In a stunning display of both internet savvy and character judgment, leading Democrat Presidential candidate John Edwards has named his campaign’s blogmaster.
Markos Zuniga? Oliver Willis? Jane Hamsher?
No, friends. It’s even better than that. The Edwards campaign blogger is none other than the queen of misguided histrionics herself, Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte.
Dear God, is this ever going to be funny. Comedy platinum! I’ll give Edwards this: his blog is going to get linked from here to eternity. Not necessarily in a good way, mind you, but hey, linkage is linkage.
More here, particularly useful for the uninitiated.
h/t: The Questioner
UPDATE: from Pandagon’s Jesse Taylor, via the pw rolling quotes:
…glorious fuckheaded stupidity…
Yes. Yes, indeed.
Wow. This actually made me smile.
Worst. Choice. Ever.
That is magnificent!
Who says Democracy is finished as a spectator sport?
I visited Pandagon and found next to none of the usual amount of profanity. I’m wondering if Amanda has cleaned up her act running up to the announcement, and whether she’s cleaned up her archives as well.
Anyway, pass the popcorn.
A spot-check on the “slave ship hulls” article yielded a 404! Knock me over with a feather.
I’ve got a bad feeling44 about this.
This one, to be clear.
Just goes to show you that strict partisanship and a willingness to exclude and belittle and launch furious and vicious ad hom broadsides is a cash cow in this increasingly fucked up country.
Meanwhile, as my site stats decline—I’ve managed to alienate the social cons, the moderates, the Reason libertarians, the Libertarians, and Democrats of every conceivable stripe, as well as many “right-wing” bloggers, who for whatever reason find me less relevant these days, to the point where some of them no longer even respond to my emails—I shall surely soon slip into the ether.
But before I go, I now have a reason to keep this site afloat: Feminist Bunnies.
Oh, dear Amanda. If you think you didn’t like me before, wait until you get a load of me over the next two years.
By the way, in the rolling quotes that I use on my site, I believe I have one from Amanda herself—something about my having a cock almost as big as hers.
Wonder how Edwards’ cock stacks up…
Let’s start the comedy parade on the right foot (pun intended):
… now that he’s no longer a bloodsucking tort lawyer …
heh! The possibilites boggle the mind…
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Great link! Hadn’t read that before. So is she now going to ethnically cleanse her whole site?
How many years to go?
Oh lord! The mind reels at the coming of TEH CRAZEE!
Ah, here’s the original. Looks like links have been changed a bit.
Sorry, that should have read “ethically cleanse”. Obviously.
She may have cleaned up her language, but not her thought process, she calls for a spam attack on pixymisa to kick Confederate Yankee off of munu at the end of this thread.
This is going to be good.
Well, to be fair, Jeff, you were gone for quite a bit. I think the traffic will pick up as more people realize that you’re back.
Jeff,
I think you should add Jesse’s
to your rolling comments. You’ve got a title!
And behind door12, glorious fuckheaded stupidity.
I think the problem here, Jeff, is that you aren’t right wing. However, I wouldn’t let that get you down. You have a brilliant mind, a stiletto wit and a bullshit detector that would make it unsafe for you to go within 1,500 yards of the UN building in New York.
I think Jesse went to work for the Jerry Springer campaign. Which must mean he’s Czar Fucking Idiot.
Here’s hoping he remembers not to pay for Jerry’s hookers with a check.
I’m going to work out and then take some time to ponder my future.
I’m pretty damn sure I’ll never get fucking invited to manage a site for some political asshole.
Do it for the comedy, Jeff! And for the well founded malevolence! And, um, humanity.
Pandagon has a Samhita-like thread about Duke entitled “Stuck at the airport”. Same thought processes, same kinds of comments.
You will regret those words when I stand for North Norfolk in the Anti-European interest, Dan.
Dear Amanda,
One of the two Americas called, and it wants its balls back.
Sincerely yours,
Concerned Citizen
I do agree with her that laundry baskets should be shaped like vaginas. I just think it would be a better world if that happened.
John Edwards is the man to make it happen.
Damn, furriskey, that could be fun—just remember: don’t call anybody in Puddlesby-on-Swope or East Muffetby a “Macaca” while you’re campaigning.
They would just assume I had a stammer if I did. You can say pretty much what you like once your over the fens and nobody understands a word of it or wants to. My kind of constituents.
(I thought laundry baskets were shaped like vaginas?)
furriskey, you only think this because you are a tool of the patriarchy. Sorry, best if you hear it now.
Anybody have any screen caps/Google cache of her old, less-than-tidy rants? You know, for future use…
I linked one, above. So far, she hasn’t sanitized her history. Just changed the links. I’d guess that the links weren’t changed to obfuscate, but changed due to, possibly, different blog-hosting software. Or something.
Just go to pandagon and search on “cock”, for instance, just to reassure yourself.
Thanks for the tip, Pablo.
Maybe we can make the PandEdwards campaign a regular feature at Jawa Report.
PS – Watch Pandagon for post scrubbing now that Marcotte is “legit.”
Egads, why do you people torture yourselves by going there? She couldn’t write her way out of a burkha, and the first and last time I (just) went there, it was like being in an indoor pool with a bunch of ten year old girls, what with all the screeching.
Edwards is welcome to her, turds of a feather, and all that.
BECAUSE OF THE COMEDY!!!!!
Jeff, you were gone long enough that people stopped keeping track of your blog. While your guest bloggers kept the truly dedicated around they didn’t post anything interesting enough to get serious attention/links. You’ll need to work to bring back your audience. You’ll be doing it at a time when people on the right are a little worn out and might be looking to take a break from politics so it will take longer than it might have at other times.
Now on the more practical side. I registered for this site a long time ago although I don’t post too often. Do you realize that I have not received a single email at that email address announcing that you are back? Why not? That would seem to be a great, low cost way to let people who care know that you are around again.
Picking an on-going fight with Edwards’ blog-bitch might also be just the ticket for some fun.
Good point on the email thing, Eric, but I call hockey on the audience truthiness. All he’s done is cull the looky-loos, and trimmed things down to the True Believers.
I never left. Read every day. He’s been whiny lately, but you know that’s just how ‘those people’ are. Alvays vit da kvetching.
One thing I know (and I don’t do it anymore) to get attention, is to go comment on other blogs (disconnect warning!) and get folks to follow your URL back.
Just not places like Pandagonorreah.
Last I heard around 28,000 square feet, at least in his mind, if no one else. From the pic I saw, even shaved the trees around it to….well.
LOL, the last election was lost by the dems as well which of course wasnt much of a surprise to me, since they had a henpecked wimp as a contender. Maybe the dems are looking for a “Hindenburg” style race.