Who is John Edwards?

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from JoeUser Forums

We are often judged by the company we keep.  And that is more obvious in politics than in other walks of life.  So who is John Edwards?  Perhaps this quote will help:

Amanda Marcotte on the Duke case (Pandagon, January 21, 2007):

"Naturally, my flight out of Atlanta has been delayed. Let's hope it takes off when they say it will so I don't miss my connecting flight home.

"In the meantime, I've been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good fucking god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and fucked her against her will -- not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out. Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair."

So nice to see people who believe in the concept of guilty until proven innocent.

So who is Amanda Marcotte?  Why the New blogmaster for the Edwards campaign!  He and Hugo Chavez should become the best of buddies!  They beleive in the same thing - absolute power.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Doc, I'm afraid I can't verify this is what Amanda wrote because she's taken the entry down. And therefore I can't see if that comment was tongue-in-cheek. I can't really comment on the case as it's only received a small amount of coverage here. But I do object to people being quoted out of context. Sarcasm and comments made in a (sometimes mistaken) sense of dark humour can land you in a whole heap of hurt in the blogosphere. I'm not saying she's right, just that the way you quote her makes her sound like a spawn of Satan and I don't believe she is.

Is there anywhere we can read the whole of that entry?

Ever the balanced-view journalist
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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
And from (very-lefty) Salon.com...

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 Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare's Sister, had come under fire from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs.

So there you go, she's gone!
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

So there you go, she's gone!

But notice that the media never picked it up, and again it was blogdom that exposed the kook.  It is sad that our media has stopped doing its job and become the PR wing of one party.

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

And from (very-lefty) Salon.com...

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.

Sorry to say that Salon appears to be wrong.  From AP: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250927,00.html

 

Edwards issued a written statement about the fate of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, two days after the head of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights demanded they be fired for messages they wrote before working on the campaign.

The campaign distributed written apologies from the two women, who stressed they were writing on personal blogs and not on behalf of the campaign. Edwards said he believes in giving everyone a "fair shake."

Apparently he does not care about the Duke Blog comments.