The GREATEST Diary EVAH Written


BIG BROTHER and MYDD

I rarely come here.  I haven't posted a diary or comment in three years.  I dropped by to see the rank & file reaction to Hillary's appearance on Billo's minstrel show.

So today I see Bob Johnson posted a diary, which made the top of the recommended list, and then it was censored - expunged from the list.

WEAK.

Talk about insecurity.

I've posted nearly 400 diaries in the past 5 years and I have NEVER-EVER censored a dissenting or opposing argument.  

And guess what, I got into some nasty arguments with Bob Johnson in 2003, and he never censored my statements, and likewise, I never deleted his words.

Why? Because neither of us were so weak, that we couldn't deal with an opposing viewpoint, even if it was strong.

If Bob says something you disagree with, write your own diary and rebut his argument.   If the diary doesn't fit, then the community will acquit.  Don't just summarily wipe it off the list.  Have faith in your readers.   Don't treat them like children who can deal handle reality.

I thought we were LIBERALS !!

I thought we stood for FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!

This is like those kooks who try to remove Judy Blume's novels from libraries.

SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

SHAME ON YOU!!

Meet me in Austin, you weaklings, I'll wipe the floor with you (forensically)!!

If you don't like the news, go out make some of your own!!

To paraphrase Hillary, if ya can't stand the heat, get outta of the diary!

UPDATE 3:25 PM EDT I now read that Bob Johnson diary was removed from the recommended list because the title was considered inflammatory, containing "racist connotations." This is the title
"Clinton backers behind deceptive robo-calls aimed at blacks."
Is that racist, let alone racial? If so, tell me why. In the abstract, any diary could be untrue, any diary could have a false title. But it's incumbent on the critic (in this case, the moderators) to provide readers with a basic explanation of their reasoning.

Tags: Censorship (all tags)

Comments

166 Comments

Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

yawn go back to kosland chump.

by zane 2008-04-30 10:35AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

The site must be cleansed!

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:36AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

grabs pitchfork and flaming tar

by bobbank 2008-04-30 10:40AM | 0 recs
Silly Notion

Who decided that MyDD is exclusively for Hillary supporters and DailyKos is exclusively for Obama supporters, anyway?

by Hatch 2008-04-30 10:46AM | 0 recs
the small percentage of idiotic supporters

on both sides.

by kindthoughts 2008-04-30 10:49AM | 0 recs
Idiotic Supporters

Does that include whichever moderator decided to remove Bob Johnson's diary from the Rec list?

I'm only half-joking.

by Hatch 2008-04-30 10:57AM | 0 recs
never read the diary

but Bob Jognson is no troll.

by kindthoughts 2008-04-30 10:58AM | 0 recs
Re: never read the diary

Bob Johnson is opininated, sharp, funny, sometimes belligerent, and a lot of Hillary supporters here know what a great democrat he has been

His reversion diary is now here

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/30/1514 1/0639

by brit 2008-04-30 11:36AM | 0 recs
Re: never read the diary

Thanks for the link, Brit.  The thing was up and gone before I had a chance to see what all the hubbub was about.

by fogiv 2008-04-30 12:24PM | 0 recs
Re: the small percentage of idiotic supporters

Agreed to a certain extent. The real fact is:

Too many idiots on DailyObama who killed any chance of civil discourse and respect for fellow democrats. And some of those are swamping here to continue the trash they spread on DailyObama.

Agreed there is a small percentage here too.

by Sandeep 2008-04-30 12:34PM | 0 recs
Re: Silly Notion

I got an "official warning" this morning to be more civil.

Anyone care to look at my comment history and try to figure out which part of it is "uncivil"? I'm guessing it was the "Jerome used to be thoughtful" comment.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 10:57AM | 0 recs
Consider Yourself Lucky

You could've been banned, like a whole lot of other people who dared to criticize JA.

by Hatch 2008-04-30 10:58AM | 0 recs
Re: Consider Yourself Lucky

I was banned but created a new account! HAHA!

And if I am banned again I will continue creating new accounts.  Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha !

Seriously...

I was banned for taking on the almighty Jerome.

I would actually have more respect for him if he turns out to be on Clinton's payroll- because at least he's being paid to crap up his blog.

by Bob Beard 2008-04-30 11:39AM | 0 recs
Re: Consider Yourself Lucky

Jerome Armstrong does not have thick skin, if he did like kos, he would not give a SHIT about what people write about him.  That is the difference, he does care.

by tracey webb 2008-04-30 12:01PM | 0 recs
Dkos: ECHO..ECHo..ECho..Echo..echo..ech..ec..e

For those of you Kossacks who participated or condoned transforming that place into an Orange echo chamber . . . what's the point?

Yes, I understand you're frustrated that there is no challenge left over there and you don't feel like your time is well spent getting the obamessage out to all the Orange clones, so you come here spoiling for a fight where you feel like you can make a difference in the holy cause.

. . . but be intellectually honest about it, we understand, no need to hide your inner motivations, fly, be free . . . but know that the real enemy is not Mydd but it is McBush.

Sneak into a Rethug website and you can have all the fight you're spoiling for. . . we're attempting to have the type of high-level discourse that used to be prevalent on the Orange mess.

by wasanyonehurt 2008-04-30 11:24AM | 0 recs
Re: Dkos: ECHO..ECHo..ECho..Echo..echo..ech..ec..e

In a month these primaries will be over

I've been a member of this site for 4 years. And DailyKos

Obama won my support last year.

Why does anybody have to DECIDE between sites based on the last three months of the primaries?

It's just ridiculous. Maybe it's fatigue, but maybe an implosion of all those democratic values of dialogue, debate and openness that we've struggled to  maintain over 8 years of republican hegemony.

If you can't take a dissenting opinion, that just proves your opinion is very vulnerable.

by brit 2008-04-30 11:28AM | 0 recs
Re: Dkos: ECHO..ECHo..ECho..Echo..echo..ech..ec..e

Very few of the Orange diaspora ever rebutt that that place is just an echo chamber or dispute that you try to over-run and shout down non-obama opinion anywhere that your orange migration lands. . .

