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Xeni Jardin/BoingBoing deletes comments - 05/01/08

Xeni Jardin is a lightweight supporter of illegal immigration and pseudo-hipster (tech division) who blogs at BoingBoing. She offers "Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due process" [1] about a video game which portrays a superhuman ICE agent oppressing people of color (and one young lady from Poland) over legal immigration edge cases [2].

Kevin Drum/Washington Monthly deletes yet another comment - 03/25/08

Kevin Drum and/or the Washington Monthly have a habit of deleting perfectly reasonable comments; because of that you can't trust anything you read there. Comments sections serve as a form of check on the blogger or reporter; if they make a mistake someone will probably come along to point it out. If - like Kevin Drum and/or WM - they start deleting comments you never know what's missing, and it might be a comment offering a correction. So, every single thing he writes has to be double-checked before relying on it.

"Under the Same Moon": Mexican-government funded pro-illegal immigration propaganda film - 03/15/08

"Under the Same Moon" is a new, Mexican government-funded movie about illegal immigration from director Patricia Riggen. The distributors are Fox Searchlight Pictures and The Weinstein Company, and the production companies listed are Creando Films (website unknown) and Potomac Pictures (potomacpictures.com). And, per movies.yahoo . com/movie/1809697065/details, the "Financier" is Fidecine, which is the Mexican government agency designed to promote the Mexican film industry: www.comisionrtc.gob.mx/fidecine

Banned by Crooks and Liars - 12/05/07

The site Crooks and Liars (Crooks & Liars, crooksandliars.com) has banned me from posting comments there. I've twice tried to comment on a recent entry, only to be confronted by a popup saying that I've been banned. I haven't left too many comments there, and a couple have been deleted in the past. Commenting there is usually pretty useless because of all the noise, but, I have lots of domain names and I don't have to provide a domain name, so...

Max Blumenthal lies about Tom Tancredo - 12/01/07

Max Blumenthal offers "Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion" (alternet.org/story/69391). It's so full of misleading statements and lies it's difficult to know where to begin. However, the title itself contains a lie: Tancredo contracted with Creative Drywall Design of Denver; he didn't hire illegal aliens directly as the title states, the president of that company claims he thought they were legal workers, and lawyers advised of the case stated he didn't break any laws [1]. Then, we move on to the subhead: Anti-immigration zealot and GOP presidential candidate Tom...

ABC News' Political Radar edits comments without notice - 11/19/07

Earlier today I left a comment on this post (blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/11/huckabees-first.html) from ABC News' Political Radar: If I didn't know better, I'd say the ad was great. And, if I were promoting Huck for some reason, I'd say it was great too! If that doesn't sound like me or make much sense, it's because ABC News edited my comment without notice. Here's the version that I left; this is how it appeared on the site before the edit: If I didn't know better, I'd say the ad was great. And, if I were promoting Huck for some reason, I'd say it was great too! Thankfully, I'm...

Nutroots: Blue America PAC joins with Mexico-linked group to support illegal immigration (anti-Rahm Emanuel) - 11/14/07

The Blue America PAC - a nutroots/netroots group composed of Firedoglake, Down with Tyranny (run by Howie Klein), Crooks and Liars, and Digby - has apparently decided to make Rahm Emanuel look mainstream by comparison. They're launching a campaign to "fight for the soul of the Democratic Party on immigration issue", i.e., to support massive illegal immigration and an amnesty [1]. Their first ad accuses Emanuel of "betraying" "immigrants" by not opposing the deportation of someone. While her case isn't explained - they usually aren't, at least factually - it sounds like she entered the U.S....

Kevin Tracy deletes anti-Mike Huckabee comment (immigration) - 11/08/07

I have no real idea who Kevin Tracy is, but the many widgets on his site lead me to suspect that he's a strong fan of Mike Huckabee (it's just a feeling I get). Yesterday he posted "Huckabee Immigration Facts" (ktracy.com/?p=587), which almost entirely consists of a Huck-supplied list of his current positions on the matter.

Dan Balz (WaPo), Mark Halperin (Time) relentlessly interrogate Rudy Giuliani - 08/07/07

In the past, this site has been sharply critical - to say the least! - of the mainstream media ("MSM"), pointing out that they consistently fail to ask politicians tough questions that would reveal the glaring holes in those politicians' policies. Now, I have to retract that, based on this video featuring Dan Balz (Washington Post, "WaPo") and Mark Halperin (Time Magazine) relentlessly interrogating Rudy Giuliani. They even did it in the aisles of the WalMart in Boone, Iowa... as Rudy was buying granola bars! These two lions of the MSM relentlessly quizzed him in a "take no prisoners"...

