The other scalp falls
So Melissa McEwan follows Amanda Marcotte out the door of the Edwards campaign, denying credit to the rightwing performance artists who clearly did help her find the door:
It is not right-wing bloggers, nor people like Bill Donohue or Bill O’Reilly, who prompted nor deserve credit for my resignation, no matter how much they want it, but individuals who used public criticisms of me as an excuse to unleash frightening ugliness, the likes of which anyone with a modicum of respect for responsible discourse would denounce without hesitation.
Come on, who is she kidding?
So we’ve seen the blogosphere eat its own these last two days, and pronounce them a yummy snack. But we’ve also seen the fake populism of John Edwards in action. He hired these two toxic harpies because they were associated with high-traffic, populist blogs that fit the image he’s trying to project of being the man of the people, protector of the weak and the downtrodden, champion of women’s rights and all of that. But John Edwards is none of that. In the real world, he’s a man who’s helped wreck the health care system of North Carolina by raising malpractice premiums and forcing small communities to lose their ob-gyns. He’s an environmentalist who lives in a 30,000 square foot house, and a populist who ran for president in 2004 because he couldn’t win a second term in the Senate.
And he’s not even smart enough to vet highly visible members of his campaign staff before he shoves them out in front of the public.
Can we trust a man with the trigger to our nuclear arsenal who can’t even figure out which bloggers to hire?
- February 14th
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