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• Friday, February 16, 2007 02:34 PM

  Marcotte's own words are part of the right-wing smear machine?

  To read Ms. Marcotte's recent self-victimization, one can't help but be impressed with one of the most drawn-out, complex, self-centered instances of intellectual suicide of the blog era. Having been very critical of the possible logic and motivation that lead John Edwards to hire-fire-hire"resign" Ms. Marcotte, I am only really certain of one thing. The best argument that any respectable organization should be wary of associating themselves with Ms. Marcotte is contained in Ms. Marcotte's own reckless writing. Despite the fact that many of the posts in question have been removed from Ms. Marcotte's blogs in a cowardly attempt to deceive the public as to her record, virtually all of the reasoned objections to Ms. Marcotte's sentiments make no assumptions about her position outside of her own statements. It would seem that, in Ms. Marcotte's world, a right-wing smear attack consists of nothing more than a quotation of something which she previously wrote.

  Ms. Marcotte should pray that she avoids a civil suit for her comments on the Duke University lacrosse team scandal. Her comments, now desperately deleted by Ms. Marcotte herself but preserved by others, were libelous, despicably insensitive and recklessly uninformed. Commentary such as hers should be criminal.

  —Vivien Thomas
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