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I meant to get to Amanda Marcotte’s post in yesterday’s USA Today, but time got away from me. You might ask why bother writing about someone who merely parrots the most extreme viewpoint of the most extreme pro-abortionists? In this case, because Marcotte was writing a preemptive piece, “explaining” why the imaginary “War on Women” was not going to play as well in 2014 as before. Implicitly we were forewarned that when pro-abortion candidates dropped like flies, it would not be because the voters repudiated their extremism. Naw, it would be because “The Right” was even more devilishly clever than...

A mere month after releasing the security video footage showing Ray Rice committing a horrific act of domestic violence, TMZ has outed another celebrity who would rather keep his abusive behavior secret. The tabloid website released the purported audio of Stephen Collins, a long-time actor most famous for his role as the pastor-dad on the WB show 7th Heaven, confessing to his wife during therapy his repeated sexual abuse of underage girls. The NYPD is investigating and at least one woman, the daughter of his first wife, is coming forward with accusations. - snip - While it’s always alarming to...

A lot of people assume the term “female misogynist” is an oxymoron. How can a woman be opposed to the fight to help women achieve equality? The sad fact of the matter is, as long as there has been feminism, there have been women who find it personally advantageous to reject feminism and instead argue for continuing social systems that perpetuate women’s inequality, male dominance, and even violence against women. (There were even plenty of women who were willing to argue against women’s suffrage back in the day.) Here is a list of nine women who have made a career...

Lest there be any doubt, Amanda Marcotte really hates pro-lifers. In a two-part rant posted March 14 and 17 on Raw Story, the morally challenged feminist writer attacked pro-lifers as “consummate liars,” “anti-choice kooks” with “boring,” “half-baked nonsense” and “shit arguments.” But Marcotte’s hate doesn’t stop at pro-lifers. It extends to the babies they want to protect. amandamarcotte2“Either way, what she [the woman]wants trumps the non-existent desires of a mindless pre-person that is so small it can be removed in about two minutes during an outpatient procedure. Your cavities fight harder to stay in place.” Did she just compare an...

Parents of teenagers should allow their children to have sex in their home or even live together, according to a recent column in USA Today. “Letting your teenager have a boyfriend or girlfriend sleep over, or even move in, takes away the ‘sneaking around’ aspect of teenage romance, and that also is a good thing,” wrote columnist Amanda Marcotte, who also writes for the radical feminist blog Jezebel and the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check. According to Marcotte, teenage cohabitation is a growing trend. “As youthful cohabitation rises, parents should accept it and educate their children on sex,” she wrote....

Young, single ladies: America is worried about you. You just keep going to college, moving to urban areas after graduation and finding yourselves outnumbering, sometimes dramatically, the available men of your demographic. How will you ever get married? How will you ever go from being the subject of one kind of magazine cover to being the subject of another? Clearly the best thing to do is stay back on the farm to live in a male-dense rural area, where the marriageable boys are there for your picking. Or it was, until Tuesday, when an enterprising New York Times journalist named...

Is there any limit to the cruelty of the American conservative? These vicious sadists take great delight in harming people and reveling in their suffering, or so says Amanda Marcotte, noted expert on wha? huh? look over there! The pleasure of sadism as [sic] always been a driving force behind movement conservatism. They’ve always taken a great deal of pleasure in attacking people’s livelihoods for the hell of it, as I know all too well. They’re [sic] always enjoyed sending a message that those who comfort the afflicted and afflict the powerful should expect pain and even ruin. All that...

“I am and always will be a loner.” - Amanda Marcotte (Being an anti-social bigot doesn’t help I’m sure) Now even I hate to see someone picked on too much, but the F-bomb blogger of Edwards fame just seems to crave the attention and wallow in the lunacy of the Left. Since I am still banned from the land of Pandagonia I can’t play in the Feminist sandbox anymore. I feel like the little boy kicked out of the park by a bunch of girls (and one girly-boy). And since birth, due to certain anatomical parts she’s missing, I’m automatically...

I don’t believe in ideologically segregated, blogosphere ‘playgrounds’ or hallowed ground, gated communities, nor does the thought of someone leaving a ‘non-harmonious’ comment on a thread appear to me to be a serious threat to Western Civilization. Rarely do I blindly attack those who honestly and genuinely disagree with me on a subject. Alas, that cannot be said for many on the Left. Some people experience fear or are disheartened by the hatred, attacks, name-calling and general antagonism directed towards them when they stray off the reservation, but I actually kind of enjoy it. Not only is it wise to...

Flexing their political muscle, members of MoveOn.Org plan to hold a virtual town hall meeting April 10 to question some of the presidential candidates about the war in Iraq. ...“This event will give real people a chance to ask presidential candidates tough questions about Iraq, the most important issue of our time,” said Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action’s Executive Director. ...So far, Senators Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.), as well as former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.), have each agreed to be available for the question and answer session. But 10 percent of MoveOn members must first say they...

