Comments on: More Evidence of Hypocrisy from TalkLeft

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

She’s a hack. Atrios without the fuckin’ swear words. What more is there to say?

By: John Hays

John Hays — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re gonna bitch about her, then bitch about her liberal views. Don’t bitch about her comment policy. On my weblog I have an extremely liberal policy - I even allow people to threaten to kill me, but that’s not for everybody. A lot of people have comment policies I may not agree with, including the good Reverend. And I don’t believe you should bitch about her just because she might censor what you say on her website. I mean, after all, it is her website.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’m bitching about apparent hypocrisy. She claimed to be intolerant of language on her site referencing Bush’s assassination, and deleted it, when that language was used by right-wingers like me to show that one of her posts was deceptive. Here, there is language on her site calling for Bush’s assassination, but it’s from a leftist — so it remains while other subsequent comments from right-wingers are edited.

Can’t you see that this looks very hypocritical?

Again, maybe she missed this language, although the evidence is to the contrary. If so, I hope she deletes it, and starts looking as carefully at her wacky leftist commenters as she does at those on the right.

By: Katsu

Katsu — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Actually, I don’t think there’s anything at all wrong with bitching about a comment policy when it’s a stupid and hypocritical one. Unless she states that all viewpoints she doesn’t like will be edited into incomprehensibility, she’s wildly exercising censorship of the opinions of others. To me, that just seems to be in direct opposition of what having a blog that allows commentary is about. If you’re not going to allow dissenting opinions, then all you’re basically doing is having a public circle jerk with all your like minded buddies.

Sad, sad, sad.

By: eric

eric — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I have to agree with Katsu on this one…the website is turning into an echo chamber of inbred
ideas…no disagreement, no discourse…typical of many MANY leftist states, as a matter of fact..claim to be open minded…then stifle or remove the competing voices..and facts…who needs your STEENKING facts?…your PARTY affiliation is of greater impotance than anything like truth…right?

By: Joe Katzman

Joe Katzman — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Patterico,

Jondee’s comment is still up as of Nov. 27, 2004, unmolested.

We need ONE post on the Presidential assassination posts issue that brings everything together, with links to each incident, transciptions, and even screenshots for key posts. If you can find TalkLeft mission statements, posts, etc. talking about the importance of rights, etc. then that’s even better as a juxtaposition.

When we have that, it’s time to shine a much brighter light on TalkLeft via WSJ and other media. If you give us the post to send people to, and let us know, we’ll take it from there.

By: Patterico

Patterico — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know, Joe. My initial reaction is to leave it where it lies. But I’ll e-mail you about it.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jondee’s comment wasn’t just “unmolested,” it was followed up with a second comment repeating his/her/its calls for “karma” against GWB. Then Jeralyn shut down the comments because - you guessed it - some right wingers posted more than four comments in a single day. OTOH, Jondee limit his/her/its death threats to two.

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