Gee whiz, is Barry already drunk this early in the day? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: > <snip> > Also, could one of you feminists contact Ms. > McEwan and teach her how to flip someone off? > That's such a simple skill that not having > learned it might be perceived by the public > as reflecting badly on the angry, anti-Obama > polemic on her blog site "Moonbattery" > (example below, a rare one in which she > actually uses Obama's name...usually she makes > up names for him.) A quick scan of the site > reveals hardly a single blogpost that doesn't > denigrate Obama.
Melissa McEwan's blog is the award-winning group blog called Shakesville. She's an Obama fan, with the standard lefty reservations. In her posts you'll find both praise and criticism of Obama. She always refers to him as "Obama." Moonbattery is the blog of a right-winger by the name of Van Helsing. The post Barry goes on to quote as McEwan's is actually by Van Helsing, a thoroughgoing Obama hater. Barry Googled McEwan and found on Moonbattery the photo he reproduces here. It illustrates a post by Van Helsing excoriating McEwan for objecting to McCain's announcement of his choice of Sarah Palin too soon after Obama's official victory in the primaries. And somehow Barry figured that since there was a photo of McEwan on the blog, it must be McEwan's blog--even though the post with the photo is as clear as can be that the blogger is *quoting* McEwan from her blog, Shakesville, and that he's extremely unhappy with what he's quoting. Also, regarding that photo, Barry writes: > Correcting Raunchy's oversight in not providing > a photo of the feminist being quoted as data for > our ongoing study on whether or not the feminists > in question are "homely" or not, I rectify the > situation: First, this is actually *Barry's* ongoing study. Raunchy has no interest in whether feminists are or are not homely. Second, Barry seems to have forgotten that the claim he is so hot to prove was made about feminist *scholars*, those who work in academia, not feminists in general. McEwan isn't an academic. Third, in Googling for a photo of McEwan, he deliberately picked the most unflattering one he could find. Here's her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/melissa.mcewan Whatever one thinks of McEwan's appearance, unlike Barry, she's in a long-term relationship. Her partner is a Scotsman (she writes occasional hilarious posts about her conversations with him in which she reproduces his burr). McEwan writes about feminism and politics for a living, including columns for The Guardian. She's a *much* better and vastly more thoughtful (as well as funnier) writer than Barry, in terms both of style and of content. Other than the fact that she's a <spit> feminist, and that Barry finds no criticism whatsoever of Obama--especially from a <spit> woman--acceptable, McEwan ironically has a great deal in common with Barry politically (although she's vastly better informed, and, as noted, more thoughtful and wittier). Finally, Barry would probably be surprised to learn that McEwan didn't support Hillary in the primaries. She didn't support Obama, either. Her candidate was John Edwards (and thereby hangs quite a tale, which I won't go into here; if you're interested, Google McEwan AND Edwards). She *strongly* supported Obama in the general election. Bottom line, the post I'm commenting on is one of Barry's most spectacular mess-ups to date. As we've seen many times before, his rage and anxiety to find a way to diss Raunchy, me, and feminists (and TMers) in general (quite possibly with an assist from alcohol) disastrously impairs his reading comprehension. But he won't acknowledge the blunders in the post I'm responding to, of course. If he comments at all on what I've pointed out, he'll pick out something minor and make a smartass crack in hopes of distracting attention from how badly he came a-cropper. What a guy, huh?
