also establish herself as a modern day Eleanor Roosevelt at a time when women are desperate for leadership.

Wow. History is so devoid of examples of female leadership Sissykind has to reach all the way back to E. Roosevelt. No wonder the ladies are so desperate.

Given Siskind’s totally ineffectual “activism”, I’d say Coakley probably doesn’t give a shit what she says.

Amy’s concept of Feminist Activism is to set fire to a bag lady, point at the nearest man, yell “He did this to us, and here’s my Paypal membership sign-up URL for The New Agenda.”

By all means, Coakley should listen to Amy, oppose HCR and lose the election. Then Amy can complain about how the Patriarchy destroys female candidates, and what a woman-hating prick Scott Brown is.

Victory through suicide! Oppress yourself so men can’t!

I’m really looking forward to watching Siskind tie herself in knots trying to explain why backing Huckabee or Romney or Pawlenty is the right feminist move, if one of those gents beats Palin for the GOP nomination in 2012.  You know she’ll say that, even after singing the praises of Palin all through primary season.  She won’t care that her goddess was beaten, she won’t care that a man beat her, she won’t care that the victorious man opposes everything one could define as feminism (unlike Obama).  If that happens, her work is going to be a better gymnastics exhibition than anything at the Summer Olympics.

Does Amy Siskind get paid for her HuffPo columns? I can’t imagine that she does, but does someone more knowledgeable in blog-o-nomics have any clue?

Gimmieabreak, I’m looking at you here.

Lord, I hope not, RubberNecker. She’s the most godawful hack of a writer in addition to being an absurd PUMA tool. (It’s SHOO-IN, goddamnit, not “shoe in”!)

Does Amy Siskind get paid for her HuffPo columns? I can’t imagine that she does, but does someone more knowledgeable in blog-o-nomics have any clue?

Very few of the writers at HuffPo get paid outside of staff members (Sam Stein, etc.). I guarantee Siskind doesn’t, but she may very well get paid by the Daily Beast.

I concur with KK.  HuffPo does not pay except for Stein, Linkins, etc.  I’m 99% sure that the Daily Beast pays.

That’s what I figured. That column was just so weak that it felt like she was on a deadline and spit out whatever contrarianist crap she could think of first.

What if everything you think you know about politics and feminism is wrong!? Look at this independent blogger Texas Darlin! What if paste is a healthy and delicious alternative to food!?

The PUMAs, like the teabaggers, don’t have any identifiable ideology except being anti-Obama.  Together they blend into the ever present, irritating background noise.

The PUbagger Movement is to politics what dark matter is to the universe; we know it’s there but we don’t know what it’s good for.

Betty, we have a twofer: Siskind’s usual dishonest linking has Ellen Malcolm stepping down “seemingly in disgust.”

In case it never makes it past moderation, I dropped a turd on Siskins piece of shit:

I could not stop laughing when I saw this from Siskind:

“Independent bloggers who oppose health care reform see MA Republican candidate Scott Brown as their best hope to shoot it down.”

The link on “Independent bloggers” goes to one “Texas Darlin” who’s blog was ground zero for the BIRTHER movement.  Ms. Darlin’ had to shutter her blog once when her “forensic document expert”, TECHDUDE, was discredited from one end of earth to the other (even by other birfers) on his pronouncements regarding Obama’s birth certificate.

So yes, ladies, in addition the rest of the usual Siskind tripe in this article, please take wisdom from birther, PUMA and hate blogs noted by the author.  Please also note the “Open Letter” to Obama from Republican Congresswomen was from, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Sue Myrick, Rep. Candice Miller, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Kay Granger, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Mary Bono Mack, & Rep. Lynn Jenkins.

I know that I’ll surely take the lead from Texas Darlin’ and and Michele Bachmann.  Won’t you?

Arianna, lose this hack, please!

Great comment, Gimme, which is why I’ll be shocked if it ever leaves moderation. I’m not sure how moderation works at HuffPo, but Siskind’s amen sistahs are allowed to shit all over her detractors in the most personal, nonsensical manner imaginable whereas I can post on any HuffPo thread except Siskind’s, no matter how politely, logically and non-profanely I frame my responses to her posts. If she doesn’t moderate directly, she must be allowed certain preemptive strikes, I guess.

gimme, it’s not there yet. It’s a shame Huffpo readers won’t be reliving the exquisitely amusing defrocking of TECHDUDE! Now that would be worth reliving.

