Maryscott O'Connor

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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 on a trumped up charge of copyright violation. She describes her reactions in "My Initial Response to Being Banned By Markos Moulitsas from Daily Kos"

O'Connor is 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 Los Angeles, California.