If you see a cringe-inducing comment, you can always hit the Report Abuse button and ask the moderators to review it for possible racism or whatever it is that's making you cringe. They respond reasonably, in my experience, and will remove clearly bad comments. Responding to the person who made the comment telling them that their comments make you cringe and why also helps. Part of the problem here is that I think the moderators simply don't catch everything they might pull if they did read it.
Don’t you find it disturbing that liberal bloggers now have veto power over our threads?
Jim started FR because liberals were using veto powers over his comments.
Common guys and gals, we were upset with all the attacks on Palin when Letterman went after her 14 year old daughter. This is no less gutter than Letterman.
Why put the onus of being respectful on the already respectful users? Keats5 has a great point that should be heeded by all users on this board. There are liberal trolls everywhere willing to copy comments. Even if they get reported and deleted, it will be too late. Spewing bigotry is not only contrary to the concept of liberty for all Americans, it presents liberty minded ideals and unpleasant to the wider American sheeple audience. We can’t let the first impression of us that CNN watching America has be that we are a bunch of bigots. We have to be better than that.