Sister Toldjah edits, deletes comments - 06/10/07

Reaching very, very low into the barrel, one of the comments I left on a post [1] by "Sister Toldjah" was edited, and another was deleted. Almost all comments forms have a box where you enter your URL, and I entered this site's URL in that field; she edited the first message to delete that URL (there were no URLs in the comment body itself). Since I used the name "TLB" as I am wont to do, that URL helps people understand who's responsible for the comment.

Amanda Marcotte can't even get smears straight (Lou Dobbs, SPLC) - 05/23/07

John Edwards' former blogging star, Amanda Marcotte, offers [1] "Lou Dobbs really, really hates Mexicans": David Neiwert has a follow-up on the issue of Lou Dobbs trotting out numbers on national TV about Mexican nationals spreading leprosy that he got from a white supremacist group that pulled the numbers out of their asses. It's fucking disturbed that this man has a national microphone to promote racism like this. And his nastiness is getting nastier. Actually, there are two smears involved here, and she's confusing them. The "white supremacist group" is the CCC, and Dobbs did use a...

New Haven Independent deletes another comment (John DeStefano + Mexico) - 05/08/07

Melissa Bailey of the leftwing New Haven Independent informs us [1] that that city is renewing discussions on issuing ID cards for various uses from the mundane (paying parking fines) to the not-so-mundane (apparent substitute for driver's licenses for illegal aliens). As could be expected from those familiar with issues in that city, mayor John DeStefano and the "city's social-services chief" Kica Matos - former leader of "Junta for Progressive Action" - are involved. The latter group is collaborating with the Mexican government [2]. I left a comment on [1], which appeared immediately. It'...

Comments too hot for ShopFloor.org (National Association of Manufacturers) - 05/07/07

Yesterday, Carter Wood of the ShopFloor.org blog (run by the National Association of Manufacturers) posted a content-free anti-Lou Dobbs post entitled "Running for President on the Fist-Pounding Ticket". I left a couple comments which were moderated and which have not been approved, and I doubt whether they will be. First, the post: Lou Dobbs for president, eh? Well, there's always room for an angry populist to stoke the fires of protectionism and the class struggle... True, most of the celebrities like Dobbs who talk about running for office are more interested in gratifying huge egos and...

Captain Ed: "Why Tom Tancredo Is Not A Serious Candidate" - 04/04/07

Captain Ed of Captain's Quarters comments on the Hugh Hewitt interview with Tom Tancredo here. Hewitt asked Tancredo about the John Campbell/Jim Gilchrist race in Orange County, taking him to task for supporting the latter: Hugh Hewitt: ... [L]et me move on. GOP question, just two years and three months ago, Tom, you endorsed an American Independent Party candidate over the Republican nominee in a special election out here in Orange County. Is that material to a campaign for the GOP nomination, that you threw the Republican overboard just two years ago? ... ...HH: You threw the Republican...

Washington Monthly desperate enough to edit comments without noting they were edited - 03/18/07

[Update here] Washington Monthly ("WM"; Kevin Drum/Political Animal, washingtonmonthly. com) used to have an open commenting policy, and I've been posting the occasional and almost always critical comment at that site since Drum moved there and at his previous location (calpundit.com) since 2002 or 2003. WM recently changed to some form of post-moderation of comments. Unlike almost everyone else who uses moderation, that includes the sleazy and underhanded tactic of editing comments without noting that they've been edited. In particular, adding extra characters to some URLs left in...

MyDD and/or Drum Major Institute delete criticism of immigration plans - 03/06/07

[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" or by MyDD management. [2] Either DMI or MyDD don't want their readers to hear negative comments about their plans, and that almost certainly means that they know they have a very weak argument and the only way to paper over its...

CPAC Day 2: Captain Ed's transcription service - 03/02/07

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 comment:

New Haven's John DeStefano helps feds profit from illegal activity - 01/30/07

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 Junta - is now "City Hall's new immigrant policy guru and mayoral staffer". She is or was the wife of Henry Fernandez, DeStefano's campaign manager in his failed bid to be governor of their state. Laura Huizar...

Arkansas Family Coalition deleted comment (pro-Asa Hutchinson site) - 09/22/06

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. Hopefully that won't happen here: washingtontimes.com/national/20040909-115715-9178r.htm nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/14/news/top_stories/20_41_308_13_04.txt wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39418 Also see...

Think Progress deletes another comment, again! - 08/01/06

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'".

