Edwards Fires Two bloggers At Urging Of Bill Donohue

    Well it looks as if John Edwards has fired the two bloggers that a Catholic group did not like because of their postings about some of the group's views and meddling.

   According to Salon:

The bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, formerly of Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, of Shakespeare's Sister, had come under fire from right-wing bloggers for statements they had previously made on their respective blogs. A statement by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, which called Marcotte and McEwan "anti-Catholic vulgar trash-talking bigots," and an accompanying article on the controversy in the New York Times this morning, put extra pressure on the campaign.

Speculation from sources that the two bloggers might be rehired was bolstered by Jennifer Palmieri, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, who said in an e-mail that she would "caution [Salon] against reporting that they have been fired. We will have something to say later."

   I do not see Edwards as ever being the President of the United States because he cannot get his priorities right!

    Bill Donohue isn't a stranger to making lousy public comments himself.

Joan Osborne

In 1996, Donohue took issue with singer Joan Osborne over her song "One of Us", which explores the question of what it would be like if God were a normal person. Donohue questioned the point of the song when viewed in light of her own activism. "It is no wonder that Joan Osborne instructs her fans to donate their time and money to Planned Parenthood. It is of a piece with her politics and her prejudices. Her songs and videos offer a curious mix of both, the effect of which is to dance awfully close to the line of Catholic baiting. If even her admirers see something of the sacrilegious in her work, it is hard to maintain that Osborne doesn't have an agenda. It is our hope that she doesn't let her sentiments regarding Catholicism get in the way of whatever artistic abilities she has."

Marilyn Manson

In 2000, Donohue claimed that heavy metal singer Marilyn Manson hated Christianity, including Catholicism. Donohue said, "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war with Christ."

Marilyn Manson then responded to Donohue's claim by saying, "I can't possibly be at war with Christ, because your religion killed him and what he stood for. But if you want to be at war with me, bring it on."

On Scarborough Country on February 9, 2006, while commenting on why mainstream American actors like Billy Zane and Gary Busey would star in an anti-American and anti-Semitic film like Valley of the Wolves Iraq, he went further, proclaiming, "Well, look, there are people in Hollywood, not all of them, but there are some people who are nothing more than harlots. They will do anything for the buck. They wouldn't care. If you asked them to sodomize their own mother in a movie, they would do so, and they would do it with a smile on their face."    All from Wikipedia

   So these bloggers are toast over something that they wrote that offended Mr. Donohue. So much for free speech and having an opinion, right?

  Bill Donohue:The most common argument that Donohue receives when he is battling the art community is that all of these artists are protected by freedom of speech. The way to respond to that, said Donohue, is to remind them that freedom of speech applies to Catholics too. "Catholics must fight for their right just like Martin Luther King fought for the rights of the blacks. Other groups complain about images portrayed in art and nobody calls them fascist. Nobody criticized Hillary Clinton for condemning the fact that Julia Roberts was smoking in a recent movie."

   I'm not even going to touch that!

    To read more on Bill Donohue and his intimidation tactics and other crap, go here and here.

 

Technorati tags: John Edwards, Bloggers, Bill Donohue

 

 

Impeachment By The People

  You know that I've been calling for Bush's impeachment. I've been telling you to call your Senators and Congressmen to let them know how you feel about it.

   Here's the same take on it from Alternet

Impeachment by the People

By Howard Zinn, AlterNet. Posted February 3, 2007.

But if sanity is to be restored in our national policies, it can only come about by a great popular upheaval, pushing both Republicans and Democrats into compliance with the national will.

The Declaration of Independence, revered as a document but ignored as a guide to action, needs to be read from pulpits and podiums, on street corners and community radio stations throughout the nation. Its words, forgotten for over two centuries, need to become a call to action for the first time since it was read aloud to crowds in the early excited days of the American Revolution: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government."

The time is right, then, for a national campaign calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Representative John Conyers, who held extensive hearings and introduced an impeachment resolution when the Republicans controlled Congress, is now head of the House Judiciary Committee and in a position to fight for such a resolution. He has apparently been silenced by his Democratic colleagues who throw out as nuggets of wisdom the usual political palaver about "realism" (while ignoring the realities staring them in the face) and politics being "the art of the possible" (while setting limits on what is possible).

More

  

Technorati tags: Impeachment, Bush, Cheney, The People