Deleted comments and bannings

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MyDD and/or Drum Major Institute delete criticism of immigration plans - 3/06/2007

[DMI didn't do it; see the update below.] Yesterday, user "DMIer" - presumably an associate of the Drum Major Institute - posted the entry "How everyone can get smart on immigration & the middle class" at the site MyDD [1]. I decided to do my part, posting a long criticism of the post. My comment was deleted not long after that, presumably either by "DMIer"...

CPAC Day 2: Captain Ed's transcription service - 3/02/2007

The blog fight is on! Yesterday, "Captain Ed" posted an interview with Mike Huckabee. In a vain attempt to get someone - anyone - attending CPAC to ask anything remotely approaching a difficult question, I responded ("NoMoreBlatherDotCom"), the "Captain" responded, and now I have the feeling I'm about to be banned from yet another site. I posted the following ...

New Haven's John DeStefano helps feds profit from illegal activity - 1/30/2007

John DeStefano is the mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, a city that CT or the federal government should consider investigating and temporarily taking over if necessary. He has links to the non-profit group "JUNTA for Progressive Action", and that group is collaborating with the Mexican government. Since we last checked in with this situation, Kica Matos - former executive director of J...

Arkansas Family Coalition deleted comment (pro-Asa Hutchinson site) - 9/22/2006

Arkansas Family Coalition is a blog that supports the candidacy of Asa Hutchinson for governor of Arkansas. They deleted a comment I left there on the 9/19/06 thread "Beebe and illegal immigration" that was critical of that former DHS undersecretary: Oddly enough, these links I tried placing in Asa's Wikipedia entry about his immigration record at the DHS kept getting deleted. Hope...

Think Progress deletes another comment, again! - 8/01/2006

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 th...

Dvorak Uncensored? - 7/10/2006

John C. Dvorak's "Uncensored" site deleted two of my comments I left on the thread "Ah, Mexico? Can You Send More Illegal Aliens To Pick Florida Oranges? What BS!" The following backstory is a bit long, but the bottom line is this: if you want in-depth information on immigration matters, come here. If all you want is hot air without any of the background information, go to...

Brad DeLong deletes comments - 7/07/2006

I left two comments on the entry "Greg Mankiw Explains Why Economists Favor Immigration" from UC Berkeley professor Brad DeLong. Both were deleted. Since both comments have a bit more heft than some other comments which were not deleted, and neither comment is abusive, I have to wonder what's going on. Has DeLong suddenly realized that he and the other "economists" have no...

"Brothers Judd" deletes comments - 7/02/2006

... entries: 2006/03/were_all_paying.html 2006/03/its_a_living_ju.html 2006/03/sinking_islands.html 2006/03/lazy_native_but.html 2006/03/dont_look_for_p.html 2006/02/its_a_demand_si.html 2006/01/he_and_tancredo.html The deleted comments are in the extended entry. Previously in this series: I was banned by ThinkProgress and QAndO. And, of course, I was banned from RedState despite having posted 75 or ...

Lonewacko banned from ThinkProgress, QAndO - 6/19/2006

To keep you up-to-date with my bannings: 1. I'm blocked from leaving comments at ThinkProgress. Here's the last comment I left there, which was removed (twice!): Interesting factoid: Nativo "Larry" Lopez - one of the organizers of the recent illegal immigration boycott - was booted off the Santa Ana schoolboard because of his views on Spanish. He not only supports bilingual edu...

Matt Stoller doesn't want you to see this - 4/11/2006

Earlier today I posted the following comment on the thread "Immigrants Stand Up Against Right-wing Racism" by Matt Stoller. It was deleted either by Matt Stoller himself or by one of the other administrators there. There's nothing in the comment that would seem to violate their rules. And, of course, whenever someone does something like this it's a virtual admission that the...

