Maryscott O'Connor

Maryscott O'Connor.

Maryscott O'Connor (born April 29, 1968), aka MSOC, is the founder and main author of My Left Wing, a left-wing weblog focusing on progressive, liberal and Democratic Party politics.

Describing herself as "A Radical Leftist Liberal Socialist Commie Feminist Pinko from Hell," O'Connor writes in an intensely passionate style and often draws on incidents from her own life to explain and dramatize her opinions.

She first came to prominence in 2004 as a voluntary contributor to DailyKos, a popular Internet political discussion forum, where her diaries (as voluntary contributions are called on DailyKos) sometimes attracted hundreds of comments at a time when this was unusual on the site. Some of her diaries were promoted to the DailyKos front page. She was banned from posting at DailyKos in April 2007 over a hotly disputed charge of copyright violation; O'Connor re-posted another user's diary, which used what was described by Daily Kos management as excessive quotation from outside source material. O'Connor then purchased the rights to the material in order to bypass the problem, but management had the excuse it needed to ban her; she describes her side of the story in "My Initial Response to Being Banned By Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos"

In the June 19, 2007 issue of Mother Jones, an earlier interview she had given to "Daniel Shulman" about the "Townhouse Affair" was published in an article titled "Meet the New Bosses." The publishing of the article resulted in her being banned from the Townhouse group -- since disbanded.

O'Connor was a regularly featured guest on The John Gibson Show, a talk-radio program syndicated by Fox News, and has appeared on Gibson's Fox News television show, The Big Story. In April 2006 she was the subject of a front-page feature article in the Washington Post, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel.

O'Connor presently lives in Traverse City, Michigan, where she moved in summer of 2010 with her husband and son after living in Los Angeles since 1996.

References

• The Left, Online and Outraged Washington Post, April 2006.
• Diaries and stories on DailyKos.com by Maryscott O'Connor
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External links

• My Left Wing
• Autobiography

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