Parson Edwards entices the Wild Girl of the Woods with food and captures her. He and the help drag her home and forcibly scrub her clean. They consider cutting off her hair, but Alice has an herbal remedy for “coot bugs”. Annabelle tries to teach her to play with dolls and talk pretty. They name her Lucy. She resists being gussied up for church and tries to bolt for the woods again. Parson and Mrs. Edwards express anxiety that she’ll never be ready for Miss Honeywell’s debutante ball.
Iowahawk’s thinking along the same line in: My Fair Blogger!
Chris Bowers at MyADD talks about how hard they had to twist Nedra Pickler’s arm to turn the Marcotte/McEwan story into one about Bill Donohue. Smearing, according to the left, now includes accurately reporting people’s language. Those folks over there are so enlightened, they never, ever would interpret somebody else’s language in a manner that was unflattering to that person, no matter how much that person differed with them.
Check out Ben Smith’s piece on liberal Christians offended, and not buying the “didn’t intend to denigrate” line.
I dunno, without the coital fury charm of an Elizabeth Smart-like marriage ritual, can’t say I’d watch it.
This is family programming, thor!
Her father’s Puritan response, her Mother’s graceful aire, Geraldo camped out on the front lawn, all while little Snowflake met dirty sanchez, dutifully and with nary a complaint. Twas like Twin Peaks in reality TV. Fascinating stuff.
With respect for originality, might I suggest an aggresive farm animal as protagonist in the next episode.
I’ll take that into consideration. Pasiphae?
If it’s named Nandhi, all the better.
Diversity is achievment!
Got a question. I see that Amanda has used the term “Jeebus” and its variants well over a hundred times on Pandagon. No doubt each post was just as hilarious as the next.
How many times does she intend to use that word at Edwards’ site?
Who? Amwn3da?
Ya know, Edwards just set himself up with a gold-plated reason to lose big, even in the primaries. At will, he can feed a little of this material to the press, stoke the fire, and have an excuse for a tearful withdrawal from the race. So what does he get out of it?
Cash from the nutroots, donated to his campaign.
OK, the guy’s swimming through his bank vault already, but people don’t get that filthy rich without being money-grubbing dirtbags, right?
(Hey, that’s what the left keeps telling me. It *must* be true.)
He must be proud of his “Important Action Alert”
Sure he is. It’s spwn3d a bunch of interesting variations. Like the important action alert: suck my dick.
Sir,
This scurrilous accusation shall be withdrawn forthwith, or my second shall be presenting you with weapons choice for the morrow’s dawn. A personal-injury lawyer motivated by greed? Pshaw, I say.
Does anyone else get the feeling that this whole “run for President” thing is mostly a “Yes, Dear” moment for Edwards? He doesn’t seem to be playing to win, the choices for Blogatrix and Blogatrix Junior seem to dovetail more closely with his wife’s views, he describes himself as a man of faith with centrist views yet his campaign keeps lurching leftward…
Am I the only one finding it hard to believe that a guy that could read a jury well enough to think they’d fall for his channeling of the dead is suddenly this tone-deaf when it comes to predicting reactions?
Nice of those assholes to set up the easy email system (the “action alerts”) for us to use to remind the media that they didn’t mention the “hot, sticky Holy Spirit” crack or the innumerable Jeebus, Sky Fairy, and Christofascist remarks.
And then after sending the email, you get this gem in your message of thanks:
What a pro!
Lucy?
Lucy Olduvai? Is that you?
Why, you’re skin and bones, poor dear…
Fuck. Was going to post on the Poltico piece.
Oh well, I think I’ll just go lift weights. My work here is done.
Stimulating developments indeed. England have beaten Australia in the cricket and Amand9a has faced down the 25% of the American electorate which I understand to profess Roman Catholicism.
As the swing vote required to win or lose is generally about 2%, I imagine Edw9rds is f9cked. Meanwhile, our prayers have been answered and the next 18 months are to be filled with merriment!
Hurrah!
Thanks for your signature, furriskey. Loved the comment.
Jeff–
I hardly scratched the surface of that thing and its implications and the Chris Bowers thing. I’m working 14 hour days all week. And I don’t do the discursus as well as you. So stop jerking . . . weights, and write, please.
It seems to me that the Ben Smith piece, and today’s NYT followup, and of course, Nedra, are all engaging in a bit of misdirection by characterizing the controversy exclusively in terms of a religious argument. All along, the element most potentially damaging to the Edwards campaign has been the Marcotte comments about the Duke situation. Alienating Christians is far less damaging to a Democrat’s campaign, particularly at this stage, than alienating, say, men. Donohue’s press release is largely responsible. But I definitely would suspect that a public call for an apology from a key party in the Duke affair would be all it would take to necessitate a new response from the Edwards campaign and a further apology from Marcotte. Marcotte’s rape fantasies remain an unexploded bomb for the Edwards campaign.
I would like to think you’re right, Happyfeet. But I don’t think ‘men’ are a recognised constituency.
I was hoping you’d announce that you’re now blogging for Presidential hopeful Duncan Hunter, and that you were just kidding about the 13 million words on intentionalism.
I got here late but I have to say:
Curt at Iowahawk’s “My Fair Blogger.”
extended standing ovation
Genius!