RALEIGH, N.C. -- 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.
"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.
Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, said McEwan left the campaign under her own terms. Both Bedingfield and McEwan declined additional comment.
McEwan's resignation came just one day after another blogger, Amanda Marcotte, left the Edwards staff for similar reasons.
Both had become a flashpoint for conservative critics. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, called Marcotte and McEwan "foul-mouthed bigots" for remarks he deemed anti-Catholic. Last week, Donohue called on Edwards to fire both bloggers.
Boo Hoo.
Marcotte and McEwan were victims of an evil Catholic.
It's that chill wind of censorship.
Blah, blah, blah.
What a load!
They were a "flashpoint for conservative critics."
Flashpoint -- Is that how you define the sort of ugliness that spewed from Marcotte and McEwan?
If they wrote similar tirades about African-Americans or Muslims, Edwards would never have given the sort of "fair shake" he gave to these women.
I think it's a major mistake for Dems and assorted Leftists to push the "conservative critic" angle.
Any decent person would be disgusted by the things these women wrote. No decent person, especially a presidential candidate, would want to be associated with such filth.
By highlighting the critics as conservative, one is left with the impression that liberals have no problem with what they wrote.
That's not only a problem for Edwards; it's a problem for Dems.
Read the vulgar, hate-filled rants of Marcotte and McEwan.
Back to the AP article:
Donohue is a brash and frequent critic of those who speak out against the church, as well as homosexuals and Hollywood's control by "secular Jews who hate Christianity."
"It's too bad that Edwards didn't make the decision himself to get rid of them," Donohue said Tuesday night. "Why he had to wait for these women to bail on their own doesn't speak well for him. But I'm delighted, and as far as I'm concerned, this closes the issue. I have no vendetta against John Edwards."
AP writer Mike Baker does his best to make Donohue out to be the extremist.
Sorry.
Nothing is more damning than Marcotte's and McEwan's own despicable words.
Read this post from McEwan. (Warning: Extremely vulgar.)
In spite of what the Edwards campaign claims, I don't buy it that these two women decided to quit on their own.
I think the campaign reluctantly told them to hit the highway.
I can just picture Edwards calculating the entire thing.
"I'll stand by them to appease my crazed lib supporters. When we fire them... I mean, force them to quit... we can paint them as martyrs, Leftist angels, victims of the intolerant conservatives. Actually, this is a good thing, taking lemons and making lemonade."
Edwards miscalculated.
You learn a lot about a person by the company he keeps.
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