. . . you won't admit that that's your aim, and we choose based on the actions of the Orange diaspora that you are not simply providing "dissenting opinion", but trying to change this place into another echo chamber, so that you can move to another site and consume all the oxygen, wash rinse repeat.

The difference here is you don't control the administration of this site so the process to echo chamber here is more of a challenge thus you all get more aggressive and adamant especially when your candidate slips, as he is wont to do.

by wasanyonehurt 2008-04-30 11:52AM | 0 recs
Re: Dkos: ECHO..ECHo..ECho..Echo..echo..ech..ec..e

What's your problem? Is your existence defined by what goes on at DailyKos? That's called rassentiment - and even worse: you're emulating your idea of them,  providing an echo chamber of your own.

And since when has this become an Obama echo chamber? You don't like disagreement, then find somewhere else. This place has always have diverging opinions, and if the admins try to change that...

Then they're defying the whole point of the netroots. Disagreement, conflict through debate, dialogue, dissenting voices - these are the principles that underly liberal democracies, and the revolt against the MSM which progressive blogs provide.

You're wrong. What you say is a further advance of ghettoisation in US culture. But unlike you, I'd defend your right to say it. I won't acquiesce, however, in some unexplained fatwa to enforce it.  

by brit 2008-04-30 12:09PM | 0 recs
So much for sneaking

I tried to join Free Republic but got banned before any of my posts were made public.

I'm not going to sneak; I'd love to join a conservative site that both got a lot of traffic and was willing to tolerate an opposing viewpoint.

Once the primary is over, the Republicans are the next group to convince.  Oddly, I think Ron Paul supporters are the most likely to jump ship.

Anyway, I lost my diary and comment priveledges for a few days once after talking about what I said above in this post.  I'm not sure if it was a glitch, censorship, or what... but I got my privledges back after people said I was OK.

by Dracomicron 2008-04-30 11:56AM | 0 recs
Re: Dkos: ECHO..ECHo..ECho
My day would not have been complete had I not read posters from hrc followers whining about this, that and the other.
But hey, its 5pm, I guess I'll open a bottle myself.
by april34fff 2008-04-30 01:11PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Trolled for content free invective

by brit 2008-04-30 11:06AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Huzzah.

Seriously Mods, if you're going to remove something from the rec list (and leave up stuff more than 24 hours old) you've got to post a reason, somewhere.

Or, preferably, post your comments in the thread and let them stand on their merits.

I know not every post can accuse Obama of flipping Hillary off, but even the ones dealing with tiny meaningless issues of voter suppression -- intentional or otherwise -- deserve some airing.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:36AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

indeed why do anti-hillary diaries come down ALOT faster then anti-Obama diaries.

either you censor all of em, or don't start now.

by TruthMatters 2008-04-30 10:38AM | 0 recs
Glad To See We're On The Same Page

Jerome seems to have no problem with turning this site into a full-on HRC propaganda machine.

by Hatch 2008-04-30 10:40AM | 0 recs
Re: Glad To See We're On The Same Page

Perhaps relabeling the site "Hillaryhub" would be truth-in-advertising.  After all, half the recd posts cut and paste most of their content from there already.

by mikeinsf 2008-04-30 11:37AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

I didn't get a chance to see the diary, is there anywhere I can read it?

by Maverick78 2008-04-30 11:23AM | 0 recs
by brit 2008-04-30 11:30AM | 0 recs
Macho posturing or

threat of violence?

Meet me in Austin, you weaklings, I'll wipe the floor with you!!

In any event, that childish comment detracts from your diary.

by TomP 2008-04-30 10:40AM | 0 recs
Gimme a break

forensically

if you couldn't see the parallel to Hillary's Ohio rant(in the best sense of the word), then you dishonor her as a supporter.

Gee, I remember when you threatened to sue DemocraticLuntz, I took that as a joke.  I guess I was wrong, and I should have read that literally.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 10:45AM | 0 recs
What would you get from that lawsuit?

Some old talking points and OPOL's hat?

by pinche tejano 2008-04-30 10:51AM | 0 recs
Al, as you know

CT diaries get deleted at kos. why should it be different here?

by doberman pinche 2008-04-30 12:48PM | 0 recs
Please

That is a very dishonest edit.

by BlueinColorado 2008-04-30 11:00AM | 0 recs
Re: Macho posturing or

I guess he was trying to be intimidating, but since he is doing all his talking with one finger, he doesn't seem very formidable to me.

by pollbuster 2008-04-30 11:06AM | 0 recs
Here's ya finger - HA!! HA !!

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 11:16AM | 0 recs
Re: Here's ya finger - HA!! HA !!

Zing

by pollbuster 2008-04-30 11:19AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

a.  the diary wasn't "censored" if it is the robo-call one - it is still here.

b.  A diary could have dropped from the rec'd list because perhaps people who initially rec'd it changed their minds & unrecommended it.  I have that option - don't you?

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 10:42AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

I'm sure that's what happened. All that outrage easily disappaited. We're also voting for Clinton now too. On our unicorns.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:46AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Hey, wait.  What?  I didn't get a Unicorn!  Where's my fecking Unicorn?!?

That's it.  I switching back to Obama.

STOP BIG PING-PONG!

by fogiv 2008-04-30 12:30PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Maybe they dropped it from the rec list because it was complete bullshit.  The group in question is made up of both Clinton and Obama supporters, but Bob, in his usual hyperventilating fashion, simply makes baseless accusations before even bothering to look them up.  In fact, I had this exchange with him about it at the Big Orange Blog:

I posted it over there. (19+ / 0-)

Clinton backers behind deceptive robo-calls aimed at blacks

by Bob Johnson

It would be even more exciting (0+ / 0-)
if it were true.  Alas (for you), it is not.  The group is made up of both Clinton AND Obama backers.  Don't worry, though, I'll go ahead and make the correction for you at MyDD.

by dhonig on

We shall see. (0+ / 0-)

I note that they are already "apologizing," but that doesn't explain why they would be using a distinctly African-American male voice in their calls and targeting African-Americans voters.

