Posted on 02/15/2007 4:56:37 AM PST by SJackson
The media turn two hate-spewing leftist bigots into victims of nasty misogynists.
Amanda Marcotte, one of two vitriol-spewing anti-Christian bloggers hired by the John Edwards presidential campaign, resigned on February 12, 2007.
Liberal media reported that Marcotte was “driven out” of her job by Catholic League President Bill Donohue. Last week, Donohue issued a press release detailing some of Marcotte’s anti-Christian bigotry. Fox commentator Bill O’Reilly also gave the story lots of airtime. Donohue also called for Edwards to fire the other anti-Christian blogger, Melissa McEwan, who infamously referred to President Bush’s “wing-nut Christofascist base” in a blog entry. (McEwan reportedly resigned on Feb. 13.) Marcotte’s resignation made big news in the mainstream media on Feb. 12. Among other outlets, The Associated Press wrote a story, The New York Times carried it on its political blog, and The Washington Post dedicated a full column to it on page A-4. The common theme was political martyrdom. Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz quotes Marcotte lambasting Donohue “and his cavalcade of right wing shills.” According to Marcotte, Donohue and his supporters, who “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” were to blame for her ouster. The Post repeats Marcotte’s claim that Donohue ran a “scorched earth campaign” against her, and gives her a platform to claim martyrdom: “It was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign.” All this within the first three paragraphs of the Post’s story. AP reports the martyrdom in paragraph two. The New York Times political blog makes martyrdom the lead for the story. The Post glosses over Marcotte’s inflammatory comments, burying them in the seventh paragraph. Of course, neither the AP nor The New York Times stories mention them at all. For those who can stomach it, here are some samples of what Marcotte wrote: None of these outlets reported Bill Donohue’s thoughtful arguments regarding Marcotte. The Post did quote a statement by Donohue in a press release last week: “John Edwards is a decent man who has had his campaign tarnished by two anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots.” This quote is buried in the 10th paragraph. Why didn’t any of Donohue’s other statements make the cut? Press releases on The Catholic League’s website, where the Post presumably pulled the statement regarding Edwards, contain some pointed comparisons between Marcotte’s vitriol and that of other press-pronounced bigots: “Had anyone on his [Edwards] staff used the ‘N-word,’ he or she would have been fired immediately. But his goal is to loot the pockets of the Soros/Hollywood gang, and they—like him—aren’t offended by anti-Catholicism. Indeed, they thrive on it. “When Mel Gibson got drunk and made anti-Semitic remarks, he paid a price for doing so. When Michael Richards got angry and made racist remarks, he paid a price for doing so. When Isaiah Washington got ticked off and made anti-gay remarks, he paid a price for doing so.” Each of the celebrity rants cited above received substantial coverage by the media. But there is a double standard for bigotry and hatred aimed at Christians. Reporting such comparisons would mean giving voice to the conservative viewpoint and balance to the story. Had Marcotte substituted Mohammed, Allah or Islam where she bashes the Pope, God, or the Catholic Church, she would have been vilified in the mainstream media. But because the object of her attacks is Christianity, the liberal media don’t feel the need to report the full story. Martyrdom of a leftist blogger on a sword wielded by “right wing shills” plays much better to the base.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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"Had Marcotte substituted Mohammed, Allah or Islam where she bashes the Pope, God, or the Catholic Church, she would have been...."
MARKED FOR DEATH BY THE ISLAMISTS.
I think "Martyrdom" is much to strong a word for this write-up and a bit over the top.
A “scorched earth campaign” is what happens to you if you dispute global warming, or point out that Joe McCarthy was a decent man whom Big Journalism hounded into an early grave.
Arcy, it ain't over yet. Hide and watch.
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Vex them with a plague of peckergnats.
As a Catholic of several decadesI've been trained to the belief that we are to love all our Brothers and treat them as we would like to be treated.
Not to do so would be a grave sin and we would be punished by God for these offenses.
But the world has changed and christians of all stripes should be prepared to stand against all miscreants and misanthropes like these two mongrel Bloggers and the Hollywood tribe who support them.
Christians are somewhere near 90% of the population and if we responded,with the indignation,these people deserve they would starve.
When Hate mongers use vile and offensive remarks
against Jesus Christ or Mary the Mother of God they do not deserve one nickle of our money.
To support these filthy pigs in any way Makes us supporters of their Hate.
There is something very amusing about describing the exposure of bigotry to daylight by the shocking tactic of direct quotation being described as a 'scorched earth campaign'.
The metaphor is so absurdly inappropriate it's hard to know where to begin.
Plainly Edwards ex-staffers are as ignorant of military matters as they are bigotted against any semblance of traditional Christianity.
Good - the fewer hate-spewing leftist bigots making money and working in political campaigns the better.
Maybe the Dixie Chicks will give Marcotte one of their Grammies to make her feel better.
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