut; amandamarcotte; anticatholic; bigot; blogger; defeateddem; edwards; hater; marcotte; ravinglunatic; toiletmouth; whore
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To: SkyPilot

Double boink....


41 posted on 02/12/2007 6:53:20 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: operation clinton cleanup

Her nose also doubles as a landing strip for light aircraft.


42 posted on 02/12/2007 6:54:59 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: icwhatudo
What a sick souless frigid bitch.


OK, so there are six flashlights in my
apartment and none have battteries in
them. So what, it doesn't prove a thing.

43 posted on 02/12/2007 6:56:54 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: SkyPilot

The really significant aspect of this business is what the media is carefully avoiding, and one that the right should continue to harp on and exploit for a good while to come.

These is nothing unique (in the Democratic party) about this woman and her attitude/beliefs. Thus the point is not so much that she said what she said, it is that Edwards hired her AND kept her on after it. The fact that he did not castigate her publicly and fire her is extremely telling.

It tells me who Edwards considers his base and does not wish to offend.


44 posted on 02/12/2007 6:57:14 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: SkyPilot

I shudder for this country is these people ever get total charge again.


45 posted on 02/12/2007 6:59:52 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: SkyPilot

She quit?!! Edwards is a coward for not firing her. What a loser.


46 posted on 02/12/2007 7:02:51 PM PST by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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To: pissant
She's kinda good looking.

So basically, you're one of those patriarchs who would prefer good looking women to just shut up about their rabid left-wing political opinions and just look pretty? That's so oppressive! Come to think about it, that's pretty much what I think too.

47 posted on 02/12/2007 7:15:17 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: 68skylark

Yep, used to work that angle pretty hard. LOL


48 posted on 02/12/2007 7:16:55 PM PST by pissant
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To: SkyPilot
WE can thank these two witches for telling us how they really think about American Christians, and for destroying the Edwards Presidential run in one complete swoop!

One socialist liberal hate filled anti-military, anti-American wanna be President down, and nine to go!!
49 posted on 02/12/2007 7:19:54 PM PST by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
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To: JRochelle

Take credit? Why shouldn't he? HE DOES HAVE A NATIONAL NO. 1 TALK SHOW. Word got out all over the country.

Thank goodness for Bill.


50 posted on 02/12/2007 7:21:22 PM PST by ClancyJ
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To: ChildOfThe60s

This from a man who managed to bring up the sexual orientation of Dick Cheney's daughter during the national debates on TV.

Such a ZERO. What in the world makes that man think he could even be a leader?


51 posted on 02/12/2007 7:23:40 PM PST by ClancyJ
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To: operation clinton cleanup

Dirty Underwear Girl.


52 posted on 02/12/2007 7:24:35 PM PST by Dinah Lord (fighting the Islamofascist Jihad - one keystroke at a time...)
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To: SkyPilot

What is it about libloggers that think F-bombs add to their argument? Why are all feminists so angry??

Pray for W and Our Troops


53 posted on 02/12/2007 7:25:23 PM PST by bray (Redeploy our Troops to Tehran)
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To: ClancyJ

She resigned BEFORE his 8pm. show. He will still take credit.

Just like he took credit for Bush winning in 00. He said Gore would have won if he would have appeared on his show.


54 posted on 02/12/2007 7:30:24 PM PST by JRochelle (SuperBowl MVP Peyton Manning is a Republican!)
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To: SkyPilot

Quit? Hardly.


55 posted on 02/12/2007 7:31:40 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: SkyPilot

and had she said that about moooohumit the mooslums would have hung her from the closest light post.


56 posted on 02/12/2007 7:34:45 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: SkyPilot

big win, thanks bill


57 posted on 02/12/2007 7:34:55 PM PST by italianquaker (Rudy Americas mayor and soon to be Americas president)
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To: SkyPilot

Edwards should have fired the Scum......He's a no good S.O.B.


58 posted on 02/12/2007 7:40:08 PM PST by ustanker (Secure the border!)
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To: ustanker

He's (nominally) a "she".


59 posted on 02/12/2007 8:02:50 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SkyPilot

I contrast this post with quotes of vile content with the outrageous title the AP put on this story.


60 posted on 02/12/2007 8:17:53 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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