A Note About Comments Being Deleted

McCain supporters just can’t face the fact that they’re losing and gonna lose in Nov. “it must be the media!” “It must be the elites!” gimme a break. It’s just that you’re candidate is flawed.

Where is the Gwen Ifill story? Where is the headline for the poll that shows Obama lost 5 points to McCain? When you don’t inform the public, censor bad news about Obama and his partisan debate moderator, deleting comments is the least of your problems. When ABC News does not let people know the results of their own poll, you can only ask how far they are in the tank for Obama.
Last week, your headlines were Obama runs away with it 52-43. In fact, that is still on your poll website. Today’s poll results are only available through 2 links on hyperlinks. You can’t make this up. ABC News is pathetic.

Why isn’t McCain’s improvement in the polls under any recent posts? Isn’t him improving contrary to what Georgie S. and Jake Tapper have been telling us what the public mood is? Anyone with any sense of objectivity will find both ABC News and Washington Post burying of the latest poll a travesty. If ABC News and Washington Post had any journalists, they would definitely be considered unethical. But they are not journalists. They are DNC hacks. There is not debate. Today is the living proof of the partisan censorship, use of propaganda and outright media manipulation in an effort to get Obama into the White House.

If ABC is on the up-and-up, where’s the Gwen Ifill / VP Debate scandal story ?

No Jake its everytime i bash John McBush, my comments get deleted. That elitist needs to be unmasked.

“ABC News is pathetic”
Yet you still blog on here. I would ask where is headline of the Obama landslide.
Ohio: Obama +8
Florida: Obama +8
Virginia: Obama +6
North Carolina: Obama +2
Colorado: Obama +4
New Mexico: Obama +11
Iowa: Obama +10
These are Bush states of 2004 and Obama leading in all. Where’s that headline?
Jake is far and balance but the truth is this election is no longer closer.
Bill Clinton won by 6 in 1992 and that was a landslide victory.
Majority of the poll it’s Obama +6; nationally.

Not quite, Jake. Some are deleted without the urls. Either the policy is more detailed than that, or someone at ABC is exceeding the policy. Also, these comments are edited with phrases removed.
Dig a bit deeper.

Oh come on. I’ve had numerous posts deleted that contained no URL’s or bad language. They just weren’t flattering to Barack. Censorship has been going on here and on the other blogs (msnbc and cnn) for months that were simply Pro-Hillary or Pro-McCain. So your claim that it’s to protect yourself from abusive spammers is total BUNK.

It would not be unreasonable to conclude that the influence of a spouse will more often than not influence the other spouse to take on similar beliefs, like actions or characterizations.
According to Snopes website Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a political website they decided they would lift the restriction.
Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on “crime and hatred”. Michele said “there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost.”
There is an old saying “say what you mean, and mean what you say”…..which, of course, is not valid in Michele Obama’s case?

Sometimes the least members of the tribe will get out of line and even violate tribal policy. It is the responsibility of the chiefs to keep their minions in line. I have had only one post clipped, one that shined a light on what I viewed as unacceptable ABC News bias. If you are going to allow these ridiculous commentaries of sometimes equally ridiculous stories, you need to remove all censorship and let the chips fall where they may. I disagree with the policy of not allowing urls. Often the url provides counterpoint to an unbalanced story. It is only fair. Don’t you think?

Has anyone seen the “palin won debate” ad yet. Last week the mccain ad leaked out even before the debate happened. Republicans are such cheaters…

Not True.
Posts which criticize ABC, or Jake Tapper (even though civil) are deleted.

Pathetic, these “conservative bloggers” are so busy trying to collect mclame points that they have to resort to postingn URL’s and other useless and incorrect trivia to get their golf tee or whatever else the Palin/McCain ticket is offering these days. GET A JOB OR GET BACK TO WORK!

