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American Thinker Closing Its Comments Section Is a Tragedy and a Warning to Us
Red State.com ^ | January 16, 2021 | streiff

Posted on 01/16/2021 2:34:05 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/16/2021 2:34:05 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

That should draw a lot of traffic to here. I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Watch for trolls.


2 posted on 01/16/2021 2:36:13 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: Kaslin

I am no longer interested in anything they post. Cowards abound


3 posted on 01/16/2021 2:37:43 PM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: Kaslin

Coming to a forum near you. IF you see a newbie posting illegal inciteful stuff here, report it immediately to the moderator. They will be coming here. Watch what you post (because they are).


4 posted on 01/16/2021 2:38:32 PM PST by BipolarBob (USA - Born July 4, 1776. Died Jan. 20, 2021 in the Year of our Covid.)
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To: Kaslin

“Google has barred ZeroHedge from its lucrative ad platform”

Must be why Zerohedge has a premium section now.


5 posted on 01/16/2021 2:38:42 PM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch. Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: P-Marlowe

Get a ham radio receiver that can tune from 3 to 8 Mc and scan around for stations. This will be your last resort to get information.


6 posted on 01/16/2021 2:38:51 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: Kaslin

bookmark


7 posted on 01/16/2021 2:38:58 PM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Kaslin

All anybody does is retreat before the left. Retreat retreat retreat...the new American way.


8 posted on 01/16/2021 2:39:35 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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...the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) trolled the comments sections of those two sites to find allegedly racist comments about BLM and the George Floyd demonstrations.

Yeah, probly comments posted by CCDH itself.

9 posted on 01/16/2021 2:40:25 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: Kaslin

Could be a ++


10 posted on 01/16/2021 2:41:28 PM PST by PGalt
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To: TalBlack

All anybody does is retreat before the left. Retreat retreat retreat...the new American way.

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The Republican Party not only retreats, it enables this kind of oppression. One of our biggest problems is that we have no political party representing us.


11 posted on 01/16/2021 2:45:05 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

The obvious thing to do is write “letters to the editor”, like we used to do. If it’s done by email, then at first it is sent to the general email box. But if it is thoughtful and intelligent, the writer is rewarded with a different, better email address.

And if the email is really good, follow up articles with a “commentary” section, without naming the author.


12 posted on 01/16/2021 2:45:38 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: TalBlack

We need to be like sharks. Always moving forward.


13 posted on 01/16/2021 2:45:48 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Kaslin

Most if not all major newspapers did this a while back

Hartford Courant and others proclaimed today they will no longer display “MugShots” due to racial inequality although the perps names are dead give aways,those will be omitted next

All BS


14 posted on 01/16/2021 2:45:50 PM PST by Bell Bouy II
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To: Highest Authority

Where from? Do we need a license?


15 posted on 01/16/2021 2:48:02 PM PST by madison10 (Democracy dies in darkness.)
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To: dforest
I am no longer interested in anything they post. Cowards abound

90% of the news sources and their articles posted here don't have a comments section so why should AT be any different?

Looks like the "don't offend me" crowd is taking over this website.......

16 posted on 01/16/2021 2:53:42 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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I wrote this earlier, that AT is the worst "conservative" alternative to the MSM, though it battles GP for that prize on a daily basis. Between factual errors and poor editing, I've seen better from college newspapers.

Even in Ms Widburgh's article on the comment-closure, she was pretty arrogant:

Second, it’s lovely that many of you came here for the conversation in the comments. To have the comments abruptly turned off was the equivalent of our breaking up your party, the great party at which all the guests were interesting and delightful. We appreciate what an unpleasant shock and disappointment that was, and we hate to be the mean parent who broke up the party but, again, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. (emphasis added)

Huh? What? Who died and made you the Arbiter of All That is Mature?

That said, I am not in favor of the Witch Hunt going on. I'd have preferred for the Invisible Hand to have handled AT vs Dementia Joe's retinue.

17 posted on 01/16/2021 2:55:43 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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IMDB likely had largest forum or comments I’ve ever seen

They quit when conservatives started being heard

Like wow conservatives like to talk about movies too

They hated that

They like uniformity


18 posted on 01/16/2021 2:56:14 PM PST by wardaddy ( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: dforest

By strong>They</strong> who are you talking about? No one forces you to read what you don’t want to read. I don’t read what does not interest me.


19 posted on 01/16/2021 2:56:30 PM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

Oy vey!


20 posted on 01/16/2021 2:58:39 PM PST by NetAddicted (OwJust looking)
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