I think there is more information to be discovered on this story. And I suspect some enterprising reporters will be doing further digging.

by Bob Johnson

I suspect the same. The difference, of course, (0+ / 0-)

is that I wait to see what they find, while you do not.

by dhonig


by dhonig 2008-04-30 11:00AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

"distinctly African-American male voice"

Huh?  How racist can you get Mr. Johnson?  There is no such thing!

by Jjc2008 2008-04-30 11:11AM | 0 recs
check TPM story's comment thread

The Sarah working for WVWV has parroted the same talking points repeatedly and refused to address the Lamont question, except to say that there were other calls recorded using a "Julie". Read that thread with SarahWVWV's lame responses and tell me they aren't hiding their methods and intentions.

by wanderindiana 2008-04-30 11:36AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

WHY THE FUCK DID I GET TROLL RATED on a simple comment about why a diary could have dropped off the rec'd list?

come on....tell me please.

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 11:14AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

come tell me

jaiwithani       
BarackStar

there was nothing troll worthy about my observation or comment.  It was pretty damn neutral, if you ask me.

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 11:15AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

I disagree with some of your opinions, but you're dead right: to those others - stop abusing the guidelines.

We support different candidates colebiancardi, but this will all fall apart if dissent is silenced (which was happening to you on those troll ratings)

I urge you to reconsider your opinion of Bob Johnson's sudden disappearance from the rec list. He's a great diarist, if opiniated, and though I don't like them, I'd be worried if Hillary supporters got their diaries moved off the rec list just because they weren't politically correct - or judged so by admins.

Just like Mumphrey's diary which was REMOVED in the same manner, this undermines the whole point of a self policing community, regardless of the particular case in hand

by brit 2008-04-30 11:44AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

I neither rec'd or unrec'd his diary.  I do agree that suppressing diary's that are not trolling diaries is incorrect.

I just threw out one reason why it may have dropped off the rec'd list - I know that some people cannot "unrate" stuff, so that is why I stated that I have that option - not that I did that.

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 12:03PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Never suggested that you had unrec'd or not, but as I suspected, the logistics of that were unlikely. It was knocked off by the admins

by brit 2008-04-30 12:12PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Agreed.  TR abuse is whackdoo lately.

by fogiv 2008-04-30 12:33PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

The diary was removed by MyDD.  Here is the explanation offered to Bob Johnson:

Personal note
My previous diary on this topic was removed from the very top of the rec list and I was halted from posting until I agreed to abide by the followiung warning:

   

You have been warned...

   2008-04-30 14:22:46

   Refrain from diaries with inflammatory headlines, in this case racist connotations. Read the guidelines.

I completely disagree that my diary headline contained any racist connotations. It was a summary of the piece cited in my diary which came from a highly reputable source.

The moderators responsible for giving me that warning are wrong and I only accepted the warning so that I could post again.

by CA Pol Junkie 2008-04-30 11:18AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Uprated.  Shouldn't have been TRed in the first place.

by mtnspirit 2008-04-30 11:23AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Disagree but uprating for troll abuse

Whoever does this: read the guidelines. In a diary complaining about the misuse of the system, it doesn't help if you misuse the system yourselves

by brit 2008-04-30 11:39AM | 0 recs
more yawns.

the kos echo-chamber beckons you....

by canadian gal 2008-04-30 10:44AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

You prefer to keep this echo chamber to yourself, huh?

Didn't know we were cleansing the Obama supporters today. I'd have worn my nice underwear.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:47AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

i dont want an echo chamber - simply a community where people stop bashing mydd.

by canadian gal 2008-04-30 10:49AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

If Kos drops diaries off the rec list if he disagrees with the content, then DailyKos should be bashed.

Same with MyDD in the reverse.

Otherwise and echo chamber is what you already have.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:56AM | 0 recs
Some diaries

on Daily Kos, frankly, I wish would be taken down. I'm only aware of two instances where they deleted (parts of) a diary; one was anti-Semitics, the other a solicited interview with a terrorist leader.

by MBNYC 2008-04-30 11:02AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

Me too.

Clearly the kossacks cannot stomach the idea that anyone supports Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.  They have issues with what they call the MyDD bias for Hillary and yet the Kos Obama bias is clearly acceptable.

To me, the constant coming to this site to trash the site because of its so called bias is bullying.  They are not content to use their vitriol in full force on just kos and Huffpost.....they are offended anyone dare have a different bias.  

I find the bullying mentality of the kossacks sad and scary.  They truly have become the other side of the neocon coin....in opposition to the meaning of the word liberal.

by Jjc2008 2008-04-30 11:15AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

How is anyone pro-Obama on MyDD suddenly a Kossack?

Who isn't registered on both? Or was at some point?

These sites aren't flips of each other. And MyDD is better -- a better size and though its unbalanced, Obama does get a fair shake in many of Jonathan's posts.

But crap should be called out. The reaction to Bob's diary is crap. And somehow equating it to Kos is a bad comparison to those who would rather see diaries they disagree with down -- not to those of us appalled by such behavior.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 11:24AM | 0 recs
OK, I'll admit that was funny

by lombard 2008-04-30 10:55AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

now - why in the hell would i be TR'ed?  sheesh.

by canadian gal 2008-04-30 11:01AM | 0 recs
Because a gang of Kossaks is on this page

They'll immediately descend in packs to quash any remark that threatens their self image.

It took only a few minutes before my first post to this diary was removed.  

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:13AM | 0 recs
Re: more yawns.

Fairly contentless post, and I disagree, but still uprating because of troll abuse

by brit 2008-04-30 11:46AM | 0 recs
Normally, I'm not for censorship

But if censorship is what it takes to get you out of here and to discourage even more smarmy Kossaks from coming to this place and turning it into a ghetto of bile (like they've done with just about every other internet neighborhood they moved into and proceeded to take over), then I say censor away!

by lombard 2008-04-30 10:44AM | 0 recs
Re: Normally, I'm not for censorship

Delightful! What about gulags. You pro-Gulag?

