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Curse you, Ms. Marcotte, for managing to give even loathsome creatures such as Donahue and O'Reilly the moral high ground.
I'm an atheist. But if you didn't realize that your 'parody' of the virgin birth would be offensive to much of the electorate, you don't deserve to be within a mile of a political campaign. If you had any sense, you would have realized that you were a potential liability to your candidate, and not taken the job in the first place.
But you really revealed yourself to be vile with your comment on the Duke lacrosse case. As the case has systematically crumbled, you nonetheless stuck to your three-note song about "race, class, and gender", while innocent peoples' lives were being destroyed. They're human beings, even if they're white, rich, and in frats.
And, just out of curiosity, as someone so concerned with race and gender, how did you end up passing on the first mainstream female and black candidates, and end up supporting the white Southern man with a mansion, and no record of pro bono work?
