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Hillary Supporters Defect from Kos

Because “racists” and “Republicans” aren’t accepted at Kos, of course, and as we all know, if you aren’t for Obama, you must be either a racist or a closeted Republican!

This is a strike - a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t “work” at DailyKos again. As a regular contributor to the discourse in our community, I would certainly hope to take part in the conversation at DailyKos again some day if we ever get to the point where we’re engaging each other in discussion rather than facing off in shouting matches. But not now. Writers need a safe place to reach out and exchange ideas, to communicate and challenge one another. DailyKos should be that place, but its tone, its essence has evolved into something ugly and destructive. Good writers can’t survive in that kind of atmosphere. Democrats shouldn’t have to put up with that from fellow Democrats.

Get a load of this:

No, I won’t post specific attacks here. That would just be repeating the lies and the hate, but I will note that one of my fellow Kossaks (someone with whom I thought I could agree to disagree) went so far as to suggest that others try to dig up real life information on the pro-Hillary members of our community. To what end? Was his aim to find enough information on us to try to get us fired from our jobs and leave our families homeless – or worse? Suggesting that they dig up real life information on us is the lowest form of intimidation and goes way beyond the limits of all things civil and reasonable. It’s nothing more than the worst form of thuggish, hateful and intimidating behavior toward other members of our community.

Now in all fairness, that diarist saw just how far over the line he went with that post and eventually took it down. But the fact that he posted it in the first place shows us the kind of mob mentality that has been allowed to develop, grow and fester at DailyKos.

Welcome to reality, Alegre.

I know the Hillary supporters don’t want to hear it and don’t want sympathy, but they need not worry; I have little sympathy. I do empathize, however. I also find it amusing that they’ve just now figured out that the Daily Kos is an echo chamber. So are most blogs (including blogs on the right!), but Kos is a joke. It’s the largest blog (if you call it a “blog”) of all, and you’d think there would be some tolerance for various points of view, especially considering the fact that “liberals” (scare quotes intended) are always going on about how open-minded and tolerant they are. Of course, they aren’t. This is certainly not news to anyone to their right, either.

Now, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary or Obama, but one thing is obvious: Hillary is the more serious candidate, and anyone with two eyes can see that her supporters are more serious and reasonable than the feverish Obamessiah disciples. I’d say it’s an age thing, but how would you explain Chris Matthews and “thrills” he feels when Obama speaks? The fainting? The ovations for snot? Hillary has kooks supporting her too, but that’s the case with any candidate, and it’s quite obvious that the kooks are marginalized far more in her corner than they are in Obama’s. Even Bill Clinton has been silenced. Of course, that’s because you’re not allowed to criticize the Obamessiah on anything without it being seen as a racist attack. I still haven’t figured out how Slick Willie saying “fairy tale” is an appeal to racism. And see, that’s becoming a real problem with Obama. What’s that going to be like if he’s elected? Are people not going to be able to oppose anything without being called a racist or demonized in some other way? Is that really what this country needs? What kind of totalitarian BS is that? I thought Obama was supposed to be about “unity.” I guess that’s “just words.” And here’s a free tip to Hillary supporters: just as you (and we) don’t like being called racists for opposing Obama, Hillary’s opponents’ supporters don’t like being called misogynists, either. Besides, the cry of misogyny runs counter to what I thought her campaign is all about. I didn’t think her campaign was about “elect me because I’m a woman.” I thought it was supposed to be about issues, experience, and judgment. (She loses big-time to McCain on that, but still, she’s way ahead of Obama at least in experience and judgment.)

Via the Moderate Voice, Tom Watson, a Clinton supporter, gets real:

The resentment among non-Obama backers is growing rapidly - you can see it in the comments here, and I can see it in my emails. There’s a real split among party activists, and it’s getting wider. Some of it is motivated by the media’s love affair with one candidate - and hatred for the other; Keith Olbermann’s embarassment drove many over the edge. But much of it comes from boorish, Stalinist behavior online - the kind of “you’re either with us or against us” attitude we saw so much of when the Bush crowd was flying high. It’s disturbing, particularly because so many of the targets are women. This is not the Democratic Party many of us have worked for; this is not the progressive blogosphere we’ve supported. Without blaming the worthy candidacy of Senator Obama in any way, this is not a progressive movement - it’s a harsh, echo-filled politburo bathed in faux post-racial hosannas and the gauzy camera lens of “hope.”

Stalinist. Politburo. Hey, we’ve been saying that for years.

Anyway. I wonder what Hillary’s supporters will do when Obama officially gets the coronation (and I have no doubt that he will). I wonder if they’ll remember that Obama isn’t ready for that 3am call. I wonder if they’ll remember that he has not passed the Commander in Chief threshold. I know what I think they ought to do, but I’m biased. We would, of course, welcome them.

Ellen Goodman, Helpless Little Girl

Oh, looky here. A poor helpless widdle girl is asking where all the female political bloggers are again, and why The Man™ is keeping us down.

Who knows how many women are scared silent.

Project much?

Is it because men raise their hands first in class?

O RLY? They do? Not in my memory, and not in my daughter’s class. Maybe poor little Miss Ellen Goodman was afraid, though.

