Amanda Marcotte Resigns

Anti-Catholic “blogmaster” for John Edwards, Amanda Marcotte, has resigned, over crude anti-Catholic comments she made on her personal blog.

She is suggesting that everything was fine until some right-wing nuts came along and blew the whole thing out of proportion. I am sorry, but this is not about her opinions, however non-mainstream they may be, but about the disrespectful and downright foul ways Marcotte chooses to express herself. If I were a liberal, I would suggest she stop her ranting and bomb-throwing, lest her outrageous ways turn people away from liberalism. And trust me, I am not a big fan of foul-mouthed, bomb-throwing conservatives either, even if I might be inclined to agree with them more.

Marcotte said the following about Catholic League president Bill Donohue, whose complaints had a hand in causing the controversy:

“No matter what you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I can’t do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me, then I won’t do it,” Marcotte wrote Monday night.

So standing up against bigoted and deeply disrespectful comments constitutes harassment? Next time an African-American leader demands someone resign over a racist comment, should I take a lesson from Marcotte and suggest that he shouldn’t complain? After all, doesn’t he have anything better to do with his time than “harass” someone??

Plus, if the tables were turned, and a Republican campaign employee said something deeply offensive about blacks, gays, or another minority, would Ms. Marcotte remain silent, keeping her opinions to herself? I doubt it. I am sure she and her friends would “harass” the person involved in the same way she was “harassed” by Donohue, by demanding a resignation and calling into question the values of the person who made the comment.

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4 Responses to “Amanda Marcotte Resigns”

  1. Mike Baldwin Says:
    February 13, 2007 at 5:29 am

    Thanks David for making me aware of Ms. Macotte. After reading your previous post, I did my own research and then let Edwards know, that I would not be able to support his campaign if Ms.Marcotte’s opinion fairly represented his own. I am generally not considered a conservative by most who know me, however, I do believe one should have proper manners and decorum. Ms. Marcotte showed neither of htese traits.

    I am with you on the bomb throwing, though I might more likely land on the progressive side than on the conservative side of most topics.

    That is, unless one considers an attempt to follow in a “fundamentalist/literalist” way the Gospel of Jesus and the works of mercy as being conservative. I believe literally and fundamentally and therefore, quite conservatively, that I am to give shelter to the homeless, food to the hungry, visit the sick and dying, bury the dead, and visit those in prison.

    I do not see any Gospel mandate to denigrate religious choice unless it has to with following traditions of men rather than the commandments of God. Ms. Marcotte’s tirade was over-the-top. When will the Democrats get it right? Along with being anti death penalty, anti war, etc… that being pro-life is part of the same picture of protecting human rights, especially the rights of the most vulnerable.

  2. David B. Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    The link below has an interview with a Democrat defending Marcotte’s right to slur the Catholic Church, while admitting that had someone blogged similar slurs about blacks, she would have fired them. Unbelievable. O’Reilly certainly called her out on her hypocrisy.

    Check it out here.

  3. Mike Baldwin Says:
    February 15, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Thanks David for posting this information. I sent an email to Jane Fleming of the Young Dems. I forwarded my email to 212 Catholic Social Justice Coordinating Committee Chairs. Some Catholics do vote Democrat still, but with rhetoric like this, they may all abstain or, oh my vote for that other party! :)

  4. David Zampino Says:
    February 21, 2007 at 5:52 am

    I, for one, am glad that Ms. Marcotte has left the Edwards campaign. I find her comments to be hideously problematic at best — without bringing in “liberal vs. conservative” into the question.

    I have no doubt whatsoever that if her remarks had been aimed at virtually any other religious/social/racial/political group in the country — she would have been damned outright.

    In my view, seeing that Edwards is claiming a Baptist background — (even if he is a secular progressive) choosing to support staff members who choose to viciously attack the religion of roughly 25% of Americans is just plain stupid.

    FULL DISCLOSURE: In my humble opinion, Edwards has neither the experience, nor the moral fortitude to be President. And this episode has clinched that for me.

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