Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign

During my brief tenure as blogmaster for a Democratic presidential contender, I experienced the right-wing smear machine firsthand

I announced that I was taking the job on Jan. 30, and the same week, I noticed a small flare-up of oddly aggressive and misogynistic comments in my moderation queue over a short, irritated post I wrote about the coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape case on CNN. I assumed that some anti-feminist blogger had linked me and so, in frustration, I went and rewrote my by-then week-old post to mock the commenters by spelling out my views in childish, ... Full Story »

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by Kaizar Campwala - Feb. 16, 2007

This is well written, and worth the read. It's important to get the story from Marcotte's perspective. That being said, she doesn't back up the thrust of her argument- that the campaign against her was part of a larger program of misogynistic smearing of feminists- with anything more than her own anecdotal evidence. That's a strong claim to make without substantive data to back it up.

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