Jeff and Pablo and Dan Riehl and I are all mad at Amanda Marcotte because we’re all seething with jealousy that we’ll never, ever in our entire lives have as important a blogpost as Amanda. O! it cuts to the quick! A hit, a palpable hit!
But now it turns out that Michelle Malkin has been visited by “the green-eyed monster that mocks the meat it feeds on”–wait, that’s jealousy, not envy. Oh, well, you get the point. For shame, for shame!
Life’s not fair. Gosh, I wish I were you, Amanda. You cow.
Dan,
Does it further your argument to call her a “cow”?
Yall should be ashamed of yourselves for picking on a poor little defenseless idiot like amanda.
The F-Bomb is all she has to get attention.
Insofar as objective correlatives are germane, I suppose that it’s a pretty concentrated way of furthering my argument, which is . . . people who make this claim are imbeciles.
Besides, calling her a cow is funny, insofar as it contrasts so starkly with her preferred epithets. But you know, having to explain the joke is kind of a drag.
Does a preacher preach to the converted?
And what are the proggs upset about:
Another outstanding name, also, for those keeping score at home.
Great post as usual Dan, here is some more shit I blame on the man hating womyn DemoRats
God bless George W Bush and the GOP
It doesn’t matter, though. It’s not the Duke thing, which is my hobby-horse, that’s going to get Amanda booted. It’s the Catholic bashing, and that humorless Donohue from The Catholic League who’s pushing it. Which is too bad, because I don’t think hypersensitivity to what Marcotte says about your religion says much for your security. I don’t personally care what she thinks about it, even though I’m Catholic.
I just thought she should have admitted to being an idiot regarding the Duke business.
Anyway, it’s not my bitch hunt anymore.
They hate our freedom?
Okay, I guess I just don’t find it funny or persuasive (even after it’s explained). That’s me, though, and you know how obtuse I am.
Dan, you miss the point. This is a hired blogger for a prominent presidential campaign. She has put herself in a public position, so she deserves to be attacked for whatever slime she wrote. That’s how politics works. And it isn’t like the MSM doesn’t do this every single day against conservatives. It is well past the time that we should have gotten into the game.
And besides, I love the smell of bleeding moonbats in the morning.
I’m just jealous I won’t get to enjoy any of those cookouts at the Edwards’. I bet the steak is fucking choice, and instead of potato salad, America number 1 serves caviar and toast points!
I got your back steve – by mocking aMOOnda they only show how sadly far they are from being anywhere near her league.
What I want to know is, how can Marcotte look at herself in the mirror, now that she’s pimping for White Male Privilege and Faith from the hotbed of lynchings and backalley abortions?
Doesn’t she believe the things she wrote earlier? Or did a little bit of money and some fleeting prestige change her mind?
You wacky funster.
Wait, I thought it was fear based hatred for the power of the dominant vagina? Oh, won’t someone enlightened please tell my what I’m feeling, what I fear, what I despise, why this silly grin keeps fixing itself upon my very essence?!?
And please, I must know: Does Mandy have a bigger dick than Hillary?
“What I want to know is, how can Marcotte look at herself in the mirror,”
I was exceedingly tempted to make a witty remark here, especially in consideration of Amanda’s delusion into thinking that she is some sort of ubersexy vixen-goddess.
to contextualize the meat-mocking monster…
All it took was for a successful man to notice her and the whole persona, carefully crafted from decades of rage, comes crashing down. Have you ever seen anyone so cheerfully sell out their every stated principle?
THIS IS WHY PW NEED CONTINUOUS AMANDA MARCOW POSTS – SAVE OUR PRECIOUS MANLY FLUIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man. Marcotte has the Catholics ticked off.
Don’t be surprised if come Friday she wakes up to a burning fish on her lawn.
I hear Kucinich has his eye on her.
Must be why they don’t have a Democrat Party over there.
Oh, hell, Dan, just sent her deleted posts to Obama and Hillary! and them sort it out…
Yes. Every Sunday. In church.
Verily, this is getting ridiculous. By now, I have to assume one of the following: A) John Edwards is so obtuse and out of touch that he is blissfully unaware of this blograge; B) John Edwards has a piss-poor campaign manager; C) John Edwards has intentionally calculated all this hoopla so he can ultimately distance himself from the raving lefties, thereby gaining street cred with the moderates; D) Hillarity Clinton set the whole thing up. I think I’ll assume all four, just for giggles.
