-By Warner Todd Huston
It never ceases to amaze me that the American left has somehow gained the reputation as the “more caring” and “more civilized, or “more tolerant” side of the debate.
Most of the leftists I have met are so filled with seething hatred that they can barely contain it. So filled with disgust for their fellows, so over the top with angst and violent impulses that it is amazing they can carry on their normal lives without losing it.
Well, we have some more proof of that contention from Arrianna Huffington’s left wing site the Huffington Post.
HuffyPost apparently had to heavily censor the comments on their post on the story of the Taliban attack on the base that Vice President Dick Cheney was in. The posts became so violent and vile that even the leftists at the HuffyPost couldn’t allow themselves to leave the ignorance there for all to see.
The full story from Pajamas Media:
Rewriting HerStory: Huffpo Expunges, Edits 100s of Comments at the Cheney Hate Festival
Over the last few hours, the more than 400 comments appended to the Huffington Post’s news item on the attack in Afghanistan on a base being visited by Vice-President Dick Cheney have been expunged from the site. At first the comments were closed, then gradually shrunken and for a short time completely expunged from The Huffington Post as the heat on the Cheney hate fest built up over the day.
From around 2:50 PM, all the comments to the original thread were missing, but of late some have turned up at the new item that occupies the same address, “Over 20 Die in Attack Aimed at Cheney.” The current page shows a marked difference from the original page. Where the original headline read, “Cheney ‘Targeted’ Deadly Afghan Blast,” the current head now reads, “Over 20 Die in Attack Aimed at Cheney.” This may well be a headline that is better informed as the reporting of the incident evolved over the day.
What is truly bizarre and unprecedented, however, is the manner in which the current comment thread unfolds before it too is closed:
The comments now visible are evidently cherry-picked out of the original thread to give some sort of “tone” to the thread that it did not originally possess. It is really amazing what you can do to history with just a few strokes of the keyboard.
Now it is one thing to close comments, another thing to erase them, but something else altogether different to actually “edit” the thread to give a false impression. That seems to be what has been done here. To what purpose and on whose orders is not known.
So far, the nearly 400 commenters whose words have been erased from The Huffington Post are, well, “unvailable for comment.”
I have to say one thing about this internet that I love. It would be better if there was a way to prevent anonymous posting. People are often less vile when they have to put their real name next to what they write.
Still, that aside, this particular incident should demolish the claim that the left is filled with better, more humane people. They are more often vile, ignoramuses. The sad thing is the undeserved reputation they have for niceties and civilized behavior they have attained.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, men’snewsdaily.com and americandaily.com among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a guest on several radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston