Wait, is this more of that satire stuff? Because I have to admit, it fooled me at first—until I got to the passages about about baby-stepping “in the direction of diversity,” and about how the right-wing smear machine made a concerted attempt to seek out “a fresh young feminist target” for destruction, so insecure are they in the presence of outspoken women, and so committed are they to defending the institutionalization of the Patriarchy.
At which point, I laughed and laughed!
You scamp! You almost had me! Almost.
If denial and delusion were breasts, Amanda would be Dolly Parton.
Dear Salon,
I never thought something like this could happen to me……….
Here’s the problem right here. She thinks she could spot a reasonable person. Perhaps she thinks delusional and reasonable are synonyms.
But as a christofascist member of the patriarchy, I suppose I should be ashamed of even having an opinion.
The really sad thing is , she thinks she is sane and normal.
I personally was rubbing my hands together, squinting through my monocle, and going “Buu-hahahahaha!,” throughout the whole “defending the Patriarchy” process.
Yes, the latter were sleep inducing. The former are the sick work of an unhinged mind.
Wow. She’s even more shallow than I thought.
In what was supposed to be a reflection on all that happened, all she does is spew out her talking points: right-wing noise machine, mudslinging, fake scandal, phone outrage, etc. etc. It seems Marcotte is uncapable of any serious critical thinking. Her recounting of the entire event is nothing but stock characters and cliches. She can’t even hint that there may have been something genuine behind some of the objections to her writing.
She’s startlingly limited in both thought and experience.
First of all, none of her stuff bothered me. I thought it was funny, gross, or gross-funny, or funny-gross. However, I am a realist, and no one who talks about young guys being guilty before trial, who uses obscenities the way she does, who boasts about her twat, etc. etc. is ever going to get into mainstream politics without a public apology for the manner of expression, AT MINIMUM. And she can’t even bring herself to do that. Too bad.
Some quotes:
Now, this I feel bad about. I hope she still have her cubicle next to the boiler room at the U of T sewage plant, or whatever.
Just the sort of person to blogmaster a presidential campaign.
I didn’t write that post and I take no responsibility for it.
To be precise: a hot, moist, juicy target that refuses to wrap thigh with Republicans.
Talkin’ ‘bout the Virgin Mary gag. Uh huh. Although it may APPEAR to have mocked a venerable figure to Catholics, it was ACTUALLY about something completely different. You just don’t get it.
I guess that would be hot, sticky, black ink from the Holy Squid because no one uses ink anymore to communicate.
Not only would most men lose their jobs for using those words, they’d also have a hard time getting laid even from their wives if they used the second one.
Is it possible for her to write a single sentence without being sexually suggestive?
That, and whether I REALLY wanted to move to North Carolina.
BTW, it seems Melissa McEwan may be getting an awful lot more heat than she deserves, apparently due to guilt by association.
She seems quite rational about the whole thing, and appears to place some value on honesty, unlike the shrieking Ms. Marcotte.
From what I can see, McEwan was probably a good hire for Edwards. Nice of Amanda to screw the pooch for both of them, eh?
Well, there you have it. It’s the modern liberal mantra. “It couldn’t have been anything I had done. It is someone else’s fault” The fact that this crazy pathetic piece of flesh doesn’t see that she is indeed a crazy pathetic piece of flesh is actually quite hilarious.
Note she doesn’t recount my post on the Edward’s site about the Duke case / Iran and her deletion of same.
Nor does she link to any of my criticisms, though they were widely disseminated. Didn’t fit the narrative, evidently.
Scooter Libby dropped the dime with Donohue.
Wuzzie takes issue with the idea that conservatives are not funny.
“The sheer volume of pixellated hatred put a dangerous strain on the intertubes.”
And yeah, had Edwards hired simply McEwan, I doubt this would be much of a story—though Donohue might have still pushed it.
And that’s because this was never really about anti-Catholic bigotry, but rather about mainstreaming a bigot who, when she isn’t trotting out fem studies talking points peppered with vulgarity to show how emancipated she is from patriarchal constructs such as “decorum,” is busy shutting down debate and then trashing those who have tried to engage her (secure in the knowledge that they will have to respond elsewhere, and that her little hermetic narratives will stand virtually unopposed on her site).
She was making a move toward doing this on the Edwards blog, as well, having deleted my very first post challenging her.
Edwards said he wanted America to debate the issues. With Marcotte in charge, America would be lucky if it was allowed to get a word in edgewise—unless, of course, America was willing to concede that it was a guilty partriarchal oppressor, and that Amanda was to be the dominatrix who whipped its bourgeois white ass into pink power ribbons.
Ahh, but the strawberries. That’s . . . that’s where I had them . . .
Geez,
How many damn times do I have to explain this to you:
– When the left criticizes the right, it is free speech and speaking truth to power.
– When the right criticizes the left, it is censorship and bullying.
If you can’t get that simple fact straight, you really must be a paste sniffer.
– GB
Damn, Jeff.
