I’m sure many of you are already familiar with the details of the Edwards-Marcotte-McEwan scandal (or “scandal,” pseudo-scandal that it is) that has been brewing over the past couple of days. You know, the John Edwards campaign hired two prominent progressive bloggers, Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare’s Sister, Catholic extremist William Donohue called them “bigots,” and the Malkin-fueled right-wing machine burst into action against them, demanding that they be fired. And the news media, ever desperate for scandal of any kind, however manufactured, have been lapping it all up.
Well, over at The Reaction, Heraclitus weighs in on the “scandal,” focusing not so much on Marcotte and McEwan themselves but rather on what it says about Edwards on the one hand and Malkin and her ilk on the other. It’s an interesting and rather blunt take.
You can find his post here. (Caution: It includes some foul language.)
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UPDATE: Edwards has decided to keep Marcotte and McEwan (while not approving of some of the language they’ve used in the past).
For additional commentary, see here.