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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

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  • Friday, February 16, 2007 01:36 PM

    LeCastor

    Where is your outrage that this case should be in a court at all?! Yes, I misread a portion of an e-mail (not World Net Daily, whatever that is), but look again: a judge has already ruled that similar language is hate speech! This is an appeal of that ruling.

    My point stands: simple, neutral language is being punished because of the totalitarian Left's intolerance of anything that deviates from its orthodoxy.

    So forget that I made a mistake in reading; answer the important issue of what the Left tries to silence anyone who doesn't fit its worldview but whines incessantly when it is criticized back.

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