Blind Ambition
The one thing I can’t understand about this whole thing with John Edwards’ former bloggers —Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan— is why they would have consented to take those jobs in the first place.
Their judgement must be pretty suspect if they actually believed that their extreme and vulgar posts wouldn’t come to reflect poorly on their employer. That is, I assume that these dames must be somewhat intelligent if they have developed a following in the blogosphere —so it must be something else.
I think it was their desire for a little fame and fortune that blunted their judgement and gave them some nerve. After all, the campaign of the 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee wanted them on board to speak for Silkiness himself. And they were going to turn that down? No way! They grabbed for it and never permitted themselves to recognize the truth of their reputations and how that would affect the public’s opinion of Edwards —that great protector of extreme anti-Catholic feminoids.
I think I read earlier that McEwan is apologizing to her readers for quitting the field. Okay. But is she sorry for her self or is she sorry that she was exposed before her friends as a sell-out who caved into pressure from the very people they hate most in this world? I mean, that’s gotta hurt, right? To demonstrate through your own failures the truth that your view of the world is so ugly that it cannot find acceptance in society at large?
That’s why these things congregate at the edges.
I do, too, but if I were ever offered a job as a political commentator in such a high-profile venue as what Marcotte and McEwan once had, I would have to think twice about the intelligence of the people who would make such an offer.
But, you know, Groucho said it better than me.