Don’t send me there anymore!
I had twewnty pop=ups within about 3 seconds, and when I did “back”, filthy Amanda would not go away. I had to dump my connection to get rid of her.
Oh well. Time to go wipe out the cookies.
And, BTW, Amanda is the perfect left-bot. “It’s not my fault that I’m a whacked out moonbat. It’s your fault, you twat hating lover of white male history!”.
And again, the free market works.
Never invest everything you’ve got in a product nobody wants.
If any man had written what she wrote on her blog he’d have been fired and/or put in involuntary rehab for re-education, so she might want to re-think that whole bit.
Plus, if she’s upset at the email and threats she should try posting the words “Michelle Malkin” or “Ann Coulter” on any lefty blog. Hell, how about Salon?
That whole article sounds like some college girls’ article in the local alt-weekly describing her side of the “scandal” that erupts when she publishes an article about the joys of fellatio in the Alumni newsletter that she edits.
But I’ll reiterate two things, 1 I don’t think she should have been fired because I don’t think her views are any different from the real views of the Edward’s campaign, no matter what they say in public and 2) Bill Donohue is an ass and a Catholic version of Al Sharpton who will eventually get caught in some kind of bizaar sexual compromising condition with a young nun, a kangaroo, seven bottles of Windex, a car battery and a cell phone camera. And all Catholics will be smeared with the media’s brush.
Most of us know to never take pictures. mmmm kangaroo-flavored Windex.
I question the signification.
SB: boy62
SEXIST!
Iowahawk on the same topic.
True. But…and here’s the kicker…reasonable people can’t ignore that they were written by the same person. Doubt that? Try getting a job writing children’s books, Amanda.
Ted Kennedy did, Slartibart.
Course, it was ghostwritten by Splash.
Can anyone confirm that Ms. Marcotte has actually returned to my fair city of Austin, Texas? Because I used to be from NC, and to be honest, it was a tough choice between being sorry Carolinians had to endure her, and knowing that she wasn’t here any longer.
Maybe if she is actually back here in Texas I can call her up and get what everyone really wants – an interview in which she describes the events (people, places, words) of her recusal/removal from the Edwards campaign. I bet Salon would love an article like that. I’d title it “Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign,” except someone already used that for an article there.
Only gripe I have against Iowahawk’s piece is: if he’d ever tried to punch through masonite, he wouldn’t be modifying masonite with “flimsy”. And he’d probably be typing with the other hand, still.
I wonder if Marcotte is smart enough to realize deep down what Cathy Young is saying. God, I hope so, because that has got to hurt.
One target down, 6.4 billion to go.
The Republican Revolution marches on.
Lost My Cookies – Don’t forget about the “squeegee guy”, I am in New York after all.
Austin Mike – I don’t think she ever left Austin, those of us (for real) in NC don’t grudge you one bit.
Who’s “down”, dirtball?
You can be next, tho…
Wha?
Poor, poor Amanda,
Kind of sucks when you are held accountable for what you say or write..Welcome to adulthood…..
Yeah the ”satirical” tone was atop the 2nd part/ follow-up post showing how evil the Catholic Church was. Is she so stupid that she either forgets what she actually wrote or are her supporters so stupid as not to read her own words. Oh yeah, judging from the reading comprehension shown by our own little “a” team here, I guess it’s mostly the 2nd. I guess she is just employing a modified, written version of the Chinese shipping container stratagem.
You coulda been somebody, *lph**. But I guess the 5 hits per month on the “alphavictim” blog just doesn’t cut it. I’ll play, though. What 6.4 billion you talking about?
RFN,
I dunno, I guess the 6.4 billion people on the planet we can watch John Edwards hire-then-fire……
Or something, I’m a bit lost myself.
I say satire. After all, the article is accompanied by a picture of Ms. Marcotte sitting on the toilet, forcing out a really big poop.
Keep some Tylenol handy Amanda.
It seems Marcotte is uncapable of any serious critical thinking.
This has been manifest from the beginning, and I am continually amazed at the number of people who believe that she can think or write. She can do neither.
I put in my notice at my day job and decided that I’d be happy to move to North Carolina.
I felt bad about this too, briefly, but managed to recover. I hadn’t considered this aspect before. This makes her (apparently voluntary) resignation even more mystifying.
I believe the applicable aphorism is “If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen”.
Nah. I have it on good authority that Ms. Parton can sit up in bed unassisted.
Regards,
Ric
Throughout her piece, Amanda does not circumscribe any space between the radical left and the Democratic Party.
This seems like a new thing… it’s cheering that these erstwhile nomads in the political wilderness feel they have found a welcoming embrace in the Democratic Party, even as the lesson of Amanda’s odyssey would seem to be that the Democratic Party itself has some doubts about their enthusiastic new handmaids.
She sure does seem to think she’s a mainstream Democrat, doesn’t she?
Well, who am I to call her a liar?
So , when do you roll out the I’m A Cog In The Right -Wing Smear Campaign hats and T shirts ?