Cooper thinks one reason for the demographics is that educated, economically comfortable men were the early adapters to the technology and took the lead.

Well, duh. Political blogging didn’t come first; tech blogging did. Like it or not, there simply *are* more men interested in technology than women. What are you gonna do about it? As for me, my daughter has been raised in a science/math/technology-loving environment, and her interests reflect as much. She’s had a blog since she was six years old, and she still writes on her blog. No doubt she’ll be among the early adopters of new technology as she grows up, whether she’s outnumbered by icky boys or not. I wasn’t among the early bloggers or certain other early adopters; I spent most of my adult life doing traditionally female things (damn Patriarchy!) like…oh, wait. I was in the military! And they didn’t even make me be a cook! I got to pick what I wanted to do–can you imagine?! Women actually picking and choosing what they want to do, without a man’s help!

See, unlike Ellen Goodman and her ilk, I never really thought about “traditional” gender roles–until I actually MET women like her. And unlike certain others, I didn’t have a light bulb go off that said “OMG! The menz are oppressing me!” It’s always been a shrug and “whatever” for me, because I don’t let others define me. I’m not a freaking victim. I don’t have the most highly-trafficked blog on teh internets (shocker!), but it’s not because I’m female, fer Chrissakes. (I’m not stupid; I know this blog isn’t for everyone–and neither am I). In fact, if the Blogads survey is a reasonably accurate sampling, most of the readers here are men. I would guess the same male/female statistics go for the most-read “female blogger,” Michelle Malkin, as well. Maybe that’s not the case with the women blogging on the left–I’m sure plenty of dudes are put off by the men suck vibe at blogs like Pandagon. Either way, who freaking cares?

Blogger Adele Stan suggests white male bloggers have a network of “funding, linking, quoting, or bookings on political talk shows.” Or maybe we need only count viewers. The typical political blog reader is a 43-year-old man with an $80,000 family income. Is it any surprise that Hillary Clinton gets only 9 percent in most online-activist polls, while garnering more than 40 percent in traditional polls?

ZOMG! The Vast White Male Conspiracy!!1! Conspiring against Hillary! Hey, Ellen, welcome to the blogosphere. You run with the Kos Kidz? Guess what–they aren’t Hillary fans; she’s too “centrist” for them (LOL). The internet is full of extremists of all stripes, whether the extremists realize they are or not. And here’s a news flash: Unscientific online polls do not determine the winner. Online polling for Hillary means the VWMC is hard at work? Please. You fail.

Forgive me for snorting at laughable nonsense like this:

Is it the angry voice — a netroot norm but a female abnorm? Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos and namesake of the convention, said unabashedly in an ABC News interview last year, “I learned to talk the way I do in the US Army. And we don’t mince words. In politics, I don’t see it any different. I see it as a battlefield.” The American Prospect’s Garance Franke-Ruta, who was on the panel notes, wryly, “If you’re an angry man you’re righteous. If you’re an angry woman, you’re crazy or a bitch.”

LOL. No, Kos is a douchetard asshole, and maybe it’s just you, poor little Garance, who’s a crazy bitch. I certainly don’t mince words, and if someone thinks I’m crazy or a bitch, they haven’t said so. Nor would I care. Toughen up, cookie.

And right after that? Another non sequitur, anyone?

Is it harassment? Women have been talking about this since blogger Kathy Sierra was threatened with a picture of her next to a noose.

Oh, like men don’t get hate mail, get their websites hacked, get threatened? Good grief. Hey, maybe we should legislate something! Hate crimes against female bloggers!

Convention organizer Gina Cooper has two e-mail addresses, just one carrying her female name. Only “Gina” gets the hate e-mail with sexual threats and such comments as: “I’m going to hunt you down.”

Yes, and all male bloggers freely share their real email addresses, as well as their full names. Right.

So in one part of the article, she worries that delicate, oppressed(!) ~~women~~ baby factories are scared away from political blogging because it’s too rough.

It’s not that women are invisible. There are “women’s pages” on the Internet. Technorati counts more than 11,000 “mommy blogs.” There are “women’s issues” blogs like the funny and bracing Feministing.

(”Funny and bracing?” Ahem.) Anyway, so what? Complain to the mommy bloggers about not being political enough, then. Oh wait, aren’t we women supposed to be able to pursue our own interests? Guess what: Heather Armstrong/Dooce (who’s a better writer than you are), for example, apparently isn’t that into politics. Jessica at Feministing and the godawful Amanda at Pandagon write about women-centric issues. Got a problem with that? Tough shi’ite. I’m interested in politics, along with “geeky” computer stuff. Hence, I have a majority-male readership, because they’re apparently more interested in politics and whatever else, than in other people’s kids and families or in “women’s issues,” whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Who’s defining gender roles, then, when you call things “women’s issues?” I happen to think the right to bear arms is a “women’s issue.” Do you?

But wait! It’s not about the eleven thousand mommy blogs, after all!

But this is not just about counting, not just about diversity-by-the-numbers. It’s about the political dialogue — who gets heard and who sets the agenda. Cooper asks herself: “Are we going to do the same thing we’ve done all along, but with computers? Or will we create a new institution that allows for marginalized voices?“

Whatever.

