If Edwards' blog bigots had called blacks 'spade,' candidate would have folded their hand by now

EDITOR'S NOTE: Do not click on any links to the personal blogs of Amanda Marcotte or Melissa McEwan unless you have been pretty well immunized against the F-word, S-word, C-word and MF-word, among others.

Blog Bigots for Edwards says its sorry. The brown-shirted RoboBigots -- Amanda "F-word" Marcotte and Melissa "Queen **** of **** Mountain" McEwan -- say they really, truly meant to give no offense.

"My intention is never to offend anyone for his or her personal beliefs, and I am sorry if anyone was personally offended by writings meant only as criticisms of public politics," Marcotte said in a post on the Edwards blog.

Likewise, McEwan said in a similar post that she and Edwards "share many views -- including an unwavering support of religious freedom and a deep respect for diverse beliefs.

"It has never been my intention to disparage people's individual faith," she added, "and I'm sorry if my words were taken in that way."

Bull.

SPIN:

My intention is never to offend anyone for his or her personal beliefs . . . .

THE RECORD (MARCOTTE):

Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?

A: You’d have to justify your misogyny with another ancient mythology.

AND THE RECORD (MARCOTTE):

I suspect Pope Ratz will give into the urge eventually to come out and say there’s no limbo and unbaptized babies go straight to hell. He can’t help it; he’s just a dictator like that. Hey, fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, the Pope’s gotta tell women who give birth to stillborns that their babies are cast into Satan’s maw. The alternative is to let Catholic women who get abortions feel that it’ll all work out in the end, which is just not doable, due to that Jesus-like compassion the Pope is so fond of. Still, it’s going to be bad PR for the church, so you can sort of see why the Pope is dragging ass.

AND THE RECORD (MARCOTTE):

One thing I vow here and now — you mother****ers who want to ban birth control will never sleep. I will f*** without making children day in and out and you will know it and you won’t be able to stop it. Toss and turn, you mean, jealous mother****ers. I’m not going to be “punished” with babies. Which makes all your efforts a failure. Some non-procreating women escaped. So give up now. You’ll never catch all of us. Give up now.

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SPIN:

I'm not going to say a lot about this right now, but suffice it to say that the fact I cast a vote, without hesitation, for a Catholic during the last presidential election might suggest I'm not anti-Catholic. My degree from Loyola University might also suggest the same.

THE RECORD (McEWAN):

What don’t you lousy mother****ers understand about keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds, and our families?

The Holy Rollers are really on a tear lately. Aside from trying to make sure women don’t have access to life-saving medical procedures, not to mention birth control and emergency birth control, getting busy with the state initiatives to slowly chip away at abortion rights, revving up to bring the Marriage Protection Amendment to another vote, cutting funding for international family planning, increasing funding for domestic abstinence-only sex education programs, and about eight million other things we grouse about on a daily basis, now they’re embarking on a crusade to ban gay adoption in at least 16 states.

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Seriously, these wankers need to f*** off. Have a look at the thousands of American kids who need good homes, but had the audacity to become orphans after they weren’t cute wee babies anymore, or the impudence to have physical or psychological disabilities, or the scandalous impertinence to be not white. Older children, children of color, and/or children with special needs are more likely to be adopted by gays and lesbians. Not straight married couples. Not even straight singles. No matter how devout or how pro-life or how pro-family. Gays and lesbians adopt these kids in higher numbers than anyone else.

AND THE RECORD (McEWAN):

Liberals see an American tradition of slowly but surely making good on that promise of equality for every citizen, but we tend to call it “progress” and ourselves “progressives.” Social conservatives, on the other hand, define American tradition as the good old days, when there was no question that men were superior to women, straights were superior to gays, and whites were superior to everyone else. They want to preserve and protect that “tradition,” and, though some of them call themselves culture warriors, mostly they call themselves “traditionalists.”

Not only is that shorter than “sexist, racist, homophobic retrof*** jackholes,” but it sounds a lot nicer, too.

AND THE RECORD (McEWAN):

Da New Pope (as Ezra would say) doesn’t like da faggots. As anyone who’s spent more than five seconds hanging around this joint knows, here at Shakespeare’s Sister, we likes da faggots, and so we don’t likes da new pope.

In 1986, Pope Ratz (as by which he will heretofore be referred) wrote a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, in which he recommended that “appropriate forms of pastoral care for homosexual persons” be developed with “the assistance of the psychological, sociological and medical sciences, in full accord with the teaching of the Church,” even though homosexuality had been removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) thirteen years earlier. By 1986, the psychological, sociological, and medical sciences didn’t regard homosexuality as a “disorder” in need of treatment, but clearly, Pope Ratz (and the rest of the church) did.

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If it weren’t for the fact that this gay-hating bigot was just made head of the largest network of institutionalized homophobia in the universe, that would almost be laughable. A strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil, says the former member of the Hitler Youth. Whether he was compelled to join or joined voluntarily is a matter of debate, but regardless of the origins of Pope Ratz’s former Nazi associations, including serving in the German army, they surely gave him the opportunity to see intrinsic moral evil up close and personal. Those f***ers were marching the fags off to the gas chambers, not the other way around.

