Right On The Right

Amanda Marcotte's other half is gone. She claims she wasn't pressured out by the Edwards campaign but I can't imagine her bosses were very happy with all the pressure being put on them to fire her. Starting a campaign by hiring Jesus-bashers just isn't good strategy. Malkin points out that the Associated Press is playing spin-doctor:

A second blogger working for Democratic presidential prospect John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative critics who said her previous online messages were anti-Catholic.

Melissa McEwan wrote on her personal blog, Shakespeare's Sister, that she left the campaign because she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the level of attention focused on her and her family.

"This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign," she said Tuesday night.

McEwan's resignation comes just one day after another blogger, Amanda Marcotte, left the Edwards staff for similar reasons.

You spin me right round baby, right round. Like a record baby, right round, round round.