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 10:48AM | 0 recs
Poor analogies, use of terms.


ghetto of bile


like they've done with just about every other internet neighborhood they moved into and proceeded to take over

Your point could be made with different terms.  Thee terms echo old racist attacks on African Americans in Northern, urban cities as segregated housing patterns broke down, which I am sure was not your intent.

Those terms detract from your actual critique.

by TomP 2008-04-30 10:49AM | 0 recs
No, I was referring to the old European meaning

of ghetto where certain groups were either segregated or segregated themselves.  For example, the Jewish ghetto.

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:52AM | 0 recs
Re: No, I was referring to the

I understood it.  I did not think you were intentionally doing anything bad.  

If Obama were not African American, there would be no issue.  

It's just better to be careful.  With people already upset, it is easy for things to be misconstrued and that detracts from the comment you actually are making.

by TomP 2008-04-30 12:03PM | 0 recs
Re: Normally, I'm not for censorship

You mean like this ghetto of bile?

by CA Pol Junkie 2008-04-30 10:51AM | 0 recs
Re: Normally, I'm not for censorship

If a "ghetto of bile" is a place where stupid, borderline racist comments are swiftly shot down, then I say let the takeover commence immediately.

by emptythreatsfarm 2008-04-30 11:43AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

SHAME ON YOU, apparently you think nothing wrong with wrongly accusing playing the race cardn.  THAT is sad.

by LindaSFNM 2008-04-30 10:48AM | 0 recs
If it is false then write your own diary

anyone can rebut a false argument/a false brief.

it's really easy to do.

if the case doesn't fit, then the community will acquit.

If a diary is weak and unfounded, then you should have no problem exposing it.

It involves a minimal amount of effort.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 10:54AM | 0 recs
Re: If it is false then write your own diary

if the case doesn't fit, then the community will acquit.

Interesting concept.  I disagree.  MyDD is Clinton oriented and Dkos is an Obama echo chamber.  Truth often is lost in bias.  There is no "community" of disinterested parties.

by TomP 2008-04-30 12:04PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

By the way.  Apparently you graced us with the reminder to tune in to watch Hillary on BillO.

...are you taking bets that he will be better to a former first lady and sitting Senator than KeithO

Or did you want to remind us Obama made his appearance on FOX first?

by LindaSFNM 2008-04-30 10:49AM | 0 recs
Dailykos trying to move center to conservative


The Dailykos Obama supporters are just terrified that the 50% of the party that disagrees with them will have a place to talk to each other....

This diary is 100% about trying to deny the 50% who oppose Obama a place to be heard.

They denied that voice on Dailykos.

And now they are actively trying to deny it on Mydd.

If they succeed then Hillaryis44 or the next level site will become the MAINSTREAM location where the left 50% meets the right 50% in the democratic party.

Do they really want the center to shift that far conservative?

I think that their best interest lies in being happy that mydd a progressive site serves as the meeting place rather than a much less progressive site.

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 10:49AM | 0 recs
Yes, Kossaks are like locusts

They descend in packs upon an area, drain it of all its goodness and nutrients, and then look for the next site that they can despoil.

by lombard 2008-04-30 10:57AM | 0 recs
Just like

the aliens in Independence Day, right?

by MBNYC 2008-04-30 10:59AM | 0 recs
That analogy works for me, too. Thanks!

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:02AM | 0 recs
I was thinking Divine in Pink Flamingos...

by pinche tejano 2008-04-30 11:10AM | 0 recs
Ew.

You know I'd never wear polyester.

by MBNYC 2008-04-30 11:32AM | 0 recs
Sans the raunchy old rock and roll music

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:56AM | 0 recs
Well last I heard Edscan was still there

so there is still hope for that.

by pinche tejano 2008-04-30 12:09PM | 0 recs
Hopeless.

This diary is 100% about trying to deny the 50% who oppose Obama a place to be heard.

What's not being heard, as it were, is Bob's diary.

Frankly, most of the people I know IRL that back your candidate are smart enough to present their views outside of an echo chamber.

And that's an understatement.

by MBNYC 2008-04-30 10:58AM | 0 recs
Kossaks don't want to be "heard"

They want to take over, dominate, and drive out all opposition.  

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:00AM | 0 recs
Yup.

A herd of 160,000 oppressors fanning out over blogdom to quash all dissent.

You should join us, we have a great 401(k).

by MBNYC 2008-04-30 11:05AM | 0 recs
Re: Yup.

...and dental.  Kickass dental.

by fogiv 2008-04-30 12:39PM | 0 recs
Re: Kossaks don't want to be "heard"

If we wanted total domination we wouldn't come to a community largely allied with a candidate we don't support for the nomination.

But since Clinton supporters walked out of dkos, this is the best place left for us to talk to people from the other side and ensure that we don't end up totally separated from one another.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:10AM | 0 recs
Baloney

If that is the case, why does your site continually post diaries castigating us and our candidate?  Why do you troll and hide rate comments in packs that are contrary to your world view.  The behavior of Kossaks on this site is entirely consistent with the behavior of Bolsheviks - conquer and dominate.

If you want to talk, remember that this was our ghetto.  We were driven here and away from many sites we used to frequent.  But, we're not running away any more.  So, if you want to talk, think of yourself more as a guest than the master of the house.  

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:18AM | 0 recs
Re: Baloney

I'm not the master of anything. I'm not running any servers.

I don't troll rate anything I don't agree with. I got a little trigger-happy today, but as of right now that last 1 I've handed out was to an overzealous Obama supporter.

A lot of the diaries on "my" site are overzealous, and I'll often say so.

I don't try to hide things that are contrary to my world view. THe whole reason I'm here is because I get bored being around people I already agree with all the time.

"The behavior of Kossaks on this site is entirely consistent with the behavior of Bolsheviks - conquer and dominate."
That's just ad hominem.

