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By: More Funny Video « Beware The Man

More Funny Video « Beware The Man — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:50:39 +0000

[...] 11 Feb 2007 More Funny Video Posted by John O under Political This one courtesy poor Amanda, the center of the rightwing’s faux (or even more moronically, serious) outrage at the Edwards campaign, for hiring her. [...]

By: catnapping

catnapping — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:33:58 +0000

Isn’t it fun reading the silliness of the christofascists?

By: whig

whig — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:06:09 +0000

Rick, I must ask again for your apology to Melissa, as you seem to be calling her a hatefilled bigot again, without basis.

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:50:02 +0000

Max:

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/03/24/ben-domenech-must-resign/

1. Screw you.
2. There may have been about 2 conservative bloggers who supported Domenech after the plagiarism charges were shown to be true.

Can’t say the same about the lefties who are cheering on the hatefilled bigots who are blogging for Edwards now, can you?

By: Max Renn

Max Renn — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:45:20 +0000

“So, letâ€™s cool our jets. Letâ€™s stop the scalp-hunting. It has to be a voluntary thing. The Greenwalds have to agree to it, too, or it doesnâ€™t work.”

Glenn’s done this to no one. He’s merely pointed out the hypocrisy involved here. Or do you want to defend Domenech, plagarist and liar, some more?

By: whig

whig — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:30:00 +0000

I want to support what AJL said. I don’t know Amanda and haven’t read much of her writing so have no basis to speak about her, but Melissa has done nothing to deserve being dragged through the mud in your scalp-hunting campaign.

Some of you owe her an apology.

By: AJL

AJL — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:34:24 +0000

Just surfed over from Left Blogistan. There’s a key point being missed here. Whatever you may think about Amanda Marcotte, the other woman in question, Melissa McEwan has been severely libeled by those who lumped her in as an “Anti-Catholic bigot.” There are no legitimate grounds whatsoever to make that assessment of her. Scalp-hunting is, unfortunately, a bipartisan pastime, but carelessly dishonest smearing is inexcusable.

Furthermore, abortion is a political issue, and to refer to any criticism of Catholic doctrine on the issue as “bigotry” is akin to calling criticism of Jesse Jackson’s political agenda “racist.” It’s absurd. Marcotte went over the line with her vulgar mischaracterizations of Catholic dogma, not with the substance of her political criticism. Let’s get that straight.

There’s more I would love to say, but for the sake of civil argument I’ll leave it at that.

By: Sirius Familiaris

Sirius Familiaris — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:56:02 +0000

Rick,

I know you don’t suffer fools graciously, but bear with me…

Based on Edwards’ decision to keep the errant bloggers on his staff, can we assume that 1) Edwards simply doesn’t give a damn what kind of message this sends to Christians in general and Catholics in particular and 2) in the event he receives his party’s nomination and is elected President, Marcotte and McEwan will occupy powerful positions on his communications staff?

By: RickD

RickD — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:43:30 +0000

Anti-abortion issues are the “essence” of some Catholic’s (sic) faith?

I’m always amazed with the right wing Catholics who are completely comfortable with torture, the death penalty, widespread poverty, and wars of aggression, but base their religious understanding on the one issue of abortion.

Seems more like these people are looking for a reason to be aggrieved than actually being serious about their religion.

By: The Other McCain

The Other McCain — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:58:03 +0000

Exclusive interview!

Following his “big victory” Thursday in the battle over campaign bloggers Melissa McEwan and Amanda F***ing Marcotte, John Edwards took the advice of Chris Bowers and decided to keep piling on the pressure by hiring a new Netroots-approved spokesman:…