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Damn You For Killing Our Fun, Edwards!
Posted by: Emperor Misha I in Idiotarians, Lefty America-Haters2:38 PM
(Via our friends at Cold Fury)
Guess we won’t have Amanda to kick around anymore:
The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps — John Edwards has fired the two controversial bloggers he recently hired to do liberal blogger outreach, Salon has learned.
And you’re seething, aren’t you? “Gotten our scalps”, eh? If anything, the Breck Girl owes us for helping him out and, unlike the MSM when dealing with sexual predators with the name of Mark Foley, sitting on the evidence until a few weeks before an election.
Speculation from sources that the two bloggers might be rehired was bolstered by Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, who said in an e-mail that she would “caution [Salon] against reporting that they have been fired. We will have something to say later.”
So they weren’t as much fired as they were, er, “fired”, huh? Good. That ought to make for lots of fun in the future.
This isn’t the first Internet-related misstep for the Edwards campaign, which had been making an effort to reach out to the “netroots” but has found its popularity dropping in a straw poll done on the landmark liberal blog Daily Kos.
And, given the Daily Kotz’s track record of no wins to G-d only knows how many attempts, you simply cannot underestimate the importance of winning the approval of the shrieking, frothing, spittle-flecked Moonbats of the Stalinist Left. Just look at how much they did for Lamont.
Though he still leads the poll by one point over Sen. Barack Obama, Edwards’ support has dropped nine points in the past three weeks. He has also come under fire in the liberal blogosphere for his statements on Iran and his campaign’s failure to return the calls of supporters and press, and was embarrassed when his Web site mistakenly revealed his candidacy a day before his official announcement in New Orleans.
Strangely, however, Mr “Two Americas” has come under no fire at all for his three gazillion dollars mansion and the massive forest-clearing that he needed to do in order to make sure that he’d have a clear view of the huddled masses in case they’d ever dare to profane his palatial grounds with their unwashed presence.
Leading the charge against Marcotte — and to a lesser extent McEwan — have been bloggers like the National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez and Michelle Malkin. Malkin originally accused Marcotte of trying to scrub Pandagon’s archives of material that could be embarrassing to the Edwards campaign. When that proved untrue, Malkin posted a correction, but said that the fact that she had been wrong was “even worse for the Edwards campaign” because “its blogmaster left crackpot posts like that one up and hired her anyway.”
It was proven “untrue?” That’s funny, because it’s certainly news to anybody who can read. Oh sure, there was one allegation of “Web-scrubbing” that was proven inaccurate and Michelle, to her credit (not that it’s a surprise, because that’s what we do on the Right Side), immediately posted a retraction and correction.
So why is Salon (socialist) studiously avoiding mention of all of the other incidents, such as the one linked to above in which Amanda herself admits to airbrushing? Why, it’s almost as if they’re trying to insinuate that ALL claims of revisionism have been retracted, isn’t it? Not that Salon would ever so such a thing and, by the way, we have this nice bridge in Brooklyn that we’d like to sell.
Malkin, it should be noted, is hardly innocent of being involved with what ABC News’ Terry Moran termed “hate speech” when applied to Marcotte. Malkin has long maintained ties to VDARE, a Web site tagged as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center that has published works by people like Jared Taylor, one of America’s leading white supremacists, and Sam Francis, who was fired by the conservative Washington Times for his own white supremacist remarks, given at a conference held by Taylor’s organization.
According to the bought-and-paid-for by the DNC Southern Poverty Law Center, anybody to the right of Joseph Stalin is a card-carrying member of a “hate group”, but never mind that. It’s “guilt by association” time, people, with the somewhat important difference being that Michelle, to the best of our knowledge, didn’t pen any of Jared Taylor or Sam Francis’ articles. Amanda, on the other hand, very much did write her own posts. Unless her Amazing AI Technical Glitch™ wrote those too.
The liberal press watchdog Media Matters has also noted Donohue’s long list of controversial statements.
Media Matters?
Oh yes and, while we’re at it, the Volkischer Beobachter wrote numerous times that the Jews were the source of all misery in the world. We suppose that Salon would recommend them and Der Sturmer as credible sources too.
There may be lifeforms more terminally inept at making an intelligent case than Salon but, so far, science has failed to discover them.
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Whats funny is that the left is already throwing Edwards under the bus. Shakespears Sister
February 7th, 2007 at 2:47 PMUsing
goodbye to the anti-catholic, trash talking whore-bigots.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:17 PMUsing
Hey john, didnt you hear Amanda say to “keep your noses outta my britches” ?
Could this be the same Jennifer Palmieri who worked for Lurch Kerrys campaign??
February 7th, 2007 at 3:20 PMUsing
Are they really bigots or is it just the left wing version of hyperbole? But they do have a long way to go if they are to match the wit of our Emperor. Maybe he could give them some lessons?
February 7th, 2007 at 3:21 PMUsing
Somebody over at Jawa compared you working for Rudy with these two broads.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:28 PMDon’t worry, I took up for ya and told them you’d mellowed in your years.
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Are you fucking TRYING to ruin my street creds? :wink_ee:
February 7th, 2007 at 3:40 PMUsing
:lol_wp: Yep, I knew that’d fire ya right up.
February 7th, 2007 at 4:01 PMUsing
Misha , you girlfriend Deb Frisch has an interesting take on this subject
February 7th, 2007 at 4:11 PMUsing
Sometimes I have nothing much to say except, “Well Said.”
If you didn’t catch Michelle’s video on hotair today on this subject, you owe it to yourself to watch it.
Absolutely hilarious!
Oh, and she’s just HOT!
February 7th, 2007 at 7:57 PMUsing
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February 7th, 2007 at 8:32 PMUsing
In addition to being bigoted and offensive, Marcotte is shockingly ignorant and just flat-out wrong.
The theological hypothesis of Limbo was ancient in Dante’s day. What was it for fifteen hundred years ago, when abortion was neither widely available nor widely sought-after?
I have spent well over two thousand hours discussing Catholicism on the Internet, and I have never heard anything like that. Purgatory is a temporary state. Limbo is eternal. Christ’s return has no bearing on the duration of either.
See my first comment. Note also that Limbo is a state of the highest natural happiness. The only folks happier are the Church Victorious in Heaven: souls enjoying the Beatific Vision, or the unmediated knowledge of God. No one in the world is as happy as a soul in Limbo, nor could they be. Does it “suck?” Well, yes, as do all of the dreadful consequences of the Fall. But this, I suspect, is not what she has in mind.
This gets more into history and politics than theology, but the short answer is no. In the unlikely event the Church dispenses with Limbo, it will be in favor of an Ordinary Magisterial teaching that unbaptized infants go to Heaven.
Except that he hasn’t and he won’t because they aren’t.
All Catholic women who have obtained abortions should repent and confess their sins to a priest of Jesus Christ, then go and sin no more. Then, it will all work out in the end. Not coincidentally, the very same is true of every sinner on the planet.
… It is worth noting that the Church is a voluntary organization, and people are free to leave as they choose.
Sex is important because that’s where people come from, and people are important.
It would be off topic to note that sex has no impact on our material health but a tremendous impact on our spiritual health, so I will forgo the comment. Alas, too late, and my backspace button is broken.
“Hellfire” defined here as “an eternal state of the highest possible natural happiness.”
February 8th, 2007 at 8:07 AMUsing