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Home Front: Culture Wars
Unhinged Leftist Blogger Exposes Her Broken Wing
2006-04-15
A right-winger determined to undermine Left-wing bloggers could not have written a better piece. Amazingly, or perhaps not, Leftist blogging crackpot Maryscott O'Connor immolated herself and pretty much the entire far-left blogosphere without any help from the right.
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By David Finkel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 15, 2006; Page A01

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O'Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O'Connor's reputation is as one of the angriest of all. "One long, sustained scream" is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.


Posted by:Lancasters Over Dresden

#14  I recognise her writting--it's Left Angle, and I thought LA was a guy. Damn!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-04-15 22:45  

#13  220 volts, for sure. Switch the dryer to gas, use that line
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-15 21:19  

#12  Sounds like a bored, angry housewife who isn't being satisfied. Suggest something battery powered, possibly plug in.
Posted by: ed   2006-04-15 21:11  

#11  she looks like a 9AM angry drunk, doesn't she?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-15 20:56  

#10  Help! Help! I'm being oppressed in Sherman Oaks!
Posted by: ed   2006-04-15 20:43  

#9  Scary.

Someone needs meds... and lots of them!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-04-15 20:28  

#8  I actually feel sorry for her. Go back on the alcohol honey, at least you will feel better.
Posted by: 2b   2006-04-15 18:47  

#7  My God... I feel sorry for this woman's children.
Posted by: Dave D.   2006-04-15 16:54  

#6  Unhinged Leftist Blogger Exposes Her Broken Wing

...no no no no i don't want to see it!
Posted by: No Mo whormoans   2006-04-15 16:44  

#5  Response junkie.
Posted by: 6   2006-04-15 16:36  

#4  The cigarettes are because of a personality that she describes as compulsive. The nonalcoholic beer is because for several years she drank to excess.

The note that says "Why am I/you here?" is because she is in constant search of an answer.
And the photo album is because of a 25-year-old Marine who died fighting in Vietnam three months before she was born, which she thinks helps explain the note, the alcohol, the cigarettes and the very first piece of writing she ever published online, a rant against the war in Iraq that began, "Every single millisecond of my life was directly affected by the nightmare that was Vietnam."

As for the keyboard, it is where O'Connor finished her evolution from lost soul to angry soul, beginning with that very first rant, which concluded with a wish that Bush, "after contracting incurable cancer and suffering for protracted periods of time without benefit of medication," go to hell.

She wrote it, sent it to Daily Kos, saw it appear online, watched as people responded to it -- and learned something about the effect of being both heartfelt and vicious. "It's impactful," she says. "It gets attention."

check out the photo - Sheehan with an anger control and abuse problem. Think her kids can't wait to get out of the house? A divorce coming soon?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-04-15 16:22  

#3  OK - this is proof that these clowns definitely need their meds adjusted.

What a pathetic oxygen thief loon.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-04-15 16:01  

#2  Its call BDS. Professional help is recommended but usually the first step is to acknowledge it.
Posted by: Sligum Cromogum2349   2006-04-15 15:48  

#1  I'd be pissed off too if my name was "Maryscott".
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-04-15 15:47  

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