Update: Um, I think this is like a late term abortion, so it's okay, right?
Alas no. Marcotte chickened out. She went back and deleted the post, presumably after it was linked to today by a conservative North Carolina blog. Marcotte left this justification:... Let's see if there is a final word from the Edwards campaign as well. And when will people learn that Google cache means, "Forever."
What terrific judgment Breck Boy must have. I can hardly wait to see her well-crafted prose start turning up on Edwards campaign blog.
... Edwards was one of the state’s best-known civil attorneys*. He even worked in the law firm of Wade Smith, Collin Finnerty’s lead attorney in the lacrosse case. So if anyone should be sensitive to massive prosecutorial abuse, it’s Edwards.
His response? First silence—and then, as Liestoppers and Betsy Newmark have noted, appointing as his campaign’s lead blogger a figure who has branded the players guilty, in ugly rhetoric that almost makes Wendy Murphy look temperate.
In the meantime, I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good fucking god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and fucked her against her will—not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out.
Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it?
So unfair.
Indeed. You know what would be even worse? If Time declared John
"You dumb shit, he didn't get access using a fake name, he used his real name. You lefties' concern for White House security is really touching, but you know what, you stupid asshole, I think the Secret Service has it covered. Go crawl back into your hole, you stupid left-wing shithead. And don't bother us anymore. You have to have an IQ over 50 to correspond with us. You don't qualify, you stupid shit."
Hinderaker blogger of the year. Boy, would they have egg on their face! I'm sure the Right would denounce him in unison.
Posted by: scarshapedstar | Friday, February 02, 2007 at 05:38 PM
Maybe that's why no one has hired him.
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Friday, February 02, 2007 at 07:19 PM
"Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? "
I wonder how many times Edwards will be asked this question before he quits.
Posted by: Alexandra B | Saturday, February 03, 2007 at 11:45 AM