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Sunday, January 9, 2011

News Palin Deletes Comments Critical of Palin, Leaves Up Comment Celebrating Death of a Child

Posted by on Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:17 PM

Like I said yesterday, Sarah Palin's operation is famous for deleting even mildly critical comments from the liar's Facebook page. A blogger was tracking the removal of critical comments—and none lasted long—when he spotted this comment:

tinakingisaclassact.jpg

The comment reads:

"It's ok. Christina Taylor Green was probably going to end up a left wing bleeding heart liberal anyway. Hey, as 'they' say, what would you do if you had the chance to kill Hitler as a kid? Exactly."

Obama London writes:

I think I literally gasped when I read that. Remember, Christina Taylor Green was the 9 year old girl killed by the shooter. Apparently she had been brought there by her mom, who thought she might get a kick out of meeting Rep. Giffords, having recently been elected to her student council.

I assumed, as a matter of course, that this particular comment would be deleted with greatest possible speed. So I kept hitting refresh, hoping to use this as an example to say, "You see, Palin's Facebook editing at least has the good judgement to remove clearly offensive content such as this." But it didn't come down.

By this point I thought it was likely that the staff person monitoring the page was simply no longer working—I mean, fair enough it's a Sunday, right? So I thought I would just satisfy myself that the page was no longer being edited by continuing to look for negative comments, assuming that either they would all remain live for the time being, or if the editor came back to work, that they would be removed simultaneously with the Christina post.

To test his theory—that negative comments were no longer being deleted because everyone at Sarah Palin, Inc., had gone to bed—the blogger posted a comment criticizing Palin. His comment was removed in under two minutes. But not the comment about Christina Green. That one was still up.

Read the whole thing. (Thanks to Slog tipper Nate.)

 

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Last of the Time Lords 1
Sarah will soon be on Fox news decrying how she's become a victim during all of this. My guess it will happen within a month.
Posted by Last of the Time Lords on January 9, 2011 at 5:29 PM
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You are most welcome, sir. Thanks for getting the word out! <3
Posted by Nate on January 9, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Urgutha Forka 3
Palin's idiot staffers probably didn't even know what the girl's name was. They likely were just told "delete anything that says anything bad about Sarah and leave the rest."

Sarah Palin's not exactly a genius. I'm guessing her staff aren't taking time off from Mensa meetings to patrol her facebook page either. The blind leading the blind and so forth...
Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM
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Come on, the comment had to be ironic. It's not surprising that Sarah & Co don't recognize irony, but Obama London must be tired.
Posted by beccoid on January 9, 2011 at 5:32 PM
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@1 - It's probably the first time I agree with you on anything but I'm going to think it'll be sometime this week after John Stewart and Stephen Colbert eviscerate Palin and Faux News on their show this week.
Posted by apres_moi on January 9, 2011 at 5:33 PM
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Yeah! Sarah Palin bad! SEE! Bad! PALIN bad!
Jesus fucking Christ we get it the lady sucks and I'd have to agree, but can we move on? How about this, you compile all the ways Sarah Palin and her camp suck and release it maybe once a month in one post. We don't need live feed coverage of every time she takes a crap.
Posted by PicanteWest on January 9, 2011 at 5:36 PM
w7ngman 7
#3 that or they didn't even understand what the comment was saying.
Posted by w7ngman http://userscripts.org/users/89370 on January 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM
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@4: it's hard for to tell whether it's ironic or not, considering where it's posted. And even if it is ironic, it is in extremely bad taste, and as long as you're deleting critical comments, you should delete that as well.
Posted by SavageLoving on January 9, 2011 at 5:45 PM
zeebleoop 9
"Sarah Palin's operation is famous for deleting even mildly critical comments from the liar's Facebook page"

there are still many, many pages of comments critical of palin still on the site:

Nicole Whisenhunt
Blood is on your hands now women!!!! whos next ms palin???

Jim Campbell
Pailin is a cunt

Kenneth Wright
The Arizona blood is on Palin's hands, and on Beck's, Limbaugh's, Bohner's, McCain's, the NRAs, and the hands of all you small brained Palin supportors.

those are on page 10 of the comments. i didn't see the tina king post, it's likely buried deeper in the string. but it looks like palin's team started deleting comments after a certain time and wasn't going back and just deleting negative comments.

so there are some that are lasting a long time. this doesn't excuse any of palin's behavior, and i'd like to see her humiliated out of the public spotlight, but making wild claims based on only partial evidence sounds like something tea baggers would do.
Posted by zeebleoop on January 9, 2011 at 5:59 PM
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Dan's only reason to exist is all the people he hates and obsesses over. Hate, spite and envy are the only things keeping him going.
Posted by sad sad sad.... on January 9, 2011 at 6:04 PM
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Whether or not it's ironic, the fact that it was left on the site is absolutely horrible no matter what the censors thought it meant. But, then again, perhaps the censors just got overwhelmed. It's certainly possible.

