No name wrote:

"Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?

A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology."

Can you please provide a link to where marcotte published these comments?

I just searched the archives over at Pandagon and couldn't find anything like this. Or are you just making this shit up because you're an inflamatory troll?

Donohue is not an official representative of anything Catholic. Don't confuse him with the church or its members (as several letter writers already have). When you give him that undue power, your inaccuracy will seep through the media eventually and give him influence over low-information media consumers.

I've always wondered what Glenn looked like...:-)

Glenn wrote:

"Gordon's appeal to rank credentialism borders on the incoherent."

I've spent some of my productive adult career in the journalism field and one of the junior-league tricks that sources (low level govt bureaucrats or wannabe expert authors usually) will play on a reporter is to say "I'm an expert. Trust me when I say this," or "It's too complicated to explain, just take my word for it" or "My vast experience entitles me to be taken at my word without explaination." Any reporter--or for that matter any intelligent person--should hear their bullshit detector going off when someone gives that type of an answer.

Gordon falls back on this kind of low-brow dodge in his responses to both Amy Goodman and the letter writer. Is that all he's got? How arrogant, dismissive and contempuous can he be? It's like he's barely even trying to be credible.

The Fool wrote:

The funny thing about most journalists is that they're not really very smart. They have no field of expertise. Most of them went to journalism school where they studied journalism, rather than gaining any real expertise in a real academic field.

By that standard, Glenn should refrain from writing about journalism because he doesn't have a degree in journalism.

For that matter, perhaps we should require people to pass tests before they could vote.

I'm being snarky, but sadly enough, I know there are a fair number of people who might agree these statements after what has happened in this country since 2000.

Glenn's article leads us to the point where we have to say that democracy requires not only a free press but a FUNCTIONING press for voters to make informed decisions about their government. That mandate is being fulfilled better by open-source, alternative internet media than by an MSM that employs "journalists" like Michael Gordon.

A victory was won on behalf of progressive and netroots when Edwards decided to keep her on the payroll. Amanda, for selfish reasons, has snatched away that victory. So what if she can now go after Donohue in an uninhibited way. She can go off in her own universe and battle Donohue forever but the thing that mattered, that was worth something, was that she became a symbol of unyielding progressive political strength.

She could have waited a few months and resign before the general election to nullify any residual political vulnerability to Edwards.

You wrote:

We liberals should not be giving aid and comfort to Islam, but should rather be standing up to it. If you do so, good for you - you're in good (and growing) company. But we would still be exceptions among progressives.

Stand up to Islam...Don't you think that's a little broad? In the first gulf war, Syria was a member of our military coalition. After Sept. 11th, there were spontaneous candlelight marches in Tehran to who solidarity with America during our tragedy.

Now our govt. won't even speak to these two nations to try to end the carnage in Iraq, and by our belligerence has thrown the Iranian reformers under the bus.

What "stand up to Islam" means to me is swinging blindly at friend and foe alike and an inability to tell the difference between them.

I hope that the next time that a blogger gets hired/selected/appointed/chosen for a high profile position, the person has political instincts.

Amanda is a great bomb thrower for fans of feminist deconstruction, but failed to understand the political stakes in her situation. I mean, for her to--after everything that has happened--publish a new article that rags on the virgin birth just shows poor political judgment.

Either that or her ideas about Christianity and feminism are so ingrained that she fails to see that she is expressing an extreme interpretation (befoul) and takes what she writes to be mere reality.