Walter Olson/Overlawyered DIDN'T delete comment that provided information he did not

[Oops! While it looked like the comment I left had been posted immediately, Olson says that it - and dozens more comments - had been put into a moderation queue, and he then approved all of them including the one I left. So, ignore the following, which is being kept here as an artifact of your blogger jumping the gun. My apologies to Olson.]

Most of the time when bloggers and other sites delete my comments it's because I was pointing out how the site was completely wrong; it's rarely done with only slightly corrective comments.

But, apparently Walter Olson of Overlawyered is really, really scared of his visitors not thinking he's perfect or something because he deleted a comment in the latter category earlier today on this post: overlawyered.com/2008/11/community-service-yep-mandatory

Discussing Obama's mandatory/voluntary community service plan, he offered a post consisting of just two sentences. Here's the first, from Olsen:

Well, that didn’t take long. Coyote spots language on the Obama transition site that seems to make explicit what was left studiously vague during the campaign:

That's followed by one sentence from the first version of BHO's plan (see the link above).

Here's the comment I left:

The language quoted above contradicts something on another page at change.gov as well as his previous materials. Details at my name's link. And, BHO's new Chief of Staff supported mandatory service in a 2006 book.

If Walter Olson would delete a comment like that, what assurance do you have that he hasn't "manicured" all the other comments to delete those that provide other amplifications and corrections? Can you believe anything Walter Olsen says at Over Lawyered, or will you have to double-check every single thing he writes?

Bloggage · Fri, 11/07/2008 - 18:43 · · Importance: 1