The Edwards Campaign has just announced that liberal blogger Amanda Marcotte has resigned her position with the the organization, and it is a great day for American politics.
I must respectfully disagree with Ms. Dipollina's assesment of John Edwards' choice of Amanda Marcotte to manage his campaign blog. Dipollina characterizes Edwards' decision to maintain Marcotte on his staff despite heavy criticism from the Catholic League and others as a victory for political honesty.
Her article describes Marcotte as a blogger "who had made disparaging remarks about the Catholic Church, at times using profane language." This does not begin to describe the vitriol Marcotte employs on a regular basis in her posts.
A sampling follows, all asterisks mine:
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?
A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.
Why not? Just remember, false witnessing is okay if done in the service of knocking women up against their will. Like it’s perfectly okay to say, “I had a vasectomy years ago, baby,” if you didn’t. God loves that sort of thing, since he’s a sadistic bastard.
I suspect Pope Ratz will give into the urge eventually to come out and say there’s no limbo and unbaptized babies go straight to hell. He can’t help it; he’s just a dictator like that. Hey, fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, the Pope’s gotta tell women who give birth to stillborns that their babies are cast into Satan’s maw. The alternative is to let Catholic women who get abortions feel that it’ll all work out in the end, which is just not doable, due to that Jesus-like compassion the Pope is so fond of.
On Former Senator Rick Santorum:
The problem with Rick Santorum is that every time he talks about sex, that little part of all of us that wants to run into a preschool and yell “f***s***” or go to a born-again church and scream about how God loves to come in our backyards for our milkshakes, well, it just grows a hundredfold, and the restraint that most of us show just flies out the window. As a Senator, however, Santorum finds himself frequently faced with many of the most pressing issues of penis insertion that have ever faced America - and so he must speak, lest his lack of self-control be manifested by f****** his desk on the Senate floor. (There’s a knothole that’s just the right size, y’know.)
So Edwards hired a self described "c** guzzling boozehound" who has a little part inside of her that wants to yell sexually charged obscenities in a room of four year olds. Needless to say, this hire was a complete disaster for the Edwards Campaign. Worse still for Edwards, Marcotte's abdication will have consequences of its own as it will alienate the so called liberal "netroots," a devoted group of web-based activists credited for the rise of Howard Dean to chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and for funding his 2004 presidential bid.
A far cry from promoting honesty in presidential campaigns (Edwards distanced himself from what he described as the blogger's "personal views" and said "that it was never [Marcotte's] intention to malign anyone’s faith"), Edwards decision condoned profane public dialog and ad hominem attack.
Derick Vollrath @ Tue, 02/13/2007 - 12:37pm
Obviously, this entry has been heavily edited from above, because it's absurd for me to get all riled up over "Pope Ratz." You can find more telling examples of Marcotte's sterling prose here
here
and my favorite, in which Marcotte refers to that little part inside of her (supposedly all of us), that wants to run into a preschool and yell sexually charged obscenity, here