Thursday, January 19, 2006
Lesson to the Media: Don't Tell Liberals the Truth
The left in America wants everyone to believe that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff only gave money to Republicans, because that would allow them to continue on their "culture of corruption" rant inspired by nutjob Howard "Duckie" Dean.
However, when a reporter for The Washington Post deigned to utter the unutterable - that Abramoff actually gave money to Downies as well as Republicans - the leftists on her blog let loose with a stream of insults, personal attacks, and filthy language, all of which got so bad that the blog was shut down.
Free speech in America...leftists want it, unless someone says something they do not like.
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post
Imagine if Republicans used foul language against a reporter who said something the right did not like. Those people would be expelled from posting any comments, and leftists would decry how disgusting those people were. And the MSM would give the story full relish.
The left in America wants everyone to believe that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff only gave money to Republicans, because that would allow them to continue on their "culture of corruption" rant inspired by nutjob Howard "Duckie" Dean.
However, when a reporter for The Washington Post deigned to utter the unutterable - that Abramoff actually gave money to Downies as well as Republicans - the leftists on her blog let loose with a stream of insults, personal attacks, and filthy language, all of which got so bad that the blog was shut down.
Free speech in America...leftists want it, unless someone says something they do not like.
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post
The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.
At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.
In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.
There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it," Brady wrote on the newspaper's Web site. "There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
Imagine if Republicans used foul language against a reporter who said something the right did not like. Those people would be expelled from posting any comments, and leftists would decry how disgusting those people were. And the MSM would give the story full relish.