Dvorak Uncensored? - 07/10/06

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 Dvorak's site. The two comments are below. As usual, neither of them are abusive; further, I have trouble seeing how they violate the site's guidelines. What is unique about this situation is that unlike other bloggers...

Brad DeLong deletes comments - 07/07/06

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 argument? The two comments are in the extended entry.

"Brothers Judd" deletes comments - 07/02/06

The obscure blog "Brothers Judd" - run by Orrin Judd with the technical assistance of his brother Stephen - has deleted the last four comments I left there. Since none of the comments were more abusive than usual and all were on-topic and I daresay informative, I'm left with the usual explanation when things like this happen: that site realizes that its position is extremely weak and is afraid of contrary opinions.

Lonewacko banned from ThinkProgress, QAndO - 06/19/06

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 education, he reportedly wants to make Spanish the official language of California.

Matt Stoller doesn't want you to see this - 04/11/06

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 they have no real argument. While you should double-check everything you read, in the case of MyDD I'd suggest a quadruple-check. Here's the comment: Of course, there are millions of illegal aliens who are not similar...

I was banned by RedState - 03/09/06

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]

Banned by RedState! - 03/07/06

It might just be a technical problem, or I might have finally been banned by RedState.org. Yesterday around this time I re-posted the entry Bush "Gold Card" would open borders to cheap labor at RedState, and it still shows up in news.google.com: The URL in that picture goes to a moderation page: the-lonewacko-blog.redstate . com/story/2006/3/6/232229/3836

Huffington Post is scared - 09/15/05

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 that because controversial posts had almost no comments, and that's certainly strange.

Some people aren't worth the time it takes to try to help them: discuss - 08/05/05

Why do I waste my time trying to help people who are apparently unable to appreciate my (more or less) worthwhile advice?

Soros-funded Media Matters deletes yet another comment - 08/03/05

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 scandal broke. Yet, none of the "non"-liberal media outlets like the NYT, WaPo, LAT, or their smaller brethren have covered this issue. Seven whole days without a peep from the "non"-liberal media. For another example, check out this...

Soros-funded Media Matters still deleting comments - 07/15/05

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 renunciation of GOP racial tactics: "Republicans are going to go bend over and grab the ankles"' (link). At that thread I left a comment with links to "NAACP Chairman Compares Republicans to Terrorists", this, and a...

Soros-funded Media Matters now deleting comments? - 05/25/05

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."

My picture is in the KoolAid Central dictionary under "troll" - 03/22/05

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 as their personal soapbox are very willing to overlook their own repeated violations of the comment policy and ultimately express shock over comments being removed or repeat offenders being banned.The...

History's erasers - 01/27/05

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 expecting it would fail but that it would show to his constituents that he was trying to do something. I also left a comment on this thread. However, both comments have now been deleted, but thankfully I saved a copy of the...

Dick Morris: Hillary can win - 01/11/05

Dick Morris: Hillary Clinton can't win - oh, and pigs can fly Those who would stick their heads in the sand and maintain that Sen. Hillary Clinton could never be elected president are in for a rude shock, according to the latest data from the Fox News survey. In a poll taken last month, Americans said they felt the New York Democrat was "qualified to be president of the United States" by 59-34 percent. Clinton showed strength among all traditional Democratic voters, winning the approval of Sen. John Kerry supporters by 80-13, blacks by 80-8, all women by 64-29 and unmarried women by 69-24...

Just 8 hours until I can post at FreeRepublic.com again - 12/14/04

Whaaaat? Your posting privilege has been suspended until 2004-12-15 05:46:18 Reason: You have a one day suspension. CLean up the language or you will be banned. #$@@! All I did was post this $#)(* quote from that #$(@*##*#(@# Nativo Lopez. As as I explained to the FreeRepublic.com webmaster in an unanswered email, the quote wasn't from me. It was a quote from Nativo Lopez, and I provided the quote to point out Mr. Lopez' personality.

The war against WorldNetDaily - 10/20/04

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 was providing some backstory and contrary information to the complaint that "[Kerry] Alleged that the Bush administration is somehow in the pocket of the Saudi royal family." Herewith the first comment I left: I note the NewsMax...

John Kerry's blog is now deleting comments - 04/12/04

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 post comments." My comment was not abusive, libelous, etc. in any way, I simply pointed out major problems with JFK's immigration policies. See my comment on this thread for an example (search for 'TheLonewackoBlog'). I don't...

They can't ban all of us - 04/02/03

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 (dailykos . com/archives/002198.html). 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."

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