This is why we must fear Trump: He makes the insane Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio look sensible

Salon ^ | November 23, 2015 | Amanda Marcotte

[kanawa]

I guessed Salon before I clicked on it.

[NorthMountain]

I think their heads are starting to explode.

[kcvl]

Time also described Marcotte's blogging as "provocative and profanity-laced."

On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster.

In January 2007, Marcotte wrote controversial statements about the Duke lacrosse case, including that people who defended the accused were "rape-loving scum". A few months before all charges were dropped in the case, on a blog post titled "Stuck at the airport again....." Marcotte wrote in part, "Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair."

Amanda Marcotte: The David Duke Of Feminism | The Daily Caller

http://twitchy.com/2014/12/31/the-10-dumbest-amanda-marcotte-tweets-of-2014/

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Scumbags alert.

[publius911]

This is why we must fear Trump: He makes the insane Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio look sensible

What do you mean "we" Amanda?

You got rattlesnakes under your burqa?

[publius911]

Love her tramp stamps...

[publius911]

That’s a guy, baby!

[backwoods-engineer]

This is Amanda Marcotte, whose vile blasphemy of Christ, one can only hope, will be punished in the age to come.

[Steely Tom]

From Wikipedia page on Amanda Marcotte:

On January 30, 2007, the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign hired Marcotte to act as the campaign's blogmaster. She was soon criticized for her previous work. The campaign responded that, while Edwards was "personally offended" by some of Marcotte's remarks, her job as their blogmaster was secure.

In January 2007, Marcotte wrote controversial statements about the Duke lacrosse case, including that people who defended the accused were "rape-loving scum". A few months before all charges were dropped in the case, on a blog post titled "Stuck at the airport again....." Marcotte wrote in part, "Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair." The post attracted criticism, including from The New York Times. Cathy Young described Marcotte as a leader of a "cyber-lynch mob," writing that, "in Marcotte's eyes, the real crime of the independent feminists is helping preserve the idea that the presumption of innocence applies even in cases of rape and sexual assault." Marcotte later deleted the post.

On February 12, 2007, the Catholic League called Marcotte's review of the film Children of Men "anti-Christian". Later the same day, Marcotte announced that she had resigned from the Edwards campaign, accusing Bill Donohue of a sexist perspective in the calls for her resignation. She returned to her work on other blogs. In an article for Salon a few days later, she said the reaction to her comments on the Duke lacrosse case was the first in a series of "shitstorms" that had prompted her to resign from the campaign.

The Wikipedia page contains footnotes and references within this part of the article; some are clickable. I have deleted them from this excerpt for the sake of readability.

[Steely Tom]

Oops, she was relieved of her position in the Edwards campaign a few days later, it would appear.

From the Washington Post:

Days after Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards decided against firing two liberal bloggers with a history of inflammatory writing, one resigned last night with a blast at "right wing shills" for driving her out of the campaign.

Amanda Marcotte, whose writings were assailed as anti-Catholic, wrote yesterday on her blog that the Edwards camp had accepted her resignation. She blamed her most vocal critic, Bill Donohoe, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, writing that he "and his calvacade of right wing shills don't respect that a mere woman like me could be hired for my skills, and pretended that John Edwards had to be held accountable for some of my personal, non-mainstream views on religious influence on politics," which Marcotte described as being "anti-theocracy."

[Arthur McGowan]

I think we have almost reached the point where, except for the die-hard University Left, when the word “racism” is thrown at Republican candidates, it’s like the “Far Side” cartoon: “What we say, what dogs hear.”

[teletech]

Diss Trump and pump up Rubio. The left IS scared!

[mkleesma]

It’s Salon.
I don’t read Salon.
Moving to next article.

[grey_whiskers]

That face...

Yes, the anti-Helen: the face that sank a thousand ships.

(She's got the thousand-c*ck stare, alright...; definitely hit the wall without slowing.)

[grey_whiskers]

They misspelled “SLUT”.

[Suz in AZ]

Looks like a homemade tattoo that says, “DOG”.

[SaraJohnson]

Yes, Amanda is voting for Hillary so I don’t know why she wants to dominate the Republican race. She should write about Hitlery and Sandman.