What is abundantly clear to anyone with a shred of honesty or integrity, is that the vast majority of the media are in the tank for Obama. You don’t even have the decency to lie about it anymore. There is no investigations going on as to the numerous and duplicitous links between Barney Frank, Rahm Emanuel, Obama, et al… links and ties to FannieMae/FreddieMac, ACORN…and others involved in this democratic made fiscal nightmare. Because there is NOT one honest journalist in the midst of you all. The FBI is now investigating 24 large mortgage lenders for alleged abuses. But who will investigate the pols and the lobbyists and the community agitators who made the bad decisions that ultimately forced businesses to make their bad decisions? Certainly not our “journalist!”

Palin’s vague answers and her guns babies bibles routine will more than satisfy the right wing nut jobs.
Biden is in a no win situation. Even if he has total command of the facts, it won’t matter because Palin is only going to satisfy the right wing… that’s her job and why she was chosen. Facts are not important to Palin supporters.

“The concern confused me, because obviously that’s not ABC News’ policy”
it shouldn’t have confused you, it should have made you double check, not just what the policy says, but also what is being done.
you need to look at the deleted comments and see if they are appropriate

you’ll notice ABC will not now (or ever) post the censorship policy. Censors NEVER do this because then they could be held to their own rules and biased application of their own rules would become obvious.
If the full policy is not published then the “policy” can be “adaptable” to, uh, certain circumstances.
ABC must have someone from the Chinese government as an advisor.
(see how long this post lasts….)

Sorry Jake, many of mine have been deleted and I’m the most civil contributer of posts to these sites, right Sally?

“Some conservative bloggers have recently written about having their responses deleted from our comments section.”

I have seen posters comment and complain that a previous post was deleted, and I trace it back and find it. sometimes they are unable to locate their previous posts and blame it on ABC.
Much like the GOP always blams a so called ‘liberal media’ for bias when the truth is they just don’t like to see the truth and facts reported.
(in spite of the reality that media is run by large corportations). Oh well, just one more annoying fact.

This blog has been GARBAGE from day one. But then again everything Tapper says is and has been crap, so the “resource” doesn’t fall far from the “source” if you know what I mean.

It is not apparent why many posts are deleted. Deletions go far beyond inserting a url and naughty language. The standards for deleting comments are inconsistent. Weekends seem to be censored to a greater degree.
My suggestion is that the blog author receive a report of deleted posts for periodic review, that would help authors

It’s fun to see into the mind of those who are detached from reality.
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Why do you criticize or put down people with different views from your own? Why must you insult them? Maybe they are pro life and that is why they are voting McCain. How is that detached from reality?

Isn’t it what all of us want to hear from a presidential candidate: ” Unlike Republicans, who are calling for essentially permanent bases in Iraq, and Democrats, who have done nothing to counter Republican calls for an indefinite occupation, I would put in place plans for withdrawal without undue delay. While I support an exit from Iraq as quickly as possible, I would not publicly announce a timetable to our adversaries. However, as President, I would begin to immediately and significantly begin to reduce both the military and the economic security blanket we are providing the government.”- Bob Barr.

both campaigns must agree to the moderator of any debate
the book was announced before they agreed to have her as the moderator
so you have only two choices in this matter
1. the mccain camp is incompetent at doing the most basic of research
2. they didnt really think it was a big deal

belle star
the mccain camp is terrible, the media isnt running with obama
the mccain camp is just showing terrible judgment
peopel dont like a leader who has no firm position or zig zags all across the map in time of crisis
we are tired of the george bush reaction
we want the steady hand of obama
sorry belle

“the media isnt running with obama”
Delusional.

“so you have only two choices in this matter”
No, 3 choices and #3 is the most likely.
3. The are aware of the book and make sure the issue gets out a day before the debate so as to soften Ifill’s questions. She’ll be very worried about appearing biased. Also if things don’t go well for Palin they can blame Ifill as “biased”.
This is the point about the lack of credibility of journalists. It damages their effectiveness. Jake is obviously in the tank for Obama and JAKE’S reputation suffers for it.