Two years ago, after Newsweak started another round of gender wars in the blogosphere, I decided maybe some of these pseudo-feminists needed to open their eyes a little, so I started my own group of bloggers–The Cotillion. A tongue in cheek name, predictably taken literally by the usual leftard morons like Amanda at Pandagon–to which I responded in a polite email that I would think a devout feminist wouldn’t be so quick to tear down a group of women who want to raise the visibility of women in the blogosphere. Silly me. Ever read the feminist blogs? It’s constant in-fighting with them, about stupid shi’ite like who the more oppressed party is, or who the “real” feminists are. Yeah, they’re really interested in increasing women’s power. LOL. Maybe Ellen Goodman needs to broaden her horizons beyond the leftardosphere, because we aren’t all complaining about The Man™ oppressing us, and it’s not because we’re tools of the Patriarchy, either. I’ve written plenty of things here myself that are feminist (not in the angry left-wing feminist vein, though), and I’m not afraid of the word.

So you wonder where the women are? Here’s a list of around forty conservative/libertarian female political bloggers, and Baldilocks has a list (and a few words about the scary-bad internets) as well.

Where’s your list, Ellen? What have you done for me or any other women lately? Or do you just prefer to wait for men to take care of you?

We don’t. We take care of ourselves.

Shi’itety Blogs Roundup

I’ll preface this by saying my blog is a shi’itety blog too, because if it weren’t, I’d have written my own hit piece myself (besides this one, that is).

First, Steve H. does kick ass and take names.

I think we need more disloyals like me. We need a bunch of us to form a committee and make a list of embarrassing conservatives and start a fund to pay them to disappear. Let’s see. Who would I include?

Are you on that list? Of course you aren’t, because if you were, you probably wouldn’t read this blog.
Dennis the Peasant finds a stunning display of cowardice (I prefer the in-your-face approach, myself). Seriously.
Last but not least, Ace and Jeff Goldstein rip on Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s new best friend (*).

I could add plenty to the list of blogtards, but I’m lazy and can’t be arsed. But you know me, I love ripping on blogtards. :mrgreen:

Blogger Code of Conduct

Tags: stopcyberbullying

This article from O’Reilly Radar (not Bill O’Reilly, you political wonks, the tech O’Reilly) about a Blogger Code of Conduct sounds like a good set of guidelines for people (bloggers and blog-readers) to follow. (Read it!)

I’m going to add one thing that really irritates the shi’ite out of me: fake email addresses from trolls. That’s the same damn thing as “anonymous,” in my book, and anonymous commenters are cowards. Believe me, I have less than zero interest in spamming anyone–I have enough email to deal with as it is, without asking for more by sending you email. So why do I want it? It’s because it shows you aren’t afraid to own your words. Consider this the law: if I don’t like your comment or don’t like you (as in, a troll) and you leave a fake email address, I’m not approving your comment. There are some people I know and like (one who isn’t even part of the VRWC, so can the “echo chamber” bullshi’ite) who use fake email addresses (I’m not sure why, but whatever), but I won’t delete those comments. They’re regulars and/or semi-regulars here. Not fair? Tough shi’ite. This isn’t a court of law, it’s a blog, and you don’t have a right to a “fair trial” with commenting here. My blog. My rules.

O’Reilly Radar also lists the community guidelines used at BlogHer:

We embrace your diversity of opinions and values… but we insist that your content may not include anything unacceptable.

We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked that is:

Being used to abuse, harass, stalk or threaten a person or persons

Libelous, defamatory, knowingly false or misrepresents another person

Infringes upon any copyright, trademark, trade secret or patent of any third party. (If you quote or excerpt someone’s content, it is your responsibility to provide proper attribution to the original author. For a clear definition of proper attribution and fair use, please see The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Legal Guide for Bloggers)

Violates any obligation of confidentiality

Violates the privacy, publicity, moral or any other right of any third party

Contains editorial content that has been commissioned and paid for by a third party, (either cash or goods in barter), and/or contains paid advertising links and/or SPAM or “Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages.” For BlogHer’s purposes, we define SPAM as anything that qualifies as nonsense* unrelated to the discussion, either in comments on a blog or in our forums. This nonsense may take classic forms (e.g., simple links to unrelated content that are often advertising or e-commerce), or more insidious forms.

BlogHer’s co-founders define and determine what is “unacceptable content” on a case-by-case basis-and our definitions are not limited to this list. We reserve the right to change these standards at any time with no notice. We also reserve the right to remove links to any content at any time.

I’ll be updating the comment policy here to reflect the above, with a few differences. As I’ve said before, it’s time for the blogosphere to grow up. Obviously, I’m not averse to adult language, but if it’s used to attack my regular readers, yer outta here.

So why post this today? No, it’s not an April Fools joke. I don’t know what the hell got in the water lately, but the trolls have been unusually active around the blogosphere in general lately, and the Kathy Sierra incident sparked a “Blog against cyberbullying” thing on Friday (which I obviously missed). I’m continually amazed at the comments I see left up at certain blogs I like; I can’t make them change their own practices and won’t ask them to, either (it’s their blogs, not mine), but I don’t want to have a blog where the commenters make people leave in disgust. Not that I do as of now; I don’t get a ton of comments here anyway, but those who do comment here are usually among the saner and more intelligent I’ve seen on teh internets (thanks, y’all). I’d like to keep it that way–I won’t turn this blog over to mouth-breathing drive-by trolls.