I was banned by RedState - 3/09/2006

I've been posting entries and comments at RedState since July 2004. [1] A few days ago my last entry there was deleted and my posting privileges were revoked. [2] And, despite sending two emails to RS co-founder Mike Krempasky and one to another moderator there, no one has seen fit to tell me exactly who banned me and why they did it. [3] The entry that initiated the banning was Bush "Go...

Huffington Post is scared - 9/15/2005

It used to be that the Huffington Post approved almost every comment I left on the blog side of things. Then, after they started their Katrina coverage, there were very few comments on the blog side, and what there were were complimentary. While some brave souls appeared to let most or all comments through, most of the HuffPo's pseudo-pundits appeared to be massively deleting comments. I say ...

Some people aren't worth the time it takes to try to help them: discuss - 8/05/2005

Why do I waste my time trying to help people who are apparently unable to appreciate my (more or less) worthwhile advice? A recent example comes from radio host Phil Hendrie. You'd think that if a famous blogger such as myself starts offering not just advice but a link, Hendrie would be a slight bit grateful. I mean, he's a moderately well-known radio personality, but he's new at th...

Soros-funded Media Matters deletes yet another comment - 8/03/2005

Their message control is getting pretty funny. Perhaps I should start a new category just for my comments that they've deleted. The latest is the comment I left in "In NY Times book review, Posner rehashed tired "liberal media" claims". Yes, of course I saved my comment: If you go to BoreAmerica you'll see that it's been over 7 days since the Air America scan...

Soros-funded Media Matters still deleting comments - 7/15/2005

To the best of my knowledge, even the Huffington Post has published and not deleted the several comments I've left there, even on their moderated threads. However, MediaMatters for America - the outfit that receives funding from George Soros - has deleted my comments in the past, and it looks like they've done it again. The latest was on the thread 'Limbaugh blasted Mehlman's r...

Soros-funded Media Matters now deleting comments? - 5/25/2005

Media Matters - which admits it receives money from George Soros - appears to have deleted several comments from this thread about Bill O'Reilly discussing Harvard's plan to spend $50 million to promote "faculty diversity." O'Reilly said: "Any woman who signs on to work at Harvard gets 100 pair of shoes ... because all women want shoes." I left a sarcastic commen...

My picture is in the KoolAid Central dictionary under "troll" - 3/22/2005

While searching for something else, I came across this year-old thread all about comments being deleted from KoolAid Central, a.k.a. BlogsForBush.com. Matt Margolis responds with this comment: It's interesting how a few people have wasted a decent amount their time and energy accusing B4B of censoring opposing views. It comes as no shock to me that people who are extremely set upon using B4B...

History's erasers - 1/27/2005

Yesterday, Instapundit linked to a post about Rep. David Dreier's social security card proposal. That post is at a group blog known as Liberty & Power which is part of the "History News Network", which doesn't appear to be a cable TV network, just a web site spun off from George Mason University. I left a comment suggesting that Dreier was just proposing this bill expec...

The war against WorldNetDaily - 10/20/2004

If you go to this entry at another blog, you'll find no less than two instances of "Deleted - Off topic Moderator" replacing comments I left. That's certainly their right, but for the sake of my readers who might be wondering, "would our own Lonewacko leave off-topic comments, or is there something else involved?", the answer is indeed that something else. Namely, I w...

John Kerry's blog is now deleting comments - 4/12/2004

On the thread 'Middle-class Misery Index Hits Record Under George Bush', I left a comment concerning JFK's immigration policies. It was posted; I checked after having posted it. It's no longer there. Not only that, when I tried to repost it, I was forced to go through their verification again, after which I was confronted with a message telling me "You are not allowed to p...

They can't ban all of us - 4/02/2003

A few days ago, I was banned from leaving comments at DailyKos. Since he hasn't responded to my email, I don't know the exact reason, but I can surmise it has something to do with the comments to this post. That post features a picture of a (supposed) Iraq girl injured by U.S. missiles in Baghdad. Kos claims that the picture comes from "the Al Jazeera." However, the link provid...

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