Is it wrong to take pleasure when bad things happen to bad people? (that’s a rhetorical question, the answer is obviously NO, it’s not wrong)

Remember when Sen John Edwards wrote:

The tone and the sentiment of some of Amanda Marcotte’s and Melissa McEwan’s posts personally offended me. It’s not how I talk to people, and it’s not how I expect the people who work for me to talk to people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that kind of intolerant language will not be permitted from anyone on my campaign, whether it’s intended as satire, humor, or anything else.

Well, it looks like the foul-mouthed little tramp is incapable of communicating without using expletives and hate-filled rhetoric. So she “resigned” today from the campaign.

Of course Amanda isn’t accepting any responsiblity for her own actions — that’s not what Liberals do (ever). Instead she’s blaming a right-wing smear campaig. But like Bryan at Hot Air notes, “It’s not a smear to accurately quote someone’s own words when criticizing them.”

I wonder if Amanda will put this on her resume? Well, at least I might get to meet her and buy her a beer at the next Austin Bloggers Meet and Greet now.

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OTHERS:

• Ace doesn’t think Amanda really “resigned” on her own terms, either.
• Don Surber: “You are what you blog. And now she is unemployed.”
• Andrew Olmsted:

Yes, Marcotte was clobbered by a guy who is has an extensive track record as a hateful, disturbed man, and a Democratic campaign was nearly derailed by a right wing attack. But Marcotte’s inability to even see how what she said was in many ways just as nasty and disgusting as anything Bill Donahue ever uttered strikes me as amazingly obtuse, and to paint herself as naught but a victim in this affair stretches one’s credulity to the breaking point.

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UPDATE:

Just a quick thought that occured to me after I posted — what about that other angry feminist blogger that was hired with Amanda? Did she resign as well to show her solidarity with her sister? Or is she still a puppet for the personification of White-Males-of-Power?

UPDATE II:

Does Chris B over at MyDD have to write another IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM, or can he simply recycle the old one?

UPDATEE III:

ACE has more this morning:

It’s not anti-woman. It’s anti-mediocrity. There may be a blogger out there who’s so damn astute and entertaining as to get away with offending millions of voting Americans and yet still being counted as an asset to a campaign, but we’re just all still in a bit of shock that John Edwards thought that blogger was Amanda Marcotte.

That entire post is a great read, with several relevant Arrested Devlopment and Bluth family analogies.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Monday, February 12th, 2007 | Trackback |