* Exception: Particularly insane rantings that only embarrass the commenter will be approved, as long as they aren’t spam. We need entertainment, too.

Yet another reason to despise the Left

THIS is inexcusable. I’m not linking to the hateful bastard doing the “outing,” but you can find it by following the links. Michelle Malkin is wrong, and this is a good explanation why. See Jane Mom nails it.

I find it fabulously hypocritical that the Liberal Left will forgive you for drowning a woman in a car while inebriated, burning a cross while dressed like a bed, and getting a blow job from a fat chick in the Oval Office while Presiding, but Allah help you if you are getting your freak on while Conservative.

I HATE them. Once again, the evil, soulless, vicious Left is dead wrong. I don’t know how this “Joe My God” sonofabitch (I told ya, no link) can live with himself any more than that piece of shi’ite Mike Rogers can. May they live in even deeper self-loathing misery.

God, I hate the blogosphere. Some of the most hateful, destructive, unproductive losers ever can be found with blogs, and these parasites who fark with other people’s personal lives are the worst of all. I can’t stand being a part of an institution, if you will, that engages in personal destruction like this.

Update (Bratty Brother): Let’s look at this a little more closely…

Should CPAC organizers be embarrassed if the rumors about his alleged porn star past are true? Well, yes. Next time, they should do more extensive background research before handing out an honor with Jeane [sic] Kirkpatrick’s name on it.

So….CPAC is being compared to the Marine Corps? Ever heard of “don’t ask, don’t tell?”

If Cpl Sanchez had thrown himself on a grenade to save his platoon, would Malkin be complaining that the Pentagon should have done a more thorough background search?

And since when did having Jeanne Kirkpatrick’s name on an award mean that a gay man shouldn’t receive it? Even if he did have a “gay porn star past,” how does anyone know that she didn’t watch gay porn and like it?

Speaking of CPAC, everything I read about it on the blogosphere? It sounds just like the absolute crap I read about my union’s biannual convention. The same rah-rah-stick-it-to-the-Man crap that everyone forgets about until the next year when they show up to pat each other on the backs and complain that, well, nothing’s really been done in a year, BUT WE’LL GET ‘EM BY THE NEXT TIME WE GET TOGETHER!!!!!!

It’s the same scam under a different pretense, reminding everyone year after year that they’re not doing enough, and to send more money.

(sorry for the rant, Bratty Sister, but it needed saying)

Update 2 (Beth): What Vinnie said. And I will remind those who wrinkle their noses at Matt Sanchez’ past that Jesus Christ wouldn’t reject him. Period.

To Matt Sanchez: We support you. This is a bullshi’ite non-scandal, a “blip,” like you said. I couldn’t care less what you used to do or do now in your personal life–it’s none of my business, and none of anyone else’s. Some pathetic Joe Schmo gets a big traffic boost on his crappy blog (almost famous!–not) because he has nothing better to offer…whoopee. Only a failure as a human being would get his kicks from having his blog have one “big story” based on someone else’s personal life. How pathetic. Contrast that with your accomplishments in the Marine Corps and at Columbia University–obviously, they wouldn’t be taking shots at you if you weren’t some threat to them, whether it’s to their self-confidence or their entrenched control of universities. Carry on, Matt (I know you will); you don’t owe any stupid blogger anything–you have every right to be proud of what you’re doing, with no apologies. They’re the losers who have to live with this hateful crusade against you and others, and for what? Traffic on a blog? Like they’re going to force you to not be a conservative any more? I don’t know how they can live with themselves.

[NEW UPDATE in the comments.]

This post is for you, MIKE STARK, STALKER

I started to post this in this motherfarker’s comments, but he doesn’t deserve even that much, and I couldn’t stomach being among the animals in the comments. [Background is a must: Hot Air and LGF.]

You know what, Stark?

Why don’t you ask your mother (if you have one, you slime-spawned piece of shi’ite) how she’d feel about having someone who LOATHED them popping up under stealth as you did?

You may think it’s all fun and games, trying to “spook” an eeeevil wiiiingnut–or maybe it’s not just fun and games!–but you are an idiot with less common sense and human social skills than a squirrel. You obviously have no farking idea with the kind of shi’ite women have to deal with even if we’re trained in self-defense and/or are armed all the time. (Remember this: some of us ARE armed.) Especially a well-known public figure. Normal men with more than two brain cells and even the most minimal common sense understand that you do not do this shi’ite to women.

FARK. YOU.

I see you don’t even have the cojones to get in the grill of someone your own fightin’ weight any more, do you? You have to go after a woman! Chickenshi’ite. F–king stupid stalker sociopathic motherfarker chump douchebag chickenshi’ite.

I really, really hope someone up there in DC finds your slimy putrid ass out on the street. Maybe you’ll be walking down the street up there, someone will ask you for a dollar, like they do on occasion, and while you’re kindly reaching for it (a quarter, you cheap bastard!) maybe the bum asking for that dollar thinks “haha, sucker” and does a piece of work on your ugly, smug ass. While his friend takes pictures to show on teh internets! Scoop, biatch! That’s what you get for being generous!

