Maryscott O'Connor

Who is Maryscott O'Connor?

Maryscott O'Connor, aka MSOC is the founder and editor-in-chief of My Left Wing, a weblog focusing on politics, and former Director of Communications of Skysite Communications Corporation,

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 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.

In the June 19, 2007 issue of Mother Jones, an earlier interview she had given to Daniel Schulman about the "Townhouse Affair" was published in an article titled "Meet the New Bosses."