The limits of snark
Mocking Maggie Gallagher for her weight is like handing her a stick to beat us with. I bet she loves this sort of thing, from a professional perspective at least. I bet she wishes we’d take this low road in a televised confrontation. It’s an automatic win for her side. It also kills our credibility. Right now we’re trying to reach that undecided 20% of America who just don’t think that much about marriage equality. If I were part of that group and I saw gays insulting Maggie for her weight, I’d figure they had nothing else to offer, nothing of substance anyway. That’s why this is different from mocking our opponents for factual errors, mistakes in logic, and hateful homophobia. That kind of mockery, at least, stays on relevant ground.
(From Andrew Sullivan’s blog at the Daily Beast)
I would never snark at Maggie Gallagher , the ethics-challenged homophobe, former unwed mother and known beauty queen stalker, El Presidente for life of the failed social engineering non-profit National Organization for Marriage (NOM, which may be a front for the Mormon Church), Chimpy’s shills for hire, and the auture of the much-ridiculed Gathering Storm ad, for her weight.
That would be too easy.
(Hat tip: Scissorhead Wagonjak)
sorry andrew
maggie is a dimwitted evil lunatic homophobe
who just happens to have cellulite
It’s probably not her fault that bigotry and hatred are fattening…
Two snaps up!
Former unwed mother? You mean she bred?
Maggie Gallagher is anti choice, against same-sex marriage, opposes the Death with Dignity Act, is against all sex education except Abstinence, and wrote an article supporting Dan Quayle in his controversial stand against the fictional unwed Murphy Brown’s fictional newborn son. So it would appear that the only thing about sex, or result of sex, which Maggie favors is ignorance.
While the woman is no nosegay, once you are aware of her record, Maggie’s physical appearance is her most attractive feature.
She’s just retaining hate.
By Victorian standards, she is not overweight. She just lives in the wrong era!
“The middle part of the country — the great red zone that voted for Bush — is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead — and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”
- Andy Sullivan
In recent times, Andrew Sullivan has changed his position on the Iraq war and described it as a mistake.
That’s nice, Andy. But pardon me for not considering your opinion about anything worth a warm bucket of spit.
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