While I certainly agree that this highlights how ugly and regrettable Palin's rhetoric is, I don't like how this has turned all about Palin.
Posted by MBI on January 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM
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@10: And cock, don't forget cock. And cake—stale. And beer—draft.
Posted by Dan Savage on January 9, 2011 at 6:20 PM
svensken 13
Wow. Has anyone else notice the TeaParty army thats been sent to attack the Slog? Keith Olberman says they are sending online commenters all over the internet to stop any talk of their responsibility in this matter.
The army of paid commenters is RISING!!!
Posted by svensken on January 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM
jmcnyc 14
I thought this comment (http://bit.ly/esCesv) from a Michigan cop was as bad as it could get but I was wrong.

It was actually so unnerving I didn't post it yesterday as to not dial up the crazy.
Posted by jmcnyc http://bit.ly/jmcnyc on January 9, 2011 at 6:49 PM
TreGibbs 15
What a bunch of domestic terrorist assholes. Sarah Palin leads the pack... How unbelievably disgusting - and it shows just how despicable these people truly are. Vile filth.
Posted by TreGibbs on January 9, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Last of the Time Lords 16
DAN!!! Stop feeding the unregistered trolls!!!
Posted by Last of the Time Lords on January 9, 2011 at 7:16 PM
venomlash 17
@16: Moar like telling them what to feed him, amirite?
Posted by venomlash on January 9, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Canuck 18
@12 you must be remarkably easy to please on birthdays and Christmas...for your husband, at least...
Posted by Canuck on January 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM
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The poster of the comment has apologized- it was intended to be sarcasm but, as we know, that doesn't translate well on the net.

Follow the discussion here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment…
Posted by alisamc http://amcstubbornturtle.blogspot.com/ on January 9, 2011 at 8:18 PM
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@16 Troll is the new communist. Just because my opinion may be different doesn't mean that I am trying to incite an outrage from you. In fact if you read my first comment you'd know that I want the exact opposite. I mostly can't believe how much it fulfills Slog readers to sit around and agree with each other on something that any decent human being would find wrong. Yeah lets all talk about how much AIDS sucks!...eh I think I'll pass. As for being unregistered maybe I don't get the same rush from waking up and running to the computer to see what I can comment on in my little "community", but this live Palin shit is a little over the top. However I am not a troll.
Posted by PicanteWest on January 9, 2011 at 8:22 PM
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Crosshairs on Giffords and 19 other Democrats as a surveyor's mark and not a symbol of lock and reload, go out and shootum? Give me a break! The hate rhetoric of Sarah Palen, Beck, Hannity, Limbah, et al falling on the ears of a deranged person with access to an assualt weapon is akin to shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater and then denying any responsibility for those trampled as a consequense. At least admit (and perhaps apologize) for culpibility in a tragidy!
Posted by gss on January 9, 2011 at 8:31 PM
venomlash 22
@20: "In fact if you read my first comment you'd know that I want the exact opposite."
>"read my first comment"
>I go to check your MyStrangerFace profile
>it says that comment is the only one you've made on SLOG
GTFO.
Posted by venomlash on January 9, 2011 at 8:52 PM
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@22 Thats because I just registered, Poirot. I know you find it hard to believe but I can in fact comment with out being in your club.
Posted by PicanteWest on January 9, 2011 at 9:27 PM
venomlash 24
@22: If you wanted us to read your first comment, you'd have referenced it. None of the unregistereds are under the name "PicanteWest", so essentially, all we have connected to you is the two posts made after you registered. Which unregistered, pray tell, is yours?
Like I said, GTFO.
Posted by venomlash on January 9, 2011 at 10:38 PM
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So I complained on FB about all the rhetoric that leads to an environment that fosters violence such as this and got an immediate bounce back from all my rightwing friends that I was wrong. Hate speech from the right doesn't exist. Then I read down though the comments on the Stranger, HA and this poor guy's blog. I realize that most of them are just blow hard trolls who thrive on creating chaos, but you sometimes wonder after an event such as this....
Posted by kmq1 on January 10, 2011 at 12:03 AM
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23

Don't pay Junior any mind
He gets cranky when he stays up past his bedtime
Also his mommy doesn't make him take his Concerta on the weekend.
Plus he can't read worth a damn......
Posted by Calvln on January 10, 2011 at 5:28 AM
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18

THAT's pretty tacky.....

you know Danny looks elsewhere for his "treats".

sure, he may let Terri come to the three-way
but only to watch.....
Posted by ....oh, and to babysit also on January 10, 2011 at 5:34 AM
venomlash 28
@26: You mad.
Posted by venomlash on January 10, 2011 at 6:45 AM
29
I'm glad Dan is reasonably tolerant of critical comments. The Slog comment thread wouldn't be the same w/o the trolls.
Posted by Ken Mehlman on January 10, 2011 at 8:13 AM
30
As 19 pointed out, it turns out that comment actually was meant sarcastically and Palin's goons just deleted all of the poster's other, clearly negative, comments, depriving it of context.
http://i.imgur.com/dUMdl.jpg
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comment…
(scroll down, look for comment by icannotshant)
Posted by thryn on January 10, 2011 at 9:29 AM
31
Hi Dan - Thanks for posting to my blog
Posted by karinjr on January 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM
32
However, for the record... I am female. ;)
Posted by karinjr on January 10, 2011 at 2:56 PM
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@Last of the Time Lords - Took about a day actually.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canad…
Posted by bayashi on January 12, 2011 at 1:07 PM

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