As many as a million gays and lesbians were killed in the concentration camps during the Holocaust, with particularly harsh treatments reserved for gay men, who were also widely recruited for bizarre scientific experimentation, in search of a cure for future Aryan homosexuals. Gay men also had the highest death rate (60%) of any other social group relegated to the camps by the Nazis. Lesbians and gays were viewed as a threat to the future of the Aryan race, because they did not procreate, and when the Nazis came into power, they facilitated a swift backlash against the progressiveness of Berlin which had fostered a vibrant and thriving gay community. The entire country was delivered a steady stream of anti-gay propaganda, and the Hitler Youth were indoctrinated with virulent homophobia, which may well explain Pope Ratz’s strange acceptance of violence against gays, even as he condemns it:

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I reject this pope, I reject his church, and I reject its teachings. I reject the notion that people I love are evil for being gay, or that any expression of love between two consenting adults is somehow sinful. There’s nothing sinful about love, and there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the way I love Mr. Shakes, and the way Pam loves Kate, and Mr. Furious loves Mr. Curious; I reject all claims to the contrary. And if that consigns my eternal soul to the fires of hell, then off I go, tra la la. I never f***ing liked harps, anyway.

THERE YOU GO, boys and girls. The self-serving, misleading "apologies" from the Blog Bigots for Edwards camp are bunk.

If you happen to be a social conservative, a Catholic who actually believes what the Church teaches -- or both -- Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan don't just disagree with you, they (to state it in the native language of the Queens of Bile) hate your f***ing guts, you f***ing, s*** stain mother****er.

The hate speech that emanated from their smokin' keyboards is nowhere close to what these women actually apologized for. (Having been raised in the Deep South, I use "women" quite deliberately, noting the world of difference between "women" and "ladies.")

And an apology that's a lie is no apology at all.

If you've read this blog much at all, you know that a) I am no political conservative, and b) I am no fan of George Bush or the Republican Party. A-tall.

Neither am I a fan of this stripe of Democrat. Its motivating force in politics and in life is the proposition that "f***ing is an entitlement." Peggy Noonan, in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, recounted how a friend explained that fact of modern life to her one day:

"Yes," she says, "but you're missing something. It's what I call F***ing as an Entitlement. F***ing has become another entitlement to urban liberals. They think twelve-year-old girls are incapable of not doing it, that homosexuals are incapable of any restraint, that little girls are ready, period. They think you can f*** without remorse, without responsibility, f*** yourself to welfare, f*** yourself to death.

What a speech. And she means it.

"You know," I say, "I believe liberals care. But if they care about kids and AIDS and kids and pregnancy, why don't they support a system that stresses telling kids why not to have sex? I mean, why not try to give them some kind of armor, some kind of moral protection, instead of just abandoning them to what we tell them is uncontrollable biological imperative? Why can't we try top influence them to hold off"

"They do that in their own homes, and think everyone else should too. It's private, between parent and child."

"Whoa. Then why isn't birth control and giving out condoms private, between parent and child?"

"Because f***ing is an entitlement."

"No, seriously."

"A lot of these kids don't have parents, or functioning parents."

"Most of them don't. Heather's lucky if she has one mommy. But why are condoms the answer? 'I know you don't have a father, so here's a rubber.' It's so disrespectful. It's so dismissive of kids' hearts."

We commune in silence.

"Well," she says, "at least it takes other organs into account."

You know, that book came out in 1994. If it was true 13 years ago that much of our society -- particularly the Outraged Left -- was animated by "f***ing is an entitlement," how true is it today?

Very.

Today, "f***ing is an entitlement" is the source and summit upon which we have built our Western house of cards. "F***ing is an entitlement" is the sacred phallic core of our being. "F***ing is an entitlement" is as close to a sacramental worldview as wingnuts like Marcotte and McEwan get.

Having rejected Jesus Christ as "the way, the Truth and the life," the Secular Left alternatively has embraced "f***ing is an entitlement" as an ersatz eucharist.

And I have little doubt those in the mold of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan -- if given the opportunity -- would demonize, marginalize, oppress and repress anyone and any church (most especially the Catholic Church) with the temerity to stand between themselves and the Holy Inconsequential Climax. Hell, they're halfway there, now.

TO BE BRIEF AND BLUNT, I'll put it this way: I have strongly suspected for some time now that President Bush and some of his cohorts have fascistic tendencies of some crypto-Mussolini stripe.

Of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, I have no doubt. None. And they ain't no mere Mussolinis, either.

This is what John Edwards has chosen to stand behind. This is what John Edwards not only chooses to tolerate but to put in key campaign roles -- with full knowledge of who they are, what they stand for and (most troubling of all) who they hate.

John Edwards is as unfit -- or more so -- for the office he seeks as the man presently holding it.