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Millions of viewers won’t watch the Democrats debate on Fox News, according to Politico.com.
This is victory?
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Will the Congressional Black Caucus cave, too?
Update - ICN has a statement:
Here is FNC VP David Rhodes statement on the news that the Nevada State Democratic Party caved in to left wing pressure and pulled out of the debate FNC [...]

World yawns. Kos crows.
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This is Richard Reed Pannell. He’s a student at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. On Saturday, he was minding his own business, taking a shower in this house he shares with classmates…

…when an unhinged stranger–a raving leftist who had tracked him down on social [...]

Obama’s got it locked up. Phew. The suspense was killing me.
Obama’s also got the coveted Rep. Keith Ellison endorsement. And here’s vid of him smoothing out the ruffled feathers with Hillary.
At an Obama-less forum, the rest of the Dems talk amongst themselves. Bitterness, backbiting, backstabbing, and backtracking ensue. More from the NYTimes:
wo Democratic presidential rivals [...]

The other John Edwards nutroots shoe drops.
As usual, guess who’s getting blamed. More blame-the-messenger hysterics and hyperbole at–where else?–HuffPo.

Bryan Preston responds to McEwan’s claims of hate mail and death threats:
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 [...]

All is not well in Ponyville.
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A blogger at John Edwards site wonders:

I think we know the answer. Dean Barnett underlines it:
As for Edwards, he looks irredeemably pathetic. There’s a simple reason for this - he is irredeemably pathetic. He hired someone who had no business being legitimated by a mainstream political campaign. He then bowed [...]

“Blogmaster” Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards’ campaign (the site is currently down). Of course, it’s all the right wing’s and Catholic activists’ fault (a blame-avoidance strategy I highlighted on The O’Reilly Factor tonight before news of Marcotte’s resignation broke). Writes Marcotte this evening:
I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and [...]

Terry Moran: Defending his brother’s honor
ABC’s Terry Moran has taken heat from conservatives in the past.
Now, he’s getting flak from left-wing critics for questioning the wisdom of John Edwards’ blogging staff. Those critics have also been attacking his blogging brother, Rick (hat tip: Greg Tinti).
What’s so admirable and deeply moving to me is the way [...]

From John Edwards’ blog:
The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte’s and Melissa McEwan’s posts personally offended me. It’s not how I talk to people, and it’s not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that kind of intolerant language [...]

Jason Mattera reports.
Well, that’ll cheer up John Edwards’ “godbag“-bashing anti-Catholic bloggers.

***3:00pm Eastern update - Report - Edwards fires bloggers?…Salon - “The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps — John Edwards has fired the two controversial bloggers he recently hired to do liberal blogger outreach, Salon has learned. The bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, formerly of Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare’s Sister, had come under fire from [...]

Pablo at Protein Wisdom reports.
Meanwhile, Kathryn Lopez looks at the anti-Catholic hatred of John Edwards’ blogmaster.
At least one feminst law professor is happy.
The nutroots are not so happy about our Masterpiece Theater spoof of Marcotte. Check out their comments at YouTube.
They really are a humorless bunch, aren’t they?

Enjoy our Hot Air Theater presentation of the wit and wisdom of Amanda Marcotte, the official blogmaster of the John Edwards for President campaign:

Walter Olson follows up:
Part of what lends the Marcotte episode such a comic aspect, however, is the timing and nature of her post and later revision. Her vitriolic rant asserting the lacrosse [...]

Guess good fences don’t always make good neighbors.
And about that brand spanking new Edwards’ manor, MKH has a few things to say:
Listen, I got no problem with the guy being rich and spending his money how he wishes, but it is supremely obnoxious that just about every liberal politican lives like the top 1 percent [...]

Amanda Marcotte: A bleepin’ embarrassment
Last week, far left-wing blogger Amanda Marcotte began her stint as Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards’ “blogmaster:”
This is both my first post to the Edwards blog and my announcement that I’m joining the presidential campaign for John Edwards for 2008. I’ll be taking over the job of Blogmaster (mistress?) over [...]

I haven’t been overly thrilled with the GOP presidential candidates so far, but it looks like the other side has it worse.
Wes Clark seems like he’s ready to jump in again–prompting James Joyner to observe:
Interestingly, the Democratic field looks to be shaping up as Hillary Clinton versus a bunch of folks who have run before [...]

