Watching the destruction of Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon blogger and soon-to-be-ex “Blogmaster” for the Edwards campaign, has been one of the few bright spots in this otherwise dreary and depressing new year.
If ever there was a left wing hysteric who deserved to be tarred, feathered, and dragged through the mud and slime of their own writings, it is Marcotte. She is a perfect illustration of the liberal mindset that posits the notion of a relative moral code when it comes to racial, ethnic, religious, and gender semantics. For her, anything goes. No characterization of her political opponents is too vile. No racist, sexist, or bigoted thought is out of bounds.
This is because the left has insulated itself from such mundane considerations as good manners and decorous language by elevating themselves to what they consider to be a higher moral plane than the rest of us. Simply because they mean well, they are vouchsafed all manner of perfidious name calling and calumnious charges directed against their opponents.
The fact that Marcotte sees the world through the prism of post-modern feminism makes her impossible to take seriously on any level. Her writing is full of so many half truths, manufactured criticisms, dead-wrong assumptions, and a child like ignorance of the emotional universe inhabited by normal men and women that trying to decipher her scribblings – once you can get by the obscenities and work your way through the incoherence – is a task best left to a psychiatrist.
I won’t pollute this site with too many examples of what I mean. For that, I urge you to see Dan Riehl’s posts or Michelle Malkin’s writings on Marcotte.
This is one of those stories that starts out on the internet, jumps to cable talk shows, and finally, when the issue can no longer be ignored, appears in the mainstream press. In the case of Marcotte, her initial effort to hide some of her more outrageous and obscenity laced tirades against conservatives in general and men in particular by deleting the offending posts at Pandagon only made matters worse. In effect, it was no longer what she said (which was bad enough) that was the issue but rather her clumsy attempt to cover it up once she was named “Blogmaster” of the Edwards campaign.
But someone with a track record of stupidity as long and varied as Marcotte’s should have realized that she wouldn’t be able to delete all the offending posts written over the last few years. In the end, her weird anti-Catholic bigotry will probably end up bringing her career as “Blogmaster” to a quick and unceremonious close. Here’s Marcotte on the Catholic belief in the Immaculate Conception:
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?
A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.
(HT: Patterico)
And in one of the more delicious ironies I can imagine, Marcotte may be brought down by the object of some of her more unbalanced rants; the Catholic Church:
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.“John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots,” Donohue wrote in a statement. “He has no choice but to fire them immediately.”
The Edwards campaign declined to comment. McEwan and Marcotte did not respond to e-mails requesting a response.
The New York Times tries to excuse Marcotte’s ravings as a consequence of being a member of the blogosphere:
The two women brought to the Edwards campaign long cyber trails in the incendiary language of the blogosphere. Other campaigns are likely to face similar controversies as they try to court voters using the latest techniques of online communication.
This is absurd. Marcotte is not being taken to task for “incendiary” writing. Holy Smokes! Anyone peruse the DNC or RNC sites lately? “Incendiary” language is hardly frowned upon and is, indeed, a prerequisite for latching on to any political campaign.
Marcotte’s will lose her job because despite the fact that she believes herself to be well meaning and, probably according to her lights incapable of hatred directed against any group, she is a rank bigot, a nauseating, die hard dogmatist whose sickening screeds against people she disagrees with (including most non-emasculated men) have sullied the debate between right and left for far too long.
Unfortunately, Marcotte’s type will always have a home on the left. She will be welcomed back with open arms and continue her unbalanced rants, raging against people whose only transgression is that they fail to fit their beliefs into her own narrow, warped, and cockeyed worldview.
Perhaps there will be an opening soon in some other campaign, a job that she will be eminently qualified to perform as only she is capable.
I hear Ahmadinejad will be running for President again. Those two see eye to eye on more issues than either is likely to admit. Not to mention both being a couple of draughts short of a full keg.
Sounds like a match made in heaven…
UPDATE
It has been far too long since we’ve heard from the lefty’s #1 thinker, pundit, and sock puppet Lambchop.
Here, Lambchop weighs in on this controversy in his usual understated, intelligent, and perspicacious manner. And I quote:
NEENER!! NEENER!! NEENER!! NEENER!! NEENER!! NEENER!!
UPDATE II: OMIGOD THE MORANS AGREE ON SOMETHING!
My brother Terry (who has a new blog that you should bookmark immediately) gets it exactly right:
Questions: What, if anything, does it tell us about Edwards that he’s joined up with this blogger? Is Edwards’ association with a person who has written these things a legitimate issue for voters, as they wonder—among other things—whom he might appoint to high office if he’s elected? If a Republican candidate teamed up with a right-wing blogger who spewed this kind of venom, how would people react? Is the mere raising of this issue a kind of underhanded censorship, a way of ruling out of bounds some kinds of opinion? Are we all just going to have to get used to a more rough-and-tumble, profane, and even hate-filled public arena in the age of the blogosphere?
