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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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  • Friday, February 16, 2007 12:41 AM

    Priceless

    This was too funny. Apparently, the troll traffic is way up over at pandagon, so marcotte put up a post explaining why she bans trolls.

    She explains, with no apparent irony, that:

    "The internet is not all that different from real life. You know what getting tossed out of public places for assholery and groping women is like."

    Ostensibly oblivious to the fact that her own Internet blog just failed miserably under the scrutiny of real life and that she herself was tossed out of a public campaign due to assholery! Simply adorable.

    http://pandagon.net/2007/02/15/to-steal-roxannes-long-ago-post/#comments

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