Seriously, why the grand obsession? I don’t know the basis of Dan Collins’ beef, but I agree that Marcotte seems to shoot for the kneecap. But it’s Edwards’ choice; what do you care? His miscalculation could be your gain.
It’s the comedy, cynn.
SOP (save our penis) from all femi-nazis
Dan, you were talking about this?
http://www.catholicleague.org/07press_releases/quarter_1/070206_Edwards.htm
I saw an interesting term the other day: “concern troll.” Only in this day and age…
I’m no doctor, but Ms. Marcotte seems to be suffering from a near fatal case of penis envy.
By the way, I love the troll in this thread, defending a cartoon by trying to turn his opponents into that which he (she? it?) would protect.
It’s almost a perfect happy ending to this entire story of karmic justice.
Boy, and you thought this was a tough crowd.
… And exactly what justice will be served here? I think this whole mess illustrates why politics has become embedded online, and those who don’t understand and use the medium effectively are toast.
Once the Catholics get ahold of you, cynn, you don’t need to ask a question like that.
He’ll stand pat. He’s got some hella strategist. Must be the woolgathering phase. He’ll bail right at the tension point, like a bug on water.
Just think of it as the birth pangs of right-wing bloggers as they learn how to become effective voices of the new minority party, cynn.
It takes a little time to learn how to actually attract people to your side.
How the fuck would you know, alphie? Taking political advice from you would be like taking eating lessons from Nicole Ritchie.
I like to attract people by calling them godbothering bigoted wombsnatchers.
And if at all possible, I like to do it from my vulva.
Incidentally, the “justice” here is that Marcotte has long either shouted down or silenced those who disagree with her.
Now, she’s got the Catholics to contend with, and in my experience in watching O’Donohue and clan operate, she hasn’t a chance in hell of either shouting them down or silencing them.
Reap / sow.
For my part, if there’s any karmic justice, I’ll just have a dog stick its paw in my ass.
alphie, I don’t think the right-wingers are having any kind of birth pangs; is existence re-created with every election cycle?
I take ongoing issue with them because I see a blind devotion to a bloody and failing foreign policy. I don’t know what you mean after that.
Blogs started when it looked like the Republicans would have a Permanent Majority cynn.
I think the Republicans should take any money they have left in the kitty after their losing effort and buy some online Charm School courses for their bloggers.
As my great-grandpappy used to say, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
FYI Dan, I believe the proper term is either “genus Bos” or “bovine person” depending upon the context. It’s called nuance, HATER!!!!
Come to think of it, it can’t be genus Bos, because that relates only to “mature†bovine.
We should really focus our attention on Ms. Marcotte’s parents. It’s obvious they spent too much time stroking her self esteem and too little time loving her and allowing her to have responsibilities and encouraging learning through trial and error. Poor thing has probably never had a job.
Either way, if she can’t fry a chicken, I’ve got no use for her.
And this is just an administrative point. Could you at least ease up on the female body part references? It’s certainly not cute, and borderline offensive. I realize there’s a point to be made, and I think we all get it.
Oh, nevermind; Jeff if the profanemaster. He sets the rules.
He knows what’s rurnt and what ain’t.
see- I think everyone has lost touch with their Hollywood side here. Independent firebrand takes job working for well groomed and slick talking lawyer? I’m pretty sure Hugh Grant has been in at least, like, 4 movies with that premise.
It’s the Taming of the e-Shrew, people! Put a snazzy pop soundtrack behind the whole thing and we got 3 weekends of box-office middledom.
Sorry, cynn.
Change “vulva” to “Volvo.”
And accept my apologies for offending you with a lot of talk of female ickiness.
Or at least a LifeTime movie of the week. Damnit! Where’s Dana Plato when we need her?
That is what the nutroots have going for them, alphie, their charm?
My grand-pappy said you catch more Democrats with entitlements. He wasn’t all that folksy sometimes.
Grant could play a Feminist Studies Prof at Agnes Scott who falls for Ben Afleck. Marcotte writes his love letters for him and feeds him lines from the bushes below Afleck’s dorm.