‘Cause you know what?

Karma’s a bitch.

THAT, my friends, is what “angry” swearing on a blog is.

UPDATE, already, to address his tiresome, predictable drivel about there being no military recruiters at CPAC:
NEWS FLASH: The military doesn’t go to partisan political events, for any reason. It obviously would be a clear violation of the UCMJ. Obviously. But I guess these farking assclowns wouldn’t know that. Even if they do know it, well, why let facts get in the way of their pretty non-sequitur? God, he’s so stupid it’s comical.

Nope, no “Bury Brigade” at Digg!

Tags: digg

Well, except maybe here.

This morning a little ~~birdie~~ turdie dropped these links on our doorstep. Apparently they make it even easier to bury LGF, Malkin and Hotair posts. We’re not ones to hold them back:

Bury LGF on Digg

Bury Malkin on Digg

Bury Hotair on Digg

Chirp chirp, little turdie.

Kevin Rose, are you listening? Or do you just not particularly care in this case?

Little Green Footballs, posts submitted vs. posts NOT buried for the last 7 days

Hot Air, posts submitted vs. posts NOT buried (last 7 days)

Michelle Malkin, posts submitted vs. posts NOT buried (last 7 days)

And there are other blogs you might guess with the same results, although I won’t point them out for the Diggbats that haven’t found them yet.

[Want to digg this post? Click the Social Bookmark button below.]

Pwnage of the Day

A certain former University of Arizona lunatic adjunct professor just got PWN3D!!!
…By a bunch of gerbils!

Background, for those who may have missed it. And lots more background.

The Patriarchy Fired The Vaginas

Tags: John Edwards, Amanda Marcotte

Give me a break.

Amanda Marcotte in Salon today:

One question that’s hard to avoid is how much of the venom had to do with the fact that McEwan and I were young women entering into a field (Internet communications) that’s viewed as almost monolithically masculine. From my vantage point, it appeared that sexism was one of the primary motivating energies behind the campaign. Even before Donohue stepped in, various right-wing bloggers were obsessed with my gender and sexuality. As I noted at the time of my resignation, the majority of the hate mail I was receiving was from men, and almost all the e-mails made note of my gender or suggested that I would be a more pleasant woman if I wasn’t so “angry.” Bluntly put, I find it hard to believe that many men would end up being denounced on TV for using words like “fark” or “c**t” on their blog and expect to receive piles of e-mail offering an opportunity to suck the sender’s dick.

Talk about cognitive dissonance!

Ever hear of the two words “screw ‘em?” That wasn’t even using four-letter words, and it’s cast a long shadow for years. I’m sure it’s no accident that Kos didn’t get offered that job, despite the fact that 1) he’s got an enormous audience that frankly pwns Pwndagon’s, and 2) he’s got a hell of a lot more practical experience working with politicians and the Democratic machine. Anyone who thinks Kos wouldn’t hear about “screw ‘em” if he had that plum job is farking crazy. And that’s just Kos–there are countless other high-traffic male leftard bloggers who have far more socially offensive trash in their archives.

Marcotte still doesn’t get it. She still thinks that only anti-feminist “godbags”/”Christofascists” found her hateful blog disgraceful. Apparently she didn’t even understand that her boss, John Edwards, said he found the words offensive (or maybe he lied?). She still doesn’t get that anyone who has spewed the bile she has is not the kind of person to be associated with a Presidential campaign. Instead, she thinks it’s about potty-mouthed women and feminists. If it were about feminism, explain the countless feminists associated with other political candidates. Explain elected officials who are feminists. Her complaint is, to use a favorite word of Pandagonians, a STRAWFEMINIST.

And this business about emails “offering an opportunity to suck the sender’s dick”–what makes you think that the kind of people who send that email wouldn’t say that to a man? You think “suck my dick” is only said to women? HA! You think a man wouldn’t get email attacking his masculinity or virility? Please. Are you really that stupid, or are you just that intellectually dishonest? Here’s another newsflash for you: like it or not, most blog readers are male, hence more email from men. I’m sure any political blogger will tell you that the overwhelming majority of email from readers they don’t know already is from men as well. That has nothing to do with feminism or sexism.

No, Amanda, it’s not about you and Melissa McEwan having vaginas. It is because outside of your hateful extremist echo chambers in real and online life, most people (specifically, potential voters) consider the things you say to be trashy, offensive, repellent, and the absolute antithesis of what one would expect from anyone representing a Presidential candidate. Your words and sentiments are divisive and alienating, which is precisely the opposite of what a Presidential campaign should be.

If the language you use can’t be published in a mainstream newspaper without heavy editing, you aren’t for public consumption. Deal with it. Try going to a public place (not some bar in Austin, mind you–I mean the grocery store) and saying what you write. Put your “punkass” boyfriend up to do it, if you think it’s about your vagina, and see how well those words are received, regardless of gender.

If you can’t do that safely, then you have no business in a visible position on a Presidential campaign. Period. Go sign up for a phone bank or something instead. I know the language at this blog isn’t for mainstream consumption, but as I’ve said already, I’m not stupid enough to think those words should represent any political candidate–and regardless of whether it’s “fair” or not, they would. Grow up, Amanda.

