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  • Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Hallmark Movies Are Fascist Propaganda’

    12/27/2019 1:39:39 PM PST · by Morgana · 60 replies
    mrcNewsbusters ^ | Dec, 26, 2019, | Gabriel Hays
    Salon’s politics writer Amanda Marcotte has been putting 110% into being the Grinch this Christmas. On Christmas day, she followed up her attack on Christians who wish each other "Merry Christmas," by directly comparing Hallmark Channel Christmas specials to Nazi propaganda. Marcotte called the normal Hallmark fare “the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda.” She could just say “Bah Humbug!” and leave it at that, instead of coming off as a lunatic. But no, the far left Salon reporter had to exact her revenge on the cable TV network after it courted controversy for pulling an ad from Zola featuring a...
  • Salon’s Marcotte: ‘Merry Christmas!’ Is Conservative Code For ‘[bleep] You!’

    12/27/2019 1:19:36 PM PST · by Morgana · 63 replies
    mrcNewsbusters ^ | Dec, 23, 2019, | Gabriel Hays
    <p>Most conservatives and liberals enjoy Christmas enough to just have a good time, though every once in awhile you get a Scrooge who refuses to fathom the reason of the season and badmouths the holiday and those who celebrate it. Salon’s politics writer Amanda Marcotte doubled down on her hatred for Christmas by calling those who celebrate it hypocrites who mean “f*** you” when they say “Merry Christmas.”</p>
  • Google employee, 27, is raped, murdered and set on fire while jogging in Massachusetts woods while

    08/08/2016 1:55:55 PM PDT · by Nachum · 120 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 8/8/2016 | Associated Press and Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
    A Google employee from New York City who disappeared on an afternoon jog while visiting her mother in Massachusetts has been found murdered in the woods. Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said Monday that 27-year-old Vanessa Marcotte was reported missing after failing to return from a run between 1pm and 4pm in Princeton. Her body was discovered at around 8.20pm Sunday by a state police K9 unit near Brooks Station Road, about a half-mile from her mother's home. A source told Fox25 in Boston that investigators were examining the possibility that Marcotte was sexually assaulted and set on fire,...
  • Radical feminist: Pope should ‘beg forgiveness’ for his abortion views

    09/12/2015 3:05:36 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 31 replies
    LiveAction News ^ | September 11, 2015 | Calvin Freiburger
    Radical feminist writer Jill Filipovic is not happy with Pope Francis. In the New York Times, she criticizes his recent announcement authorizing priests to forgive repentant confessions of abortion: "[M]ercy may actually be worse. While the pope’s announcement has been hailed as evidence of the church’s new, softer approach, it’s actually the latest example of the modern anti-abortion strategy: Portray women as victims who need to be protected from themselves with laws that restrict abortion rights. "Despite the concern for what the pope calls an “agonizing and painful decision,” research shows that a vast majority of women who terminate pregnancies...
  • Why abortion reversal angers abortion backers (abortion pill can be sometimes be reversed)

    04/06/2015 6:55:54 AM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 3 replies
    LiveActionNews ^ | Apr 3, 2015 | Cassy Fiano
    Dr. Karen Poehailos can reverse chemical chemical aboriton pill For people who claim to advocate for choice, informed consent is key. If abortion is to be legal, then logically there should be no objection to women being informed about all of their options, about the details of their baby’s development, and about the procedure they are about to undergo. Women should never be lied to or pressured into having an abortion, yet it happens with alarming regularity. So it makes sense for laws to be passed ensuring women are given accurate information — otherwise, how can a woman truly...
  • Parents should let kids have sex sleepovers, abortion advocate says in USA Today

    08/23/2013 7:09:11 AM PDT · by markomalley · 35 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | 8/23/2013 | Kirsten Andersen
    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....
  • Oodles of Single Men May Not Be as Awesome as You'd Think

    01/19/2013 7:44:27 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 72 replies
    The Slate ^ | Wednesday, Jan. 16, 201 | Amanda Marcotte
    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...
  • MoveOn.Org flexes muscle

    04/03/2007 12:00:26 PM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 12 replies · 678+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | March 28, 2007 | Jill Zuckman
    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...
  • Trash-talking Edwards bloggers crash and burn; who's next?

