Plenty of other bloggers like Jill and Scott are doing an excellent job of covering the Megan Papada flap. I’ve written comments at both Writes Like She Talks and Pho’s Akron Pages and I’ll leave those much better informed bloggers to carry the real burden of the conversation. As they have, here, here and, most importantly, here.

What I’d like to mention is what I consider to be an unacceptable response from Todd Hoffman, ODP’s online communications director.

In an email to Scott Peipho, Hoffman wrote:

As an employee of ODP, any statements, past or present, in the public domain reflect upon the Party so we let her go within hours of learning of the situation.

If the only reason Pappada was let go was what she wrote as a college freshman then the ODP is an ass.

Has the ODP called upon Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) to resign?

Would the ODP have called for the United States Senate to reject Hugo Black as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court?

What I really see here is that the ODP didn’t do a simple Google search and, in it’s scramble backward to cover its ass, trampled Pappada.

Such are the things that make Conservatives.