Matt Damon can be the janitor.
How, now, Katherine, my cow?
He also used to say A circus only needs so many clowns.
The minority party is definitely a circus.
Yes, Jeff, this may be something like watching the scene from the first Austin Powers, where the steamroller crushes the minion in slow motion.
Your grandfather sounds like he had a drinking problem.
Dan, shut down the generator and turn off your computer. Jeff, back to the screenplay.
SATIRE IS DEAD!
My grandaddy used to say, “stop eating all the whitefish! I’m old and I’m gonna die soon, and here you are bogarting all the gnosh! What are you, a sadist?”
Fortunately, he wasn’t very political.
Wow, Alphie is losing the whole “intellectually unserious mindless contrarian” and is taking the offensive… you know, with intellectually unserious generalizations. As he is prone to do.
Remember everyone, we cannot insult Marcotte, especially with vulgarity (Like she has been doing for months.). It’d hurt her widdle girly feelings, and that would be crass and ungentlemanly.
PROTECT THE SHELTERED FLOWER WHO CALLS FOLKS GODBAGS FROM RUFFIAN CONSERVATIVES!
jeff, changing the terminology makes no difference to me. It’s the offhanded, sloshy reference to female body parts that’s gross. I guess all this stems from frustration over the fact that I don’t have a similar deck of naughty cards I found in the alley that similarly objectify men.
Actually, my other grandpappy used to say “you can catch even more flies with horseshit, so spread that honey on a biscuit you little dumbass.” Although truth be told I never could figure out why we were trying to catch flies, anyway.
And by the way, Dan, since Amanda is still unpunished as far as we know I think she would be considered a heifer. That sounds European enough that she might actually like it.
Is Marcotte into burkhas? I can’t remember which oppressive religion she was on and on about.
sloshy
I believe we have been challenged, boys.
You don’t have to look in the alley. I have friends who got a deck of cards for ladies at the Playgirl.
I’d try google.
Be careful there, good sir. It’s that kind of comedic creativity that could get AmericaBlog all over your ass.
Well, in that case, scratch Afleck and add McCaulkin. They like that May-December romance theme.
And—ah, fuck it. Too easy.
sloshy heiftress?
In seriousness, though, cynn, I think we play up the female body part angle in a self-deprecating way. I mean, Marcotte and her fellow travelers constantly accuse us of being women-hating homophobic racists. So we simply oblige them by reinforcing their caricatures.
Lord knows showing them how totally untrue the accusations are by way of argument hasn’t worked. So, you know, if you can’t beat ‘em…
Sloshy, I say!
From the Catholic league press release:
Seriously, are there any Amanda “defenders” here who can explain this? Is there some context missing and this is supposed to be some kind of Silvermanesque joke? This statement is offensive for no other reason than it’s gratuitous vulgarity knows no bounds, and proves Edwards, or someone on his team, is clueless. Perhaps some of the other Catholics on this board can back me up here, but so many priests and nuns are progressive or socialist in their politics, at least that’s my experience. Anyone who thinks that based on the churches teachings regarding abortion and contraceptives places them in league with the “Coming Republican Theocracy” knows nothing about the Church.
Sloshy!
rooster—I got an in with Screech if you have any further casting problems.
The cleaners continue to scrub, but its too late. Amanda is no longer protected by her shield of obscurity.
From the Catholic League link:
Overhead at Edwards HQ: Damn, what’s that awful stench?
calm down nawoods. you give Marcotte way too much credit when you compare her to Silverman. She just enjoys the sensation she gets when her jaws moves. Typical hoo-ha from an over-educated, under-experienced, hyper-ego-stroked, sheltered white kid with rurnt purcy.
She’s not fooling anybody who’s not already fooled.
But she is some kinda sloshy!
Great Mencken’s Ghost! – Damon is out, then.
I don’t know how many homilies I’ve had to sit through pining for “social justice” and decrying our decadent, consumerist, and materialistic society. Hell, Edwards and the church should be natural allies in most every respect.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition…
Wow….
How does somebody get that pissed off!? I’m pissed at the filthy leftists more than anyone, but wow that’s just incandescent free-floating rage.
Man, that’s like Columbine Killer Jock and Christian hate. You can tell by the words that bullets will follow.