"We were driven here"
No, you weren't. You choose to abandon the places where you were in the minority, where if you had stayed and put up with the occasional bully you may have changed some minds - or had your own mind changed. Instead you choose to ignore people who didn't agree with you.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:33AM | 0 recs
Re: Baloney

you look up at my comment.  Count the troll ratings.

Koss and friends are not at all interested in free speech.  They are interested in shouting down opponents.

If the center has to move to the right to get some fair rules regarding speech we will end up somewhere even less friendly to Obama and friends.

How would that look?

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 11:40AM | 0 recs
I don't recall any Stalinist behavior from you

So, maybe YOU are not the problem, but that doesn't mean others on your side feel and behave the same way.

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:46AM | 0 recs
Re: Kossaks don't want to be "heard"

This is the rhetorical equivelent of "why are you punching yourself."

This diary is saying: "Stop quashing opinions you don't like." Your response is: Yeah, person who's opinions were quashed, stop quashing us, the quashers!"

Quasher.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 11:26AM | 0 recs
Re: Kossaks don't want to be "heard"

If most of us haven't posted on Kos and gotten far worse treatment we might agree with you.

But I know what happens on Kos.

I know there was a recent movement to bring that here.

And I resent it and Support Mydd in limiting the Oama pr arm.

I don't want Obama supporters to feel out of place but Obama spinners should.  Kos is for Obama spinners.

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 11:42AM | 0 recs
Re: Kossaks don't want to be "heard"

Conspiracies! Conspiracies afoot!

Limiting the Obama PR arm? You have posters who daily make the top of the rec list with nothing more than donation appeals for Hillary? You want to talk PR arm?

Whereas discussion of a legitimate news story that raises real questions about campaign ethics is spinning?

And the "middle finger" story, was what?

I don't know if you want an echo chamber, or would prefer polite Obama supporters who know our place (not on the rec list) but there was no cause to drop Bob's diary. Welcoming "limits" is pathetic. You're usually quite reasoned, but the facts aren't on your side here.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 12:05PM | 0 recs
And P.S., very, very well said my friend!

by lombard 2008-04-30 10:59AM | 0 recs
You're the one who is freaking out

someone posts a diary you don't like, then denounce it, don't remove it.

write your diaries - don't remove someone else's diaries.  why can't you get that.

If Hillary wins, I will work my ass off to get her elected, because even if I don't agree with her, she's 100 times better than a republican.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 10:59AM | 0 recs
Re: Dailykos trying to move center to conservative

No one denied any one a voice on kos, YOU went on strike, remember.

And if Jerome wants to change the rules of this to prohibit anti-Hillary speech, then he should change the rules to be a Hillary site, not a progressive site.

by bawbie 2008-04-30 11:00AM | 0 recs
Re: Dailykos trying to move center to conservative

I am talking about before the strike and they denied me a voice.

I got banned there on Dec 25 for defending Xmas from someone who was dead set that all the advertising was a GOP bushie thing.

Kos is about shouting to get your point and peer pressure.

Mydd is more about actually making a point and to a lesser degree a place for the kos "outcasts" to have their own place.

The reason you are so interested is that you fear other voices having their own place.....

Why?

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 11:44AM | 0 recs
Re: Dailykos trying to move center to conservative

I wish some of you would stop bashing kos. Its an excellent site and the content is alot more informative than it is here.

now, now.. not saying that this site isn't.

by april34fff 2008-04-30 11:52AM | 0 recs
Re: Dailykos trying to move center to conservative

I think the MyDD Obama supporters don't like being silenced. If your diary gets on the rec list, it should stay there until that changes. It shouldn't just get taken down.

This has nothing to do with denying voices or places. I didn't see anything on the MyDD main page when I joined telling my my choice of candidate put me at a disadvantage in the site's discourse.

I don't understand the need to justify it. This isn't the first time it happened, but it's the first I've seen in a while.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 11:01AM | 0 recs
Well, you don't see that as Kos either

But you'll soon find out if you stay there for any time

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:09AM | 0 recs
Re: Dailykos trying to move center to conservative

You should check out The Confluence.

As far as I can tell, it's only Clinton folks talking to each other there, and its a hoot!

by emptythreatsfarm 2008-04-30 11:46AM | 0 recs
Don't mistake disdain for "insecurity"

by lombard 2008-04-30 10:54AM | 0 recs
A closed mind is unmistakable

by brit 2008-04-30 11:03AM | 0 recs
Thanks! And you helped me get there

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:05AM | 0 recs
You didn't need my help

by brit 2008-04-30 11:10AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

They also removed from TOP of the rec list around noon, mumphrey's diary Racism on this Site.

Things must be bad in the Hillary camp that they need to suppress the occasional pro Obama diary.

But WTF happened to the netroots principle of self governed progressive political blogging?

Wasn't the user-based, bottom-up, self-policed blog the whole point of netroots and Storming the Gates

First they came for our user privileges, and I did nothing.

Then they came for the IP access points, and I did nothing.

And when they come for the few remaining Rec diaries, and I did nothing.

And now they come for me, there's no one left to protest.

by brit 2008-04-30 11:02AM | 0 recs
Mumphrey's diary was there for a long time

by lombard 2008-04-30 11:07AM | 0 recs
Re: Mumphrey's diary was there for a long time

24 hours. True. But it disappeared suddenly. What is the point of a rec list if favored diaries can be pulled at will. There was nothing inflammatory in it: you could agree or disagree, but the blogs that block dissent 'top down' are usually called Red State or something

by brit 2008-04-30 11:13AM | 0 recs
Re: Mumphrey's diary was there for a long time
Hmmm....let's see. Maybe despite the recs from the traveling kossacks, some of us don't like the bullying aspect of someone coming to a site and accusing the posters of being racists.  Maybe that kind of diary, despite the traveling pack of "let's go here and rec this diary so it stays visible" , who make sure that THEIR trash diaries are at the top, turns people off.  It is what turned a lot of us off to dkos and the fact that the behavior resembled that of the high school jocks who need to be in control of all things.  
It's a bullying tactic and pretty common in middle and high school  Seeing it being used on political blogs was a sad and frightening thing.
by Jjc2008 2008-04-30 12:43PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Some people won't rest until Clinton supporters and Obama supporters are completely cut off from one another.

