While I was in out of town for work (in sunny Phoenix) and also occupied by tearing my Bears jersey into tiny little pieces after the Super Bowl, I missed the dust up involving the John Edwards campaign hiring crazy cat lady feminista blogger Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon as their official “campaign blogger.”
Holy Crap in a bucket. Even I could have told the Edwards campaign that this was a horrible mistake. I’ve had a few run ins with Amanda “I hate babies” Marcotte over the years. If you’ve spend enough time wandering around the blogosphere you will recognize that certain kind of extra special crazy when you run into it. The kind where family members are always careful of what they say in her presence and though they think she is “special”, they would never, ever, let her alone with their children. In other words — just plain nuts.
Example from her blog:
Rehnquist died. He was no crusader for decency or anything, but nor was he a person whose ideology overruled his decisions. Those days for the Supreme Court are over. BushCo has a new appointment and can also choose the new Chief Justice.
Summary: We are fucked.
Choice is gone. And as soon as Roe v. Wade is overturned, states will start outlawing contraception, and eventually the ideologically run court will find that there’s no right to privacy, period, and contraception protection will be gone.
The only thing I can say now is that people who have enough children or don’t want any at all–get sterilized while you still can. As for those who want children, just not now….well, I don’t know. If you use condoms, stock up on EC now. If you use the pill, start exploring Canadian options.
One thing I vow here and now–you motherfuckers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will fuck without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous motherfuckers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.
If you check out the pictures from the flickr.com link above, you’ll be left wondering about what kind of pot addled hippie would allow themselves to be used/abused to help her fulfill her threat.
I’d rather f*ck Rosie.
Yikes.
Well, it didn’t take long for Edwards campaign to figure out that they’d nearly set their own house on fire. After CNN got involved — they fired Amanda and fellow nutjob Melissa McEwan.
Iowahawk, as usual, has the inside scoop with purloined emails between Amanda and the Edwards campaign.
To: Senator John Edwards
From: Amanda Marcotte
Re: Job Offer
Dear Senator Edwards:
I am fucking delighted to accept your offer of the position of Official Blogger for the Edwards 2008 presidential campaign. Please find attached my fucking W-2 form.
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for this totally fucking awesome opportunity to help you take America back from fucking BushCo and the other fucktard bible-humping extremists that have turned this once great nation into a goddamn rape factory for their snakehandling Jesus Camp hatebots.
In closing, I am so fucking proud to be a part of this campaign, and fucking gratified to know that I’ll be working for someone who fucking understands the importance of reaching out to progressive bloggers like myself. I look forward to contributing in any way I fucking can. You won’t be fucking sorry!
Fucking Sincerely,
Amanda Marcotte, “Pandagon”
Go read the rest, it only gets more hilarious.
Moosetracked at the Bullwinkle Blog
Update: Now they are unfired. Edwards caves in and shows he has no balls. This will come back to bite him in the ass. Who wants a president who caves in to crazy cat lady feminazi’s?
