Here are screen shots of the blog “ThinkProgress” which is run by the Center for American Progress (a Clinton/Soros project).
Here is my comment when I am signed in,
It looks just like any other comment (except for the America and Israel hating) but when I sign out…
Ta da!
It’s gone! This means that I’m being censored without even knowing it. While I think my comments are merely being ignored by the other posters, in reality nobody can see my words but me when I’m logged in.
UPDATE: For those who might still be wondering about Clinton’s and Soros’s involvement with the CAP and TP, here’s some more info on the Center for American Progress
The Center for American Progress (CAP) describes itself as “a nonpartisan research and educational institute” aimed at “developing a long-term vision of a progressive America” and “providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals.”Robert Dreyfuss reports in the March 1, 2004 edition of The Nation: “The idea for the Center began with discussions in 2002 between [Morton] Halperin and George Soros, the billionaire investor. … Halperin, who heads the office of Soros’ Open Society Institute, brought [former Clinton chief of staff [John] Podesta into the discussion, and beginning in late 2002 Halperin and Podesta circulated a series of papers to funders.”
[...]Persistent press leaks confirm that Hillary Clinton, and not Podesta, is ultimately in charge of CAP. “It’s the official Hillary Clinton think tank,” an inside source confided to Christian Bourge of United Press International. Robert Dreyfuss notes in The Nation, “In looking at Podesta’s center, there’s no escaping the imprint of the Clintons. It’s not completely wrong to see it as a shadow government, a kind of Clinton White-House-in-exile — or a White House staff in readiness for President Hillary Clinton.” Dreyfuss notes the abundance of Clintonites on the Center’s staff, among them Clinton’s national security speechwriter Robert Boorstin; Democratic Leadership Council staffer and former head of Clinton’s National Economic Council Gene Sperling; former senior advisor to Clinton’s Office of Management and Budget Matt Miller; and others.
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The Center for American Progress: Soros funded, Clinton approved.
The Democrats agree, liberals need their politics pre-chewed and spoon-fed.
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Stalin’s retouched phtotos meet Orwell’s
rewritten newsprint.
No surprise.
Reducing the number of words that are thinkable
reduces the ability to think (dangerously).
What does it say about the left that it loves censorship?
TP has great technosavvy — they leave trolls talking to themselves!
Brilliant!
Cambio,
I bet you checked to make sure your comments were getting through, didn’t you?
Don’t lie!
It is a despicable trick, and it is right & proper to see it exposed, but let
us be clear that this is not ‘censorship’ — only the government can censor.
Private publications (including websites) are under no obligation to suffer
comments with which they do not agree. Let us not make the same mistake
as our friends on the left, who often conflate the two concepts.
That said, what does it say about ThinkProgress that they feel the need to
resort to such cowardly chicanery? They should have the courage to stand up
for their convictions.
Stevie Nichts,
It is true that TP is under no obligation to post my (or anybody’s)
comments, and while it’s not government sanctioned censorship,
it still fits every definition of censorship that I have seen:
This is what I meant when I used that word.
“It is a despicable trick, and it is right & proper to see it
exposed, but let us be clear that this is not ‘censorship’ — only
the government can censor.”
Cute argument, but it supports a clear case of intellectual fraud.
Blogs with comments give the impression that a range of opinions
is displayed, and that a debate is in progress. If civil expressions
of viewpoints unwelcome to the site administrator are to be deleted,
honesty would require that a clear statement be made on the blog
to that effect - that it’s an echo chamber, not a site for sincere
discussion.
So, the little Stalins have found a new airbrush. This is a surprise?
I thought they tracked IP addresses too.
I was blocked from registering on Malkins website when a
message appeared claiming my IP address was blocked.
I have no idea why. I am a respectable conservative ( We all are).
I never use profanity etc,
Dennis,
Regardless of the reason for your registration being blocked,
at least you were told that it was. TP and the SF Chronicle
aren’t telling folks that their comments have been deleted,
and in fact, the comments remain visible to the logged-in poster.
