Posted on 12/10/2008 5:50:09 PM PST by CENSEI
December 10, 2008 Categories: Transition
Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.
The Blagojevich questions -- many of them polite and reasonable -- can be found only by searching words in them, like "Blagojevich," which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
"Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will 'serious' campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?" asked Metteyya of Santa Cruz, California.
"This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate," reads the text underneath it.
Also removed as "inappropriate":
"In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?", a question from "lupercal," of Gainesville.
And: "Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama's top aides?", a question from Phil from Pennsylvania.
Community reporting systems like this are often vulnerable to abuse from committed partisans -- YouTube has wrestled with a parallel problem -- and the only solution is conscious efforts to remedy it.
So far, Obama's team does not seem to have stepped in to allow uncomfortable questions to rise to the top, and instead is allowing his supporters to sanitize the site.
I’m....I’m ....shocked.
They are deleting questions no way. I’m shocked
Type “Blagojevich” into the search feature and see what comes up.
http://change.gov/page/content/openforquestions
BTTT
They do the same at wikipedia.
Sterility.
Truth=Kryptonite (to a LibTard)
Gee there's a surprise. The whole thing is a propaganda organ anyway, so what else would one expect?
http://change.gov/page/content/openforquestions
Funny. It is the same results you would get when you search for "Larry Sinclair". They use that "flashy thing" on the websites like in "Men in Black".
“So far, Obama’s team does not seem to have stepped in to allow uncomfortable questions to rise to the top, and instead is allowing his supporters to sanitize the site.
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Its going to be a long four years. I live in Illinois and have seen the local retards ignore all the facts presented to them in the name of being a “multigenerational democrat”. Its always been amazing to me that otherwise rational and (semi)intelligent folks are perpetually duped into thinking that the Illinois political machine is out to serve anyone but themselves.
Believe me, I’ve been trying to reach these people since I was in my mid-twenties. I’m now in my fifties and see no change in the landscape.
Its only a little bit encouraging that our seemingly teflon governor is finally on his way to jail. I’m not hopeful, though, because I know he’ll be replaced by another crook. This is the preferred breeding ground for the political aspirations of our President-elect, even though he was born in ????
I’m stuck here because I’ve always been here and my family won’t leave but my advice to everyone else is to STAY AWAY FROM ILLINOIS. I would gladly sit astride a nuke aimed at Chicago.
I’m going to ask them what the asking price is for the soon to be vacated Governor’s seat....LOL
This is a goldmine!
I encourage EVERY Freeper to register at Change.gov
You can vote against the stupid Leftie questions and you ask embarrassing questions for others to vote on.
I asked “what statute was the “office of the President Elect” created under? Or was it created out of whole cloth just to poke the Constitution in the eye?
This was removed as “inappropriate”
“Over 181,000 people have expressed concern about the validity of the birth certificate you posted on the web. For the sake of the nation will you please provide access to your original long form certificate on file in Hawaii to dispel their concerns?”
See anything “inappropriate” in that?
It was factual, polite and a perfectly reasonable request.
I signed up. I searched “birth certificate” and any questions that weren’t “removed” I voted “yes” for. (Just for giggles!)
I’m going to have fun with this today! I voted “no” to a lot of the questions on the first 3 pages already!
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