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Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks

by BooMan
Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:26:06 AM EST

~~"Just imagine if a white guy is performing oral sex on a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection. Do you need to see it to know it's ugly?"~~ - president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.

Corrected quote, as if it makes a difference.

"If someone tells me that there's a statue of Martin Luther King with an erection receiving oral sex, I don't need to see it." - president of the Catholic League, William Donohue.

Maybe someone can itemize all the ways in which that comment is offensive. I think it is a diamond mine.

Amanda Marcotte resigned from the Edwards campaign. Her reasons are understandable. But it hurts to see an homophobic anti-Semite like Donahue get himself another scalp. It just encourages him.

Meanwhile, Joe Klein is as wankerific as ever.

Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (4.00 / 2)

She did the right thing, even given that Klein is much worse than a wanker. I mean, he makes wankers look good.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:36:47 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (4.00 / 2)

Donohue is a super-prick and certainly does not speak for me. But I have a hard time believing he said THAT. Do you have a source?

by Arminius on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:44:49 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (none / 1)

Forget my question. I'm always annoyed myself when someone reflexively says "give me a link," as if he's my boss.

I searched Yahoo, and I see that this attribution is all the buzz over the Internets.

Asshole that he is, I still can hardly believe he said THAT. My instinct is that somebody made it up, and it has traversed the left blogosphere like a virus. But I can't prove it. Hard to prove that kind of thing. I'll look a bit.

by Arminius on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:49:44 AM EST
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Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (4.00 / 2)

I think it's fair to ask for a source - I don't think you asked impolitely.

Sourcing is very important in the blogosphere. We should be careful not to repeat something if it isn't true, of course!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:55:49 AM EST
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Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (none / 1)

Thank you. As far as I can tell, based on the 15 minutes that is the maximum I can give this kind of thing tonight, the statement apparently goes back to a January 22nd article in Variety, available online.

The wording has gotten worse as the story has traveled about. Typical.

The original story seems rather vague and unsourced to me. Typical.

But he IS an asshole, so he probably DID say it. Of course.

(I really do think he's an asshole. But I just don't believe this one. I know a lot of super pious Catholics. They just don't talk like that. But he's an egomaniac and amateur Taliban leader. Maybe.)

by Arminius on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 02:05:27 AM EST
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A Brief History of Father Bill - (4.00 / 3)

Slap it. Shoot it. Kaboot it.

by adios on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 04:09:22 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (4.00 / 4)

Donohue is only half the problem. The cable news stations who hire him to "represent" Catholics--when he clearly does not--are the other half. (And as on Car Talk, there's a third half...the Bishops who fail to stand up and say: "This man is not ours.")

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 07:14:02 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (4.00 / 3)

I am sad that Amanfa resigned especially after Edwards stood up for her but understand why. The Edwards blog and chat has been raided by the wingnuts and it has become almost impossible to have a decent conversation in the chat with other Edwards supporters. The minions of the likes of Donohue and O'Riely(sp)think they own the world and will follow these fools blindly no matter where it leads. I do not think most of America believes this type of bs but there are enough to get something rolling. They learned from their master Karl Rove and all of them ape the behavior of Rev. Fred Phelps.

Anyone with a brain knew that Amanda's writings on Pendragon were dealing with the extremist of religion.

Doing My Part For The Left

by refinish69 (refinish69 at gmail dot com) on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 07:48:40 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (none / 1)

People like Donahue MAKES me want to put him in a cartoon strip.

It is like he is begging for it.

I fail to believe his nonsense that the Catholic Church is without sin AND the Church should be protected from critical speech.

I call bullshit on the whole thing.

by stormbear on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 09:10:32 AM EST

Another Nut throws hi hat in the ring. (none / 0)

I can hear Romney's announcing from the TV in the other room. God, too much taxes(not enough debt), lets go surge, what a complete asshole. How can someone declare his candidacy by professing belief in every failed policy we have. I even heard the guy saying he and the Repuglicans can help Michigan rebound. The repug policies are why they need to rebound. The whole repuglican party is disfunctional. What nightmare will they nominate in 08'? Maybe this idiot?

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 09:30:34 AM EST

Re: Amanda Resigns, Joe Klein Wanks (none / 0)

One medium sized step backwards for the blogosphere.

The big problem with this is the lack of due diligence by the Edwards campaign. This seems pretty well acknowledged.

Beyond that, all contenders will think twice about hiring bloggers from now on. "John Edwards tried that and look where it got him." I can hear it now.

Now, it may be that hiring bloggers to run blogs is the wrong approach. I, for one, figure that if you hire a blogger it would be better for them to help coordinate some strategic steps pf the campaign with already existent prominent blogs. Unfortunately, this is probably a bit too indirect for the control freaks that run national political campaigns.

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. -Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

by chimneyswift on Tue Feb 13th, 2007 at 01:09:33 PM EST

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