I don’t like to mud wrestle, but sometimes the slime-flingers need to be held accountable. All week, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and his left-wing vassals have tried to blame female conservative commentators for one nutball’s fake anthrax letter attacks. Reportedly, the suspect was a Free Republic.com member whose pseudonymous profile noted that he “worshipped” Ann [...]

John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic vice presidential candidate, says his vote on the Iraq war was a mistake.
Edwards, who essentially rose to prominence because of his pretty face and his bouncy hair, has now come full-circle on his Iraq position.
Edwards didn’t just vote to authorize force, he was one of the co-sponsors [...]

As you may know, left-wing activists held a conference in D.C. this week called Take Back America. They invited Howard Dean and John Kerry to speak. Neither mentioned Iraq, which has the “progressives” up in arms. Reports David Corn:
Former (and current?) presidential aspirant John Edwards addressed a crowd of hundreds at lunch. He talked earnestly [...]

Sen. John Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth, is a frequent commenter in the far-left fever swamps of the Democratic Underground discussion forum (see, for example, here and here).
Yesterday, Mrs. Edwards surfaced on a DU thread about conservative radio talk show hostess extraordinaire Laura Ingraham, who underwent surgery yesterday for breast cancer. (Hat tip: Reader Eddie.) When the [...]

Right Wing News delves into the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground and pulls out the 10 Worst Quotes from rabid libs.
John Leo compiles the 2004 awards for over-the-top rhetoric.
Quin Hilyer highlights the invaluable Media Research Center’s top examples of media bias.
And keying off the news that “blog” is the word of the year, here’s [...]

I’m sorry I didn’t see Gilbert Meilaender’s excellent New Atlantis article on embryonic stem cell research before Election Day. Meilaender, a member of the President’s Commission on Bioethics, was one of my professors at Oberlin College in the late 1980s.
As Meilaender argues, the advocates of embyronic stem cell research, such as Ron Reagan, do not [...]

Kerry just finished speaking. I have nothing but good words at this moment. He was human–the catch in his throat when he thanked supporters from the “bottom of his heart.” He was a man–explaining unapologetically that he could not win. And unlike John Edwards, Kerry displayed almost none of the smarminess or hubris that so [...]

Tonight’s results are huge vindication for Zell Miller.
Democrat Fritz Hollings’ seat goes Republican.
Democrat John Edwards’ seat goes Republican.
Louisiana’s Senate seat looks like it will go Republican.
Kerry failed to secure the South.
Miller wrote in his book, A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat:
National Democratic leaders know nothing about the modern South. [...]

Chalk it up to sleep deprivation, but I honestly feel a wee bit sorry for John Edwards. This video of him fussing with his feathery Breck hair before a TV interview will undoubtedly be the laughingstock of the blogosphere and beyond today.
Yeah, he’s prissier than most. Waaayy prissier. But if you secretly taped almost any [...]

John Kerry stooped to the lowest of the low with the shameless, invasive line that will be played over and over again on the news in the next 24 hours:
And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she was, [...]

Here is the opening paragraph of the AP post-debate propaganda masquerading as analysis:
With cold efficiency, Vice President Dick Cheney sought to eviscerate the credibility of the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night..
Can you imagine an AP report focusing on Edwards’ performance that began “With gooey unctuousness, Sen. John Edwards etc…”
The wire service’s anti-Bush/Cheney bent has been [...]

That’s how Morton Kondracke described John Edwards’ performance against Vice President Cheney tonight. I concur.
Cheney raises Sen. Edwards’ lousy record on defense and intelligence matters, and Edwards yaps pointlessly about…”Meals on Wheels.”
Edwards’ cloying closing statement was stunningly weak compared to Cheney’s stalwart, policy-packed summation.
Three quick media notes:
1) Gwen Ifill deserves strong praise for [...]

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has protested the NY Times crossword puzzle, Fox News, and the Crazy Eddie advertising campaign for discriminating against mentally ill patients.
We’ll be checking in to see if NAMI condemns Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards’ latest remarks about crazy people.
Update: A reader steams…
Ok, Edwards has now said I [...]

CBS News isn’t the only one failing to disclose the political activism of purportedly ordinary Americans fearful of the return of a draft. NBC News has its own Beverly Cocco. His name is Jeremy Tor.
Here’s the full transcript of the draft-mongering segment that ran on NBC Nightly News last night:
TOM BROKAW, anchor:
One issue that may [...]