Left-wing blogger Amanda Marcotte of the vociferously anti-war web site Pandagon has been named by the John Edwards campaign as their new blogmaster. Ms. Marcotte will be taking up residence in Chapel Hill in the near future, and says “[the Edwards] campaign also excited my interests, because we have the goal of making the most out of the untapped resource that is the internet. Already this blog has more interactivity and genuinely interesting and issues-oriented content than any other campaign site I’ve seen thus far, and with the new staff we’re bringing together, we will be able to take it much further in that direction. Internet organizing is still in its infancy as far as I’m concerned and I expect that the presidential election of 2008 will be a major factor in taking internet political organizing to the next level. Of course I want to be a part of that!”
The extent of Ms. Marcotte’s responsibilities at the Edwards site, and the nature of the political operations she will be undertaking as a member of the Edwards campaign, have not yet been detailed publicly.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback[…] Feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte has just been named ‘Blogger-in-Chief’ for the John Edwards campaign. (Marcotte, you may recall, is very critical of the men’s movement, and recently labeled my column Men Blamed for Marriage Decline but Women’s Relationship Wounds Often Self-Inflicted, Chicago Tribune, 1/21/07, “hateful”). […]
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[…] Now he hires Amanda Marcotte as his blogmaster: Ms. Marcotte will be taking up residence in Chapel Hill in the near future, and says “[the Edwards] campaign also excited my interests, because we have the goal of making the most out of the untapped resource that is the internet. Already this blog has more interactivity and genuinely interesting and issues-oriented content than any other campaign site I’ve seen thus far, and with the new staff we’re bringing together, we will be able to take it much further in that direction. Internet organizing is still in its infancy as far as I’m concerned and I expect that the presidential election of 2008 will be a major factor in taking internet political organizing to the next level. Of course I want to be a part of that!” […]
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[…] Last week I wrote about feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte being named ‘Blogger-in-Chief’ for the John Edwards campaign. Though Marcotte has been very critical of the men’s movement (and of yours truly), I think she is a talented writer, and I like her personally. But Marcotte is a foul-mouthed radical feminist, which is an odd blogger-in-chief for a presidential candidate. I predicted that she would be a “fodder-rich target for Edwards’ enemies.” This has now begun. […]
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