Hey I didn't know all you guys were "well financed".

Time for JT to upgrade the shaggin' wagon.

And how is quoting someone "baseless"

Evidently, a smear consists of quoting accurately (verbatim, in fact) someone's own words.

I think it most likely that this resignation and the content of its announcement was planned when Edwards decided to re-hire her. this is just the Edwards campaign getting rid of her in way that will hopefully not antagonize the nutroots.

Why not use this opportunity to defend William Donohue, Lorie?

*cricket, cricket*

Lorie

No surprise here...another example of "Hoist by your own petard"

I suspect someone in the Edwards campaign organization pulled her aside and convinced her that she was in a position to do more harm than good.

and so this is what you right wing shills are reduced to- getting bloggers to resign. well, i suppose it's better than ruining the country and its international reputation. oh, wait- ytou've already accomplished that.

So let me make sure I have this straight.

Evil Bill Donohue harassed this poor noble wonderful woman and John "Man of the People" Edwards accepted her resignation?

Why do I not defend Donohue? Why should I defend him? Why would you think I would defend him? He is nothing to me (outside of being a fellow human being). I don't know him. He is not a candidate I support. I am not Catholic, so he doesn't even pretend to speak for me. Marcotte is the one trying to pretend that Donohue is the issue. Her words were the issue and the Edwards people did not do their vetting and now they are playing clean up. Plain and simple.

I don't automatically defend just anybody like some of those on the left do. Nothing I think about Marcotte's language and anti-Christian comments has anything to do with anything Donohue said. What I think of her comes from my reading HER OWN WORDS.

Those of us on the right did not defend Bob Packwood when he was harassing women. Those on the left defended Clinton when he did it though. We didn't defend Foley when he was writing dirty notes to pages, Dems defended Studds when he was having sex with underage pages. We don't reflexively defend anyone who claims to be on our side of the aisle. Haven't you learned that by now, cricket?

If she is angry about being "harassed" from her position then it must be that she "resigned" under duress. It should be noted that it wasn't Bill Donohue that forced her "resignation;" it was candidate Edwards acting on charges that she could not defend against.

If she could not defend herself in the quiet of a smoke filled room how will she do so amid the cacophony of the blog world and surrounded by her own words. Custer, at least, had the honor of being defeated by the guns of his enemies.

The irony is that upon being more or less convicted of religious bigotry she would accuse her accuser of the same.

This was a big story on O'Reilly tonight. He read the really nasty stuff that the MSM decided to ignore. I knew then that at least one of these gals was going to be history soon.

As usual the libs are making fools of themselves trying to defend her. The other night on Hardball Ron Reagan Jr. was defending her and a conservative guest asked if he thought she was anti Christian/Catholic and Ron Reagan said he couldn't say, because he wasn't going to try and get inside her head and read her mind.

Huh? The conservative guest than asked him the obvious. How about just reading her words. No need to "read anyone's mind" in this case. Helllooooo.

Geeeze, for the life of me I don't know why libs want to ruin their integrity and reputations forever to defend the worthless nuts that surround them.

I was hired by the Edwards campaign for the skills and talents I bring to the table, and my willingness to work hard for what's right. Unfortunately, Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills don't respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills

What is it lately with the left and "because I'm a women" crap. Sheesh, anything to play the victim these days.

Nana Nancy is using it. The Dixie Chicks and these eff'ing bloggers all jumping on the woman "hear me roar" but the right wingers are trying to hold me down.

Whatever.......

Phony leftyism....

Actually I doubt she resigned. This was probably "arranged" so the NUTroots wouldn't start that infamous ACTION ALERT (roflmao).

Probably got an offer from Time (like Wonkette) or was hired by Ludacris or some other potty mouth rapper to write their lyrics. Or maybe some Muslim Imam writing sermons.

Anyway, her future somewhere on the left is very promising.

Wait--Edwards was actually a contender? For what? biggest house competition? First to get gutted in a back alley by Hillary? Best hair? Best facial surgery to hide a drool-looking mole? (& since "It's on") Fattest wife??? Contender my shilling ass. Both these Catholic-hating bitches should get jobs shellacking (Heh heh--she-lack; thank you Dixie Chix) Barack's half black Africkin' root for a quarter a pop. Since "It's on" & all. RodHam, ya know--the Pig Phallus--is the only contender these libs have, so they might as well start mouthing "Stay the course" & "support the troops" now, instead of pretending the Breck Girl ever had a chance.

You all have got to go over to Malkin and read her latest on this scandal. Now there is infighting amongst the left (I love it when that happens) because some libs are mad that other christian libs (are there really any?) were criticizing these bloggers. Read it all. It's hilarious.

Hey Howard Dean, how's that campaign strategy going of trying to win over more religious folk for 2008?

LOL.

"other christian libs (are there really any?)"

there are many, they call themselves "christian" anyway, of course they do not know squat about the bible other than they don't beleive what it says. Especially the cornerstone of it.

"I suspect someone in the Edwards campaign organization pulled her aside and convinced her that she was in a position to do more harm than good."

