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POINTLESS JOB ABANDONED
Gentle-natured papal critic Amanda Marcotte has resigned from her role as Official John Edwards Blogger #1. I blame Iowahawk.
Yeah, well, I blame Iowahawk too. And why do I have this sudden urge to pull out my Derek and Clive LPs?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 02 13 at 01:50 AM • permalink#1 I hope no gentleman gives ‘the filthy trollop the arse’ - who knows where Marcotte has been and what she’s carrying.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 02 13 at 01:54 AM • permalinkShe plans to spend more time with the family she doesn’t have because the patriarchy can’t tell her what to do with her body.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 13 at 02:23 AM • permalinkIf I were Edwards, I’d declare myself pro-life just to make sure she’d stay “resigned.”
I’d probably get a restraining order, too.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 02 13 at 03:42 AM • permalinkI blame Iowahawk.
So where is that “bad boy”, anyway? Out on the town, celebrating his new position as a “well-financed right-wing shill”?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 02 13 at 03:48 AM • permalinkO/T but Amanda is a blogger and I brought up my own little blog starting yesterday, Kerplunk, which, along with some help from the good people here, has racked up 222 unique visitors accessing 312 pages in just its first 24 hours since I commented on it here and elsewhere.
That must put me in range of overtaking our moonbat friend, Antony Loewenstein, surely?
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 02 13 at 03:57 AM • permalinkgenetic dead-end
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 13 at 05:43 AM • permalinkTsk, tsk. I told her not to stray from her perfectly acceptable Jew-bashing rants, but did she listen to me? Noooo. Catholic bashing went out after Kennedy was elected.
Judeo-Christian bashing: OK
Targeting Catholics specifically: Not OKOh well, I’m sure there are plenty of other opportunities for a person with her previously mentioned qualities and skill sets.
My Golden Rule as a Catholic is to support any person’s right to make criticisms of - even deranged assaults on - Catholicism.
Having said that, I also believe Catholics have a right to point out the weaknesses, absurdities, lies and distortions of their enemies - and to do so quite ruthlessly in defence of the truth. Some people seem to be of the view that Catholics should “turn the other cheek” and not fight back - as though allowing evil caricatures and untruths to endure is something other than detrimental to the power of charity and love between all people of faith (or no faith at all). Sorry Ms Marcotte, but Bill O’Donohue fought the good fight here and he deserved to prevail.
People can read Ms Marcotte’s announcement of her richly deserved ouster here. She plays all the liberal Victimology 101 classics in a tendentious attempt to elicit sympathy and righteous rage from her dopey readership: the gender card, the pro-abortion card, the persecuted atheist card etc etc.
To throw the uninformed and ignorant off the scent of her own vile anti-Catholicism, she also touts a supportive letter “from an organisation I adore called Catholics for a Free Choice.” She fails to mention - mendacious hack that she is - that this organisation has no status at all within the Catholic Church and has been condemned as fraudulent by the Catholic bishops of the United States of America.
#22 I don’t know anything about Bryan Law.
The salient point is this: Catholics for a Free Choice is an organisation often wheeled out by anti-Catholics when they’re looking to shield their hatred of the Catholic Church behind faux support for the Catholic “rank and file”.
For example, when I argued last year at far left moonbat site, Larvatus Prodeo, that “There are no Catholic women’s groups advocating the removal of the Church’s teaching on the subject [of abortion]”, one of my interlocutors triumphantly linked to Catholics for a Free Choice.
Catholics for a Free Choice trades in what its organisers know is a confusing denominational fraud. Their intention is precisely to be cited as a mainstream organisation representing Catholic laity.
Mr Law is entitled to use the more generic adjective “Christian” for his organisation, though I have no doubt that it too is fraudulent - but theologically, not denominationally.
Heh! I do believe Ms. Marcotte has sunk his campaign before it really got underway. In his spare time John Edwards could write a new book: Lessons in politics: How to piss off Catholics and nutroots in one move
Posted by Not My Problem on 2007 02 13 at 08:04 AM • permalink“Obviously, I’m scatterbrained…”—Amanda Marcotte
Yeah, we noticed.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 13 at 08:29 AM • permalinkIowahawk for
prime ministerPresident !Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 02 13 at 10:07 AM • permalinkIf anyone wants a larger discussion group on Amanda Marcotte and her insane ramblings (plus leftie feedback, not all of it the usual trollish response), check out Protein Wisdom.
I must note that PW (the site, not our German commenter) tends to be blunt and (at times) vulgar, but there are excellent discussions concerning this deranged person.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 13 at 11:02 AM • permalinkI have beheld the Godbag, err.., Godhead that is Iowahawk and tremble least his wrath be incurred.
Seriously, could that guy be any fucking funnier? I don’t fucking think so.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 02 13 at 11:03 AM • permalinkIt’s over, babe…now you’re just another foul-mouthed lefty, and I can’t swing a cat without hitting three of those…
LOL—ain’t it the truth.
I love how they’ve made Bill Donohue part and parcel of the VRWC, the right wing “attack machine”. Donohue is president of the Catholic League, a anti-defamation organization. He takes issue with Marcotte’s very public anti-Catholic rants, not her personally held beliefs. I’m sure on a good many issues, Donohue is every bit as “progressive” as his detractors.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 13 at 12:09 PM • permalinkROFL, Iowahawk (you too, Treacher), but I don’t think even ‘enry ‘iggins could make a silk purse out of that sow.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 13 at 12:19 PM • permalinkYou guys obviously don’t understand satire. She was being satirical all that time, and she’s being satirical now when she says she wasn’t being satirical. Get it?
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 13 at 12:22 PM • permalinkI expect the lovely Miss Marcotte resigned after John Edwards (and three of his largest, meanest-looking bodyguards) explained the situation and asked her nicely if she’d be willing, or else.
I don’t think Catholics should take her rants personally. She strikes me as the kind of person who hates just about everybody who ever walked.
Treacher, you’re being satirical….right?
;-p
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 13 at 02:07 PM • permalinkI was hoping Amanda would’ve lasted a little longer in the media spotlight. She sure was entertaining—in the way that a car crash is a spectacle of shocking proportions from which you cannot avert your eyes.
And then there’s that whole sunlight being the best disinfectant analogy—watching the left twist themslves into pretzels explaining away Amanda’s rants would’ve been terrific comedy.
Man oh man, we all should have left well enough alone. The restraints are off, and she’s gonna really get ugly now.
We’ll be sorry we made her mad.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 02 13 at 06:45 PM • permalinkWe’ll be sorry we made her mad.
I don’t think it’s really possible to die laughing.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 02 14 at 12:43 AM • permalinkIowahawk now has sweet-talkin’ Amanda’s resume online.
I almost did die laughing.
That guy cracks me up.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 14 at 02:34 AM • permalink“She strikes me as the kind of person who hates just about everybody who ever walked.”
“I wish I wasn’t a cum-guzzling boozehound.”—Amanda Marcotte
Sounds like she’s fairly friendly when she’s had a snort or two.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 02 14 at 03:13 AM • permalink
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Had to resign before they gave the filthy trollop the arse.