Senator Handsome’s Official Blogger
Amanda Marcotte is now John Edwards official blogger. She joined the Edwards campaign from Pandagon and I must say it is a rather disappointing pick. The problem with Ms. Marcotte is the following post she wrote (and later deleted…guess she didn’t like the criticism),
Naturally, my flight out of Atlanta has been delayed. Let’s hope it takes off when they say it will so I don’t miss my connecting flight home.
In the meantime, I’ve been sort of casually listening to CNN blaring throughout the waiting area and good fucking god is that channel pure evil. For awhile, I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and fucked her against her will—not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out. Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.
As I’ve noted the problem here isn’t that just that Nifong is some incompetent prosecutor, but that the entire case has completely fallen apart. The DNA evidence has come back (after being suppressed by Nifong and Meehan) and not only is there no DNA form any of the accused, there is no DNA from any team member who gave a sample. Further, there is DNA from multiple other males to whom we don’t know the identity. Reade Seligmann has a solid alibi complete with phone records, taxi cab records, video and ATM records that he was not at the scene of the alleged rape. The accusers story has mutated more times than a batch of fruit flies in a scientists genetics laboratory. And, we find out that there is no evidence from the rape kit consistent with a rape and that the nurse doing the rape kit was woefully un/under-trained.
Marcotte is so woefully ignorant of these facts and just goes off on the defendants simply because it fits with her pre-concieved notion of how things work. White males are apparently bad and hence the black female accuser is telling the truth. Any other facts to the contrary simply don’t matter.
K. C. Johnson who has been following this case from the start has a lengthy and scathing post on the complete lack of integrity on the part of Ms. Marcotte. And Jeff Taylor at Reason’s Hit & Run sums it up nicely,
So you might be thinking, at last and at least, a presidential candidate has had the balls to hire on a full-fledged, out-front propagandist, someone boldly willing to not just fudge facts, but fuck them in the ass. A Marcotte-led Net communications op may actually give the jaded among us some reason to pay attention to this 08 election-thing — there’d be no telling what she’d say.
Alas no. Marcotte chickened out. She went back and deleted the post, presumably after it was linked to today by a conservative North Carolina blog
If this is the kind of stupidity that Edwards will hire, it doesn’t look good for his Presidential campaign, and God help us if he wins.
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somehow, the “controversy” surrounding her recent appointment to the Edwards campaign seem overblown, and frankly, kind of hypocritical, particularly considering the nature of digital media rights and the freedom of speech as seen by bloggers. Here’s the rub. Back in the day, Amanda posted something about the Duke lacrosse players being responsible for the rape they were charged with, albeit with much cruder choice of words. Certainly, the assessment is wrong; Nifongs case was nearly non-existent, fell
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his campaign will be in the position of having to defend what this woman has written in the past and explaining why he found her particular writing style so suitable for his campaign. Other blogs covering the story include Brainster, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, Overlawyered and South of Heaven. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit also has called attention to Marcotte’s woes. Some people think the controversy is ridiculous. “You’re opposing Edwards’ candidacy by criticizing his blog manager, for her opinions
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If you were John Edwards, wouldn’t you want your on line apologist to “not just fudge facts, but f*ck them in the *ss”. Its not like he has this great record to run on, so any manipulation of the facts has to help.
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No, I think fudging is better, f—ing them in the a$$ is a bit too obvious, IMO.
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I stopped reading pandagon after she joined, every other post was “men are trying to steal my uterus!”
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Marcotte’s pro-choice stance is okay — from her p.o.v., men *are* trying to steal her uterus — but she is, shall we say, an impolitic political blogger.
John Cole tangled w/ her some, not to her credit.
I think her stint with Edwards will crash-land even sooner than his campaign does.
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Is anyone really surprised that Edwards hired her??? Let’s see he bad mouths wages at Wal-Mart while doing a book signing at Barnes and Noble only to learn Wal-Mart pays more. One of Edwards’ aides tries to get the local Wal-Mart to let him cut to the front of the line to get some video game that was just released.
He ain’t that smart.
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“So you might be thinking, at last and at least, a presidential candidate has had the balls to hire on a full-fledged, out-front propagandist, someone boldly willing to not just fudge facts, but fuck them in the ass.”
Yeah, it’s called FoxNews, and Tony Snow.
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James, your questioning the integrity of another blogger is rather ironic as you too repeatedly ignore facts in order to make political points.
Although this is not as common among liberal bloggers as it is conservative bloggers I am not really surprised to see it employed by partisans such as yourself, or Ms Marcotte.
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Invest in flamethrowers now. They’re going to be the ‘in’ thing come 2008.
And Ken: Nice to see you’ve decided to condescend for a visit down from Heaven 6.5. You can go back now.
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[...] I do think the case of John Edwards official blogger Amanda Marcotte is the exception that proves the rule, however. Here’s what she wrote, now down the memory hole: Naturally, my flight out of Atlanta has been delayed. Let’s hope it takes off when they say it will so I don’t miss my connecting flight home. [...]