First the strike, now this. If the Clinton supporters keep this up, they'll end up in private forums requiring two passwords and a retinal scan before you're even allowed to read them.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:08AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

hey, jaiwithani, why did you troll rate me on a neutral comment?  

nothing troll worthy about my comment and you had the fucking nerve to troll rate me?  

I would hope that was a mistake on your part and you will upgrade me.

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 11:16AM | 0 recs
You are correct

and I apologize. Changing to "None" doesn't seem to have an effect, so have a "2" on the house. Consider it my way of apologizing.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:25AM | 0 recs
Re: You are correct

thank you :)  

by colebiancardi 2008-04-30 12:05PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Maybe some of us tired of the bullying tactics used on daily kos.  Some of us long outgrew the hanging out in packs to rec what we liked and trollrate what went against our beliefs.   Kos became the "high school" hallways of the "kool kids"....and it was impossible to "debate" as adults.  Some of us looked for other places where we weren't told to "get over  it" when we complained about the blatant sexism and ageism.  We came here only to be followed by some of the bully mentality.

Maybe we just don't feel it does any good to talk with those who look their noses down at us.

by Jjc2008 2008-04-30 11:23AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Disagreement is not the same as disdain. In any event, you're not going to convince anyone by only talking to those that already agree with you.

Even if you find dkos a bunch of "bullies", you're still better off talking to them then repeating the same argumentd ad infinitum to those that already agree with you.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:26AM | 0 recs
I think it's still there...

I think the diary this thread refers to is still on the diaries list, just not the rec'd.  If so it seems more like editorializing than censorshiop, no?

I just checked, it seems to be still there.

by mady 2008-04-30 11:02AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

Bob Johnsons has confirmed that it was taken down and that he had to promise to not post any more "inflammatory" headlines.

No news on how Alegre's doing with that pledge.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:14AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

I'm stunned. I shouldn't be. But I am.

Bang goes Breaking the Gates.

And what about Mumphrey's sudden disappearance from the rec list

by brit 2008-04-30 11:18AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

If it makes you feel any better I have gotten the exact same warning...

Its not aimed at Bob he was just being an ass.

When I am an ass I get the same treatment...

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 11:48AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

Yes, it's still there.

And like Mumphrey's yesterday, the community had raised it to the rec list.

Isn't the whole point of a democratic community blog that we are the editors. That's what my trusted user guidelines tell me.

by brit 2008-04-30 11:15AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

Yes, but the slant of this blog is pro Hillary and it is not a communal forum, it is owned and operated by..... I still way, way prefer it to Kos but it means putting up with sometimes having my candidate's pieces obscured.  Still, is basically a decent bunch over here, and taking this off the rec list is still not disappearing it.  

I believe the subject is back on the rec list in another form anyway.  The important stuff usually surfaces (well so does some of the lunatic stuff, but that's okay too).

One note though, the main thing that upsets me about diaries here is the number of diaries that are about issues, that the diarists have obviously spent some time on, that do not get read, do not get rec'd and plummet out of sight amazingly quickly.  I wonder if it is possible to maybe have a second diary area for topical non campaign stuff where these pieces could stay put for a while.  There is some good reading there and then "poof," gone.

by mady 2008-04-30 11:53AM | 0 recs
Re: I think it's still there...

I agree. Non candidate diaries get lost. But this is an exceptional time, and a historically long, important and divisive primary. Human nature being what it is, other issues and downstream elections are getting lost.

by brit 2008-04-30 12:16PM | 0 recs
Any bets

on how long this stays on the rec list?

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:15AM | 0 recs
Re: Any bets

Mumphrey's was about 24 hours

Bob's was about 2 hours

At that rate about 10 minutes

by brit 2008-04-30 11:17AM | 0 recs
Hold on Al! Look on Dailykos FIRST!

A few of my friends were permanently banned from Dailykos just for dissenting or opposing argument.

In addition, most Dailykos posters behave as pack of wolves posting all kind of idiotic comments on dissenting or opposing diary or opinion.
My suggestion to you just go back to dailykos and fix dailykos first.
MYDD is much, much better in this regard.

by engels 2008-04-30 11:18AM | 0 recs
Re: Hold on Al! Look on Dailykos FIRST!

Who was banned? And why? Specifics, such as those offered in this diary, would be appreciated.

by jaiwithani 2008-04-30 11:23AM | 0 recs
Re: Hold on Al! Look on Dailykos FIRST!

I was banned, but that was for supporting Burmese monks, not Hillary.

I guess supporting human rights is a banning offense in Naranjastan.

by pinche tejano 2008-04-30 11:44AM | 0 recs
Re: Hold on Al! Look on Dailykos FIRST!

I was banned for sticking up for Hillary in 2004

by DTaylor 2008-04-30 11:49AM | 0 recs
now *that* is funny

DTaylor with a sense of humor ... who knew?

by N in Seattle 2008-04-30 12:41PM | 0 recs
Re: Hold on Al! Look on Dailykos FIRST!
I checked this:
http://www.dailykos.com/user/uid:11171
http://jaiapprovedthis.livejournal.com
and I have no reason to trust you with names of my friends. I disagreed with most of your comments
and have no wish to waste my time to argue with you.
by engels 2008-04-30 11:53AM | 0 recs
Huh?

Contrary to what you believe, but dk has lots of dissenting opinion. Are most of the posters there pro-Obama? Yes, but I wouldn't call it monolithic.

by april34fff 2008-04-30 12:10PM | 0 recs
Dk is monolithic, stupid and unacceptable blog

with a lot of crazy kids who have nothing else to do but post pro-Obama BS all the time.

by engels 2008-04-30 12:22PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Bob Johnson is a Obama shill with a bit of an attitude. That said he shouldn't have been pulled. I sincerely believe in both the first and that old Voltaire saw so if you do you can't condone pullling him. The fact that he never stops troll rating and trying to kick people off Kos who don't agree with him is irrelevant. It's dangerous. If someone had been censoring someone in Munich in 1923 it might have saved everyone a lot of trouble but truth is not divisible.  

by ottovbvs 2008-04-30 11:22AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

There was censorship in Munich in 1923.

