February 8, 2007
MOUSSE AND SQUIRRELY:
Edwards to Retain Embattled Bloggers (NEDRA PICKLER, February 8, 2007, The Associated Press)
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday he was personally offended by the provocative messages two of his campaign bloggers wrote criticizing the Catholic church, but he's not going to fire them.Edwards issued a statement and answered questions about the fate of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, two days after the head of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights demanded they be fired for messages they wrote before working on the campaign.
"I talked personally to the two women who were involved. They gave me their word they, under no circumstances, intended to denigrate any church or anybody's religion and offered their apologies for anything that indicated otherwise. I took them at their word," Edwards told reporters during a campaign stop in Charleston, S.C.
Yup, there's the guy you want dealing with the enemies of our culture. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 8, 2007 4:58 PM
So the woman who wrote this didn't intend to "denigrate any church or anybody's religion," eh? I can't imagine what she'd have written if she had wanted to denigrate Catholics.
Posted by: PapayaSF at February 8, 2007 5:24 PMEdwards, ever the uber-poseur, likes to tell everybody how we was raised Southern Baptist and has all these "deeply held values."
On the contrary, when not channeling dead tort plaintiffs, he gives every indication of being deeply in the thrall of all the witches, folk-enemies and culture-traitors.
Sure John! [shaking my head in disgust]
Posted by: Dave W at February 8, 2007 7:33 PM"I talked personally to the two women who were involved. They gave me their word they, under no circumstances, intended to denigrate any church or anybody's religion and offered their apologies for anything that indicated otherwise. I took them at their word,"
Hey, John, I got this bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you!
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 8, 2007 10:45 PMEdwards is fast reaching the point where he couldn't even get elected dogcatcher in NC. To my knowledge, he still hasn't said boo about the Nifong debacle in Durham.
His 'campaign' was dodgy about this flare-up, too. While the AP story cited above quotes that he spoke to the bloggers, reports I saw earlier today said that he did not.
Lou - nice wording ('uber-poseur').
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 8, 2007 10:46 PMThanks, Jim. I was having a little fun, sticking a German prefix onto a Froggy word.
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 9, 2007 6:33 AMTrackBack
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