The Power of Women Bloggers
Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 09:01PM I was surprised when Silke of HooahWife pointed out I received the Malkin Award (i.e., hyper-partisan conservative citation) at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish.
I proudly accept this award and want to thank all the liberals in my life who’ve shown me the error of their ways.
I also want to thank Catherine Morgan, founder of Informed Voters, who is a liberal and listed me as one of the top 100 250 275 Women Political Bloggers, which was mentioned on Huffington Post.
Thanks to Grizzly Groundswell for putting me #2 on her Power of Women Bloggers list. Thanks to Ft. Hard Knox and Conservative with a Heart for doing the same.
Feel free to list your favorite women bloggers in the comment section.
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Reader Comments (12)
Amy, congratulations…I guess.
To be honest I see Sullivan’s point. The partisan rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum has reached a point where a majority of comments on many blogs are just people trading insults back and forth. It’s sad and it solves nothing.
My favorite woman blogger is Greta at:
http://www.kissmygumbo.com/
Is Greta not with HooahWife anymore?
I think saying my comment solves nothing is like saying Rush Limbaugh solves nothing. To the contrary; he unifies and validates people who believe as he does, and apparently there are a lot who agree.
I'd also say my freedom of speech contributes to the Democratic process.
Amy:
Thanks for helping spread the word. It is kind of exciting to see how many of us women are out there talking about politics, rather than cross-stitch or whatever (not that there is anything wrong with that ;-)).
Yes, Greta is still with HooahWife, but she has another blog too.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with this. Of course you have a right to say whatever you like. I would never dispute that. I am simply wondering why either side needs to make it so personal and so nasty? The minute the name-calling starts all reasonable dialogue ends. If we are really trying to persuade someone then we shouldn’t resort to insults. In the end it is counterproductive. I disagree with your comment about liberals, Amy, and the unfortunate thing is that it distracts from the rest of your argument – much of which I agree with.
As an Army wife, I am offended by this perception that U.S. soldiers are torturing terrorists at Gitmo. Democrats have been hammering the "shut down Gitmo" campaign for years. The truth is that the troops tolerate a tremendous amount of violence from these inmates. If they must take away toilet paper as a punishment, how can that possibly be considered "incredible petty cruelty and dehumanizing" is ABSURD. The detainees that act like animals must be handled in such a way as to set the standard for who is in authority, and it ain't the detainees. Yet they are treated in a very humane and comfortable way.
So my point was that if these liberals lobbying for more comfortable positions for detainees are this out of touch with reality that they are willing to continue an erroneous war of words against Gitmo policy, America might be safer with a swap. It was tongue in cheek but also laced with frustration at the stupidity of leftists who hurt my morale as an Army wife.
That’s the argument you should have made, Amy. And it’s one I wish Andrew Sullivan could see now. Obviously Jennifer Daskal’s statement affected you. I think it makes the point perfectly…words matter.
Congrats!!!!!!!!! LOL
Woohoo! Congrats :)
Amy,
My sense of you is that Andrew Sullivan was too kind in labeling you.
You are among the legion of cynical morons in this country who, quite obviously, has never understood Jesus's command to separate God and Caesar.
Like it or not, ours is a pluralistic and multicultural country. And when you try to use the blunt instrument of law and politics to impose your articles of faith upon others, what you get is the inevitable backlash. In this context, it is not hard to understand the respective arguments of, say, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens.
How Christlike is it to call a Christian woman a moron?
What's there to understand? To insinuate a separation of God and Caesar is to be completely ignorant of Jesus' Father. A brief stroll through the Torah might clear things up.
I'm not sure what your point is about Caesar and God... that was a trap set by the Pharisees and Jesus advocated paying taxes. So your point?
Many congratulations, Amy!
I would not take Ted's rude comments seriously. Folks like him are the paranoid sort who see theocrats under every bed and who rail against imaginary "Christianist" conspiracies. Recent history has shown us that their idea of "pluralism" and "multiculturalism" is to have everyone agree with them 100%.
Sorry to post again so quickly, but there is a article by Mark Steyn that makes an excellent point about Church-State relations. The danger in America would seem to be not a Church-controlled State, but a State-controlled Church. The possibility of the former exists largely in the fevered imaginations of folks like Ted, while the latter is already a sad reality in Europe.