Reaction to that was part of the Nazi message.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 11:30AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Dude, Obama Shills With A Bit Of Attitude were the best west coast rap group of the early 90s.

I have all of OSWABOA's albums, even the bootlegs.

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 11:32AM | 0 recs
What do you mean, exactly, by 'Obama shill?'

Just curious, otto.

by Bob Johnson 2008-04-30 11:33AM | 0 recs
Re: What do you mean, exactly, by 'Obama shill?'

<3 <3 <3

by owl06 2008-04-30 11:54AM | 0 recs
I find it funny, as well.

otto is forever claiming that folks who support someone other than his candidate are "on the candidate's payroll."

It's SOP for him.

by Bob Johnson 2008-04-30 12:01PM | 0 recs
Implosion

Censorship, especially regarding this widely-reported story, will lead to this site's implosion, if not the whole Democratic Party's.

Blogfather, indeed.

by wanderindiana 2008-04-30 11:28AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

If the author of the diary has just left the "blacks" out of the title then I believe this discussion wouldn't be happening.  JMO.

by JustJennifer 2008-04-30 11:38AM | 0 recs
Re: leaving out the word &quot;blacks&quot;

really?  and that is a good thing...to be colorblind?  saying "blacks" should not be considered to be stirring up racism or "reverse racism."  

MyDD was probably afraid that this article would lead people to think that this group was purposefully disenfranchising blacks, and IMO, this seems to be exactly what is happening.  

by distraught 2008-04-30 12:35PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Met a girl called lola and I took her back to my place
Feelin guilty, feelin scared, hidden cameras everywhere
Stop! hold on. stay in control

Girl, I want you here with me
But Im really not as cool as Id like to be
cause theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little yellow man in my head
And theres a true blue inside of me
That keeps stoppin me, touchin ya, watchin ya, lovin ya

Paranoia, the destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer.

Well I fell asleep, then I woke feelin kinda queer
Lola looked at me and said, ooh you look so weird.
She said, man, theres really something wrong with you.
One day youre gonna self-destruct.
Youre up, youre down, I cant work you out
You get a good thing goin then you blow yourself out.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer. silly boy ya self-destroyer

Silly boy you got so much to live for
So much to aim for, so much to try for
You blowing it all with paranoia
Youre so insecure you self-destroyer

(and it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(here it goes again)
Paranoia, the destroyer

Dr. dr. help me please, I know youll understand
Theres a time device inside of me, Im a self-destructin man
Theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little green man in my head
And he said, youre not goin crazy, youre just a bit sad
cause theres a man in ya, knawin ya, tearin ya into two.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

by Bob Beard 2008-04-30 11:42AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Do "The Road!" Woo woo!

by Lettuce 2008-04-30 12:08PM | 0 recs
Shame on you

Truly depressing that this makes the Rec list.

by bobbank 2008-04-30 11:46AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

But why should he have to leave "blacks" out of the title? It WAS targeting "blacks".

Why not ask him to just edit it to AA's?

by Darknesse 2008-04-30 11:52AM | 0 recs
what!

who the hell gets to decide what terminology is the most PC?

blacks is not an offensive term.

by distraught 2008-04-30 12:37PM | 0 recs
Re: what!

As a Black man, I agree.

by Darknesse 2008-04-30 01:28PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Markos... the sheep are straying from the flock!

by owl06 2008-04-30 11:53AM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Here is how it works:

1: Something Racist happens (like attempted targeted disenfranchisment of AA voters), by the supporters of a candidate.

2: A Diarist notes in the title that something Racist happened, and points out that it was, in fact, targeted towards a certain race, which just so happens to be happening before a primary that  contains a member of that race.

3: The Powers that Be basically accuse the Diarist of either being racist or of stirring the racial pot somehow.

4: People get outraged

5: Other People get Outraged that some people are Outraged, because the target of the attacks doesn't agree with their view.

This is how Hannity does racism, you know... He loves to defend people who use racist terms by calling the people he offended "counter racists" or whatever...

It's pathetic for a progressive site to be behaving this way.

by Darknesse 2008-04-30 11:58AM | 0 recs
For this to be a &quot;Progressive Site for ...

Democrats, is a Joke"

The GOPers have taken over as well as the race baiters on this site.  And guess what?  When Obama is the nominee, this site will be irrelevant, but DEAD if he becomes the President.  Have you thought about that one?

The owner of this site should be ashamed.  Ashamed that he let it become a haven for racist remarks against a DEMOCRAT, and ones to use in the general election.

And to delete Bob Johnson's diary which will become a MEGAPHONE on Daily Kos, which is the site that the media go to?

This site has become irrelevant.

Put Bob Johnson's diary back up, and if you have issue, fucking write one of your own to battle what he wrote, that is IF YOU CAN.

by tracey webb 2008-04-30 11:58AM | 0 recs
For this to be a &quot;Progressive Site for ...

Mark my words, Political Flesh Fest will be the last blog standing after the General.

by pinche tejano 2008-04-30 12:11PM | 0 recs
Re: For this to be a &quot;Progressive Site f

Tracey the worst has been reading people say Bill O Reilly is no worse than Keith Olberman.

To see members here verbally felate Bill, Murdoch, and all of Fox News as anything but a propaganda machine made me want to go home cry and take a shower.

Maybe "Conservative Democrats" exist and are not an oxymoron.

Maybe this site is their last bastion.

by GeorgeP922 2008-04-30 12:59PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!


Honestly, you're being a whiner and wrongheaded.

I don't mind agitprop and stupidity getting deleted- either side's.  It just annoys.

As for posting that Big Hillary videoclip...in two years, or five, will you stand by it?  I mean, at one level it's a fun exaggeration of the emotion of the late 2007 political moment, it makes a point that Left activists do feel left out of the game.

But on another level, it's so demeaning that only the pathetic, the people who feel Republican lovels of both entitlement and desperate inferiority, can really like it.

by killjoy 2008-04-30 12:19PM | 0 recs
Re: SHAME ON YOU, MYDD!!

Dropping a diary with a headline that had "racist connotations" from the recommended list but not changing the headline almost gives the impression a moderator thinks it is  O.K. to post racist remarks just so long as they are restricted to certain areas.

Whatever is being drunk, it is not kool aid.

I wonder if it was beyond the power of that person to change the 'offending' word or to ask the original poster to change the offending word.

Good way to bury bad news for Senator Clinton.

by My Ob 2008-04-30 12:43PM | 0 recs
Im censored

I would Rec this post, but like so many I had my rec privileges taken away with no warning or explanation.

Great diary Al Rogers, please keep writing here, we need experienced Diarists, alot of the stuff here is rather weak.

Thanks again.

by GeorgeP922 2008-04-30 12:55PM | 0 recs
Re: Im censored

Wow, so this just got censored from the Rec list, even after the title was changed?

This board has such potential and is being crushed.

I still have no Rec rights.

Anywho,  I really hope this nonsense ends June 3, when one canidate will drop out.

Hopefully I will figure out how to get my REC rights back by then  :)

by GeorgeP922 2008-04-30 01:26PM | 0 recs
Well, I just got censored

Check it out.

I was wiped off the recommended list and my title was deleted.

Really.

"SHAME ON YOU" is inflammatory?

Hillary was inflammatory when she shouted "SHAME ON YOU, BARACK OBAMA," in Ohio.

Who knew.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 01:45PM | 0 recs
Re: Well, I just got censored

Hmm they do have some rule where you can't be critical of the site, since they can't guarantee a response.

This was brought up last week, although that diarist got the reason in an email which he posted up.

I think the reason they deleted your title is it is the truth.
Any reasonable Demcorat would cry if they saw the pro-RNC vitriol on here.

I never thought for my life I would here a democrat praise Fox News, or Joe Lieberman.
Really, here was the first place I heard this kind of garbage.

Also the first place I heard someone state "I am a conservative Democrat"

by GeorgeP922 2008-04-30 02:33PM | 0 recs
Calling out Kos

On Monday, Kos hammered Obama for appearing on Fox, and there were multiple diaries and posts directly calling him out.

He didn't like it, and said so, but he didn't wipe the recommend list and wipe away titles.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 02:57PM | 0 recs
Re: MyDD

See, by removing the reccing abilities of those of us who prefer Obama, they can slowly but surely control the message, Republican style.

by Darknesse 2008-04-30 01:29PM | 0 recs
Re: The GREATEST Diary EVAH Written

Far worse diaries have remained on the rec list, yet diaries pointing out the problems here get removed...right...

by Skaje 2008-04-30 02:11PM | 0 recs
Site tabs is mislabeled

usually guidelines are posted on a site's FAQ tab.

Here the guidelines are actually posted under "about MYDD" tab.  The tab that usually serves as the site's bio.

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 02:18PM | 0 recs
Re: The GREATEST Diary EVAH Written

So let me get this straight.  You haven't posted a comment or a diary here in 3 years.  Someone was mean to BJ.  So you came to complain about someone being mean to BJ.  

This is the only thing you have come here for over 3 years.  I have to ask.  If you aren't a current poster here, why is it your business?

I'm thinking Bob went and got you and whined on DKos about all the meanies, and everybody came a runnin'.

by Scotch 2008-04-30 02:53PM | 0 recs
weak

I rarely read Paul Krugman, and I don't subscribe to NYT, but if management were "mean" to him, I would stand up and protest.

It's a shame, you don't feel strongly about freedom of speech.

Is Tipper Gore?

Tipper, I hated the PMRC!

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 03:02PM | 0 recs
Re: weak

Tipper Gore from 20 years ago?  You guys need to get more current with your pet peeves and favorite references.  Considering how badly freedom of speech of many of us was abused at your home blog by the administration and Obama fanatics, no I can't say I care anymore about the free speech of crossovers and proteges from there.

by Scotch 2008-04-30 03:16PM | 0 recs
give me an example

post an example were you were abused by Big Orange's admins.

I'd be willing to denounce it.

also, address this question:  Markos hammered Obama for appearing on Fox, then a number of diaries made the recommend list, calling him out, by name.  He posted his displeasure, but he didn't wipe any of the diaries of the recommended list nor did he wiped any of the titles.  Should he have done what MYDD did and wiped them off the R List for calling him out?

by Al Rodgers 2008-04-30 03:30PM | 0 recs
Re: give me an example

Markos treats people poorly, so he can hardly complain when they go after him.  He and his so called front pager police were busy for months wiping people supporting Clinton off the site, silencing them, taking away their ability to rate, letting the Obama trolls run through diaries spamming them to the point where the diaries could not be read or discussed. This was and is known throughout the blog world, there was even an article about the state of his blog in Vanity Fair today.  If you need examples then you weren't and aren't paying attention.  He set the environment and the example for them to follow.  I never had a single hidden comment in the entire 3 years I posted there, was not banned but I refuse to be treated like dirt with the administrators approval by others on the site.

Here, the front page is balanced sometimes with Clinton articles, sometimes with Obama articles.  They aren't abusive of either side, but analytical although sometimes hard to take.  I can't even imagine anything posted on this blog like Markos posted several times on his front page about the socalled darkening of the Obama picture.  He has posted numerous front page articles with no analysis or content except to abuse and degrade Clinton.  The O people here don't realize it, but they take nothing like the crap that Clinton people take on DKos.  The explanation on DK when Markos did any of the obnoxious things he did was that it was his blog and he can do whatever he wanted to,there were plenty of bobbing heads about that, and there were always numerous people there to say that free speech doesn't apply to private blogs.  So that is what I will say to you about your complaint.  Get some education on free speech.  

by Scotch 2008-04-30 04:34PM | 0 recs

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