“peopel dont like a leader who has no firm position or zig zags all across the map in time of crisis”

“After checking in with the honchos at ABC News.com, and the people in our legal department, it seems that this was the issue: ABCNews.com deletes user comments which attempt to include a url.”
Thanks for publicly stating this.
Some of us of course knew that but its good to let the community know.

” ABC consistantly cherry picks which stories to cover about these campaigns, and it is very evident that ABC NEWS reports heavily on issues that weigh negatively on the republican candidates, while passing on stories that do the same to the OBama biden ticket.”
I’m not sure what they don’t just come out and endorse him? CNN and MSNBC already have.

“Looks like Madame Pelosi has been caught by an ethics watchdog group funneling approximately $100,000 of PAC money to her husband’s investment firm over the last couple of years.”
Say it ain’t so. The wicked witch is dead?

“i remember a few weeks of rev wright
sure didnt seem like the media was pulling any punches then’
The only “media” that wasn’t pulling any punches was Fox news. CNN just laughed it off as being irrelevent, and then they ran story after story about the “black experience” in America.

LOL
mack it was on constantly play for two weeks
are you kidding me
that is lol you just discredited yourself
anytime you turned on any news show they were talking about rev wright
puhhhh leeasseeee
taht is just silly
msnbc was even constantly playing them, lol
pathetic
why did the media not jump on mccain mixing up irans involvment in iraq, or shitte and sunni mix ups
i mean if hte media was really in teh tank for obama, mccain wouldnt even have a chance
just wow grow up people have eyes and ears and you can say the sky is orange long enough that you yourself believe it, but just saying it doesnt change the facts
teh sky is blue
lol
pathetic

belle star
you are nuts

jUST NOW:
OBAMA: WE WILL HAVE TO SACRIFICE AND PULL OUR WEIGHT
TRANSLATION: SOCIALIST CRAP

“House Speaker Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband’s Firm”

ABC keeps all deleted posts in the cryocrypt with Mr. D. Goofy puts them in there personally. And I have it on good authority that the network is not biased because Mickey is black. Mr. D. worked when Roosevelt was on television before there was color.

That was a good one Mack. ROTFL

Some of my posts have been deleted with a message about letting someone, I guess Jake, read them before they will be posted and I didn’t post links. One of them had to do with the box with Obama and Bidens pictures on it and Tony the Tiger saying “They’re great”. All I said was “I will never buy that cereal again”. What was so bad about that?

Thanks for the clarification

Palin cannot release her tax returns. Someone named Belle has them next to the Rose law firm billing records and will not release them until Michelle Malkin tells her to.

This is not true, Jake Tapper. I have posted numerous posts…no url, no obscenities…yet they have been deleted, simply because I may say something negative about The One. Please kindly admit that it is ABC news bias, that anything negative said about precious Obama must be ignored.
Your home page is the perfect example of this. YOu have a front page story about what papers Palin reads (such a silly story!), and you STILL have no mention of the HUGE issues of Obama’s involvement with ACORN, or his thug tactics with Kurtz and the National Review, or suppressing free speech in Missouri, or the creepy “Obama YOuth” forced to sing songs about him.
Kindly tell us, what exactly is NEWS to you?
That, my friend, is bias. So, see, no url in this post. But will you delete it b/c I have the nerve to say something negative about Obama? Let’s see.

“Please kindly admit that it is ABC news bias, that anything negative said about precious Obama must be ignored.”

Barack Obama has achieved a significant lead over John McCain in the days following the first presidential debate. Pew’s new survey conducted Sept. 27-29 finds that Obama has moved to a 49% to 42% advantage among registered voters. The race was virtually even in mid-September and early August. Obama had not led McCain by a significant margin in a Pew survey since June.
The latest national poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted among 1,505 adults (including 1,258 registered voters) by landline and cell phone, suggests that three factors appear to be favoring Obama. First, more voters rate Obama’s performance in last Friday’s debate as excellent or good than say the same about McCain’s (72% vs. 59%). Obama’s leadership image also has improved. There is now almost no difference in the minds of voters as to which candidate would use better judgment in a crisis.

