Comments on: Amanda Marcotte Resigns from Edwards Campaign

By: Entelliblog » Blog Archive » Senator Wants to Block Tubes

Entelliblog » Blog Archive » Senator Wants to Block Tubes — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:37:43 +0000

[...] Amanda Marcotte Resigns from Edwards CampaignOutside Beltway - The blogosphere, obsessed as we are with all things blogosphere, is all over this. Patrick Frey is genuinely, sincerely saddened. AllahPundit has video of Marcotte s appearance on O Reilly. Dale Franks thinks maybe people don t dislike her [...]

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:33:20 +0000

What’s with the [Dude… -ed] thing, James?

Just a little early morning snark. No implication of equivalence between your writing and Marcotte's, just a suggestion that your "method of discourse" has from time-to-time drawn the ire of lefties.

By: Jeff G

Jeff G — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:04:52 +0000

What's with the [Dude... -ed] thing, James?

By: The Navel of the Internet » Blog Archive » Malkin gets a scalp

The Navel of the Internet » Blog Archive » Malkin gets a scalp — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:56:08 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Conservative bloggers as a whole are gloating about this (see: James Joyner for a pile of links). I suppose I should be too since Amanada Marcotte is one of my least favorite people in the entire universe, but as Malkin is on the same list for me, I’m curbing my enthusiasm. Is the blogosphere good for anything besides taking scalps? [...]

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:24:27 +0000

Edwards' Bloggers Apologize, Keep Jobs...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has decided not to fire two campaign bloggers who had...

By: In Search Of Utopia

In Search Of Utopia — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:58:22 +0000

The whole Marcotte thing......

Amanda Marcotte has resigned as John Edwards’ blogger. As James points out, it is all over the blogsphere... My thoughts on the issue? Honestly? It's why I dont blog much anymore... The blogsphere is full of hatred, pettiness and juvenile......

By: The Democratic Daily

The Democratic Daily — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:01:22 +0000

Marcotte Resigns from Edwards’ Campaign...

Days after the controversy appeared to be put to rest over the Edwards campaign hiring Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon as blogmaster for their campaign blog, Marcotte resigned yesterday citing further harrassment from “right wing shill Bill Donohue,...

By: The Anchoress » New and old media evolving erratically

The Anchoress » New and old media evolving erratically — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:11:30 +0000

[...] So, I am very, very, very…very late to the “big” story that one of John Edwards’ blogmistresses has resigned her position. That’s a shame. I wanted her to keep on and either raise herself up to the challenge or crash and burn with a good try. I was not the only “righty” blogger who wanted her to remain on the job, by the way. Many of us on the right were of the opinion that the gal had every right to her opinion and that her work should speak for itself and her candidate. [...]

By: Bithead

Bithead — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:29:38 +0000

Face it, gang…

While I have no real love nor hate for Donahue and his group… on this occasion he happens to be correct.

Helping him in making that point is the long standing image that the left has built up for themselves over the years of being religiously bigoted… at least as far Christians and Jews are concerned… (Gaia forfend they should ever be seen as being anti-Islam…) That bigotry is not just an image problem…. it’s a fact.

By: PoliBlog ™: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » One More Thought on Marcotte (and Advice for Campaigns in Hiring Bloggers)

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:15:44 +0000

[...] One more thought that didn’t fit into the previous post. James Joyner (who has an excellent Blogospheric round-up on this topic) rightly notes: If George W. Bush had hired Jeff Goldstein or Charles Johnson in a similar position, I suspect you might have expressed an opinion. [...]

By: Sensible Mom

Sensible Mom — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:04:17 +0000

It's Always Someone Else's Fault...

but her critics only quoted her writing, which beyond being foul is so childish, self-absorbed, bigoted, bitter and illogical.

Welcome to the real world Marcotte where in order to be respected you need to act like an adult.
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By: Webloggin

Webloggin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:44:38 +0000

Shouldn't A Presidential Candidate Know Better?...

These are the facts that John Edwards will have to face as he tries to explain to the American people why a person with such an overwhelming lack of common sense and shoulder shrugging disdain for those of faith should be considered as the country’s ...

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:40:56 +0000

Jim: Yes, agreed. I've had some preliminary talks for some blogger relations work but, ultimately, am not willing to give up very much of my ability to express myself. I'm not a du Toit or Marcotte, for good or ill, but I doubt there's a candidate alive who would simultaneously have any chance at all at winning and be comfortable with all the positions I've taken over the years.

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:34:35 +0000

Amanda was an awful hire. The person who was in charge of vetting her is the one who should be fired. I'm actually trying to think of a worse choice for a left-leaning blogger. RudePundit would probably be worse, if he weren't anonymous, but at least that would be really funny.

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:18:30 +0000

There had to be a first black football coach to get fired; now there's a first blogger to get fired. Aside from the novelty of - Ooh, blogger! - this is about the five-millionth time a campaign has hired a staffer whose pre-employment statements turned out to be controversial and tossed the staffer overboard out of expediency.

Some day I have to write my "Keep the Blogosphere Weird!" item. Campaigns threaten to neuter the glorious insanity of the medium that fathered a thousand Kim du Toits and Amanda Marcottes. Jon Henke was an interesting writer until the exact day he took a job with George Allen. It's a poison chalice party politics offers.