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Friday, February 16, 2007 12:00 AM

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

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  • Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:24 PM

    "The incident reveals that Donohue's followers are a criminal (it's illegal to make such threats, much less carry them out) bunch of thugs."

    I did see anything in the alleged threats that proves that all or any of them came from Donohue supporters. Donohue may have shined a light on Marcotte's writing and responded to the ones that he felt were specifically anti-Catholic, but there was plenty of vulgar crap there to offend lots of people, Catholic or otherwise.

    As a previous poster pointed out, Marcotte is playing the traditional feminist victim here. On her little immature fairy tale blog she is free to insult anyone with impunity, but when she is criticized she tries to claim that it is only because she's a woman- and that's a bunch of crap.

    Why did Salon feel the need to give her a microphone here?

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