“I keep my posts and everyone else’s.”

The outside monitoring source obviously works for Obama!!! All of my posts and many others without profanity, or defamatory attacks that are not Pro Obama, have been completely deleted. You might as well call yourself the OBC. It’s very sad to see where the media has gone from what it used to be. It’s media takeover from the Cult of Personality.

I don’t have a copy, but I can think of two instances right off the bat.
1- Your post about Christopher Hitchens’s review of Douglas Feith’s book. In your post, you missed that Hitchens had said “not” in an introduction to what Feith had claimed, and therefore posted that Hitchens had said the exact opposite of what he really said.
At least three other commenters and I pointed out the *factual* error, and our comments were deleted several times.
2.Jake had a post you made about the Clintons being like the Japanese soldiers found in the Philippines decades later, still fighting the war, because they couldn’t give it up that they’d lost the primary. I made a comment with an introduction that that was nothing, we’re still hearing from Gore people that he really won the election of 2000. I went on to say some other things, but the part about Gore was edited out.
I think the people working in the service have a mind of their own. They are not working in the spirit of Jake Tapper, that’s for sure.

Jake – nearly all my posts are deleted shortly after they are posted. (They are not pro-Obama.)
The other day I took several screenshots of the before my posts were deleted and after they were deleted.
Here is one of them with three images stitched together:
It shows me asking why all the pro-McCain comments are deleted. Then someone else replies. Then both remarks are deleted. All done within 2 minutes after the initial posting.

If none of your comments are being posted, you have somehow been identified as a spammer for previously posting too many urls.
To continue posting, you need to create a new name and put in a different e-mail address.

@ cincyr who wrote:
“If none of your comments are being posted, you have somehow been identified as a spammer for previously posting too many urls.”
You might add, “If any of your comments are pro-McCain or anti-Obama or Democrat you will be identified as one that ABC does not want commenting and will censor you.”
Big brother is here. People always said it would be the Republicans that would usher in Big Brother censorship, I never thought it would be the Democrats behind it all.

I had some totally innocuous comments deleted in the primaries. But what I said was civil and true. Their only crime was being pro-Obama. And I’ve seen other similar comments deleted too.
I think you need to take a second look at the comment review policy here. Transparency would help.

Belle Starr:
Agreed re pro-Obama posters are not regulated at all regarding defamatory and swearing posts. That has been my experience, and why i stopped commenting on these Tapper articles a few weeks ago.

Oh, please. Send the deleted posts to you and you will send them on? Give me a break.
It shouldn’t be necessary to copy our posts and check back to see if ABC’s henchmen allowed them to stand or if it was a “no free speech for Republicans” Day at Jake’s Place.
And no, I never post links. I know better than that.
Comment deletion is so common here that I’ve pretty much quit bothering with your posts. Consider this an exception.

Jake – I want to give credit where credit is due. None of my posts have ever been deleted.
In the interest of fairness, however, I want to disclose that this is my first post.
You should be advised that I intend to publish a book to be released on January 20, 2009 entitled “How Fair the Media Has Been Toward John McCain” – it will be a work of pure fiction. To give it some degree of credibility, I’m asking Gwenn I. to write the introduction on “The Appearance and Perception of Impartiality.”
It should be a best-seller (I hope) – I need the money.

attn ABC / jpt staff:
If you want an example of a needlessly-blocked post, I have one working right now in the “Crap Sandwich” thread.
The first time it didn’t go through, I edited it for length and for a paragraph possibly-questionable to an Obama operative. But it still won’t post.
But there’s no way to “send” it, you see, as jpt suggests.

