I've been trying to follow this story on Feministe and Salon and it's left me totallyfuckingconfused. Mostly because, every time I turn around, there's a new, 180-degree development in the story
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As for the resignations, both Amanda and Melissa have taken great pains to explain the whys and whens, and that the campaign reluctantly agreed. When I first heard it, I assumed they'd been fired to agreed to resign, but I don't think so after having carefully followed their statements about the resignations. Additionally, it would have made more sense to have them both resign on the same day if this was campaign-prompted, not the way it happened.
I agree that they are both used to unpleasant emails - and I don't think the emails are what led to their resignations. Also, because of their position and the high profile of their blogs, they are not nearly as anonymous as a newspaper writer.
As for its being front page news, Bill O'Reilly has covered this story every night. It's been on CNN and MSNBC. It's hardly been a hidden story.
So far Salon's standing by their reporter. They didn't drop the ball if, for whatever reason, the Edwards' campaign told the reporter the bloggers were fired.
I never suggested the story was buried. I just said it wasn't front-page news in the sense that it was likely to hurt Edwards the way Swift Boat hurt Kerry after being pounded relentlessly in the media for weeks. And, even if it could have, he wouldn't have mitigated the damage by saying he was standing by them and then firing them.
Receiving threats isn't a function of the writer's anonymity (let alone whether a blogger enjoys more celebrity than a newspaper writer, which it seems would depend on the writer in question). It's a function of online publications allowing for immediate and anonymous reader feedback. It's troll bait.
It seems the piece I'm missing is the bloggers' statements as to why they quit. Where are those?
I am confused...you said Christians wrote this??? "YOU RACIST WHORE. FAT UGLY BITCH. SUCK MY LONG COCK ASSHOLE I HOPE YOU KIDS NEVER LIVE AND YOUR PARENTS DIE A TRAGIC DEATH YOU ASSHOLE BITCH! I HOPE YOUR WOMB IS BARREN AND YOUR CAREER PLUMMETS TO HELL YOU BITCH"
And this one:
"It's just too bad your mother didn't abort you. You are nothing more than a filthy mouth slut. I bet a couple of years in Iraq being raped and beaten daily would help you appreciate America a little. Need a plane ticket ?"
Let me go on the record for saying that no Christian that I know of would ever speak or write that way to another person. that is not how a Christian would conduct themselves. and if they call themselves a Christian, I am very sad to be associated with them. Becky
Not surprised. Usually when women open their mouths, there are "good Christian men" who will threaten them with sexual violence. Your vagina is theirs, dontcha know, and all products thereof, i.e. the contents of your uterus.
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As for the resignations, both Amanda and Melissa have taken great pains to explain the whys and whens, and that the campaign reluctantly agreed. When I first heard it, I assumed they'd been fired to agreed to resign, but I don't think so after having carefully followed their statements about the resignations. Additionally, it would have made more sense to have them both resign on the same day if this was campaign-prompted, not the way it happened.
I agree that they are both used to unpleasant emails - and I don't think the emails are what led to their resignations. Also, because of their position and the high profile of their blogs, they are not nearly as anonymous as a newspaper writer.
As for its being front page news, Bill O'Reilly has covered this story every night. It's been on CNN and MSNBC. It's hardly been a hidden story.
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I never suggested the story was buried. I just said it wasn't front-page news in the sense that it was likely to hurt Edwards the way Swift Boat hurt Kerry after being pounded relentlessly in the media for weeks. And, even if it could have, he wouldn't have mitigated the damage by saying he was standing by them and then firing them.
Receiving threats isn't a function of the writer's anonymity (let alone whether a blogger enjoys more celebrity than a newspaper writer, which it seems would depend on the writer in question). It's a function of online publications allowing for immediate and anonymous reader feedback. It's troll bait.
It seems the piece I'm missing is the bloggers' statements as to why they quit. Where are those?
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It seems the piece I'm missing is the bloggers' statements as to why they quit. Where are those?Amanda, at pandagon.net, said ( ... )
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"YOU RACIST WHORE. FAT UGLY BITCH. SUCK MY LONG COCK ASSHOLE I HOPE YOU KIDS NEVER LIVE AND YOUR PARENTS DIE A TRAGIC DEATH YOU ASSHOLE BITCH!
I HOPE YOUR WOMB IS BARREN AND YOUR CAREER PLUMMETS TO HELL YOU BITCH"
And this one:
"It's just too bad your mother didn't abort you. You are nothing more than a filthy mouth slut. I bet a couple of years in Iraq being raped and beaten daily would help you appreciate America a little. Need a plane ticket ?"
Let me go on the record for saying that no Christian that I know of would ever speak or write that way to another person. that is not how a Christian would conduct themselves. and if they call themselves a Christian, I am very sad to be associated with them.
Becky
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