It would be as if you were still able to post at MM, but no one
would be able to see what you wrote and you would be
none the wiser.
Um, Konservo? Aren’t you the one who once said,
“WE HAVE ALMOST SHUT TP DOWN!”?
Are you surprised they don’t want you posting there?
I don’t recall.
No, that’s not point of this post. In fact, this page
originally started out as a means of transferring the
screen shots to someone here:
SF Chronicles Sneaky Comment Deletion Trick -Update- ThinkProgress is Doing It Too
But then I thought,
‘Hey, I might as well throw some text in for
explanatory purposes and make a post out of it.’
For more information on this follow the links in the LGF
post above, and check out this site: Investigate the Media
Libs censor every chance they get.
They shout down and assault conservative speakers
on college campuses. They try to get conservative
talk show host thrown off of the air.
Go to digg.com and see what the libs do there.
Try posting a link to a conservative article or posting
conservative comments and see how long it takes to get
“dugg down” to oblivion. Heck, I once commented about
school vouchers (pro) on a Utah newspaper’s website that
allowed “down digging.” Not a single one of my comments
about vouchers was responded to, but every one was
“dugg down” untill it reached “hidden” status or below.
Libs are frightning. If they get full control of the government
they will institute the “fairness docterine” and probably start
making laws like those in Canada and England that restrict criticizing
“protected groups.” Reciently I saw a lib on T.V. twist and convolute
the First Ammendment until it made religious expression illegal…
and she was completly serious.
Remember extreme liberal Jane Hamsher’s hit squad going
after the Washington Post for deleting profanity laced
vitriol she incited? They deleted redundant profanity laced
nonsense inspired by extremist Hamsher all the while she
was deleting comments on her own site that dare politely
to point out her wholesale innate hypocrisy? Hamsher tightly
controls her delicate readers from ANY dissent in tupperware.
Hamsher likes to control and she’s afraid of her readers seeing
her challenged. AKA Jane Hamsher is a fascist a book burner.
Think Progress is not a blog. It’s a Soros funded shadow coordinating
with Media Matters. Look at their post “headlines” they read exactly
like the tax fraudulent Media Matters - they read from a script -
they get memo marching orders.
Hilarious!
The same people who support LGF and RedState
banning comments supporting Ron Paul are going
to piss and moan when another publication does the same?
While these publications have just as much a right to do so
as RedState, it is just as much a shame that ThinkProgress
is blocking your comments as RedState is blocking others.
This is why we need to support liberty and reject authoritarianism
— you never know when the old guard you support is replaced
by the new guard out to get you.
Do you have a link to the TP thread in question?
Question: Why do you guys automatically assume that each
and every liberal blog, organization, book club, etc.
is funded by George Soros?
For me personally, I could care less.
Sites like the SFChron or TP and their ilk. don’t interest me.
I never visit much less comment there. Waste of my time.
There is so much more on the Net than this that it is impossible
for me to stay on stop of all the sites I enjoy.
Sue,
I know, Israeli propaganda is made fresh each morning.
Who needs logic and reason (TP and SFChron)
when you have AIPAC newsletters?
[Edited - by site manager]
Insufficiently Sensitive posts regarding StevieNichts comment–
((“It is a despicable trick, and it is right & proper
to see it exposed, but let us be clear that this is not ‘censorship’ —
only the government can censor.”
Cute argument, but it supports a clear case of intellectual fraud.
Blogs with comments give the impression that a range of opinions
is displayed, and that a debate is in progress. If civil expressions
of viewpoints unwelcome to the site administrator are to be deleted,
honesty would require that a clear statement be made on the blog
to that effect - that it’s an echo chamber, not a site for sincere
discussion.))
You said “cute argument”, but then went on to fail to disprove it.
INcoherent.
The argument is correct– it is not censorship when a private publication
defrauds readers participating in good faith. It’s just dishonesty, of
the kind that will destroy their reputation once it is sufficiently known.
