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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
By Amanda Marcotte

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  • Friday, February 16, 2007 07:10 AM

    Why fight to make venomous, crude language the norm?

    There are perfectly civil ways of expressing pro-choice views, feminist takes on contraceptive issues, and other feminist positions in general. Had Marcotte taken that path there would have been no real fault for Donahue to latch onto. (Not that this would have necessarily stopped him from trying, admittedly, but it would have gotten no traction.)

    The blogosphere doesn't have to be all prim and proper, but nor should we normalize vulgarity in the name of being "raucous and common".

    —danguyf Read danguyf's other letters

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