Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melissa McEwan (know ’round the ‘net as Shakespeare’s Sister) were recently hired by the Edward’s Presidential Campaign to develope the camaign’s web presence. As was to be expected, the wingnut-o-sphere pounced at the opportunity to cull their posts for potentially objectionable content. Now the rumors are swirling fast that the campaign may fire the two women over this controversy.
This is complete and utter garbage. Look, I’ve never been a fan of Amanda. Pandagon was my favorite blog when Jesse and Ezra were on it. Then they left and, not liking the tone and argumentative style Amanda frequently takes, I pretty much stopped reading it. Don’t get me wrong, Amanda’s frequently right on the issues, I just don’t like how she goes about making her case. On the other hand, I’ve always like Shakes. Regardless, if the Edwards campaign fires the two of them I’m going to lose a lot of faith in both the candidate and the campaign. These were two *very* public Internet personas. If they knew enough about the blogosphere to know who both of these women were, they absolutely knew enough to vet them by cruising through their posts before they gave out job offers. As Ezra says, firing these two either means the campaign is a bunch of cowards or incompetents.

This backlash from the Right was as predictable as it is stupid. Of *course* they were going to find arguably objectionable posts and take them completely out of context! Of *course* they were going to hypocritically damn the campaign for hiring those mean ol’ Internet folks while completely ignoring worse from the Right.

All my best to Amanda and Melissa. They’re qualified for the jobs and, well, they already got them. I hope the campaign has the sense to fight back instead of run. I have to say that if Edwards does fire them it will have a real impact on who I support in the primary.

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