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Washington Post shuts down blog
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| January 19, 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/20/2006 5:11:48 AM PST by seanmerc
Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post Jan 19 7:28 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON
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."
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: abramoff; blog; deborahhowell; hypocrisy; liberal; washingtonpost; weblogs; wp
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I've always said that the best thing you can do with the Washington Post (or the New York Times) is line the bottom of the birdcage with it.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:11:50 AM PST
by
seanmerc
To: seanmerc
OOPS, nothing like a bit of truth to spin up the moonbats.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:14:40 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: seanmerc
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.
Proving once again that liberals are so delusional they can't handle the truth.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:14:57 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: seanmerc
Speaking truth to cowards. Once again the Left demonstrates just how little separates their behavior from that of the Hitler Youth.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:18:10 AM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Is there a satire god who created Al Gore for the sole purpose of making us laugh?)
To: seanmerc
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,****************
It sounds as though they were bombarded by posts from the denizens of DU.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:19:18 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: seanmerc
There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech.Well that strips every last weapon from the arsenal of the left.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:21:35 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
You forgot the spitballs.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:23:03 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: seanmerc
In before the moderator delete.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:24:09 AM PST
by
G.Mason
To: seanmerc
There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff,"
NBD..after all, it's just Democrats being Democrats.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:29:55 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: seanmerc
"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers,Maybe you need some "healthy" readers...
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:30:43 AM PST
by
Onelifetogive
(* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
"There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
More of the same.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:31:41 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
To: seanmerc
It's funny to watch libbies. They're like little insects. You poke their insect hill with a stick and they run around really fast and insane-like, and eventually settle down, and then you poke them again.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:34:05 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(Longhorns+January=Rose Bowl Repeat)
To: dead
"Well that strips every last weapon from the arsenal of the left."ROFL!!!!
Simpsons mafia guy: "It's funny, because it's true."
To: seanmerc
"There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
hmm, to hear the dims talk, the left is incapable of hate speech.
I guess they lied about that...
too.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:38:42 AM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
To: Flightdeck
ROTFL
You know, that's the most accurate visual description I have yet heard to adequately describe those brain dead morons.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:40:08 AM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
To: Flightdeck
Shame. It is so frequent that most citizens and the LSM,at best, seem to be so apathetic when a round of Napalm of Truth hits the Left's Hill. If on the Pub's, and a serious screw-up, the little insects flock insanely fast to 'feed up' on the decay to gorge, laugh and belch. If there is such a a thing as conservation of law of energy in nature; (which there is) seems to have me befuzzled as to why society as a whole in general doesn't seem to react in like manner. Guess politics, the Left, society, both domestic and globally, operate on different time scales and physical dimensions.
I say if a person is a true conservative, then to 'keep-a-pokin' is a duty...otherwise the truth never gets out. Like I read somewhere else on FR"
"Opinion is somewhere between the truth and ignorance."
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:52:38 AM PST
by
RSmithOpt
(Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
To: seanmerc
>>>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. >>>
Yep, those DUers that the media takes so seriously. Is THIS really the group you want to be associated with MSM?
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:54:58 AM PST
by
sandbar
(when)
To: Tijeras_Slim
"There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."
The bitter pill of truth is an antidote for Democrats' "lie and deny". However, there is no cure for their tantrums and hate speech. They have no sense of what they are!
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:55:06 AM PST
by
purpleland
(Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
To: DustyMoment
>>>Proving once again that liberals are so delusional they can't handle the truth.>>>
Reminds me of the witch in the Wizard of Oz, squealing while water is poured on her.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:57:31 AM PST
by
sandbar
(when)
To: RSmithOpt
I think it has something to do with underdeveloped brain stems. Like babies born addicted to crack, many mothers "used" the drug of laziness and dependence which affected the in-utero development similarly. Tragic, really.
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posted on
01/20/2006 5:59:29 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(Longhorns+January=Rose Bowl Repeat)
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