Edwards Fires Bloggers

UPDATE: Thursday, early afternoon: The two bloggers are not fired.  

Reports are roaring through the blogosphere that the Edwards Campaign has fired the two bloggers, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, that have been at the center of the latest blogstorm. That is actually a bad thing for Edwards as well as the blogosphere as a whole (not to mention the two women). There are a lot of reactions already.

I think the extreme rhetoric of the two bloggers should have been enough to keep them from getting the jobs in the first place. The left believes things like putting Wolf Blitzer into blackface is cutting edge humor. They don't quite understand that outside of their echo chamber the rest of the world thinks they are completely hateful. So the Edwards campaign set themselves up for this situation in the first place. But Edwards looks like either an idiot or a wimp right now. And the nutroots will be in full attack mode on him (and on the right as well) over this whole situation. It is about to get kind of ugly for a while, folks.

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UPDATE: Bloggers NOT fired.