Fetch me the smelling salts!

This seems to be a big topic in blogtopia

Via Skippy, we have this post from Salon's War Room: Edwards campaign fires bloggers

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. A statement by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, which called Marcotte and McEwan "anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots," and an accompanying article on the controversy in the New York Times this morning, put extra pressure on the campaign.

Bloggers using profanity? Fetch me the smelling salts! Not sure where to find them, but maybe you can ask Dick Cheney. As I understand it, he's fond of dropping the "F-bomb" from time to time.

Well, hopefully Salon had inaccurate information, and these two bloggers were not really fired based on complaints from the likes of Donahue. Chris Bowers of MyDD says we should wait to hear from Edwards. Fine, I'm waiting...

Tags: john edwards, 2008 election, democrats

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