A look at John McCain's blogger-consultant

Unclaimed Territory by Glenn Greenwald | Feb. 7, 2007 (Opinion)

Apparently, there is a new standard that any blogger who has made controversial or profane remarks in the past is unsuitable to work for a political campaign. That is the premise of these two articles -- one from The New York Times and another from the Associated Press' Nedra Pickler -- which picks up the latest idiocy from the right-wing blogosphere by claiming (in the case of the Times):

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by Nathan Hamm - Oct. 1, 2008

Greenwald makes a fair point that not just Democratic hires from the blogosphere. However, though he quotes Hynes at length, he fails to do the same with Marcotte and McEwan, simply asserting that Hynes is worse without giving readers the information (nor even a link) to decide themselves. He further avoids fairness by calling Marcotte and McEwan's previous record mere "bad words" and posts that conservatives "claim are offensive" while calling Hynes's comments "vulgar and insulting." Not even a pretense of fairness...