White House Cabinet Position Campaign for Kim Gandy

Story here. Excerpt:

'On Sunday, February 8th, I got a series of e-mails alerting me to a blog campaign against a potential candidate to fill the top post at the US Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. Actually, the job wasn't even on my radar. I've been focused on the drama of the stimulus bill.

The candidate in question was the President of the National Organization for Women, Kim Gandy. I had just heard her speak in Washington D.C. about the imperative need to fund 1.6 million women's jobs. In addition, I was aware of her long history as a lawyer, fighting for a woman's right to fair and equal treatment.
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My concern is the tone permeating the anti-Gandy rhetoric. Jonathan Alter of Newsweek
pointed out at a 2008 new media conference that writers on the web, emboldened and sheltered by the cloak of anonymity, present invective posing as commentary and insight.'