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• Friday, February 16, 2007 06:54 AM

  Let's end this game

  I find this defense of Marcotte to be nauseating. If soothing her feelings is some kind of great Liberal cause now, it is a truly pathetic one.

  Here are the facts: Marcotte was quoted accurately, in-context and she obviously meant every word of what she said. HOW is this a "smear"?

  It isn't. It's a clear case of being hoisted by one's own petard. You live by identity politics, you die by identity politics.

  So a character assassin gets hateful e-mail? This is supposed to shock and dismay us? Is this supposed to evoke pity? She takes pleasure in hurting others. How am I supposed to feel sorry for such a person?

  She assails "bigots" while spouting raw bigotry herself. Her main mode of discourse is to put her words in other people's mouths (the dishonest "shorter" shtick) where she crafts not mere straw-men but whole straw- populations. This is truly malevolent projection elevated to an art-form. She loudly proclaims the Duke lacrosse team to be rapists whatever the facts, she maligns white North Carolinans (ironic, considering her former employer) and insulted Catholics in a way that'd be considered vile if it were directed at Jews or Muslims. And as sexists go, she's a doozy; she's the kind of creepy man-hater-in-denial who gives feminism a bad name.

  Her ugly little fantasy world at Pandagon was held-up by deleting dissenters and banning anyone who spoke the truth; it collapsed upon confronting the real world where real people can't be silenced with a keystroke. Her "just kidding" retraction was truly pathetic and now she's gone back to doing exactly what she did pre-retraction. This makes her a out-and-out liar, a demagogue, an opportunist and a coward. Anyone who believes her to be some kind of brave "truth teller" is a dupe or too embarassed to admit the obvious.

  And now she's a victim. It's because she's a woman. Her detractors have tiny penises. What the hell ever.

  She has learned NOTHING from this experience. Not. A. Damned. Thing. She hasn't grown a whit. Why is this individual being treated like a child? Why is she to be shielded from the results of her own nastiness? What is with this failure to call a spade a spade? Because she calls herself a "feminist"? Because she's supposedly on our side? Hah.

  Would it embarass too many of her fans to admit that she's a hate-filled hack and, let's be honest here, not terribly bright?

  Let's stop this sickening game. She's a loser who inherited a high-traffic blog and much of the praise heaped on her was undeserved from the beginning.

  Hey, Mandy: If you want find someone to blame, look in the damned mirror. And if you want to make it in grown-up land, stop acting like a 10-year old.

  —Linney Uston
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