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To: combjelly who wrote (325111)	2/8/2007 11:36:05 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578097

MrLucky said she did. And you don't become MrLucky because of your skills.

To: combjelly who wrote (325111)	2/8/2007 12:02:45 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578097

Blog bog "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 noted yesterday. "The bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, formerly of Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare's Sister, had come under fire from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs. A statement by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, which called Marcotte and McEwan 'anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots,' and an accompanying article on the controversy in the New York Times [yesterday], put extra pressure on the campaign. ... "This isn't the first Internet-related misstep for the Edwards campaign, which had been making an effort to reach out to the 'netroots' but has found its popularity dropping in a straw poll done on the landmark liberal blog Daily Kos." Miss Marcotte at one point wrote that the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to contraception forced women "to bear more tithing Catholics" and made blasphemous comments about the Virgin Mary. Of the three Duke University lacrosse players accused of sexual assault, she sarcastically observed, "Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair." Miss McEwan, meanwhile, chastised President Bush's "wingnut Christofascist base" and demanded that religious conservatives "stop meddling with women's reproductive and sexual rights." The Times observed, "Other campaigns are likely to face similar controversies as they try to court voters using the latest techniques of online communication."