Now the NYT has picked up on the story of Sen. Edwards anti-Catholic blogger hires.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world have landed his presidential campaign in hot water for doing what bloggers do — expressing their opinions in provocative and often crude language.
The Catholic League, a conservative religious group, is demanding that Mr. Edwards dismiss the two, Amanda Marcotte of the Pandagon blog site and Melissa McEwan, who writes on her blog, Shakespeare’s Sister, for expressing anti-Catholic opinions.
Mr. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, is among the leading Democratic presidential candidates.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said in a statement on Tuesday, “John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots.”
Mr. Edwards’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Palmieri, said Tuesday night that the campaign was weighing the fate of the two bloggers.
Now you would think a presidential campaign would just possibly check out past posts when they make a hire of bloggers to run a campaign blog. Though maybe it is a case of anti-Catholic blindness – kind of like color blindness. They probably did read the past posts and saw nothing objectionable in them.
Captain Ed posts:
The New York Times gives a rather dispassionate description of the posts in question. In the case of Marcotte, her anti-Catholic screeds would make Jack Chick blush with embarrassment; the woman is an anti-Catholic bigot. Her posts on Catholicism venture far from rational opposition to its dogma and policies into screeching, obscene hatred. The examples given by the Times for McEwan appear to be of the same tenor.
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I’m thinking that even if you ignore the sentiment, the language in which the sentiments are expressed should be condemnation enough. Marcotte in particular can not know the meaning of the word “tact.” Hardly an asset in politics. I’m guessing diplomacy isn’t one of Edwards’ strengths?
After reading some of Marcotte’s blog entries, all I could think was, “I’ve known crazy people like her, and they’ve all been liberals.”
One thing I find very strange is that she hates everything male, but wants to, as nearly as I can tell, engage in heterosexual sexual activity day and night, night and day. Why is she so eager to get down and dirty with her “oppressors”? Or are all her mates neutered eunuchs who she finds ideologically acceptable? Oh oh, I feel the bile rising at the thought of her mating…got to go.
“… I feel the bile rising at the thought of her mating …”
But that’s just it. She’s NOT mating. Just fornicating.
Once again, try imagining the reaction if Edwards’ blogger had made comments trashing Islam, or Judaism. The NYT would be having a fit. As for anti-Catholic blogging, the main problem is “provocative and often crude language”. Gee, that doesn’t sound so bad.
Nice to see that Bill Donohue and company are having some effect.
It was predictable to an extent. By definition if Edwards wants to reach out to the liberal nuts then he’s going to have to sponsor misanthropicism since evil peole vote too. I mean you can’t hire an Alam Colmes can you? How many liberal bloggers listen to him?
Democratic candidates can’t have it both ways. Either they will lie down with nuts and haters or they don’t. This might even be calculated. Edwards knows he’s perceived by Democrats as a nice, altruistic guy and probably figures he needs the haters too. Sad.
I hope my comment didn’t come off as a defense of Edwards. That’s the last thing I intended. It’s merely that I’m surprised people are surprised. John Edwards is as ambitious as, say, a rich personal injury lawyer. 🙂 An if you’re ambitious and you’re running the Democratic primaries you’ll probably sell your soul.
Taking Dave’s point a step further– if the blogmistress had been a raging anti-semite or anti-Moslem:
First, the Times would have boiled her in scalding oil. Next, they’d have spent several paragraphs musing on whether or not her writings aren’t possibly reflective of Edwards’ own, true sentiments about Jews or Moslems. He’d spend the next six months apologizing to the offended groups…
Amen to that Jay! I hope everyone is going to John Edward’s site and letting him know how Amanda is going to drag down his campaign (I know, there is merit to that, but I hate to see this vile woman be rewarded with a political appointment).
Interesting how the “newspaper of record” can’t or won’t bother to get the facts straight when it comes to what the Immaculate Conception is.
It has become painfully clear that Edwards is not only a bigoted white southern male, but also that Edwards is a KKK catholic hater.