How do you write that and not act on it?
Or is it just puffery like one of those inflating lizards that looks all scary and then deflates and hides under a rock?
If so, why the big act? What kind of personal problem makes someone hate in the abstract like that? She hates the very idea of Catholics and especially God.
Against Catholics? Don’t be one.
Jeff: Fair enough. There are some strident harpies that I myself can’t abide, who demand fealty of the Geisha Male, because that somehow equalizes things.
It’s just that not all of us lefties feel inadequeate enough to resort to biorhetoric.
Except the church won’t lurch as far left as Edwards to score some cash.
Plus, Jeff: I demand you put a stop to all sloshy references!
Don’t take this the wrong way, cynn, but what passes for humor in your world?
Gray – it’s puffery, for the same reasons lizards do it.
Goddamned sloshy biorhetoric.
Sloshy Ruby Rippey-Tourk.
Mmmmmm……
TW: that38 ain’t no rurnt purcy….
but sloshy, rurnt purcy is a result of Global Warming!
Not to be confused with Tipper Gore or Gulfstream.
From the Catholic League’s Wiki entry:
The Catholic League is registered as a 501(c)(3) Public Charity. In 2004, according to 1099 forms on file at Guidestar.com, the Catholic League took in approximately $2.67M USD in contributions. Its president, William A. Donohue, was paid nearly $300,000 USD in salary and benefits.
I think this guy is earning more than the Pope.
Not a bad gig.
He could probably afford to rent a room from Edwards.
Alphuckie
Catholics don’t come cheap. Dat’s just the way we roll.
Jeff,
Don’t be surprised if come Friday she wakes up to a burning fish on her lawn.
Fish? Nah, bitch. We just go IRA on their ass.
You’re going to contribute to her retirement account?
Not cheap indeed.
earning? Better be careful using that word alph, your progg-overlords won’t be happy>
Do you have a point, Alphie? Do you ever have a point?
Because there’s no history36 of you making one.
Other than the point on his head, I don’t see one.
Hey what’s the big deal about ole Mandy ”speaking truth to power!” – after all, she did have the decency to wait an entire day after Christmas & given the fact that there isn’t a national holiday to celebrate Gloria Steinem, where we string up useless white males & hope for equality, she must have been holding her rage since Thanksgiving. I’d say she was being grinch-like, but would probably be accused of thrusting upon her another patriarchal male stereotype thingy & oppressing her precious sensibilities – screw they Catholics, right Mandy? Which we all know is way worse then attacking another person’s religion, repeatedly. I’d call her the “C†word, but using the term Christmas was banned last year as so not to offend. Leaving her & her cohorts to ask: Where’s the justice for Mrs. Claus?
BECASUE OF THE ELVES!!!!!
I wouldn’t worry about it too much alf, you’re paid quite handsomely for your in-valuable contributions here. Funny thing is that that dollar amount equals the number of points you have managed to make.
Ah wikipedia, making the dense feel educated!
I seem to remember you were posting under my name the other day, PMain.
That was…priceless.
I figured it was time that the moniker “alphie” be associated w/ making an actual point. But don’t worry, it wasn’t for you, it was for all of the other young “alphie’s” out there, who rely upon random, inarticulate statements as facts, bastardized here-say as history & mind numbing, but strangely, neatly typed comments to pass as opinion. So don’t take it personal, alf.
I’ve been musing on this “Dan is a misogynist” thing. As he has a wife and 3 children, I was thinking that he must have evidenced some fondness for women, or at least a woman, on a minimum of 5 occasions, if we include the proposal bit and the marriage bit.
But then it struck me, like a lightning-bolt of alf-logic!
It is precisely because he hates women, and especially his wife, that he has inflicted on her the horror and the misery of having children.
What an unmitigated bastard.
I’m ashamed I ever found him amusing now. I’m going over to join steve xxx on the twilight side.
I also object to the sloshy biorhetoric. Isn’t the cow theme just a cheap device to objectify Mandy’s funbags when she doesn’t even have the decency to procreate, thus limiting our ability to laugh at her expense over tawdry lactation jokes? It’s like denying everyone a happy ending, if you know what I mean. Why even start.
don’t forget the pussies, errr, kittehs, furriskey.