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Make. It. Stop.

Backstory: The Edwards campaign hires Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. Cranky rightwingers dig up a few out of their hundreds of blog posts that are, shall we say, colorful. Bill "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular ... Hollywood likes anal sex. They like to see it in the public square with nativity scenes." Donohue, president of the ultra-right wing Catholic League (which doesn't represent All Catholics, by any stretch of the imagination), professes outrage and demans scalps. Nedra Pickler, a frequent target for campaigns looking to have a reporter transcribe their press releases, dutifully parrots Donohue's outrage at the use of foul language and "bigotry" by said bloggers.

This is all completely absurd. In the Internet era, everyone will have a track record a mile long, as Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R-MA) is learning the hard way. We need to get the the point where politics is more than the art of taking the few worst words you can find in your opponent's history (or in this case, your opponent's staffer who has little to no impact on policy) and blowing them completely out of proportion. Let's let CNN cover this snafu today and move on.

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Last updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 05:03 07 February 2007