Joining Amanda Marcotte fellow Edwards campaign blogger Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare’s Sister has announced her departure.

Her blog post announcing her departure was a much more, how shall I say this, conciliatory, than Marcottes whose filled her blog up with new posts highlight the very vitriol she was condemned for by the right and some on the left.

I am not taking sides in this debate but I do hope both girls take something away from it. Mainly that there is an online world where arrows are slung and a physical world where they actually hurt people. Yes there was a campaign by the right to oust them and score political points, but that doesn’t negate there being some substance to their points.

Meanwhile a good sign that the issue was not going to disappear but only grow was from Bill O’Reilly’s broadcast: