“That article has 123,706 comments on Yahoo. I wonder what the record is.”
The comments have been attached to several economic stories for the past couple of weeks, that is why the count is so high. However, if you look at the Newest First you will see that over 90% of these new comments really are negative against Obama and the democrats...rather uplifting really.
So that was why they were so high. I thought that maybe this was a reprint of an article elsewhere, and they had collected comments on other sites. 123k in a few hours seemed rather ridiculous.
All of the articles on “unexpected” economic conditions seem to have been following the same trend — people seem far less willing to blindly accept the official spin.
I have also noticed that on the feral “youths” articles that the comments have been far less “tolerant” of “diversity” than I would have expected. Maybe something is changing (other than the fact that writing in English now requires the generous use of air-quotes).