I’ve sometimes had luck on Amy’s threads, sometimes not. She definitely has some say, but either she has to go to sleep sometime, or else there’s a limit to how much she can cancel.

If you ever find yourself in the same bar as a Huffpo regular (Jason Linkins? Wouldn’t that be fun?), you might ask if he/she knows what goes on in there.

I also left a comment:

“Go again for a stronger bill?” With the massive influx of progressives into Congress once Ms. Siskind and Ms. Hamsher get the traitors like Bernie Sanders who voted for the bill thrown out of office?

Ms. Siskind’s “independent bloggers” are the usual suspects who have not gotten past the 2008 primaries, including the place where she cross-posts, an appalling, r.acist site called “No Quarter,” home of the “Whitey Tape” smear against Michelle Obama. The healthcare bill is simply the latest in for Siskind, whose citation of a letter written by rabid anti-choicers like Michelle Bachmann should tell you that she actually isn’t doing this out of a concern for reproductive choice.

Her link concerning Ellen Malcolm’s “seeming” intent is also questionable; it leads to a highly interpretive, to put it as charitably as possible, post by Grover Norquist’s new BFF, Jane Hamsher, who spins a straightforward WaPo article about Malcolm into a small pile of ordure which is hardly enough to fertilize either Siskind’s or Hamsher’s contentions.

Brava, Mrs. P! The ordure metaphor alone warrants inclusion, and I’d think so even if I didn’t agree 100%.

Thanks, Betty, but after I typed that I realized that both Hamquist and Siskind’s contentions tend to be self-fertilizing.

There are only about 9 comments at Siskind’s heap of drivel right now—and at least two of them are from her Official Fluffer, DumbDumbDora.

Glix summed it up so perfectly, it bears repeating:

The PUMAs, like the teabaggers, don’t have any identifiable ideology except being anti-Obama.  Together they blend into the ever present, irritating background noise.

The PUbagger Movement is to politics what dark matter is to the universe; we know it’s there but we don’t know what it’s good for.

ALSO:

I think more of you should also post your comments directly to Arianna. 

For one, you might get a better chance of them actually being posted and two, you have a better chance of getting PUMA-stink Siskind shit-canned from the site if enough disgust and outrage is directed to Arianna’s attention.

I don’t think my comment will survive either:

R*publican ratf*cking wh*re.

I did obscure all the obscenities.

Allan, you’re just too damn subtle.

Hey TS, I just wanted to say thanks for posting that link to Comedy.com’s HuffPo parody. Glad you liked it!

mee-ouch! jealous much, dear?

I’m sure that someday somebody will take you seriously enough to publish your insights. Logrolling doesn’t count!

Oh, and don’t you fret about Ms Coakley’s good sense. After all, she wasn’t pwned in ‘08

Just sandwiching myself in here between Useless Walmart Trollbot theone/godisayankeefan 2.0’s first attempt at a troll and the next - quite possibly identical - one.

Troll Power Tip: Try waiting a day or so before tagging on to the end of a thread with some random comment you think is smart but makes you look like an utter arse, godisayankeefan.

What if paste is a healthy and delicious alternative to food!?

Your cruel mockery of Ralph Wiggum will come back to haunt you!

Does the defective Walmart troll imagine that I’m jealous of Siskind? Really? Siskind?!? If I were going to choose someone to envy, I can assure you it would not be a bitter, hackish, obscure, whining PUMA failbot like Siskind. I’d pick someone cool, smart and funny—an actual feminist like Katha Pollitt, maybe. At any rate, someone capable of inspiring more competent trolls.

gyf has discovered your deepest desire, Betty. You may as well confess.

You hate yourself for being able to construct coherent arguments. You cringe at your well-constructed sentences, you shudder each time you see that once again your nouns and verbs agree. Late at night you clutch your tear stained pillow and wonder why you lack the talent to leave the English language bloodied and twitching when you’re through with it.

Go on. Let it all out. You think it’s so unfair that Amy can’t bash two sentences together without sounding like a boring drunk half-way through his third bottle of MD 20/20. While no matter how hard you try, sane people find you witty and engaging (have another tissue, dear). You know you’ll never ever ever achieve the dull, disconnected style that drops, like lumps of lead, from Siskind’s fingertips, where it will be licked clean by PUMAs and cradled in the soft downy embrace of HuffGlue’s strictly moderated blog.

There, there Betty. There, there.