More On the Huffington Post Censors Commentators To Articles Posted

Around 24 after I posted my original "Huffington Post Censors Commentators To Articles Posted" piece, I received an email from them. Here it is:


Hello,

The topic of censorship you mentioned in your blog entry http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com/2011/01/huffington-post-censors-commentators-to.html was brought to my attention.

I investigated your claim and found that a technical glitch identified your website URL improperly as a different URL that had been properly banned from our site. Therefore, since you include your URL at the bottom of each of your comments, they were all removed. 

I have temporarily removed the bad link that was causing the problem, in order to allow your comments to pass through the moderation process properly. I have also submitted a tech ticket to get the problem fixed on a permanent basis. Finally, I will be undertaking a review of your most recent comments to publish those that are acceptable. If there is another user name other than "jerrypl" that has been affected, please send it to me and I will review those comments as well. 

I apologize for the problem, and hope that this resolves your issue. For the record, you can best get help with situations like this by emailing us at community-support@huffingtonpost.com or techtips@huffingtonpost.com in the future.

Thanks,

Stephanie H.
User Support Specialist
Huffington Post Moderation Team

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The above email was sent to me on 1-9-11 (Monday), yet it appears that only a fraction of my comments to pieces written on Huffington Post have been allowed to be posted, the remaining continue to be reviewed by the commentator.

Stephanie H., as of this date, has not published any of those comments I made that were censored.

Here are this week's comments that Huffington Post censored. This opening quote was what prefixed my comments written.

“This [these] comment is [are] pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.”

Peter King, Leading Republican, To Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation First Posted: 01-11-11

( I failed to copy and post my comment before hitting the “post comment” on HuffPo.)

Rush Limbaugh: Jared Loughner Has 'Full Support' Of Democratic Party First Posted: 01-11-11

Why is Limbaugh still allowed to remain on the air spewing lies and propaganda when such garbage is filled with hate and more? His propaganda message is to spin the shooter's support of Democrats.

The fact remains that Jareed killed Democrats, and nearly killed a Democratic Congresspe­rson. Not only that she is a Jew and so were a few others.

Here is the analogy we learned in school, Rush----Ja­reed hated government­. Radical Rightwing Republican­s often rail against government and it being too big, and that the government has too many working people within it. Democrats don't make this their message.

Therefore, Jareed=bad government­=Radical Rightwing Republican­s.

He also had a belief that we should be returning to the gold standard, as does Texas Republican Congressma­n Ron Paul. I don't hear that from Democrats. It comes mostly from the Right.

Sarah Palin's Arizona Shooting Statement Blasts Journalists & Pundits' 'Blood Libel' (VIDEO) First Posted: 01/12/11

"But when was it less heated?  Back in those "calm days" when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols?" HUH? Those were the calm days? "Those days" was a period in time when our nation was less civilized, Sarah. The government went forward and massacred millions of Native Americans for land. Those were the days when two people angry or dishonored battled it out, and sometimes with pistols. What has occurred with Sarah Palin was that she decided to target, and aim her sights at opponents that had a different political viewpoint. SHE PURSUED THE DUELING, NOT HER OPPONENTS! She has the 'blood libel" on her hands, as she calls it. What we have her is a narcissistic--you-are-wrong-not-me- and-THEY-are-out-to-get-me candidate for the Republican party.

She claims that Jared was apolitical!!!! No Sarah. He was political. He shot and killed Jews, and Democrats, as well as a child. He was angry over government, which is the message that many Republicans shared with him. Republicans often soapbox about "government is the problem and not the solution", and that the US needs to go back on the gold standard.

Sarah is trying to deflect the real story here. One, she used toxic and vile rhetoric to rally her Republican base to "aim" and "target" her Bull's Eyed opponents, which could insight a mentally unstable and deranged person to follow through with her message.

Joe Scarborough, Glenn Beck Feud Erupts (VIDEO) First Posted: 01/12/11

Morning Joe showed some guts to call out The Beckesta for being an "Insighter" of hate, and anger

Congressional Black Caucus Chairman: Reelecting Obama Will Be 'Enormous Challenge' Nick Wing Posted: 01-10-11

Yes, Rep. Cleaver is correct. And, there will be hoards of Democrats who will not vote in 2012 because they realize that Obama has turned his back on progressiv­e issues, and capitulate­d too much with the Republicon­s. He abandoned a public option, he caved into allowing the mega-banks to steal from the government as they traded toxic mortgages, which they refused to write-down­, with the Fed and in return received near free cash to speculate on Wall Street stalling a real economy, and manipulati­ng world currencies­.

Rep. Cleaver is right. The real unemployme­nt and underemplo­yment figures, based upon Shadowstat­s.com, shows that we are now over 20% with those figures. This will not get better. Jobs in service, burger flipper-li­ke places, maids, etc are not sustainabl­e, good paying jobs that raise up middle and lower income workers.

Rep. Cleaver is right, because Obama has handed over his cabinet to Wall Street.

Obama will have a tough time getting re-elected­. He already handed the mid-terms to the Republicon­s.

