Update: The two bloggers are safe (for now?). The sad thing for the girls is that they just came into this job and will now spend a good amount of time living this down and knowing they hurt their candidate personally and possibly professionally. As I said in a previous post it was Edward’s job (the job of his campaign) to actually read the blog posts of the people they were hiring.

It is neither of the girls fault, what they wrote was public record, but it is a lesson for them and all bloggers that it is easy to sling arrows and share your personal life’s details from behind the LCD. It is a whole other thing to have to live with what you put out.
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I am kind of surprised the John Edward’s blogger scandal (posted about here and here and here) has blown up this much. CNN reported on it and now Salon is reporting that Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, the two bloggers at the heart of this thing, have been fired. Or possibly fired and re-hired. They aren’t sure and the Edwards campaign appears to be silent on the subject.

I am sure more will come out today. I pretty much chuckled when I first heard the term scandal associated with this but in election season I guess pretty much anything can blow up to a whole, as the West Wing would frequently coin, “thing”.