CBSNews.com Turns Off Comments on Obama Stories

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Via CBSNews.com :

Today CBSNews.com informed its staff via email that they should no longer enable comments on stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The reason for the new policy, according to the email, is that stories about Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

"It's very simple," Mike Sims, director of News and Operations for CBSNews.com, told me. "We have our Rules of Engagement. They prohibit personal attacks, especially racist attacks. Stories about Obama have been problematic, and we won't tolerate it."

CBSNews.com does sometimes delete comments on an individual basis, but Sims said that was not sufficient in the case of Obama stories due to "the volume and the persistence" of the objectionable comments.

This might explain why Obama requested Secret Service protection this early in the campaign.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/05/04 ... 1854.shtml

[michael_ital]

God F'uck America. And here was Grant in the "Azeri's" thread, trying to say that Islam is the reason for crackpots in Iran. What the f'uck is the reason here? LooooooL

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[quote="michael_ital"]God F'uck America. And here was Grant in the "Azeri's" thread, trying to say that Islam is the reason for crackpots in Iran. What the f'uck is the reason here? LooooooL[/quote]

You know the saying, "Monkey see, monkey do"?. Well, these bigots listen to wingnut radio talking-heads like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Imus, et al. and they think it's cool.

[michael_ital]

Well, those right wing zealots are all mambers of the religous right. Like Gee Dubya. So it HAS to be because of their religion.

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You're quite right. George Bush's policies and tactics of his administration, and that of his religious right-wing base have set America back about 50 years.

[Ismahan445]

This is redicules, I knew, sadly that Americans are not ready for him. On another note, I dont know how Glenn Beck is not labeled a racist himself, to hell with the whole conservative commentator. This man makes my bloold boil with the stuff his says, as for Rush Lim, he is just an idiot. No wonder some of the public are acting this way, because they get influenced by these sorts of bigots in big media.