Media Matters has the gory details:
In 2004, a poster on the conservative website FreeRepublic.com using the pseudonym “Kerry Crusher” — identified on FreeRepublic.com as blogger Patrick Hynes — characterized Chelsea Clinton as “hideously ugly.” The comment recalled a “joke” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) reportedly told about Clinton in 1998: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” Hynes was hired by McCain’s Straight Talk America political action committee in 2006. In addition to the Chelsea Clinton smear, “Kerry Crusher” also attacked McCain himself in 2004 as “a contemptable [sic] human being.”
The drumbeat to fire Patrick Hynes is growing louder.
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