McEwan’s out too
posted at 8:06 pm on February 13, 2007 by Bryan
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Announced earlier today:
I regret to say that I have also resigned from the Edwards campaign. In spite of what was widely reported, I was not hired as a blogger, but a part-time technical advisor, which is the role I am vacating.
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.
Edwards’ rivals scored a big win through all this. He hired them and took no action to control the damage they were doing to his campaign. It’s a telling episode that will probably follow him through the primaries next year.
Among the blogs, what McEwan says is quite true. Edwards did himself no good by hiring those two; they did him no good by letting him. He looks like the weak and indecisive head of a dysfunctional campaign, and a willing prisoner of the worst the left has to offer. They discredited their own work in attempting to hang on to their campaign jobs, playing their readers and their allies and their boss for fools. And their readers and allies and their boss let them so that they might claim a hollow victory over us “godbags.” Some of whom are atheists and agnostics, but never mind that. Blogs in general have a collective new dent thanks to the promotion of two of its worst to positions where they would attract mainstream coverage and attention. The credibility of better, more reasonable bloggers on both sides will suffer for this episode. And to the extent that the two actually received threats, it’s deplorable and unacceptable. Around here at Hot Air, we know that feeling all too well.
More: There may be one silver lining in all of this. If being a potty mouthed bigot limits one’s blogging career opportunities, maybe there will be fewer potty mouthed bigots among the blogs. That, I would consider a substantial win.
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O’Reilly just ripped some liberal puke who was defending the 2 anti-Catholic/Christian bigots.
roninacreage on February 13, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Exactly.
Zorro on February 13, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Sorry. Screwed up my trackback link.
Anyway, Edwards look so hopelessly inept now. This is what he deserves for bringing in the far-left fringe: Campaign ruin. Nobody has heard a word he’s said the past week while Obama and The Pantsuit suck all the air out of the room.
JammieWearingFool on February 13, 2007 at 8:19 PM
they’re dropping like flies
btw Bryan I don’t believe so because what you suggest implies these bloggers will actually learn personal responsiblity. They won’t; htey’ll blame Bushco and the blogosphere for screwing them over and as such become, if anything, more ranting and lunatic like.
Defector01 on February 13, 2007 at 8:19 PM
You’re definitely right about those two, but I’m hoping that others coming up after them might find this episode educational.
Bryan on February 13, 2007 at 8:21 PM
Dropping like flies…..
Reminds me of a story about a boy given the job of killing all the flies in a room. When the boss checked on his progress a short time later, the boy was defecating in a corner. When asked why he was doing such a thing he replied: “Ya gotta bunch em first, then swat.”
Maybe John is just ‘bunching the flies’. He’s got to be good at something.
News2Use on February 13, 2007 at 8:30 PM
Oh ye of such optimism….. :-p
Defector01 on February 13, 2007 at 8:32 PM
“…they did him no good by letting him.” This would assume that these two could think on a level to see the probalility of a problem in the future. These two react on a more viscel level — they scream and blame things on others who have done nothing save reporting their previous verbal outbursts - thereby avoiding responsibility for their writings.
jimwesty on February 13, 2007 at 8:35 PM
Flash: Edwards just resigned from Edwards campaign. “You just can’t trust that man” said Edwards about himself.
right2bright on February 13, 2007 at 8:39 PM
Hear, hear.
aengus on February 13, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Edwards, why even bother. He’s like RC Cola to Pepsi Clinton and Coke Obama.
MirCat on February 13, 2007 at 8:51 PM
I don’t think this situation will reduce the number of potty-mouthed bigots at all, any more than the presence of the Victor Davis Hansons reduces the presence of the William Arkins.
However, sometimes cream rises. I have seen all three of the Powerline guys and Ed Morrisey and Charles Johnson and Glenn Reynolds and the Boss - and - and - and… used as serious commentators and not just “let’s hear about what’s going on out on those weblog thingies…” We would never have heard of John Hinderaker without blogs, but his success will not keep Allahpundit from having to smack down potty-mouthed bigots right here at HA on a nearly daily basis, and I suspect some of them are bloggers and not just commenters.
eeyore on February 13, 2007 at 8:57 PM
Yes, eeyore, it’s true. Some commenters are bloggers. Funny, that. Yet most of us keep it above board.
JammieWearingFool on February 13, 2007 at 9:02 PM
This should have been asked of Mr. Edwards, not of Mr. Snow.
From today’s WH press briefing:
Entelechy on February 13, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Edwards is a big mangina. If he can’t fire 2 bigoted bloggers, he certainly can’t fire any bullets at bigoted muslim terrorists.
SouthernGent on February 13, 2007 at 9:07 PM
I love the anger on the internet. I thrive on it, I eat it. Its what gives me power.
Savage on February 13, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Amen
Lonevoice on February 13, 2007 at 9:08 PM
Is that really from the WH briefing?
If so - yikes. I wonder if either of the blogstapo feministas knows just how badly they damaged their own candidate?
A week ago, I thought this wouldn’t touch Edwards - at least not for several more months, and probably not unless he made it to the nomination.
