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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
By Amanda Marcotte

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  • Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:44 PM

    "Molly Ivins was kind of a hack. 3rd-rate verbal ability mixed with boiled over knee-jerk leftisms."

    I always wondered what the whole love affair with Ivins was about too. I guess I'm just not that impressed with people who possess no other rhetorical weapon than snark.

    I remember listening to her on NPR a few years back. I believe it was a Commonwealth Club lunch. Anyway, she's going on and on about how Bush mangles the language- true. In the course of doing so, she must have mangled it 4-5 times herself and every time she did she'd comment something along the lines of "oh, I pulled another dubya!".

    Um, no Molly. You can't speak the language either.

    —No Name Given

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