14
February
2007
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01:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles

2.14.07: Second blogger resigns from Edwards campaign

Following the Swift-blogging of Edwards' blogger Amanda Marotte, a second campaign staffer, Melissa McEwen, has resigned over Christian right attacks on her pre-campaign writing. Her resignation post is here:



There will be some who clamor to claim victory for my resignation, but I caution them that in doing so, they are tacitly accepting responsibility for those who have deluged my blog and my inbox with vitriol and veiled threats. 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.