Your Liberal Media

Even I’m amazed with what passes for a controversy these days.

As Red aptly noted, John Edwards recently hired feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte to run his campaign blog. Awesome, I thought. Amanda might be the best liberal writer on the internet, particularly when it comes to things like a woman’s right to not be a baby incubator, and keeping Christo-fascists out of our private lives in general. ‘Manda is swell.

Well, leave it to right-wing bloggers, et al. to throw a tantrum over nothing at all, and leave it to Your Liberal Media to let on like the whole world actually gives a shit.

Online Shit-Stirrer-in-Chief happened to be Michelle Malkin — Oberlin grad and author of — and I’m not making this up — In Defense of Internment, the very definition of irony, since she herself is the daughter of Filipino immigrants.

Malkin was even once de-blogrolled by Don Surber, if that gives you an idea of her tendency towards utter looniness.

And leave it to Your Liberal Media to use this non-event as an excuse to continue to give voice to uber-hack William Donohue — noted gay basher, Jew hater, and President of the (so-called) Catholic League. William Donohue, from whom my favorite quote might be that the Church’s sexual abuse scandal was a “homosexual scandal, not a pedophilia scandal.”

Yet they parade this bigot around like he’s some sort of voice of reason, if not the very voice of the American Catholic. Never mind the fact that (despite its name) the Catholic League is an extreme right wing political organization known mainly for using the guise of bigotry to promote its own. Its membership represents a whopping total of 0.5% of America’s Catholics. Yawn.

But whatever. Your Liberal Media keeps this fascist clown on speed dial.

We’ve yet to see what the Edwards camp will do. I hope they realize though, that if they cave to the wishes of these guys, it’s unlikely that they’ll stop until Edwards turns his campaign blog into what amounts to William Donohue’s own MySpace page.