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Salon.com: Edwards Campaign Fires Bloggers

Salon.com is reporting that the presidential campaign of John Edwards has fired bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.

But the publication also reports this:

Speculation from sources that the two bloggers might be rehired was bolstered by Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, who said in an e-mail that she would "caution [Salon] against reporting that they have been fired. We will have something to say later."

This isn't the first Internet-related misstep for the Edwards campaign, which had been making an effort to reach out to the "netroots" but has found its popularity dropping in a straw poll done on the landmark liberal blog Daily Kos. Though he still leads the poll by one point over Sen. Barack Obama, Edwards' support has dropped nine points in the past three weeks.

I don't even know what to make of that story -- hired, fired and possibly rehired, all in a week's time. That would just be bizarre.

UPDATE: "The Salon story is not credible and cannot be verified at this time," said Chris Bowers of MyDD. "The campaign is still involved in internal discussions." He also warned: I have a pretty vicious rant and an important action alert lined up, but I am waiting to hear from the Edwards camp ... before doing anything."

Posted by Danny | 04:05 PM

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