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Catholics Slam Bloggers Hired by Edwards
AP via ABC News ^
| Feb 7, 2007
| NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 02/07/2007 1:35:46 AM PST by Notwithstanding
WASHINGTON - Two bloggers hired recently by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards were criticized Tuesday by a Catholic group for posts they had written elsewhere on the Internet.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, demanded that Edwards fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.
"John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash-talking bigots," Donohue wrote in a statement. "He has no choice but to fire them immediately."
The Edwards campaign declined to comment. McEwan and Marcotte did not respond to e-mails requesting a response.
Donohue cited posts that the women made on blogs in the past several months in which they criticized the pope and the church for its opposition to homosexuality, abortion and contraception, sometimes using profanity.
"The Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics," Marcotte wrote on the blog Pandagon on Dec. 26, in an excerpt cited by Donohue.
Among the McEwan posts that Donohue listed was one she posted on Feb. 21, 2006, on her site, Shakespeare's Sister. She questioned what religious conservatives don't understand about "keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?"
Edwards put both bloggers on his payroll last week as part of his outreach to liberal voters and activists on the Internet. Their decision to work for Edwards is part of a broader move among prominent bloggers to jobs with political campaigns and progressive organizations.
The Catholic League counts its membership at nearly 350,000.
TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amandamarcotte; catholic; elections; johnedwards; marcotte; mcewan; melissamcewan; palmieri
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To: Notwithstanding
He's obviously not that decent.
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02/07/2007 1:37:21 AM PST
by
Zeon Cowboy
("Show me just what Muhammad brought... and there you will find things only evil and inhuman.")
To: Notwithstanding
Oh, man! Being a lit major (for my Master's degree) I'd be scared to death to present myself as something like "Shakespeare's Sister". I'd probably be struck by lightening or something equally awful! I would say this lady assumes an awful lot--minimum.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:42:51 AM PST
by
singfreedom
("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
Comment #4 Removed by Moderator
To: NYer; Salvation; narses; wagglebee
AP and the networks have picked it up!
Ping.
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posted on
02/07/2007 1:46:54 AM PST
by
Notwithstanding
(Post-9/11 Volunteer Active Duty OEF Vet Lawyer (who is too dumb to understand Kerry's apology))
To: Notwithstanding
Edwards put both bloggers on his payroll last week as part of his outreach to liberal voters and activists on the Internet.
I shudder to imagine the selection process for these positions. "Do you often take medication that is not prescribed to you out of sheer enjoyment? Can you say Halliburton in three languages? Would you vote to remove the letter W from the alphabet? This might be the job for you..."
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02/07/2007 2:30:39 AM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Notwithstanding
Next he'll hire those two clowns who placed the Lite Brites on bridges in Boston.
To: abb; Howlin
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posted on
02/07/2007 3:20:16 AM PST
by
Alia
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To: Notwithstanding
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posted on
02/07/2007 3:27:10 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Notwithstanding
a "decent man" wouldn't have 'channelled' a dead kid in a courtroom in order to make money.
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posted on
02/07/2007 3:27:23 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: Notwithstanding
They are reporting this, only because they are behind Hillary one hundred percent. Anything to undermine any other democrat candiate they will jump at.
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posted on
02/07/2007 3:30:11 AM PST
by
Laverne
To: Notwithstanding
"John Edwards is a decent manI quit reading after that statement.
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posted on
02/07/2007 4:46:57 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Global warming = A lie told often enough, is eventually accepted as the truth.)
To: Arrowhead1952
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posted on
02/07/2007 4:48:26 AM PST
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: expatguy
He is a clean manAccording to which politician? Joe Biden??
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posted on
02/07/2007 4:56:54 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Global warming = A lie told often enough, is eventually accepted as the truth.)
To: Notwithstanding
"Anti-Catholicism", the last "safe" bigotry in America.
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posted on
02/07/2007 5:43:57 AM PST
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: Notwithstanding; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
Catholic Ping Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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posted on
02/07/2007 6:50:52 AM PST
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
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posted on
02/07/2007 6:55:27 AM PST
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, insects)
To: expatguy
Like that clean man with the BIG EARS?
To: Arrowhead1952; Zeon Cowboy; Notwithstanding
Marcotte and McEwan enjoy the benefits of the "Mapplethorpe Paradox": what they do is so filthy that their critics are at a disadvantage because they don't dare describe it in detail; and if they do, they're contributing to the already thigh-deep rising tide of slime.
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posted on
02/07/2007 7:03:25 AM PST
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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