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I did see anything in the alleged threats that proves that all or any of them came from Donohue supporters. Donohue may have shined a light on Marcotte's writing and responded to the ones that he felt were specifically anti-Catholic, but there was plenty of vulgar crap there to offend lots of people, Catholic or otherwise.
As a previous poster pointed out, Marcotte is playing the traditional feminist victim here. On her little immature fairy tale blog she is free to insult anyone with impunity, but when she is criticized she tries to claim that it is only because she's a woman- and that's a bunch of crap.
Why did Salon feel the need to give her a microphone here?