Now the New York Times is covering it!

Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world have landed his presidential campaign in hot water for doing what bloggers do — expressing their opinions in provocative and often crude language.

The Catholic League, a conservative religious group, is demanding that Mr. Edwards dismiss the two, Amanda Marcotte of the Pandagon blog site and Melissa McEwan, who writes on her blog, ShakespeareÂ’s Sister, for expressing anti-Catholic opinions.

Mr. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, is among the leading Democratic presidential candidates.

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said in a statement on Tuesday, “John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots.”

Mr. EdwardsÂ’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, said Tuesday night that the campaign was weighing the fate of the two bloggers.

Will the Edwards campaign – like the Biden campaign – be tarnished by yet another scandal that that would have passed unnoticed in years past, but became a story because of the intrepid work of the journalists of the blogosphere.

UPDATE: Terry Moran of ABC News asks – Does John Edwards Condone Hate Speech?

UPDATE 2: Have the girls been fired by Edwards? Will they stay fired?

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