Like any good journalist, he is asking the right questions – and the questions sort of answer themselves, don’t they? (HT: Malkin)
UPDATE III
Hugh Hewitt nails it and offers a challenge:
As L’Affaire Marcotte nears its inevitable conclusion, I can’t decide who was dumber, Marcotte or the Edwards campaign. On the one hand I can’t believe that Marcotte had become so comfortable in the left wing echo chamber that she actually believed her past didn’t preclude her from publicly entering a mainstream presidential campaign. On the other hand, I really can’t believe that the Edwards campaign apparently didn’t vet a high profile hire.
Anyway, it’s time to put together our first HughHewitt.com pool. In the comments section, name the date and time when Amanda Marcotte and the Edwards campaign irrevocably part ways. The winner will receive a free corned beef sandwich from the Palm Beach Gardens Toojay’s (tax, gratuity, and beverage not included).
I’ve got this Friday at 9:13 a.m.
Okay, Big Daddy I’ll take some of that action. Give me Thursday at 2:00 PM Central. As you know, good politicians lance boils quickly. The very good ones do it decisively. Marcotte is gone by the end of lunchtime tomorrow. Book it!
11:30 am
When Angry German Boy met Angry Edwards’ Blogger
Hot Air Theater presents a second dramatic interpretation of official John Edwards’ blogmaster Amanda Marcotte’s wit and wisdom: The New York Times reports this morning: Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world…
11:45 am
John Edwards’s New Bloggers Causing Him Trouble
After several days of coverage by the wingnutosphere, The New York Times has picked up the controversy surrounding John Edwards’s hiring of two foul-mouthed bloggers due to a complaint made by Bill Donohue of The Catholic League. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6…
12:24 pm
Ha ha.
Ha haha hahahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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My my. It so SOOOO SATISFYING to see this deranged loon go down in flames of her own making.
12:34 pm
Two questions…
Should Edwards choose to keep the errant blogmeisters on staff, will it really impact his chances of securing his party’s nomination?
If they stay, will the kind of vitriol evident in Marcotte’s musings become the new normalcy in the language of Presidential politics?
12:49 pm
We’ll miss her. One of the great Moonbats, and an excellent comedy resource.
12:51 pm
I won’t pollute this site with too many examples of what I mean. For that, I urge you to see Dan Riehl’s posts or Michelle Malkin’s writings on Marcotte.
Well said. Lord knows, if I wanted to see examples of “half truths, manufactured criticisms, dead-wrong assumptions, and a child like ignorance of the emotional universe inhabited by normal men and women”, Riehl and Malkin are probably the first people I’d check out. No one does half truths, manufactured criticsims, and dead-wrong assumptions quite like those two. Except of course for pretty much everyone else in the wingnut side of the blogosphere.
1:24 pm
[...] Right Wing Nut House also has a post today about the blogger hired by the John Edwards campaign that has a history of anti-Catholic rants and obscenity laced rantings which may shed some light on this phenomena. I think that Rick may be on to something here. [T]he left has insulated itself from such mundane considerations as good manners and decorous language by elevating themselves to what they consider to be a higher moral plane than the rest of us. Simply because they mean well, they are vouchsafed all manner of perfidious name calling and calumnious charges directed against their opponents. [...]
1:40 pm
Jesus Christ, you’re a psycho.
1:52 pm
“Catholic belief in the Immaculate Conception:”
That is not what the Immaculate Conception refers to. You really are a moron.
1:58 pm
[...] Rick Moran of Right-Wing Nut House, brother of Terry Moran of ABC News, helps answer: She is a rank bigot, a nauseating, die hard dogmatist whose sickening screeds against people she disagrees with (including most non-emasculated men) have sullied the debate between right and left for far too long. [...]
1:58 pm
Can’t you just picture Amanda Marcotte in Tony Snow’s job? I wonder who he has in mind for Secretary of State? I suppose KOS gets Defense.
2:24 pm
President Ahmadinejad’s real views are summarized on this website: ahmadinejadquotes.blogspot.com
2:54 pm
” raging against people whose only transgression is that they fail to fit their beliefs into her own narrow, warped, and cockeyed worldview….
Well stated but…ah…I disagree with the word “cockeyed”.
3:05 pm
Edwards Pulls A Warner
Candidates for office should read all the scriblings by bloggers before deciding to hire them. First Mark Warner hired a blogger and kooky astrologer, who was also under investigation by the SEC, and now Edwards is in hot water for
3:27 pm
John Edwards Bowing To Winger Pressure?
Is John Edwards going to bow to winger pressure and fire one of his campaign staffers? Is Edwards going to fire his campaign staffer simply because the a documented bigot objects to her political views? If so, then Edwards is in for a very rude surprise f
3:56 pm
So, how many comments have you deleted today?
I know you’ve whacked three of mine so far.
