Via Brietbart:

Second Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign

A second blogger working for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative critics who said her previous online messages were anti-Catholic.

Melissa McEwan wrote on her personal blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, that she left the campaign because she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the level of attention focused on her and her family.

She was quite a bit more graceful then whiney blame shifting Amanda Marcotte (see here for my recent post on her), but she still only managed to get it half right.

"This was a decision I made, with the campaign’s reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign," McEwan said Tuesday night.

She is right, she would have been a liability, but she misses the boat on blame.  She, like Amanda, is a victim of her own vitriol (or in liberalese, her great success).  When you rabidly attack a group and show your intolerance with bigotted outrageous statements, expect they will eventually call you to account for it, particularly when you are going to be closely associated to a presidential campaign.

Did you forget, the guy who hired you is undoubtably courting them as the huge voting block they are.

Campaigns have to limit exposure to things which bring them negative publicity.  Just as he would not willingly hire a rabid homophobe, or an anti-semite, he cannot afford to hire an anti-christian/catholic, at least one that is so dramatically over the top.  Though I bet the anti-semite would last longer.

In her case, I imagine her use of the word "Christofascist" was part of the problem. 

Hot Air sumamrizes it thus:

McEwan’s post contains a bit less blameshifting than Marcotte’s, the reaction to the latter’s announcement yesterday probably serving as a guide for what not to do. McEwan finishes on a note with which I agree. Mostly:

This is a win for no one.

See below for screen capture from the actual House Committee Website.

http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm

HOUSE HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF THE PLANET’ CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ET

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

DC WEATHER REPORT:

Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph…increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.

Also see on Drudge, noted by ST:

SAVE IT FOR A SUNNY DAY: Maryville Univ. in St. Louis area cancelling screening of Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ because of a snowstorm…

Sweet irony indeed. 

More at Hot Air and TexasRainmaker

UPDATED: Second blogger quits the Edwards campaign.  See here for more. 

I haven’t covered this story here simply because the blogging saturation has been huge.  But since the story has in a sense come full circle, I might as well offer my summary.

The situation was pretty clear.  John Edwards, Democratic presidential hopeful hired a leftwing blogger to be his blogmistress.

The Chosen One, Amanda Marcotte, has a slightly well known reputation as the bigotted hate spewing anti catholic blogger of Pandagon.

Here is a cute excerpt (content warning):

One thing I vow here and now–you motherfuckers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will fuck without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous motherfuckers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.

Truly the voice of the Democrat party.

Now let’s clear one thing up:  She doesn’t particularly offend me.  Her posts are juvenile and obviously designed to get attention, in a teenage "your not the boss of me" method.  She honestly bores me with her diatribes and rants about men, white men, white catholic men and anyone else she can attack.

Daily Kos at least has people who are intellectually insulting.

But, I also never forget that free speech is the foundation of the blogosphere, regardless of whether you are left or right or in the middle.  She has every right to posit her inane rantings in her own space.

She should remember that the internet rarely forgets, and anything you post becomes a permanent entry into life in some respects,  Consider that, even as you recall (belatedly) the fact that free speech is not always free, and the right to be able to say anything you want does not retract from sometimes excercising discretion.