Jake, Either you’re not being straight – or the censors aren’t being straight. Comments aren’t deleted because they contain certain acronyms, or because they contain profanity or because they are acrimonious (in fact, the nastier the better, as far as I can tell). They are not deleted when they contain outright lies, and only on a few occasions when they are outright plagerism from another site – even when they are called out. Censorship is random (from these posts it sounds like both anti-Obama and anti-McCain posts are deleted). There is one site with nastier comments – and that one seems to have no censorship at all. Posters are allowed to use “facts” from pseudo-sources like Investor’s Business Daily, which pretends to run financial tips – when it’s really the equivalent of WorldNetDaily. The article referenced above is part of an 18-part series, completely baseless, all of which discusses the Marxism of the Obamas. 18-part series. Somebody should tell her mama. I think she’ll be surprized. And after reading the Paulson bill, I don’t think we have to look too far to find the Marxists. If you need more help – try reading the House Alternative Bailout for Lobbyists. It suggests that we give tax breaks to companies who have overseas operations and have lost funds – effectively providing corporate welfare to corporations who have taken jobs away from Americans.

Jake, many of my posts have been deleted that are definitely not vulgar or untrue. Dem’s blogs which are downright vulgar and nasty to McCain / Palin have remained proudly on your board. If you noticed, I have not posted anything in the past several days as I had promised myself never to post again on your blog. I had convinced myself that the Obama Squad to silence any crtique against him had overtaken your blog – with your permission. If the outside company that monitors comments, which ABC News hired is doing this, then you may want to check to see if they are the SS for Obama. Woe to this Country if BO wins!
In any event, if any of my posts get deleted again, I certainly will not be posting (or reading) your board ever again! But I really don’t think that you care!

Ryan C: yep we can agree on that…I really don’t think there is bias, I just don’t get it…
Some disgruntled guy who just hates blog posters because they are all idiots? Heh.

Ryan– heh heh..
That’s my only explanation!

I had a comment deleted on the Biden’s” helicopter forced down” post – it was the first comment on the thread – that simply pointed out that NRO’s Media Blog had posted the same issue 2ce. That’s all I said. Made no slam. Poof.
I never thought Tapper was able to delete comments realizing a big, complex website doesn’t allow for isolated admin privileges. I figured it was a monitoring department.
I do think every site reserves the right to monitor and delete inappropriate comments and content, but it’s very interesting a outside service would be policing for certain political views.

I’ve been spammed-which I don’t even know what it is-and deleted. I was deleted months ago for posting comments that are now allowed. I am a Democrat and anti Obama. It’s too late for articles like this. It was too late for the Rev. Wright stuff to come out. Obama has serious problems that have NEVER been addressed that I have posted and have been deleted. Does anybody here ever get the feeling they’re being watched?

Jake:
I too have had comments edited.

Good grief. Even now my comments are still being deleted. The Obamanists have no shame.
About par for the course. My comment was up for less than ten minutes before being deleted.
Delete count now up to four. Three under NRA related stories and one here. I will save this post, as I expect it will also be deleted. Let’s see how many times this evening my comments are deleted on a story about comment deleting!

Jake, back on July 24, 2008 for your topic “McCain Camp Rips Obama for Cancelling Troop Visit,” the following comment of mine was deleted:
Lee, I consider myself well informed. My problem with Sen. Obama is in part his lack of experience (3 1/2 years a U. S. Senator), but–in my opinion–he is wrong on ALL of the issues. Sen. Obama is in favor of wealth redistribution–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of continuing the ban on offshore drilling, which he says will not do anything to lower the price of gasoline–of which I disagree. Sen. Obama is in favor of womb-to-tomb universal health care–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of amnesty and an expedited path to citizenship for the 20,000,000 illegal immigrants–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of late term abortions–I am pro-life.
Now then you wrote: “…a president (Sen. Obama) they can be proud of not only for his brilliance and accomplishments but more for his character and ability to bring our country together, as he has proven already, behind a common goal.”
What accomplishments? Sen. Obama’s claim to fame is his speaking talent. He certainly is a great orator…as long as he is reading off the teleprompter.
His character? You are talking about the same Sen. Obama who sat in his church for 20 years and never heard the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach Black Liberation Theology. Yet even after seeing the YouTube clips, Sen. Obama allowed his daughters to remain in that church knowing that they were being indoctrinated with that theology. It wasn’t until the YouTube clips of Father Michael Pfleger came to light that Sen. Obama decided to leave the church–not based on theology, but politically motivated.
Ability to bring our country together? So far he hasn’t even proven that he can bring the Democratic Party together much less the country.