White House Press Briefing Question of the Day

Via the comments at Hot Air, from yesterday:

Q Tony, could I go to a domestic — two domestic questions?

MR. SNOW: Yes, you may.

Q I’ll yield to anybody else.

I have never heard you or any of your 10 predecessors — whom I have covered at that podium — use the obscene words for feces, fornication, semen, anus, and vagina, all of which words were used publicly by Melissa McEwan, who is still on the John Edwards presidential campaign staff because he refused to fire her. And my question, first: Surely the President would never put up with such public obscenity like former Senator Edwards is doing, would he?

MR. SNOW: Well, I don’t know about that, but the President expects his aides to behave in a seemly manner.

Ouch! Not exactly the way I’d want my name to be mentioned in a WH press briefing! That’s when you know your resignation is overdue.

I will add: the hate mail she and the nutcase Amanda are getting is sickening, some of which is worse than any of the foulest stuff either have written. For some unknown reason, Amanda (no linky from me!) thinks the people writing the hate mail to her are devout Christians. Obviously she’s wrong, but at least in her and her readers’ minds, perception is reality. (Who ARE these morons who write that kind of hate mail?)

Resignation, my ass.

Tags: Amanda Marcotte, John Edwards

suuuuuure

Amanda Marcotte “resigned.”

technically

this announcement

does it look like the words of someone who stepped aside for the good of the campaign?

wasn’t apologizing for anything except for John Edwards’ (and our) stupidity

For the record, I had really hoped she would get to stay with the Edwards campaign. What a target-rich environment! I just think it’s hilarious that Edwards’ people are so bloody stupid as to hire someone like her. And predictably, she’s already ranting (just as I predicted she would) that it’s because of her gender. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! How stupid do you have to be to actually think that’s what it’s about? And seriously, does anyone really think it’s about Bill Donohue’s objection to her? I sure as hell don’t. There were plenty of Democrats, including Edwards supporters, who objected to her being part of the Edwards campaign because she only detracts from the message. They’ve spent what, a week? Two weeks? Dealing with Marcotte and McEwan’s inflammatory blogs, rather than talking about campaign strategy or issue positions? Yeah, that’s a plus for the campaign.

But hell no, they can’t possibly look at any of this realistically because they’re a bunch of ignorant juveniles. Amateurs. For years the nutroots idiotarians have been whining that they’ve done so much for Democrats, and they want to be “paid back.” Well, now you know, nutroots: most of y’all just aren’t ready. Oh yeah, y’all did wonders for Ned Lamont with that blackface stunt, too. Hang it up, kiddies, you can forget about being hired by serious campaigns without having all your hateful trash pored through. I LOVE IT. Political campaigns are nasty enough without the addition of fire-breathers into the mix, but the nutroots wants to “teach” the campaign people how to do their jobs. Just look at the fever swamps: there isn’t a thread that goes by where someone doesn’t mention, “no more Mister Nice Guy, we need to fight the Rethugs like they fight us.” Yeah, the Democrats are so nicey-nice it makes my teeth ache. LOL. Please.

Wake up, Amanda, you moron: the right was perfectly happy watching you self-immolate. It’s the Edwards people who got wise and cut the drag on their campaign. If you had a shred of integrity or honor, as I said before, you’d have declined the position in the very beginning. Of course, I imagine you snort at the concepts of “integrity” and “honor,” don’t you? Idiot.

Oh, sorry–Jeff Goldstein mentioned you didn’t like being called an idiot.

I’m not an idiot. I’m a twat. Get it straight.

I’m a hot, moist, inviting twat. Warm, wet, inviting. But not to you or your friends. Even if I were single, these nubile thighs do not wrap around the hips of Republicans. You can fark yourselves or the dry twats of the self-hating misogynists who will allow you tiny penis to penetrate them. Have fun! Um, the wounds you get from rubbing you un-lubricated dick repeatedly into your heartless, soulless woman–iodine is your best friend, my be-scarred friend.

Well, bless her heart. Hire Amanda Marcotte to work on your Presidential campaign!

I’m sorry, but no blogger has a “right” to a political campaign job, and most are so politically retarded it would be suicidal to hire them. Still others (ahem…me, Ace, and countless others) have enough common sense and integrity that we wouldn’t take a visible job with a campaign. Anyone in a visible job should expect to have his or her archives combed, because the first job of a political campaign worker is: do not hurt the candidate. I’m snickering at the bloggers who say this is “bad news” for bloggers. Well, too f’n bad. There are tens of thousands of people who want those jobs who are 1) more qualified/experienced, 2) more politically astute, and 3) want the job to serve the candidate, not themselves. Anyone can have a blog.

Finally, as far as the ridiculous “campaign” to attack Patrick Hynes (of Ankle-Biting Pundits, now working for John McCain) goes, gimme a freakin’ break. That’s the most pitiful attempt at “I am rubber you are glue” that I’ve ever seen. Seriously. Grow up, Greenwald, you silly douchebag. Some bloggers actually do deserve their positions.

