CBSNews.com Turns Off Comments on Obama Stories

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CBSNews.com Turns Off Comments on Obama Stories



Today CBSNews.com informed its staff via email that they should no longer enable comments on stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The reason for the new policy, according to the email, is that stories about Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

"It's very simple," Mike Sims, director of News and Operations for CBSNews.com, told me. "We have our Rules of Engagement. They prohibit personal attacks, especially racist attacks. Stories about Obama have been problematic, and we won't tolerate it."

CBSNews.com does sometimes delete comments on an individual basis, but Sims said that was not sufficient in the case of Obama stories due to "the volume and the persistence" of the objectionable comments.

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CBSNews.com has no plans to disable comments on stories about the other presidential candidates, according to Sims. As for comments on Obama stories, he said the site is open to eventually bringing them back.
"We'd like to be able to return to them, and I'm not ruling that out," said Sims. "But at this point it's not possible."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/05/04/publiceye/entry2761854.shtml

[TwilightGardener]

1. That's a real shame. As he goes up in the polls and starts to

become a real possibility for prez, I expect the wackos to get even busier. And I expect more "Magic Negro" shit from Limbaugh to fan the flames.

[liberal N proud]

2. Exactly, there are too many racist pigs in the country

[Oddball]

3. American Racism

In my home state, Georgia, the General Assembly has been debating whether the government of the state of Georgia, as an entity, should apologize for Slavery. And there has been debate against it.

This is the state that, a while back, had major debate over removing the Confederate battle flag from the current state flag.
The Republican Party has in the past, and continues to use in the present, a "Southern Strategy" to appeal to bigots.


Racism is alive and well all over America. Along with apologizing for Slavery, what about apologizing for Jim Crow laws, voting rights discrimination, and other forms of racism and discrimination? I mean, some of the perpetrators of these offenses are still alive and well, and so are their victims.

The thing is, most of the perpetrators of these offenses aren't sorry in the least. And they are the types who have been emailing bigoted remarks about Obama to CBS.

[edwardsfeingold08]

4. I hope youtube does something too.

I've seen some mind blowing racist and threatening comments on there.

[nevergiveup]

5. The problem is

when we let these racists win. I hope Obama hangs in there because we can not let these pigs prevail. This is not an endorsement of Obama although I do think he is a bright man with an honorable vision for America. Win or lose he is breaking ground and as a result we will be a better nation.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. It also hides reality

There are real racists out there and CBS wants to pretend they don't exist.

[Red Zelda]

7. Ah, Dumbfuckistan at it's finest

What a jar of shit this country is.