And judging by the sales figures and readership figures, they can’t
afford to do more damage to their reputation; but here it is.
They care more about making dishonest political wins of the
microscopic variety than they care about their reputation.
The long goodbye, as they say….
Those hater sites are doing to free speech what the libs
want to do to your health care. It would “appear” as if
you have it, but in reality it wouldn’t be there when you
need it. As in England, Canada, et al.
Certainly.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/24/bush-ally-defeated-in-australian-elections/
I don’t know about every book club, etc.
but in this case one need not assume. I’ve linked to the
relevant pages from Discovery the Networks and Wikipedia above.
Well, that is quite sneaky indeed.
I logged in and your comment was still missing.
Have you been banned from the site altogether,
or just the comment deletion?
ChenZhen,
The thug has long been banned! He spammed TP’s precious threads daily!
No, I can still recommend and report comments.
Interesting.
I don’t visit the comments section of TP very often,
but to me that seems a little odd.
Almost as if it were a glitch.
Seems like it’s a common glitch on lefty sites.
Oh, and LGF and RedState banning Paul spammers is not
exactly the same as banning all comments by someone,
for no reason, with no warning. I fail to see the similarities.
Please throw your tantrums elsewhere!
Mr. P,
This is slightly off-topic, but my one and only post at
Free Republic got me banned. It was a harmless question,
but got flagged immediately.
I understand that your point is about not realizing
you’ve been deleted, but comment sections anywhere
on the Internets are run by their own rules, and that’s good!
ps,
You’ve never heard of ‘Troll-Whacker’?
This is slightly off-topic
Indeed. I’ve been ‘banned’
several times from several blogs,
sometimes it was warranted, others not. But at most blogs,
News Hounds for example, if I am banned I am told that
I will not be able to make comments.
progressives oppose free speech and hold the idea of an open society
based on pluralistic institutions in contempt. progressives are fascists,
just as the fascists were progressives.
This sort of behavior by the Lefties on the
‘Net/Blogosphere is part of a larger pattern.
They call people racists, sexists, bigots, etc. in order to
frighten them away from saying what they think. They
claim people are paid-off by Big Oil if they speak out against
global warming promoters. Then they call them fringe kooks
by comparing them to Holocaust deniers.
The Libs running the universities deny them a place to speak
on the grounds of security, or charge ridiculous fees.
They throw pies, salad dressing, and more at speakers who
don’t get the hint. They chant, scream, yell, and threaten
anybody who is speaking who is to the right of Michael Moore
in order to shut down their speeches.
These tactics are not the tactics of a rational political party
that wants to engage in a debate. Rather, they are the tactics
that N@zi Brownshirts used to disrupt opposition meetings.
The Left, in their desire to silence the opposition, has become
the modern-day incarnation of the N@zi party.
All I can say is: Thank God (and Al Gore,) for the Internet.
Now, we have blogs like this, and dozens of others, to keep
an eye on these fanatical Lefties so they can’t get away
with this kind of garbage for too long.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Idetrorce,
Who don’t you agree with? PubliusJr?
I wouldn’t call the Soros-Clinton team N@zis because of this,
but it is an underhanded move to suppress dissent.
They could have at least told people that they were banned,
why did they have to trick them?
(it takes several more lines of code to program a
trick like this, so it’s not just a little glitch)
Don’t be worry about Idetrorce. Something tells me this one won’t respond. Check the identical comment left over at Ed’s blog.
>Something tells me this one won’t respond.
You losers conflate blog comments with your inane IM masturbation.
These posts are supposed to be comments, not conversations.
But it won’t keep you putzs from claiming that you ‘won’ a debate
you’re having with yourself only because your pathetic post is the
last in the string. Get a life.
TP and its nasty community of posters are not interested in anyone who isn’t drinking their Kool-Aid. I calmly and respectfully disagreed often with some of the most vile, abusive and repugnant posters. For this I was stealth-banned in the same cowardly way. TP folks really don’t take well to having their far left cocoon shaken.
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