If he was only looking for someone to run a blog on his website, why would he pick Marcotte? Her prose is mediocre at best, poor at worst. It is my opinion that her excessive vulgarity and often angry tone gives her blogging a very crass feel to it. There are literally thousands of writers out in the blogosphere who are more eloquent than Marcotte.

Her stated positions also differ sharply from Edwards’ opinions as well. She’s an avowed socialist, she’s very hostile to all religion (Christianity in particular), she supports abortion on demand, gay marriage, etc.

Ted’s comment about judging a blogger based on the “most inflammatory of her thousands of past posts” reveals a gross ignorance of Marcotte’s writings. Far from being an aberration, Marcotte’s post on the Duke lacrosse is emblematic of her thought pattern, a pattern where males, particularly white males, are guilty until proven inn–errr, well I’m not sure if males can ever be let off the hook in Marcotte’s eyes.

It’s been almost a year. The “evidence” was never worth the ink, much the less the paper.

And yet, the charges have not yet been dropped. And a significant portion of the public branded them as guilty, publicly, loudly, and repeatedly.

The parallels are certainly there (the guys must be guilty because of their race and the race of the accused, for instance). That we hav caught it BEFORE they spent years in jail is a GOOD thing, but that’s no thanks to the prosecutor and the media (among others). Their intent was the same.

Then we can have us a class action suit against Edwards and git us a piece O dat fancy ranch he jest built!

You say that you:

“somehow doubt that the Duke Boys will be involved in a SCOTUS case over this, or spend years in jail over this.”

Um, maybe that’s because the blogdom stopped that from happening.

Really? You see a parallel between black kids in the ’30s being sentenced to death by an all white jury on weak evidence and white kids at an elite university in 2006/7 being only accused of rape, after which the prosecutor is (rightfully) sanctioned?

I somehow doubt that the Duke Boys will be involved in a SCOTUS case over this, or spend years in jail over this.

The lovely Miss Marcotte is a good blogger (at least to judge by the size of her readership, which is a heck of a lot larger than mine!), but I have to wonder how someone who has been so free with her opinions can long tolerate the restrictions under which she’ll have to operate as Senator Edwards’ blogmistress.

It might be that the very things that make a blooger a good blogger unfit him for a position like the one Miss Marcotte accepted.