...it didn't take long for a conservative watchdog to glean through the 24/7 postings of the two bloggers and come up with the sort of sound bites that leave teeth marks on a campaign. There was McEwan's description of Bush's "wingnut Christofascist base." There was Marcotte's slam on the Catholic prohibition on birth control as a way to force women to "bear more tithing Catholics." Within days, the two women resigned from the campaign and returned to the briar patch of their blogs.

The imbroglio began in late January when John Edwards' presidential campaign hired two liberal activists to promote the candidate on the campaign website. Almost immediately, it was discovered that the activists – Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan – had previously, and routinely, made intensely anti-Christian posts on their personal blogs. Marcotte used extremely profane and vulgar prose mocking core Christian theological beliefs, joked about aborting Jesus and suggested Christianity was "misogynist mythology." Meanwhile, McEwan – perhaps channeling Rosie O'Donnell – frequently referred to Christians as "christofascists." ...In the end, Marcotte and McEwan resigned from their posts (with the campaign's "reluctant...

As I was investigating and researching the John Edwards blogger 'scandal' I did venture over into the land of spiteful and bitter young feminists where wannabe Edwards blogger Amanda Marcotte dwells. From there, a little web surfing led me to several other blogs by self professed 'liberated' and 'feminist' women. What an interesting excursion. Unfortunately, the little pink-booted feministas are all fixated on the same things: men suck, marriage equals slavery and drudgery, unborn babies are mere parasitic cells, Christianity is evil, anybody with a penis is trying to oppress them, and whether blowjobs are oppressive and degrading. I kid...

Liberated by her firing-qua-resignation, ex-John Edwards blogger Amanda Marcotte is back to what she does best: using vulgarity to insult her political opponents. On a whim I thought I'd check in at Marcotte's site, Pandagon, and wasn't surprised to find her slurring Michelle Malkin, with shots at Ann Coulter and the two leading conservative women's organizations thrown in for good measure. Marcotte decided to respond to an inquiry from a poster she labelled a troll who had written: "does it bother you that one of the major architects of your demise was herself a strong woman, Michelle Malkin?" That...

<p>As one of the thousands, possibly millions, of bloggers out there holding forth on everything from cooking to politics, I'd always felt especially fortunate. I'd ascended from having a small, low-traffic blog to joining Jesse Taylor at the big-time liberal blog Pandagon to actually controlling Pandagon in the course of three years. Still, my good fortune amounted mostly to being good at what was still essentially my hobby, since I worked full time outside of my blog life. So it surprised me that my streak of luck would result in the John Edwards campaign calling and recruiting me for the position of campaign blogmaster. Of course, when I was informed that the general gist of the job played to my strengths of writing about progressive politics and building a blog audience, then the recruitment made much more sense. I was also heartened to find out that Melissa McEwan of Shakespeare's Sister would be joining part time as a consultant, tapping her talents at organizing bloggers.</p>

Our humble apologies, but the site is currently down. Whenever the site is up, we get slammed and it goes down. I have to suspend the site until the fervor dies down. In the meantime, here's the latest post: Update: To correct misinformation in the comments, I was not "fired". I offered my resignation and it was accepted. Because I had the nerve to be critical of the Catholic church's stance on birth control and abortion---nevermind their political opposition to distributing condoms to fight HIV, a stance that has helped usher thousands and possibly millions to their untimely deaths---I've gotten...

The quotation marks in the title of this DUFU edition are intentional. Although loony Edwards blogger, Amanda Marcotte, apparently "quit" the campaign, it is more likely that she was fired AGAIN. Again? But...but didn't John Edwards show backbone by standing by her when her extreme anti-Catholic postings came to light? That was the OFFICIAL story. What I have been hearing is that, according to Salon.Com, the Edwards campaign (meaning the Breck Girl or his wife) FIRED Marcotte only to rehire her back when there was such a large backlash among the nutroots. Of course, Edwards could not risk losing...

RALEIGH NC - - One of the chief campaign bloggers for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Monday after conservative critics raised questions about her history of provocative online messages. Amanda Marcotte posted on her personal blog, Pandagon, that the criticism "was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign." Marcotte said she resigned from her position Monday, and that her resignation was accepted by the campaign. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded last week that Edwards fire Marcotte and a second blogger, Melissa...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' inflammatory new campaign bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan will be retained by the campaign after making public apologies for past postings that were controversial, to put it mildly. In a surprise, the New York Times played the story on Friday's front page, albeit under the mild headline "Edwards Learns Campaign Blogs Can Cut 2 Ways")...

Click here.Brilliant piece, and no foolin’ about the language. You’ve been warned.