Paper Shutters Blog After Ombudsman Post (Washington Post)

breitbart.com ^ | Jan 19, 2006 | NA

[neverdem]

Associated Press

The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.

At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.

In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.

There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.

"We're not giving up on the concept of having a healthy public dialogue with our readers, but this experience shows that we need to think more carefully about how we do it," Brady wrote on the newspaper's Web site. "There are things that we said we would not allow, including personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech."

On the Net:

Washington Post blog: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/washpostblog/

[Lancey Howard]

It's not surprising that Democrats will spew profanities and filth when the truth reaches out and smacks them across the face. It's just a reflection on the way those animals are raised.

[manwiththehands]

Someone must have told the truth about democRats and corruption?! That's "hate speech"!

[LowOiL]

Lowest common denominator.

[GodfearingTexan]

the sexually confused liberal hate crowd must have really lost it. and to think that she was only telling the truth...

[Lancey Howard]

Check out THIS thread of Washington Post blog postings from November at the height of the Plame/Wilson story (remember that?). Some of them were mighty peeved at Woodward. Hilarious stuff.

[stylin19a]

The RATS are claiming the difference is: The RATS on the take didn't KNOW it was from Abrmahoff.

[GOPJ]

Hmmmm, now the Post has had a chance to meet some real liberals, maybe they'll chill out when conservatives ask for fairness.

[madison46]

..and below it's posted the unhinged left is all kooky over Chris Matthew's comment..hehehehe..wacked out left

[dsc]

"Hmmmm, now the Post has had a chance to meet some real liberals"

Lieberals often pretend to be such nice people, but, you know what? They're not.

[Petronski]

The DUmmies actually cached the whole bloody mess before WaPo took it down:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/archive/2006/wapo/



I don't know why they would go to such an amazing effort to preserve evidence of their abject nuttitude.

[right-wingin_It]

WAPO made their bed with the left, and now they can lie in it.

[Milhous]

Hmmmm, now the Post has had a chance to meet some real liberals, maybe they'll chill out when conservatives ask for fairness.

Doubtful, IMHO, given the WaPo's proclivity for communism.

[neverdem]

LOL! Thanks for that link!

[CyberAnt]

"... Democrats will spew profanities and filth when the truth reaches out and smacks them across the face."


I think that's just part of it.

The dems have been trying to paint the picture that ONLY republicans are involved. By having someone go on the WP blog and tell the truth - it has to be torn down and destroyed.

But .. the WP is not biased .. yeah, right!

[MNJohnnie]

Speaking truth to cowards. Typical of the scum's reaction to truth

[MNJohnnie]

"The RATS are claiming the difference is: The RATS on the take didn't KNOW it was from Abrmahoff."

So not only are they corrupt and hypocrites, they are liars as well. So Democrats, if you Leaders will lie to you about this, what ELSE are they lying to you about?

[American in Singapore]

There's those darned facts and truth getting in the way again. Can't have any of that!

[SkyPilot]

HA!

This thread is hilarious!

The liberals have another "We-Hate-Republicans-Gate!" taken out from underneath them.

Did the liberals really believe this ridiculous "Culture of Corruption" mantra manufactured by the feckless Nancy Pelosi would stick? This from the political party that is so corrupt they make the Corleone family look like boy scouts.

Hey, while were are at it Dems, want to talk about this little "problem" you have now? Don't think for a minute the 125 pages you "redacted" from the Special Counsel's report won't get leaked either.

[hershey]

Looks like DU got busy.