Revision of Shakespeare's Pandagon-mania from 7 February 2007 - 3:43pm

Richard Cranium is calling for an email campaign and blogswarm.

Let’s be clear on something - Amanda and Melissa are among the most savvy, articulate progressive commentators in the blogosphere. The Edwards’ campaign is most fortunate to have both of them working on internet outreach. So, to me, this is just another example of right wing blogs pushing a story into the mainstream media to create some noise based on out-of-context cherry picking of inflammatory buzzwords and snarky posting. But afterall, isn’t that what this medium is all about?

Ok, so, I’m going to ask you to do something. If you feel as I do, that this is a trumped up manufactured controversy by organizations that wouldn’t vote for Edwards in a million years anyway, please drop a line to the Edwards campaign.

We need to support our own in this regard. If the Edwards campaign buckles on this one, and fires Amanda and Melissa, I will immediately drop my own support for John Edwards. It’s not that I will have changed my views on his issues, but that his campaign will have shown no spine early on. And I want a candidate (and campaign) with spine.

Make sure you put "SUPPORT AMANDA AND MELISSA" on your email to the Edwards campaign.

Here's a list of posts so far :

me : The swiftboating of John Edwards Political Courage

Zuzu at Feministe : This is really getting out of hand

Chicago Dyke at CorrenteWire : Courage vs. Popularity

Shakes herself : Ol' Bill is ticked

Jessica at Feministing : The post in which I scrub my skin off with a brillo pad

UPDATES!

Shelzebub at Pinko Feminist Hellcat : Further adventures in right-wing hypocrisy

Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Terrirtory : A look at John McCain's blogger-consultant

Barbara at Mahablog : Intimidation

Evan at Alternet : Updated: John Edwards campaign deciding fate of bloggers

Martin at Booman Tribune Edwards Need to Show Some Spine

McJoan at Daily Kos Edwards and the Bloggers

Ann at Feminist Law Professors : In Support of Amanda Marcotte

Ann at Feministing : Advice to Associated Press headline writers

Duncan at Eschaton : Uh, Edwards Campaign?

Elayne at Penn-Elayne : Bit of a Blogaround

Matt at MyDD More Instability

Ezra : Edwards, Marcotte, and McEwan

Micah at Personal Democracy Forum : Still More on Edwards-Marcotte Non-Scandal

Mark at Tapped : WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, EDWARDS?

P at PSoTD : Piling On and Suburban Guerrilla

John at Crooks and Liars : ABC’s Terry Moran should be ashamed

Scott has 2 from Lawyers, Guns and Money : Department of Offensive Historical Analogies and People Who Are Paid to Use The Language Of Anti-Bigotry to Mask Crackpottery: To Be Ignored

Steve at News Blog : Are you shitting me?

Sean at The Agonist : John Edwards Bowing To Winger Pressure?

Gavin at SadlyNO! : Terry And The Pirates

Tennessee Guerrilla Women Edwards reconsiders hire

Matt at Rights Field Conservative Media, A bar so low and Huffington Post

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