F.E.T.E.

stein hoist Darleen, who has more.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention one thing. Amanda seems to think her gender was a factor in people’s disgust at her verbal diarrhea. Heh. Funny, I don’t see any male bloggers who write like she does getting any jobs with Presidential campaigns. Seems to me that if gender played any part in this whole thing, it was to her advantage. Somehow I can’t imagine the Edwards campaign hiring a man who talks the trash she does. (I know, it’s hard to believe, what with this being a theocratic patriarchy under which we women all suffer so painfully.) :roll:

UPDATE 2: The Anchoress weighs in–it’s a must-read.

(Also, the links to Pandagon are flaky because I’m not giving the dumb twat the links; I’m routing them through basil’s blog, which is acting a little wonky right now. If they don’t work, remove the the part that redirects from basil’s from the URL.)

The Nutroots’ Botched Joke

Tags: John Edwards, Amanda Marcotte

OK, a couple of links: Pwn3dagon and Little House on the Appalachians - both from Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom. And of course Jeff Goldstein’s take on the whole thing, because the nutroots just lurrrrves him so much. I’ve got a head full of things to say about the Pwn3dagon (love that word!) “crisis,” but…eh, why bother? I’m looking forward to watching those two hateful bigots and the rest of the nutroots sink the Silky Pony Edwards campaign. :mrgreen:

Shorter version of the Edwards bloggers’ “apology”:

I’m sorry you Christofascists and my Jeebus-luvin’ boss are too stupid to realize it was just a botched joke.

A few words about Amanda Marcotte/Melissa McEwan

Reason #87349 why I hate the blogosphere

First, Darleen says that Salon’s reporting Marcotte and McEwan have been fired. Hot Air says it’s so as well. We’ll see.

OK, I think this brouhaha is stupid. Needless to say, the whole “foul-mouthed” complaint means nothing to me. I think people are making a big farking deal over nothing with her foul language. It’s not something we don’t see at right-wing blogs, and not just mine. One of the TOP conservative blogs–has stuff that theoretically ought to warrant the same scolding from Malkin, although I would roll my eyes about that, too. Oooooh, bad words! How about “suck the barbed c*ck of Satan.” Think that’s family-friendly? Would Malkin and everyone else be as shocked! and appalled! if that blogger (whom all of you know) were picked up by someone’s campaign? I venture to say they wouldn’t. NOR SHOULD THEY BE, in either case. Amanda can be criticized for her hate-filled, radical, wacko beliefs that certainly won’t appeal to voters, but the language thing is a bit hypocritical for most people to be complaining about.

Now, if someone asked ME to be their Blogmaster (what a stupid word), I’d decline immediately. I know what I’ve written is not for everyone, and I wouldn’t want any candidate I’m for to be associated with my foul-mouthed rants. Amanda’s a farking moron. Or maybe not. I have to wonder if she didn’t take the job knowing FULLY WELL this would happen, because she’s a fangirl of Obama or someone else less…Southern/Christian/photogenic/fluffy. Edwards seems like the last candidate she’d be supporting. The absolute last (of the current field of candidates, obviously).

All that said, I have zero sympathy for the bitch. Her hatred of Catholicism and religion in general is well-known to a lot of bloggers. When most of the country is NOT hostile to religion, and in fact, is Christian in some flavor (believe it or not, echo-chamber Atheists!), you’d better know that you’re going to deeply offend a lot of people with filth like this or this or this, where she called Pope John Paul II “a wicked man” before his dead body was even cold. She’s a hateful, filthy bigot–not just against Catholics, but against any Christians. (Side note: I wonder if the born-again leftist Ilyka has shed the brutal chains of Catholicism, since she happily took up blogging at Pandagon?)

Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan are especially destructive bigots in another area: women. Women like me, that is. You see, because I’m pro-life, pro-victory in Iraq, Christian (although not of any particular denomination), etc.–in other words, conservative–I’m also living in a 1950’s mentality where I want to be “saved” by men and think my Oh So Hallowed Cunt (her favorite word) is only there for procreation. I’m oppressed, repressed, suffering from the abuse of The Patriarchy. Stupid bitch apparently believes women are, by default, like this until they “get smart” and break free of the death-grip of The Patriarchy. That pisses me off more than anything she says–she’s a farking narrow-minded, bigoted, anti-female (yes!) idiot. She apparently has never even bothered to get to know women in real life who are actually *not* obsessed or oppressed by The Patriarchy. What would she say about Elizabeth Edwards? Or does she not count because she’s a liberal? I’d venture to say her lifestyle is more “traditional” than mine. After all, I’m divorced (twice!) and I served in the military for twelve years. I’m not looking for a husband–I prefer NOT being married. I just do what I want, say what I want, think what I want–not what the paranoid delusion of “The Patriarchy” wants. Not exactly the June Cleaver lifestyle, is it? But that doesn’t matter, because ad hominems are the name of the game with people like Marcotte. She pulled that shi’ite when we started Cotillion, and in response, I actually emailed her a very nice note saying that rather than having silly blogfights, maybe we could work together on some things on which we agree. Nope! I got back a snotty email, the general gist being “yeah, right.” Great, Amanda. I’m sure all your enemies in The Patriarchy would be pleased–after all, anyone with a brain knows about “Divide and Conquer.” (You know, since there’s a War On The Patriarchy going on. LOL.) What a moron.