I will attempt to resend:
Jake, back on July 24, 2008 for your topic “McCain Camp Rips Obama for Cancelling Troop Visit,” the following comment of mine was deleted:
Lee, I consider myself well informed. My problem with Sen. Obama is in part his lack of experience (3 1/2 years a U. S. Senator), but–in my opinion–he is wrong on ALL of the issues. Sen. Obama is in favor of wealth redistribution–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of continuing the ban on offshore drilling, which he says will not do anything to lower the price of gasoline–of which I disagree. Sen. Obama is in favor of womb-to-tomb universal health care–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of amnesty and an expedited path to citizenship for the 20,000,000 illegal immigrants–which I oppose. Sen. Obama is in favor of late term abortions–I am pro-life.
Now then you wrote: “…a president (Sen. Obama) they can be proud of not only for his brilliance and accomplishments but more for his character and ability to bring our country together, as he has proven already, behind a common goal.”
What accomplishments? Sen. Obama’s claim to fame is his speaking talent. He certainly is a great orator…as long as he is reading off the teleprompter.
His character? You are talking about the same Sen. Obama who sat in his church for 20 years and never heard the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach Black Liberation Theology. Yet even after seeing the YouTube clips, Sen. Obama allowed his daughters to remain in that church knowing that they were being indoctrinated with that theology. It wasn’t until the YouTube clips of Father Michael Pfleger came to light that Sen. Obama decided to leave the church–not based on theology, but politically motivated.
Ability to bring our country together? So far he hasn’t even proven that he can bring the Democratic Party together much less the country.

Nice job Jake. This guidance will help. Thanks

Blogger M — all your posts are up. Maybe you’ve misplaced them since I tend to blog a lot, but they’re there.
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Jake, I feel like this is perhaps directed at me (as none of the others apply), but I can assure you this is not true. I just checked the Feith post, but I can tell you that I had that comment deleted 3 times before it went up. Terrye’s was deleted several times, too.
as for this comment:
MayBee| Aug 11, 2008 2:08:59 PM
It was edited as I said and remains so. I don’t know, maybe I was insulting in some way that I don’t recall, but I didn’t just lose my post in your volume of blogging.
I really do appreciate all of your hard work and you.
I’m not accusing you or anyone at ABC of bias, by the way. I think you do an amazing job.
I still don’t think your monitors are being completely straight with you, but I’ll drop it.
If they can edit posts, as they obviously can, why don’t they just strip out the URLs of otherwise acceptable comments?
Finally, there should be a statement near the comment entry site stating that posts containing URLS will be edited and/or deleted.
That would be helpful.
Thanks again.

Young man, your integrity is refreshing and appreciated. It is something that has been missing from the MSM for decades.
For those claiming there is no media bias, it would take from now until eternity to list even half of the ways in which the MSM distorts, twists, manipulates, omits and out right LIES about people and events in their on going support of the dnc and “The Anointed One”. As the efforts of the MSM increases exponentially, there will never be an end until they reach the point where a marist/socialist/islamofascit government is in place and then shuts down the MSM as not being in total support of the government.
Because what they see when they choose to ignore the open bias is that such never exists. A small example, when curic was suppose to be “interviewing” Gov. Palin, curic DEMANDED that her staff omit the word “GOVENOR” when referring to Gov. Palin. When questioned on this, curic contacted c bs executives and received approval. BIAS? No, there was no bias. When gibson “interviewed” Gov. Palin, he raised questions about some of her previous comments, when she questioned if she’d used those exact words, gibson LIED and stated, “those exact words”. Hmmmm, seems that the TRUTH is alien to him as well.
IF Gov. Palin committed the same gaffs and screw ups that “The Bloviator” committed/commits, the MSM would be all over her like ants on a cube of sugar.