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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
In lieu of strong support from the Edwards campaign, they should have replaced Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan with a couple of equally feisty, sharp-tongued feminists with partisan sensibilities -- perhaps with less of a literary trail, perhaps not. In any event, surely Mr. Donohue's oeuvre should have been combed.
We won't ever be able to match the bullying, bellicose Medusa of the right blow for blow-beneath-the-belt, but we can hold up a mirror to reflect its ugly, poisonous visage back at the beast.
I like Pandagon and visit it nearly everyday. I love the witty matching of photos to stories. I like your Friday Random Ten. I like so much about your blogging and think I would like you if we ever met, so it pains me to say that I think you were in the wrong. Not as far in the wrong as the hatemongers sending you threatening emails or as wrong as Bill Donahoe, but still in the wrong.
If you work for a campaign, you have to think about the good of the campaign and you did not when you went back to personal blogging and wrote that review. That was wrong.
Edwards made a miscalculation in hiring you. You are an inflammatory writer and I like that, but a campaign is not about being inflammatory. It's about being inspiring. Still, I was glad he stuck with you. But your misjudgment in posting that review after the first brouhaha deserved, in my opinion, your firing. That you resigned is good. It was not a fight worth fighting because you were wrong to continue personal blogging while a campaign staffer. This is a presidential campaign, not the campaign for student body president. The level of scrutiny is intense and you endangered the campaign with your self-indulgence.
Don't get me wrong. I will still read your blog with delight and still think you're a great political commentator, but I also know that no campaign should hire someone known for their inflammatory rhetoric.
>Also, everyone knows that parochial school kids were more abusive than their public school counterparts!
Boy, um--I went to a public school, and it was near a parochial school, and I can assure you that "everyone" knows no such thing. That's tangential to the rest of your statements, but that statement is nuts.
Go through this screed and count the number of times the words "my" and "I" appear. She's more self-absorbed than Bill Clinton, a feat I had not considered possible.
It is beyond belief that Edwards would recruit this insane narcissist. He shot down his own candidacy a couple weeks ago.
I do have to give her credit for one thing, though. She didn't "lose her job" last week. Her job is and has been for years to try to get famous so she could write a book and go out on a speaking tour.
In that, she has wildly succeeded, like a penny stock that has gone to $40.00. She is laughing all the way to the bank as a bunch of lefty moonbat idiots prepare to throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at her.
She has played everybody. Well, almost everybody. Not me.
Selfish lightwieght marginal blogger cannot handle the same venom she excercises on others instead of having a degree of womanhood Marcotte instead plays the excuse card and places Edward's campaign at risk!!!!!!
As a graduate of Smith College, a regular blog reader (of blogs right, left, and center), and a practicing Catholic, I must say that I am very surprised that someone of John Edwards' apparent intelligence took this YOUNG (as she keeps reminding us) woman at all seriously.
I have not read the word "misogyny" so many times since my Women's Studies class, and certainly never have seen it applied so wrongly. Ms. Marcotte keeps referring to herself as a feminist (YOUNG! FEMALE!) as if that alone conveys intrinsic virtue. She assumes the mantle of martyrdom because (sob...sniffle...)people don't like her or her politics or her crude, talentless writings. She expresses dismay that anyone attack such a delicate hothouse flower as herself. This posturing is just embarrassing to legions of smart, talented, dedicated women who have tried to make this world better for men and women, in ways large and small, both publicly and privately.
Get over yourself, sister. Susan B. Anthony you are not. Amanda Marcotte represents herself, not the hordes of trembling young things she claims are now too afraid to present themselves to the political hiring authorities. Her retrograde, viciously ignorant anti-Catholic tirades speak for themselves. She attacked Catholics indulgently and gleefully, and is too spineless to admit the consequences. BTW, her "factual statements" about the Pope and anything else Catholic, i.e., the marriage preparation classes are, in fact, not factual, and are most definitely not funny. Her understanding of the history and theology of the Church are non-existent, yet her uninformed opinions are simply breathtaking in number. The Church doesn't exist to please Amanda Marcotte, nor to fit into any politically correct box.
Uneducated, uninformed, hate-filled people with a definite axe to grind and a permanent victimhood status have no place in a professional political campaign.
over to the state of Florida (or whomever is responsible) for giving this nutbag tax-exempt status:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/miami.preacher/index.html
Seriously though, can you see why some people aren't comfortable with giving a free pass to every aspect of Christianity?
You were fired, Lady. You did not quit. You weren't fired soon enough. John Edwards thought that all of the hoopla would just fade into the horizon, but thank God, yes, I said "GOD," the people had their say and you were dumped into oblivion. Get yourself another profession. Your scribblings are not appreciated.
People with common sense who are aware that Amanda is a nutcase: 99
People sympathetic to Amanda's whining who are as delusional as she is: 1
It is nearly unanimous. Also, yes Amanda looks like a man. That is certain. If not, she is still a virgin and no, power tools don't count.
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