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ken,
Even though I often disagree with his politics, I have found James to be intellectually honest and consistent. I would be interested in seeing a case where you think he ignored facts to make a political point.
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Oops, just realized that this was a post by Steve, not James. So, ignore my comment in response to ken, since it is all irrelevant anyway, since the post was not made by James in the first place.
But while I’m at it, I’ll add that I although politically I align more closely with Amanda than with Steve, I agree with him on this one.
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Meet John Edwards’s new blogger-in-chief…
Well after the revelation of the undisclosed DNA results, the ATM, taxi and dorm alibis, the umpteen times the stripper has changed her story, Amanda Marcotte still is willing to blast the Duke Lacrosse Three……
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One of Edwards’ aides tries to get the local Wal-Mart to let him cut to the front of the line to get some video game that was just released.
So?
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“James, your questioning the integrity of another blogger is rather ironic as you too repeatedly ignore facts in order to make political points,” says Ken.
I guess he missed that by Steve Verdon tag in his hurry to make his political point.
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Thanks for pointing out this was a Verdon post instead of Joyner. Verdon and Joyner are pretty much cut from the same cloth however so it is hard to tell their mendacities apart.
Here is how they lie: Like Marcotte they repeat accusations they know, or should know, are false.
Unlike Marcotte, however, where the original accusation was backed up by police work, the conservative blogger doesn’t even have this cover of legitimacy, however slight. They blithely repeat lies first told by others so as to not have to make up their own lies. This way they can claim the dubious moral distinction of just reporting ‘news’. But there is no escape from moral responsibility with this tactic because repeating a lie is just as dishonest as making one up.
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ken,
Where have I lied? The statements about the DNA evidence are, to the best of my knowledge, true. Dr. Meehan testified as such on the witness stand. Now maybe he is lying, but there is objective procedures and verifiable results here when it comes to DNA testing. The bottomline appears, very much, to be that there was no DNA from the defendants or any lacrosse players who gave DNA samples. If I am lying in regards to Seligmann then so is most of the media and K.C. Johnson, whose politics more closely align with yours.
On top of this there are reports of serious methodological flaws in the police work. The line-up for example. There were no filler pictures and whomever was picked during the last photo line-up was going to be the one’s charged. Then in looking at all the testimony by the accuser we know who the real liar is: her.
The sad fact is we are witnessing injustice at work and at the same time women who have a legitimate accusation of rape will no have a somewhat harder time making it, IMO. Many people will have a hard time not seeing the alleged rape of the accuser in this case with later accusers in completely different cases.
So you are, once again, completely wrong.
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Heck, We Remember The Day We Called John McCain a Douche-head…
Apparently, there’s some concern over Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon taking over as John Edwards lead blogger. Now, we’ve picked on Amanda before because of her less-than-biting wit, predictable, yet ridiculous logical jumps, and probably most often for…
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[...] Conservative bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, Brainster, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, Overlawyered South of Heaven, Riehl World View and Instapundit have been aggressively attacking her since her new position was announced. I suspect that they are trying to tear her down because they are justifiably afraid that she will excel at her new job. Along with disparaging her on the most ridiculously inane grounds ( E.g. “She uses profanity! Holy fucking shit!”), one has already resorted to insulting her physical appearance. Bleh. Unfortunately, this sort of sexism is not limited to conservatives. Ohio Congressional Representative Jean Schmidt is pro-war and anti-choice and holds fairly odiously retrograde views generally, but to a Supposedly Liberal Dood like Atrios, the big problem was that he found her ugly. Which of course is an intolerable trait in a woman, and as commentary-worthy as her politics. Double bleh. With Amanda in control of his blog, Edwards’ is a lot more likely to (e.g.) criticize Hillary Clinton on the merits and demerits of her positions on the issues, rather than on her clothing and hair styles, and thank the Godess for that. [...]
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[...] Conservative bloggers such as Michelle Malkin, Brainster, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, Overlawyered South of Heaven, Riehl World View and Instapundit have been aggressively attacking her since her new position was announced. I suspect that they are trying to tear her down because they are justifiably afraid that she will excel at her new job. Along with disparaging her on the most ridiculously inane grounds ( E.g. “She uses profanity! Holy fucking shit!”), one has already resorted to insulting her physical appearance. Bleh. Unfortunately, this sort of sexism is not limited to conservatives. Ohio Congressional Representative Jean Schmidt is pro-war and anti-choice and holds fairly odiously retrograde views generally, but to a Supposedly Liberal Dood like Atrios, the big problem was that he found her ugly. Which of course is an intolerable trait in a woman, and as commentary-worthy as her politics. Double bleh. With Amanda in control of his blog, Edwards’ is a lot more likely to (e.g.) criticize Hillary Clinton on the merits and demerits of her positions on the issues, rather than on her clothing and hair styles, and thank the Godess for that. [...]
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Just your typical blogger?…
While I don’t want to dwell on on Amanda Marcotte more than necessary, let me put on my tin foil hat for a second, and pose a theoretical question. Might the goal be to discredit the blogosphere? It’s not every……
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