Over the last few hours, the more than 400 comments appended to the Huffington PostÂ’s news item on the attack in Afghanistan on a base being visited by Vice-President Dick Cheney have been expunged from the site. At first the comments were closed, then gradually shrunken and for a short time completely expunged from The Huffington Post as the heat on the Cheney hate fest built up over the day.
For earlier reports on this go HERE. (And here.) And for the PDF of the original file of the now erased Huffington comments, courtesy of Michelle Malkin, go HERE.
The comments now visible are evidently cherry-picked out of the original thread to give some sort of “tone” to the thread that it did not originally possess. It is really amazing what you can do to history with just a few strokes of the keyboard.Now it is one thing to close comments, another thing to erase them, but something else altogether different to actually “edit” the thread to give a false impression. That seems to be what has been done here. To what purpose and on whose orders is not known.
So far, the nearly 400 commenters whose words have been erased from The Huffington Post are, well, “unvailable for comment.”