With 'Blood Libel,' The 2012 Campaign Has Begun First Posted: 01/12/11 by howard fineman

When one has in the political arena a deeply narcissistic, toxic "grisly (not grizzly) mama" out to "target, and aim" others in order to further the Christian nation, extreme rightwing agenda, then what is created is Sarah Palin.

Her "blood Libel"--is really "blood simple" in that she believes in the hunting down of a mainstream, open minded political debate

Sharron Angle Defends Inflammatory Rhetoric In Face Of Criticism Posted: 01/12/11

Why should we expect anything else from the righwing's psychopathetics who have infiltrated the Republicon party with a wink and a nod.

Blood Libel Wikipedia Entry Hacked: Sarah Palin Photo Added (PICTURE)

Katla McGlynn 
First Posted: 01-12-11

When America elevates the most incompeten­t, narcissist­ic and ignorant citizens up upon the political stage, as with Palin, it becomes very likely they will set themselves aflame using a can of their own vile, toxic juices.

thanks for reading, jerry

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

Huffington Post Censors Commentators to Articles Posted

It has become very apparent that Huffington Post is censoring a percentage of its commentators who want to express viewpoints to the posted articles. I have noticed that since January 1, 2011, and even before this date, they have been censoring my comments. Being labeled a liberal or progressive, and critical of the Obama administration, they have decided to censor my comments. They have yet to answer my question of why.

I find this incredible since Arianna Huffington and Roy Sekoff are all over the television being critical of the Obama administration and touting a more liberal position, yet are censoring liberal commentators on their site.

What alerted me to a consistent blocking of my comments was a piece about Ed Schultz calling the GOP "bastards". My response was in regards to a commentator who told Ed to "shut his pie mouth", yet I responded by saying it was very unlikely that this person would tell O'Reilly, Limbaugh or Beck to shut their "pie mouths"when call for the doing of harm, or worse, to liberals and progressives expressing their viewpoints.

I went on to point out that the above three right-wingers often using harsher words about liberals and progressives than the word "bastard".

Here are my examples of HuffPo censorship:

This is how they introduce their censorship---

“This comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.”

John Boehner Interview: House Speaker Fumbles Budget Cuts Question

First Posted: 01- 6-11 08:35 PM

COMMENT:

“The GOP runs on rhetoric, slogans, catch phrases, but when forced to actually define their positions, they have no clue what to do. They are the Party-of-No, but that is all they know how to do.

$100 billion is small numbers to cut from Federal Budget. In order to make a difference, a trillion dollars needs to be cut. So, how about starting with the military war machine. It is not about "Pentagon savings", but actually reductions. By ending the two failed wars/occupations, which drains the economy and has little-to-no stimulus to the real economy, we would likely see around $800B returned to the budget.”

Inside December Jobs Report, Labor Force Hits 'Stunning New Low' Lila Shapiro 1-7-11

COMMENT:

"The administration can try and spin these job numbers all they want, but the reality is jobs are barely returning. Obama wants us to believe that the jobs are coming back. Obama stated that we need to be more competitive, but that really means cutting wages and benefits to meet the globe's least common wage denominator.

Filling his economic advisor circle with elite Wall Streeters defines the Obama position.

As foreclosures continue, personal wealth for many workers will decline. What we are seeing is a credit bubble because workers are using credit as cash. How many auto loans will go into default this year and next?

All of these problems are related to the continuous un-underemployment, as well as those who stopped looking for work."

COMMENT:

Paul Krugman: Don't Believe The Texas Economic 'Miracle' 1-7-11

"The GOP can win elections on their delusional cost cutting, and austerity propaganda messages, but they never work. The results are poor educational results, more citizens requiring social services, such as food stamps, lower wages and benefits, and more worker suffering.

The reality seems to be is all they really care about is serving the corporate elite make more for themselves and work to eliminate regulations so they can spend less on keeping the environment clean, and more bringing in more profits for themselves."

COMMENT: 

Obama Sets Mission For New Team: Accelerate Economic Growth JIM KUHNHENN | 01/ 7/11

"So, how does the economy grow when foreclosures are increasing, workers suffer from declining and stagnant wages, therefore, must use credit cards as cash, and the Obama administration and economic team advisors support the Fed policy of issuing nearly free cash to the bankstas who don't use this free cash to rebuild the economy but to speculate on Wall Street and foreign currencies hoping to boosting their value making the dollar and US exports more desirable, along with other speculative investments?

It has been all about making more money for the corporate and financial elite at the expense of the real economy and working Americans with little economic reverberation.

The Fed pays the corporate and financial elite to redeposit the cash that they lent out back into the Fed paying around 3% for doing so. How does this help improve the economy?"

I view this censorship as nothing more than becoming a capitulator to the conservative corporate advertisers to their website and making sure that their income flows don't get cut off. The corporate elite advertisers don't want too many opposing viewpoints being printed on the site.

It just could be that Arianna Huffington's original conservative viewpoints are reemerging as when she called for the resignation (Resignation.com) of Bill Clinton along with other conservatives when Clinton was falling down the sexual rabbit hole.

thanks for reading, jerry

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com