Beltway Blogroll rounds up the latest blog coverage of the growing controversy over former Sen. John Edwards' pick to run his presidential campaign blog, Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon.
The scandalous storyline: Like all bloggers, Marcotte is fast and loose with her opinions, and her opinion of the infamous rape allegations against lacrosse players at Duke University didn't sit well with some folks. When Marcotte started catching flak for that opinion, she apparently deleted it and started altering other comments at Pandagon.
Marcotte's move to the Edwards campaign and the subsequent hiring of another blogger, Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister, as netroots coordinator won praise from her netroots friends.
"What this move symbolizes in the blogosphere is that Edwards team understands how to move to the left on the issues," wrote Jerome Armstrong of MyDD. "The early move by Edwards to consolidate the liberal wing of the Democratic party at the beginning is very smart."
But now Marcotte's attempts to airbrush her past are fast becoming a black-eye for Edwards...
Beltway Blogroll notes that criticism of Marcotte is coming from both Left and Right. Some commenters in a forum at TalkLeft called Marcotte a "political liability" to Edwards...
Photo: Amanda Marcotte. Credit: Pandagon
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