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• Friday, February 16, 2007 10:42 AM

  This is OK With You People?

  However, what happened then is unimaginable. Amanda and Melissa became deluged - not with bible verses or other scripture - but with death threats, rape threats, and other forms of torture or bodily harm. Minutes before a telephone conversation I had with Melissa, someone had driven up to her own home and pounded threateningly on her door, leaving after many, many fear-filled minutes.

  And Melissa McEwen wasn't even the one who wrote the alleged "anti-Catholic screeds." She just happened to be another female progressive blogger. But all of them look alike in print, so it's OK to terrorize all of them and their families too, while so-called liberals stand around going, "Neener neener, you got what you deserved you dumb c***s." Right?

  I couldn't fathom where this attitude could possibly be coming from. This site is supposed to be progressive and feminist, right? (OK, allow me my illusion of that for th sake of argument, just for a sec.) So why all the hateful hateyness?

  Then it hit me.

  Y'all are jealous of Amanda.

  Yes, all you laughably overpaid cushy anonymous coward yuppiejobbers who think you're undiscovered "geniuses," I see all those ugly green contact lenses. Why Amanda Marcotte? She's nobody. Why didn't John Edwards discover my genius and elevate me, brilliant me, me who is superior in every conceivable way to that awful awful Amanda? I wouldn't mind if Bill Donahue's minions poisoned my dog. Heck, I woudn't even mind if they killed my mom, I never liked the old bitch anyway. Just give me the glory glory!

  Sorry to break the news to you yups, but you're dead wrong, at least about your gross overestimations of your ability to turn a phrase. John Edwards picked her and not you because not a one of you has a flyspeck of Amanda Marcotte's talent. Heck, I don't have a flyspeck of Amanda's talent either, but at least I admit it. I'm not sitting around diddling myself that I'm some kind of undiscovered Voice of My Generation who was somehow unjustly denied the high-profile campaign assignment I "deserved."

  The fact that she gave a damn whether her family members lived or died because of some insane quasi-Catholic jihad against her and everyone who looked like her is just icing on the cupcake. It's nice that someone in the world gives a damn about someone else besides themselves. Maybe some of you could try it sometime, if only for five minutes. Maybe then you'd even get "discovered."

  —thekiti Read thekiti's other letters
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