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Originally Posted by Bababooyee

I'm talking about Marcotte, specifically. Her critques, comments and writings go well beyond stuff happening only in the USA. For example, while she is very fond of wailing about the Catholic church being "misogynist", she is quite silent wrt similar or worse things in Islam. That, my friend, is borne from cowardice and/or bigotry.

As for Donahue. I don't know about him and could really care less. His involvement came long after Marcotte said what she did and long after her trying to cover it up. Simply because he got in front of the media on this doesn't make what she said any less offensive and doesn't make her any less of a coward or bigot.



For some reason, I just don't see it catching on...but I'll try.

B, Donohue has been in front of the media long before this mess- click on the mediamatters link and you'll see he's a regular on Scarborough, Hardball, etc. He reaches far, far more people than Marcotte and the other woman put together, and the stuff he spouts is pretty awful. Read the quotes. Just because you don't care to know about the guy doesn't mean you shouldn't- if you're going to discuss him, know what he's saying.

The Catholic Church has considerably more power in the US than any Islamic organization. Why is it cowardly for her to focus on the big gun and not the peashooter? If anything, it takes less courage to lambast (lambaste?) Islam here, since oodles of your average Americans are perfectly happy to fling around the term "towelhead." I've seen it on this forum. But they aren't so likely to yell "Papist" at a Catholic these days. (Though I have a Floridian friend who makes no bones about the fact that she thinks Catholics are going to Hell. She's Presbyterian, I think.)

(For the record, I think both the Catholic Church and Islam are pretty backward in their views on women and am perfectly happy to see either one taken to task for it.)