Think Progress deletes another comment, again!

All thoughts must be sanitized and correct in the fine sparkling world of Think Progress, and the latest example comes from the thread "Malkin: Outrage About Qana 'Manufactured,' 'If It's Not Qana, It's Something Else... It's Beauty Pageants'".

As you might expect, a firestorm of witty "liberal" comments and jokes follows, partly because they don't understand the "Beauty Pageants" reference, and partly because, well, they're who they are. (That said, there are occasionally a few intelligent, non-childish people commenting on TP's threads).

Anywhoo, in an attempt to be useful, I decided to leave a comment explaining the reference, which refers to 2002 riots in Nigeria when the Miss World competition was held there. My comment was deleted, but here it is (only modified to HTMLize the links):

Judd is apparently too young to remember, so here's what Malkin is refering to.

(Remove the underscores to read the details on my banning)

Needless to say, Judd Legum or an underling deleted that comment. Why ever would he do that? There are several other comments deleted from that thread, but many of the "jokes" and obscene statements have been left. Why would he delete a useful comment (admittedly a bit snarky, but still providing useful information) and leave mostly fluff? Surely Judd isn't afraid of the facts, is he?

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Bloggage · Tue, 08/01/2006 - 19:45 · · Importance: 1

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eh is right on with his ideals, the fact is mexico city and its cartles have made a deal with the rats in washington! and both so called rulers want this nation dead,dead,dead and in the end game you dead,dead,dead.

see it for its real evil.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at Aug 2, 2006 8:00 AM

Malkin is at times just plain offensive, much more so than, say, Ann Coulter. Although I thought Malkin's congressional testimony about immigration was quite good. Then again her pumping of the Iraq war is about as wrongheaded as it is possible to be.

Why ever would he do that?

To answer a rhetorical question...

Unreasoning ideologue-ishness. A particular Weltanschauung. It is really pretty much futile to cite facts, to try to engage such people in reasoned argument. Around immigration you see the same thing quite often.

Posted by: eh at Aug 2, 2006 1:53 AM

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