Shakespeare's Pandagon-mania
(Update by Liza Sabater, Publisher : Hello Salon Readers! Feminist bloggers are not taking the attacks against Amanda, Melissa and other feminist bloggers lightly. We are working now harder than ever to create a Feminist Bloggers PAC.)
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Richard Cranium is calling for an email campaign and blogswarm.
Let’s be clear on something - Amanda and Melissa are among the most savvy, articulate progressive commentators in the blogosphere. The Edwards’ campaign is most fortunate to have both of them working on internet outreach. So, to me, this is just another example of right wing blogs pushing a story into the mainstream media to create some noise based on out-of-context cherry picking of inflammatory buzzwords and snarky posting. But afterall, isn’t that what this medium is all about?
Ok, so, I’m going to ask you to do something. If you feel as I do, that this is a trumped up manufactured controversy by organizations that wouldn’t vote for Edwards in a million years anyway, please drop a line to the Edwards campaign.
We need to support our own in this regard. If the Edwards campaign buckles on this one, and fires Amanda and Melissa, I will immediately drop my own support for John Edwards. It’s not that I will have changed my views on his issues, but that his campaign will have shown no spine early on. And I want a candidate (and campaign) with spine.
Make sure you put "SUPPORT AMANDA AND MELISSA" on your email to the Edwards campaign.
Here's a list of posts so far :
me : The swiftboating of John Edwards Political Courage
Zuzu at Feministe : This is really getting out of hand and Jill with The Backlash Against the Edwards Bloggers
Chicago Dyke at CorrenteWire : Courage vs. Popularity
Misty at Shakespeare's Sister : Ol' Bill is ticked
Jessica at Feministing : The post in which I scrub my skin off with a brillo pad
UPDATES!
Shelzebub at Pinko Feminist Hellcat : Further adventures in right-wing hypocrisy and More on that conservative hypocrisy
Glenn Greenwald at Unclaimed Terrirtory : A look at John McCain's blogger-consultant
Barbara at Mahablog : Intimidation
Evan at Alternet : Updated: John Edwards campaign deciding fate of bloggers
Martin at Booman Tribune Edwards Need to Show Some Spine
McJoan at Daily Kos Edwards and the Bloggers
Ann at Feminist Law Professors : In Support of Amanda Marcotte
Ann at Feministing : Advice to Associated Press headline writers
Duncan at Eschaton : Uh, Edwards Campaign?
Elayne at Penn-Elayne : Bit of a Blogaround
Matt at MyDD More Instability
Ezra : Edwards, Marcotte, and McEwan
Micah at Personal Democracy Forum : Still More on Edwards-Marcotte Non-Scandal
Mark at Tapped : WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON, EDWARDS?
P at PSoTD : Piling On and Suburban Guerrilla
John at Crooks and Liars : ABC’s Terry Moran should be ashamed
Scott has 2 from Lawyers, Guns and Money : Department of Offensive Historical Analogies and People Who Are Paid to Use The Language Of Anti-Bigotry to Mask Crackpottery: To Be Ignored
Steve at News Blog : Are you shitting me?
Sean at The Agonist : John Edwards Bowing To Winger Pressure?
Gavin at SadlyNO! : Terry And The Pirates
Tennessee Guerrilla Women Edwards reconsiders hire
Matt at Rights Field Conservative Media, A bar so low and Huffington Post
Ilyka Damen : Great moments in mud-slinging and Why I support Amanda and Melissa
Angry Black BitchMy people call it accurate
Echidne of the Snakes The Fuckity-Fuck Post
Barry at Alas a Blog : The Attack on Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan and The Attack on Amanda and Melissa, part 2: What’s At Stake Here
Sara at F-Words : Bewildering
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo : (February 07, 2007 -- 04:55 PM EDT)
BFP over at Women of Color Blog : Edwards the coward
It's 8pm and the list just keeps growing. Please also take a look at the comments. People are add their posts there as well
Kangro X at Daily Kos Does ABC News Condone Hate Speech?
More from the Shakespeare's Sister bloggers: Paul the spud's and Waveflux's posts.
The Heretik : A polite update
The Carpetbagger Report : Targeting John Edwards’ bloggers
State of the day : Shakes in the news
Tiny Cat Pants John Edwards, Listen Here
Rising Hegemon : Don't do it
Pam Spaulding Caving in to the right wing never works
And the growing list at Punkass blog's The series of tubes have spoken
Violet Socks at The Swift-Boating of Amanda, and the Duke First-Degree Sexual Assault (which includes raping someone with a broomstick) Case
Chris Bowers at MyDD : Waiting To Hear From Edwards
Bob over at Democrats.com Edwards must not surrender
The Continental Op : Stand by your bloggers John
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I've emailed 'em too.
Submitted by Jeff Fecke on 7 February 2007 - 7:34pm.
Sent them what I posted
here:
If this story turns out to be true, I will be supporting Barack Obama in the primaries.
It’s not so much the firing of Marcotte and McEwen–though that’s part of it. It’s doing so in the face of an obvious right-wing gripefest. This isn’t their first; this won’t be their last. This is their M.O.
If you can’t handle this now–and by “handle it†I mean “turn around and go the fuck on offense, moronâ€â€“then you are definitely not going to be ready for the campaign. Because if you think this is tough, wait ’til the right really gets going.
Pity. You’d locked my vote up, and my time and energy, too. I was willing to go to the mat for John Edwards. Indeed, I had been working on a “Why I support Edwards†post. And I can still keep working on it. There are a lot of good reasons to support John Edwards from a policy standpoint.
But if you can’t keep Amanda and Melissa around–forget it. You’re not the man I want fighting for us in 2008–because when the going gets tough, you will fold.
Prove me wrong.
With you all the way
Submitted by tom hilton (not verified) on 7 February 2007 - 7:34pm.
I have two posts on this: working the refs and hit back hard.
Uppity Women
Submitted by Medbh (not verified) on 7 February 2007 - 7:58pm.
I've blogged about this over at
http://dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com
I also emailed Edwards twice. I will donate $50 to Marcotte and $50 to McEwan instead of giving it to his campaign if he fires them.
We need to keep these wonderful feminist bloggers in a position of influence for the campaign.
We need a candidate with integrity, a commitment to liberal values AND a spine!
Send Financial Support!
Submitted by Medbh (not verified) on 7 February 2007 - 8:39pm.
I emailed Edwards and told him I would send my financial support to Marcotte and McEwan instead of his campaign if he fires them.
Do the same!
http://dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com
Does Edwards deserve our support? Will he support his staff?
Submitted by paul (not verified) on 7 February 2007 - 10:50pm.
My US$.02:
Dear Senator Edwards:
Just another voice in support of the progressive voices you have added to your campaign. Those of us who want to be engaged by a campaign and spoken to, not at, by candidates appreciate your effort to include independent thinkers like Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.
I am sure you have seen the comments made on television by Bill Donohue: these comments were made in his official capacity as president of the Catholic League and are simply hateful, vindictive garbage. There is no comparison to the garbage he has been permitted to say over the public airwaves with what his targets on your staff have written.
Failure to support these valuable writers and thinkers now will tell us a lot about where John Edwards stands on loyalty and freedom of thought and expression.
Don't let us down.
Here's mine.
Submitted by sylviasrevenge (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 12:03am.
http://antiessentialistspeaksup.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/all-right-john-...
I'll e-mail too. I've been dragging my feet.
Here's mine.
Submitted by Sylvia on 8 February 2007 - 12:08am.
http://antiessentialistspeaksup.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/all-right-john-...
Ignore the comment in moderation; I think I fixed my login problem.
I've been dragging my feet on this one, but I'm going to e-mail, too.
Just sent the email
Submitted by Mike the Mad Biologist (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 12:41am.
I just sent off the email. By the way, if you plan on updating your list, I've also posted on the subject:
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2007/02/interesting_jump_for...
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2007/02/i_told_you_this_woul...
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2007/02/i_told_you_this_woul...
Another
Submitted by virgotex (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 2:51am.
Emailed Edwards already, and below, my second post on the situation, from today:
http://virgotex.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/till-then-i-guess-well-just-sta...
and earlier in the week,
http://virgotex.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/obsessed-poo-slinging-hack-on-t...
Another
Submitted by virgotex (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 2:53am.
Emailed Edwards already, and below, my second post on the situation, from today:
http://www.virgotex.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/till-then-i-guess-well-just...
and earlier in the week
http://www.virgotex.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/obsessed-poo-slinging-hack-...
My extremely restrained response
Submitted by vmarinelli on 8 February 2007 - 5:31am.
Damn. Thanks for posting this mother-of-all-roundups.
Well, I didn't send a letter to the Edwards campaign, because by the time I got around to dealing with all this crap, Salon.com had already confirmed that the firings were a done deal.
So I did the next best thing and issued (in the spirit of the free speech for which Amanda was so castigated) a profanity-supplemented blog post subtly titled, Fuck John Edwards.
You know, for whatever it's worth...
Victoria Marinelli
Richmond, Virginia
blog: Vortex(t): Taking out a restraining order against the Muse...
posted two days ago and will do so again today
Submitted by Blue Gal (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 8:19am.
And please remember that Amanda and Melissa are "legitimate" because they are BLOGGERS. Not because they got a job with Edwards.
http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com/2007/02/so-i-guess-brunch-with-obama-is-o...
Is my list bigger than yours?
Submitted by Coturnix (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 8:28am.
I've been updating for the last two days as well:
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/02/amanda_and_shakes_rock.php
And yet another belated response!
Submitted by Lingual X (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 10:15am.
Hi Liza,
Thanks for staying on top of this. The links are great!!! And, I'm excited to see some new blog names I hadn't read before!
I'm a little late, but here's my post:
http://fervidus.typepad.com/lingual_tremors/2007/02/blogilante_just.html
Also, if you have it, can you or someone post how we can send a message of support to Amanda and Melissa?
LX
Here's my story on the affair
Submitted by Joseph (not verified) on 8 February 2007 - 11:11am.
Hughes for America: What bloggergate means for the movement
What I posted
at Edwards' site (http://johnedwards.com/about/contact/form/):
Dropping a line to express my support for your new blogging team.
I do not imagine that you are considering listening to anything but your own good instincts about who should be getting your message out -- certainly not right-wing bloggers -- but I thought I'd write to encourage, well, courage.
Courage! Something the Democratic leadership in this country needs and what the American people expect!