Anyway, when you’re THAT far out of the mainstream w/r/t women “vs.” men, religion, abortion, Duke lacrosse, EVERYTHING, you’d better be able to take your lumps. Actually, anyone with a blog should be able to answer for what they write. It’s not like anyone’s poking around her personal life as they did with Ben Domenech, remember? (No, I’m not defending Domenech, and never did except for when he was attacked for being home-schooled.) It’s rather telling that she’s had to scrub her archives (not enough, if you ask me, but then I think her whole blog is pretty obnoxious). I just think it’s funny that a empty-suited Breck Girl like John Edwards has brought on a blogger that was bound to draw some fire. What next, Glenn the sockpuppet Greenwald? (Oh, please, someone hire him! HAHA!) Seriously, there are others who are less inflammatory–what the hell were they thinking?

I can just see it now: if they (Marcotte and McEwan) are fired, it’ll be because of The Patriarchy. They’re expected to be good, polite ladies, right? HAHA. Like those moron male bloggers on the left wouldn’t get the same treatment for making obscene remarks about the Virgin (OMG!) Mary or the Catholic Church or anything else Amanda’s written. Just watch–she’s gonna make it a “sexist” issue, I guarantee it. Probably with bonus anti-”Christianist” venom, to boot. Just watch their true colors come back with a fury.

Word has it now (via email) that the moonbats are on the hunt for foul-mouthed right-wingers. Well, here I am, nutroots! Dig away! I have nothing for which I need to apologize. Hypocrites.

F–king junior high school bullshi’ite.

UPDATE: OOOOH! Threats! Woohooo!
And the harsh truth, which every blogger needs to remember:

Do these idiots really think America has even heard of Amanda Marcotte, much less gives a fig about whether this mutant gets to post on a candidate’s blog?

AMEN!

MAJOR UPDATE: Emails from Amanda to John Edwards published!!! *snort*

Dummy Schlussel barks again: Barack Obama is a Muslim

Tags: blogtards, racists, morons, idiots, Debbie Schlussel, Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, always a Muslim

This is the dumbest shi’ite I’ve ever heard (not Baldilocks’ must-read post–Schlussel’s latest verbal excrement). I guess since Barack Obama went to kindergarten and first grade at a Muslim school in Indonesia, he’s been faking Christianity his whole life (just like Baldilocks must be! I’m surprised she didn’t frag the officers in the military!).

Go sit in the corner, dumbass
Just watch, if Obama gets in the White House he’ll show he’s really a Muslim! Then we’ll have sharia! And we’ll be holding hands with Hamas and al-Qaida! And we’ll let them push Israel into the sea!

Isn’t that REALLY what Schlussel and her idiotbots are afraid of? He might have a flare-up, as if it were literally cancer? (Yes, I do think radical Islam can be called “a cancer,” but not in the literal sense.) It reminds me of that old “one drop” canard.

Schlussel is a moron. There’s almost nobody she doesn’t fear and loathe. Everyone’s a leftist, a Muslim, or Muslim sympathizer, to her. (Including me, since she questioned my conservatism in hate mail to me, and I’m sure this post will confirm her suspicions. LOL!)

BTW, if Obama did drop mentioning the “Hussein,” I’d consider it a plus. Who wants to be associated with Saddam? Would you Schlusselbots keep a middle name like “Stalin” or “Hitler?” And if your parents were stupid enough to give you such a middle name, would it mean you were a genocidal maniac? Or, more likely–what if your parents were moron liberals who named you after JFK/LBJ/McGovern/Dhimmi Carter? OMG! You must be a leftist infiltrator! Purge!

Ignorant farking racist morons. What are they gonna say next, that Obama would declare war on the British? He’s of Kenyan descent, you know.

Note to the brain-dead Schlusselbots: it’s OK to oppose Obama based on his politics–I do, vehemently so. Just like I oppose anyone espousing left-wing ideology, regardless of their freakin’ middle names, color of their skin, gender, or whatever. Or do you just feel that the left’s arguments are better than those on the right? Who’s really the true believer, then?

F.E.T.E.

stein hoist Little Miss Attila

UPDATE: “God of Biscuits” left this comment (which will probably be deleted) at Schlussel’s:

And your last name is Schlussel.

That’s German, isn’t it? And even if it’s not strictly German, close-enough apparently is good enough for people like you.

You must be a Nazi!

Look everyone, Debbie’s a Nazi!

To recap: you, Debbie, must be a Jew-hating Nazi bitch because your last name is German-sounding.

HA! Touché!

UPDATE 2: The cupid stunt actually thinks she’s just like Mark Steyn, in comments at Hot Air. Oh, this is rich. And Misha is a crypto-communist (also in comments). :mrgreen:

All right, dammit, I’m not kidding.

I cannot lose three years in a row.

It’s gonna get ugly on this blog if I don’t see a big jump in votes today–we’re talking goatse-ugly. Yes, I am threatening you. Tell your mom to vote for MVRWC. Post on a forum. Whatever. I know this doesn’t mean anything, but I have my reasons this year.

You got teh Hoff already today, and it’s only gonna go down from there! muahahahahaha!!!

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