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• Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:58 PM

  Marcotte did not do any of us any favor

  Amanda Marcotte is not the victim that she wants us all to think she is, and despite her version of events, she did not serve us well. Her stuff on the blog was intensely offensive to people who are trying to separate politics and religious beliefs. Her caricature of the "Lord ......." is so vile and utterly without redeeming value that she had to go, at least from a national political campaign perspective. What she said is the equivalent to using the "N" word in a rant in a crowded night club or a famous actor getting loaded and spewing anti-semitic venom. The irony is that HAD she attacked one of these priveleged groups, would Salon have given her page one space to do a post-mortem? The obvious answer is that Salon does not consider Catholics as one of their core constituencies nor does Salon feel the urge to pay very close attention to anti-Catholic vitriol in its many forms. In her piece, Marcotte gleefully repeats the offensive blog that started all this fuss and Joan Walsh (nominally Catholic) did not feel compelled to edit it out. Instead, Joan Walsh carries the water for Marcotte by prefacing this sorry affair with a three page "explanation" for why the liberal media is so incompetant in these matters.

  Marcotte's stated objective was to bring the blog into the mainstream of political thought and possibly influence events, but I do not think she has the slightest idea what she would do if that were to happen.

  —rtf100 Read rtf100's other letters
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