AMANDA-GONE

PANDA-GONE

You've got to accentuate the positive

Eliminate the negative

Latch on to the affirmative

Don't mess with Mr. In-Between

You've got to spread joy up to the maximum

Bring gloom down to the minimum

Have faith or pandemonium

Liable to walk upon the scene. . . .

- Johnny Mercer (I think)

'nuf said.

I remember being in high school in the early sixties and starting up an underground newspaper with some friends. It was amazingly successful drawing interest from jocks, ham radio nuts, metal shop majors and of course the vast left wing conspiracy. We wrote about the Civil Rights struggle, the early stages of the United States involvement in Vietnam, cafeteria food, some weirdness called girl's sports night, the Kennedy assassination, in short everything. This made school administrators and some community leader types furious but the paper lasted for four or five years which meant it bridged a few graduating classes. It cost some us college recommendations and some time in detention. At first we sold it on school grounds. When we were forbidden to sell it we held a few hootenannys ( google that ) and raised enough money to give the paper away.

This brings me to blogs and the nasty treatment Ms. Marcotte has received. Blogs are a bit like that old underground school paper. There are few rules, people can really express themselves, and you get published quite easily. The down side is that freedom of expression has always been seen as subversive as well as highly valued in our culture. People's words have been used against them in very unfair ways for as long as the country has existed. I guess we ( well you yougins...I am old enough to not have to give a shit anymore ) have to decide if you want to express yourselves publicly and honestly or if you want to be anonymous so that in the future your words won't be used against you. All of life really is like high school and turds like Mr. Donohue are just waiting to give out detentions.

fat, unattractive, angry feminist who is rails since she did not win the genetic lottery of beauty. Why is it that all misinformed, angry feminists are so goddam ugly and fat? She is not intelligent, advances positions which do not exist anymore, takes indefensible positions, "creates" facts out of whole cloth with no substantiation. Her 15 minutes are almost up. She is a pathological liar. She is no better than the right wing she blames for her own words and actions. Take responsibility and act like an adult, Amanda. Cupcake, you want to be in the game try growing up. You are long way away.

Marcotte makes her meager living tossing bombs and hiding behind the First Amendment when she's called to account. Hooray for her. I support her right to post whatever drivel she can type. That also allows me the freedom to call "Bullshit!" on this lame excuse for an article in which she feels perfectly comfortable playing the female victim while insulting male bloggers and anyone who dares take issue with her immaturity.

It would be laughable if she actually was that dumb; instead her faux ignorance is simply pathetic and insulting to anyone with an education. (That leaves out most right-wingers, I'm sorry about that.)

Look, Edwards' campaign made a real miscalculation by hiring these 2, and an even bigger mistake in the way they've handled it since. Biden and Edwards have stumbled badly immediately out of the gate. Neither are Presidential material.

Let's move on to the few candidates who will prove themselves worthy--not by being mistake-free, but by handling the inevitable mistakes in a mature fashion while demonstrating true leadership.

When you begin working for a candidate, you lose your ability to write for yourself, and you become the mouthpiece for the candidate. In effect, you are no longer an artist. You are now an advertising rep.

The best writers for a campaign are anonymous. Transparent themselves, they have the mindfulness necessary to distill the candidate's message for the voters.

And both are the first to immediately ban anyone who dares disagree with them. Free speech advocates, my ass. It's nice to know that bullies come in all political flavors...bullies being simply the most insecure people on the planet projecting their self-hatred onto others.

The funny part is, where would Gilliard and Marcotte be without a blog? The more successful assholes like Hitler found enough losers to support their cause, the less successful ones like David Koresh chose to immoliate their merry band of followers.

I suspect that garden-variety fucktards like Gilliard and Marcotte would have to get real day jobs while aspiring to be the 'stapler guy' from "Office Space."

"bloggers" would be struggling to find gainful employment if they were so good at self-immolation. They are pathetic. They are no more for equality, that Donahue is/was. They are the mirror and just as bad as Malkin, Coulter and the like.

an uninformed, pathetic writer desperately trying to get laid by being a lick spittle for someone like Marcotte. What a waste of space.

What an overt, unrepentant, shabby liar you are, Amanda.

You got beat by a woman... Michelle Malkin. It wasn't some obscure Catholic blogger who drove you out of the campaign. It was a woman, a powerful woman.

The truth is that you don't represent anybody, and in particular you don't represent women.

You are just a foul mouth spoiled child. You didn't get censored. You got fired for being a rotten spoiled brat.

And you got beaten by a woman. What a liar you are.

I had to think back to my own '20s. I had the combination of "knowing it all" and being very vocal about knowing it all. The funny thing, 30 years later, is that I don't know it all anymore.

I don't see any particular talent with regard to Ms. Marcotte. Maybe just a lack of empathy with regard to others, a desire to continue on her high-school clique personality and first and foremost a craving for attention.

She'll get it if she craves it. But in that sense I don't see much difference between her and Anna Nicole Smith. If her juvenile fans start falling off, she may well be in front of your local city hall, turning cartwheels with no underwear under her skirt.