Marcotte Issue Hits WaPo and NYT
Amanda Marcotte has said,
you don’t pick on Twisty’s glorious coinage “godbag” without tangling with me.
And indeed, that glorious coinage shows up in quite a few of her posts.
But apparently the “godbags” have decided to tangle with her. The Washington Post (in an AP article) reports:
Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.
“John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots,” Donohue wrote in a statement. “He has no choice but to fire them immediately.”
And the New York Times has more:
Ms. Marcotte wrote in December that the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to the use of contraception forced women “to bear more tithing Catholics.” In another posting last year, she used vulgar language to describe the church doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Well, don’t leave us in suspense, New York Times! What did she say? The New York Times won’t tell you — but that’s what blogs are for, right? Here you go:
Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?
A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.
Nice.
The New York Times also has a quote from that post she deleted about the Duke lacrosse non-rape case:
She has also written sarcastically about the news media coverage of the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexual assault, saying: “Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.”
I disagree with Donahue. As I have already said, I urge John Edwards to keep these bloggers on.
Because when it comes down to it, who really cares what the godbags say?