WaPo: Payback's a Bitch

I cannot lie, I loved this story. Notice how they leave out the why..........

Misbehavior forces Post to shut blog comments

The WashingtonPost.com said on Thursday that it had indefinitely shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog Web site because of objectionable postings.

The company policy was to ban comments that were personal attacks or used profanity or hate speech.

"Because a significant number of folks who have posted in this blog have refused to follow any of those relatively simple rules, we've decided not to allow comments for the time being," Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com, wrote in explaining the policy change on the Web site.

"It's a shame that it's come to this," he continued. "Transparency and reasoned debate are crucial parts of the Web culture, and it's a disappointment to us that we have not been able to maintain a civil conversation, especially about issues that people feel strongly (and differently) about."

Yes but why? What drove the leftards to eat  their own?

- The Washington Post shut down one of its blogs Thursday after the newspaper's ombudsman raised the ire of readers by writing that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to the Democrats as well as to Republicans.

At the center of a congressional bribery investigation, Abramoff gave money to Republicans while he had his clients donate to both parties, though mostly to Republicans.

In her Sunday column, ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties," prompting a wave of nasty reader postings on post.blog.

There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper's staff could not "keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff," and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com.

heh. Poetic Justice......Yakkity Yak, don't talk Jack We center right bloggers can instruct the Washington Post on how to deal with infestations, we deal with it everyday.

UPDATE: from Kokonut pundits;

I love this! File under great blog moments

"Psst!  Just when you thought Deborah Howell, Jim Brady, and WaPo who tried to erase all evidence of comments on the WaPo’s Blog as reported by the Drudge Report do you realize that those search engine bots worked faster than they did in trying to blink them out of existence.  Not to mention a couple of blog sites that got some of the earlier and later blog comments archived. I found the January 17th and 18th comments, WaPo Lies have the January 15th and 16th comments archived while Democratic Underground has the January 19th archived."

Comments

[fox1]

Atlas, I sent them an email that said simply "CHICKEN" and that's what I believe them to be. If they can't take the heat I guess they will just have to run. Once again they have proven "CHICKEN". Many years on top of the pile has left the WAPO scared and touchy.

[Eg]

Oh...the irony! Don't you know they'll lose even more subscribers? Along the same lines:

The militants are through{editors correction: thought} to have thrown petrol bombs at both mobile phone towers and phone booths.

Well…I guess we know what to expect next from our Democrat’s and the ‘Left’ who currently only resort to the tactic’s of extreme noise, verbal abuses and throwing objects to prevent others from discussing opposing or differing opinions and views.

Of course, the ’Left’ rallies to the defense of ’Free Speech’ - provided, that is, it falls within and conforms to the party-line: Thai violence hits phone networks

[Captain Kirk]

Maybe the disenchanted readers changed subscriptions to the Washington Times? And why don't they comment about the Barrett report that came out yesterday? Come on, 146 pages deleted> I hope Grassley keeps on this and nails them to the wall. Also, today marks the 5 year timeline of the availability of the Clinton presidential files that can now be opened. I suppose they'll send sandy berger around to put all of them in a double-parked Bekins moving truck.

[Thomas Carney]

This just cracks me up. Proof positive that libs don't want to deal with reality.

[wxjames]

Wouldn't you just love to get all the lefties spewing hate and force them to clean up their language, then force them to stick to the truth, then force them to stick to the subject, then force them to state plainly what they believe and why, then force them to answer questions in a human way ? Shit, I'll monitor their comments for free. What a panic that would be.
Anybody not yet up to speed on the MSM agenda would see the resulting mangled diatribe and the countering reasoned, factual logic and realize that LLL means Lookout, Lunatics on the Loose.

[Rancher]

The Barrett report that came out? What was deleted? Does it hang Shrillary? Why am I talking to a dead thread? (No offense wxjames) I commented at RedState on the KOS panic OBL's tape generated (because he sounded just like them) and gave some quotes without editing them. Almost got banned for profanity.

[joe]

james,

With all those requirements, I do not think you would have any comments that actually got posted....

[mcconnell]

Thank you, Atlas!

BTW, did you know that WaPo turned back on the blog? This was Jim Brady best idea?
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/01/wapo-turns-blog-back-on.html

Weasles!

Kokonut Pundits.