    02/24/2007 2:13:25 PM PST · by Winged Hussar · 8 replies · 615+ views
    Rochester MN Post-Bulletin ^ | 2/23/07 | Ellen Goodman
    ...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.
  • Teacher knows something about Catholic bashing

    02/22/2007 9:46:01 AM PST · by Alex Murphy · 78 replies · 950+ views
    The Bakersfield Californian ^ | Feb 21 2007 | LEONEL MARTINEZ
    My catechism teacher, Sister Mary Lou Petrillo, was a smart and scrappy nun who drilled into us the basics of Catholicism without demeaning other Christian churches or religions. Too bad Sister Mary Lou isn't available to teach a few intensive lessons on tolerance to the campaign people of presidential candidate John Edwards. Within the last few weeks, two bloggers for the former North Carolina senator resigned after being hit with criticism from conservative Catholic organizations angered by past anti-Catholic remarks the bloggers posted on the Web, according to CNN. Melissa McEwan and Amanda Marcotte quit after groups like the Catholic...
  • Hate bloggers, death threats and apologies abound

    02/16/2007 10:55:46 AM PST · by Woodland · 8 replies · 1,050+ views
    TownHall.com ^ | 02/16/07 | J. Matt Barber
    Media outlets have given the story fairly wide coverage. Presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards (D- North Carolina) recently named two leftist, anti-Christian bloggers to high profile positions with his campaign. In the past, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan have spewed anti-Christian venom containing language that might even make Howard Stern blush. Despite a chorus of disapproval, Edwards said he’d keep the ladies – if you can call them that – on his campaign payroll. But the two women apparently decided they’d rather devote their full attention to anti-Christian hatemongering, and quickly resigned. But another story, with perhaps more...
  • Curse of the Christian-Bashers - The spirit of the Edwards bloggers haunts Democrats.

    02/16/2007 1:22:47 AM PST · by neverdem · 19 replies · 1,045+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | February 16, 2007 | MARY EBERSTADT
    Heavens, it's getting crowded in the pews these days--at least with Democratic presidential candidates. Here is Sen. Barack Obama in California's Saddleback pulpit at the invitation of mega-selling pastor Rick Warren. There is Sen. Hillary Clinton with downcast eyes in Newsweek, praying before the cameras in New York's Riverside Church. And there preaches John Edwards, also in Riverside Church, weaving his personal faith into everything from AIDS to the minimum wage. Clearly the push is on to show that, for now anyway, the Democratic hopefuls are just plain folks in the religion department. All the more reason to plumb the...
  • The Martyrdom of John Edwards' Anti-Christian Bloggers

    02/15/2007 4:56:37 AM PST · by SJackson · 15 replies · 934+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | February 15, 2007 | Kristen Fyfe
    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...
  • Second Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign

    02/13/2007 5:47:59 PM PST · by mware · 95 replies · 2,420+ views
    AP via Breitbart ^ | Feb 13, 2007 | MIKE BAKER
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A second blogger working for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Tuesday under pressure from conservative critics who said her previous online messages were anti-Catholic. Melissa McEwan wrote on her personal blog, Shakespeare's Sister, that she left the campaign because she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the level of attention focused on her and her family. "This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign," McEwan said Tuesday night. Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for the Edwards...
  • Pandagon Site Down

    02/13/2007 10:44:13 AM PST · by jbenedic2 · 35 replies · 1,250+ views
    Pandagon ^ | 02/12/2007 | jbenedic2
    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...
  • DUmmie FUnnies 02-13-07 (Loony Edwards Blogger "Quits" Campaign)

    02/13/2007 5:57:38 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 102 replies · 1,912+ views
    DUmmie FUnnies ^ | February 13, 2007 | KOmmies and PJ-Comix
    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...
  • One down, one to go: anti-Catholic blogger quits Edwards campaign

    02/12/2007 7:35:11 PM PST · by Teófilo · 27 replies · 655+ views
    Fay Observer ^ | 12 February 2007 | AP
    Blogger quits Edwards campaign in light of conservative criticismOne 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. Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, confirmed that Marcotte was "no longer working for the campaign." She declined...
  • Targeted Blogger Quits Edwards Campaign

    02/12/2007 6:09:38 PM PST · by SkyPilot · 94 replies · 2,329+ views
    Breitbart and Associated Press ^ | 12 Feb 07 | Mike Baker
    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...
  • Edwards Blogger Flap Discomforts Religious Left By: Ben Smith

    02/09/2007 9:02:35 PM PST · by Right in Wisconsin · 17 replies · 666+ views
    The Politico ^ | 2/9/07 | Ben Smith
    As the flap over alleged anti-Catholic writings by two John Edwards campaign bloggers devolves into a shouting match between conservative religious voices and liberal bloggers, some members of the "religious left" say they feel – again – shoved to the margins of the Democratic Party
  • Charges of Bigotry Fly in John Edwards Blogger Flap

    02/09/2007 10:46:54 AM PST · by GeorgiaDawg32 · 33 replies · 1,202+ views
    foxnews.com ^ | 2/9/07 | Greg Simmons
    WASHINGTON — In response to John Edwards' refusal to fire two staffers for "intolerant" Web postings, the president of the nation's largest Catholic civil rights group said he will launch a campaign next week to point out "the double-standard that [Edwards] is the kingmaker of." Bill Donohue, president of the conservative-leaning Catholic League and the first to call on the Democratic presidential candidate to fire the bloggers, told FOXNews.com that he is not satisfied with Edwards' decision to scold — but not can — the staffers.