(In fact … who was I arguing with who was certain that this would never, ever be mentioned in the MSM? Fess up. You owe me a beer.)
Now there’s just one question, isn’t there? Did this silly blog brouhaha actually sink Edwards? (Pretend he had a chance!)
Did this end him?
Professor Blather on February 13, 2007 at 9:14 PM
Lane Hudson, from HuffPoo, is clueless:
Bloggers to the right of 10% to the far left, all beware! The media should get ya!
Entelechy on February 13, 2007 at 9:15 PM
Professor, it really is. I linked above, from the WH briefing archives.
I heard it on the radio this afternoon, on KFI640, and it sounds even crazier by sound. I tried on C-Span but can’t get the video/audio. Maybe on of you smarties will :) It’s a great one, from today’s briefing.
Entelechy on February 13, 2007 at 9:18 PM
JammieWearingFool - I know many of the commenters are bloggers, I just didn’t know the stats on the ejectees.
And Bryan, I know you hope “that others coming up after them might find this episode educational,” but about 4 seconds at places like Kos makes me think that the Dems are going to have a hard time finding good bloggers while at the same time placating that sizeable part of their base whose reaction was “Oh yea! Well, those f’n g**bags aren’t telling the netroots how we’re going to talk about where the Democrat Party should be headed…”
eeyore on February 13, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Huzzah. Once again, another example of how the free market solves all the world’s problems.
Enrique on February 13, 2007 at 9:23 PM
Verrrrrrry cool!
Clear another plaque for Ms. McEwan’s head to be mounted above the fireplace in the Trophy Room alongside Dan Rather, Jason Blair and Amanda Marcotte.
The Kos kids are going to have conniptions!
Jack.
Jack Deth on February 13, 2007 at 9:25 PM
Bryan- I wish you are proven correct, but the doubter in me is coming out….As I said earlier, there are many good blogger on the left to chose from, why he chose them is beyond me…Me thinks they put too much stock in Bowers and Kos
Pam on February 13, 2007 at 9:30 PM
eeyore, I’m not sure about those ejected. I’d rather keep things clean and stick around. I like it here. Sure, some of us like to poke fun at certain people, but you can’t just trash people willy-nilly using outrageous language and expect to be taken seriously.
JammieWearingFool on February 13, 2007 at 9:35 PM
(I’m asking because I haven’t witnessed it) Are there any bloggers on the left that aren’t venom spewing, “potty” mouths? I mean, what do Democratic politicians honestly have to choose from? I’m thinking they take what they can get. Unfortunately it’s fly-bait.
thedecider on February 13, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Anyone wonder if the Mrs. Edwards might have taken a peek at the luscious prose of the two and subsequently inform her hubby that it was them or her? Just wondering. How many wives would want those hot to trot ladies in the same room as their husbands? Late night campaign work anyone?
naliaka on February 13, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Anyone wonder if the Mrs. Edwards might have taken a peek at the luscious prose of the two and subsequently inform her hubby that it was them or her? Just wondering. How many wives would want those hot to trot ladies in the same room as their husbands? Late night campaign work anyone?
naliaka on February 13, 2007 at 9:54 PM
EEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
Now if we’re talkin about MM, or MKH, or Chairman Ann….. that would be another story!
mrfixit on February 13, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Thanx for the link! Geez…it’s no longer a press briefing, but a kangaroo court! The press has no respect!
BUt ya got to give it to Mr. Snow. Elegant and to the point. Snow 2008! :D
lsutiger on February 13, 2007 at 10:55 PM
Yeah. And while we’re at it, I suggest we burn all those books by Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon and John Updike.
Clean libraries make for clean minds!
Jeff G on February 13, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Another moonbat loser lib gets a reality-check slap in the face. I’d bet communion wafers to cat nip that both of them are staying in bed commiserating with their cats.
csdeven on February 14, 2007 at 12:07 AM
So…no pictures of soggy diapers around someones cankles? :(
On a side note, I noticed in north Milwaukee yesterday a sign for a night club, Astronaut Rest Stop Inside.
91Veteran on February 14, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Anyone wonder if the Mrs. Edwards might have taken a peek at the luscious prose of the two and subsequently inform her hubby that it was them or her?
naliaka on February 13, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Probably. of the two, she seems to be the more intelligent.
How many wives would want those hot to trot ladies in the same room as their husbands?
I don’t think Mrs. Edwards would have to worry about anything like that with those two, even considering her weight issues.
baldilocks on February 14, 2007 at 2:25 AM
What did McEwan say that was so objectionable? I’ve only seen Marcotte quotes.
McEwan:johnedwards.com::Me:hotair.com ?
Mark Jaquith on February 14, 2007 at 4:58 AM
Both these witches deserved to be slapped down by the blogosphere. And Edwards is now toast.
georgej on February 14, 2007 at 6:07 AM
Why does someone with a 30000 sq ft house bother with these illiterate morons…
benrand on February 14, 2007 at 6:18 AM
whats funny is that according to some, blogs can expose someone to public scrutiny that the BM ignores or helps obscure. Here’s a case someone busted themselves- on thier own blog!
Jen the Neocon on February 14, 2007 at 3:56 PM