4:01 pm
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4:04 pm
Comment policy since you last visited:
1. No insulting the host.
2. Off topic comments are forbidden.
3. No profanity.
You lost out on 2 out of three there, old feller.
4:23 pm
i’ll give you post #3. but would you care to explain why you deleted the first two? (in which i mentioned that it’s a shame Marcotte wasn’t a wingnut because, as a blond bombthrower, she’d make a good replacement for the aging Ann Coulter)
4:50 pm
I am no fan of Amanda Marcotte, but you surely must have meant to set off irony meters everywhere but linking to Dan Riehl and Michelle Malkin for evidence that Amanda is not to be taken seriously.
8:19 pm
“I am no fan of Amanda Marcotte, but you surely must have meant to set off irony meters everywhere but linking to Dan Riehl and Michelle Malkin for evidence that Amanda is not to be taken seriously.”
...except the links were to see quotes of hers.
9:19 pm
The sad tale of John Edwards’ (now former) bloggers
As I mentioned briefly in my last post, the mega-watt hot issue the last couple of days in the blogosphere has been the story about two popular left-wing bloggers that the John Edwards campaign hired as his ‘official bloggers.’ Several we…
10:04 pm
Amanda Marcotte: Crashing and Burning
This is an excellent piece from Right Wing Nuthouse on how the Edwards capaign has made a major screw up by hiring Amanda Marcotte as their "Blogmaster". I’ve read some of her screeds and its amazing the Edwards campaign got within 10 miles …
10:23 pm
So Amanda Marcotte is a bigot, but Bill Donohue and Michelle Malkin are shining exemplars of reasonableness. Really . . . .
And detail for me again the many things upon which Amanda and Ahmadjinedad agree upon. I think you’re confusing her with your pal Distort D’Newsa.
10:26 pm
The really sad thing is that most libs won’t even understand why people are outraged at her screeds. They see nothing wrong in it.
11:08 pm
[...] Rick: The fact that Marcotte sees the world through the prism of post-modern feminism makes her impossible to take seriously on any level. Her writing is full of so many half truths, manufactured criticisms, dead-wrong assumptions, and a child like ignorance of the emotional universe inhabited by normal men and women that trying to decipher her scribblings – once you can get by the obscenities and work your way through the incoherence – is a task best left to a psychiatrist. [...]
11:13 pm
Rick I’ve only visited Pandagon a few times, no opinion really, but as a Catholic, Bill Donohue seems disturbed everytime I’ve seen him on tv. Like hysterical-gonna have a heart-attack, filled with hate kinda guy. So please don’t invoke that loony tunes name. He’s a nutjob imho.
11:35 am
so, are you going to delete another comment of mine? I didn’t use profanity or insult the host, nor did I make off-topic comments.
you are deleting my posts because I keep pointing out that while you claim marcotte should not be in political life because of her cursing, it is ok for bush and cheney to be politicians, despite cheney telling someone to ‘go F yourself’, and bush called a reporter a ‘major league a**hole’.
very hypocritical of you, moran.
11:40 am
Yes, yes, yes…You are just a simple truth teller.
What in God’s name do Bush and Cheney have to do with this topic? And it’s obvious you didn’t bother to read the damn post because I don’t condemn her using obscenity – I say it’s hard to read and understand what she writes because of it.
In fact, nitwit, I devoted an entire post TO DEFENDING THE PANDAGON BLOGGER’S RIGHT TO SWEAR ALL THEY WANT!
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/09/21/its-my-blog-so-f-you-and-the-motherfin-horse-you-rode-in-on/
You are a tiresome bore – go somewhere else please.
12:06 pm
[...] Terry’s brother Rick Moran, blogged (independently) at RightWingNutHouse: Watching the destruction of Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon blogger and soon-to-be-ex “Blogmaster†for the Edwards campaign, has been one of the few bright spots in this otherwise dreary and depressing new year. [...]
2:32 pm
[...] Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House yesterday: [Amanda Marcotte] is a rank bigot, a nauseating, die hard dogmatist whose sickening screeds against people she disagrees with (including most non-emasculated men) have sullied the debate between right and left for far too long. [...]
4:36 pm
Don’t tell your tempest how small your teapot is…
…let the Internet tell it for you. Though in fairness, a tempest that big in a teapot that small was probably bound to explode before anyone even spoke the words.
For those living in a cyber-hole or otherwise unavailable, it appears John Edwar…
5:33 pm
Never have been much of a fan of Amanda’s writing. I pretty much stopped reading Pandagon after Jesse left. But this is the most ridiculous example of manufactured outrage I’ve seen in a long time. Coupled with the equally ridiculous “Pelosi’s plane” story, you might think that someone is trying to create a distraction for some reason. There are far more important things going on in the world. It is the height of irresponsibility to focus on the trivial right now.
2:18 pm
Nice…
2:20 pm
Cool…
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Nice
11:42 pm
Cool!
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6:02 pm
Amanda Marcotte looks like a drag queen. She’s a screw ball.