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• Saturday, February 17, 2007 08:37 PM

  A slide, into a dark pandora's box

  The good, the bad and the UGLY - of the Internet Age, Alternative Net News, the growing blogosphere that is now so ubiquitous, and free for all political campaigns where civility and fairness are tossed out the window.

  For the most part I enjoy and am entertained, enlightened or shown another view by sites such as Salon. I've been a political and current affairs student for years and generally view the internet news age as something GOOD.

  Moral Highway guides though, be they religious leaders, politicians, govt. officials or parroting political pundits, that non-stop heap misinformation, malcontent and partisan spin are BAD, for the spirit of our diverse democratic country.

  And then the UGLY of it all, is that veritable slide that so many in the media and blogosphere have taken to as it relates to manners and civility. Vanity, vulgarity, rudeness, sexual innuendo - using religious christian metaphors and reference to human sexual acts - and yet the authors caught in the act, report either humor, or light hearted fancy are at play; rarely is there accountability or thought of consequence.

  I'm a supporter of Edwards and Robertson. I'm tired of the Clinton legacy and am not connected to Obama. When Ms. Marcotte said I will - work for the campaign - she should have known that her every act and word - be it public or private - and be it for the campaign or her private blog- would be subject to scrutiny. Her mannerism and style would reflect on the candidate and his imagery.

  Amazing to me that the supposed shield of (female) gender, feminism, youth

  and loose lips assunder, release Ms. Marcotte from the slightest hint of recklessness or negligence in her own commentary. It may not be fair, but it's not so suprising that the right wing and religious zealots set off on a witch hunt against the likes of Marcotte. Yes, she's the one that initiated her private slide into the dark pandoras box she seems to be trapped in. Marcotte and (Chris Hitchens?) - Queen and King at the upcomming political pandoras ball.

  All hail to the tortured political tirades those of us in this country get to see in the next year and a half as the presidential races grind on. If Ewards slides, Marcotte will be nothing be a small footnote at years end. If he sustains though and lands atop the Democratic side, Marcotte on the outside, looking in, can wonder, what might have been had she stayed "a more civil course in her very abbreviated campaign.

  —slewis
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