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
I announced that I was taking the job on Jan. 30, and the same week, I noticed a small flare-up of oddly aggressive and misogynistic comments in my moderation queue over a short, irritated post I wrote about the coverage of the Duke lacrosse rape case on CNN. I assumed that some anti-feminist blogger had linked me and so, in frustration, I went and rewrote my by-then week-old post to mock the commenters by spelling out my views in childish, ... Full Story »
Posted by Aldon Hynes