Gee Lee, thanks for that brilliant thought. We would have never guessed. What would civilization do without such intelligent people as yourself? Please, emlighten us more.

"Wait--Edwards was actually a contender?"

I have been really surprised recently by the number of liberals I've spoken to who support Edwards over Obama or Hillary -- so yeah, he is a contender.

I think the net effect of this on Edwards, now that Marcotte is gone, will be nil. Republicans would have been better served to leave her in there rather than chase her out but, as last night's Grammy awards demonstrates, the right just isn't real good at picking their fights these days.

"Republicans would have been better served to leave her in there rather than chase her out but, as last night's Grammy awards demonstrates, the right just isn't real good at picking their fights these days."

Lee, are you for real? Keep posting, the more you do it, the dumber you look....and that is quite the accomplishment.

lee, you think she's stupid or stubborn enough not to have understood that from the very beginning of this controversy?

So now "it's on," and we get to see her defend herself against these "baseless accusations." More black is white and white is black.

I can hardly wait to see what other blasphemy lurks in her fetid soul.

Why is it that feminists seem to always play the "they're mean to me because I'm a girl" card all of the time? If they don't take THEMSELVES seriously, why should others?

Why not use this opportunity to defend William Donohue, Lorie?

Why should she?

And, Lee, she is still the woman Edwards refused to fire. Anything she writes is going to be fair game because he did not fire her. She quit. He STILL gave her his tacit approval, like the little girl she clearly believes herself to be.
-=Mike

Does this mean the fun is over? Awwww, I was enjoying that. Oh well, bloggers will find a new reason why they're the most important people in the universe next week.

Mantis, RU referring to M&M or the folks often referred to as Wingnuts?

I thought Bill O'Reilly was getting the credit for this hit anyways.

BTW, COMPLETELY off-topic, but who was a Gore delegate in 1988 and a fund-raiser for Al?

Fred Phelps. The "God Hates Fags" guy. He's still a registered Democrat.

Thought it was kinda ironic.
-=Mike

Mantis, RU referring to M&M or the folks often referred to as Wingnuts?

Oh, the whole lot. I love when they all decide that a blog war is as big a deal as say, a real war, and have a nice big circle jerk over their own self-importance. Kind of like the Grammies.

For sake of perspective, think about this: when was the last time, before blogs, that you ever knew or cared about who worked behind the scenes on political campaigns, let alone this far before even the primaries? I'm guessing never. And who actually cares about what a blogger who works on a candidate's campaign writes? That's right, the tiny percentage of us who are demented enough to read and care about blogs and bloggers, who are already pretty well-secured in our ideological stances. This will make no difference whatsoever, and now it won't even be around any longer to torment Edwards (still got the house to hammer him with!).

It's much ado about nothing, and it's hilarious in its banality.

I guess we'll have to kill time before the next blogsplosion with terror-fightin' dolphins!

I guess they came back after escaping during Katrina. After a bit of an ocean bender, of course.

Lee, you've said some goofy things, but the right somehow learning a lesson about who to pick a fight with was learned last night from the Grammys is one of your more hilarious ones.

Which lesson are we suppose to learn? That if you're an outspoken liberal in a song or a movie, that you will probably get nominated, even perhaps winning many awards voted on by other likeminded people?

Wow. Now who could have seen that coming?

lol.

Now Amanda is sorta caught between a rock and a hard place.

She is now free to get back to her true, vile, hateful self. And she is probably very ready to, being full of anger at this recent humiliation.

But if she does, she proves to everyone that she is the vile person we claimed she was, and that we were right to point it out, and Edwards was right to fire her. (c'mon, we all know she was fired).....

Gee, what to do. What to do. Tough choice......lol.

Fred Phelps. The "God Hates Fags" guy. He's still a registered Democrat.

And David Duke's still a Republican. Who cares?

Btw, look up irony. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The main good news is that I don't have a conflict of interest issue anymore that was preventing me from defending myself against these baseless accusations.

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Preposterous. Actually, most revealing of Marcotte's mental illness. This is one person who has perceptual disorders and emotional problems and in the blogosphere, apparently, that sort of disturbance is able of venting and expressing itself -- no surprise to those of us with sites that we administer -- but in political campaigns, it's an indication of remarkable disturbance by whoever hires and then maintains issues such as this. In Marcotte's specific example, I hope she finds the help she needs and I'll pray for her.

jpm100: "...how is quoting someone 'baseless'..."

I wonder the same thing. In my experience, people such as Marcotte really do believe they are persecuted and do nothing that merits criticism. Like I wrote, she's one disturbed person.

I read on another website that Steven Spielberg is close friends with Edwards and considered or already did consider backing Edwards for the Presidency.

I wonder what the reaction would be from him if and as Edwards (or anyone else) hired a blogger onto their campaign who wrote the eqivalent of Marcotte's Catholic-hater screed with use of the word, "Jew" instead of "Catholic".

The main good news is that I don't have a conflict of interest issue anymore that was preventing me from defending myself against these baseless accusations.

In other words, she is now free to go back to being her true self. You know, the one that got her into this mess to begin with. Complete with more colorful language and bigotry.

You can't make this stuff up.

I question the timing.