Jack, I'm a fan of yours; read your column in Slate every week.  But, you blew it this time -- the incivility has been hyped wildly out of context -- as you should know from the Fray at Slate, some incivility (and there can be quite at bit in the Fray) does not mean that the rest of the comments are not valid.  The real problem from my point of view is that the Post has drafted their fellow journalists in their effort to change the subject: they did very sloppy work, feeding right into a wildly misleading Republican talking point.  That makes people upset; if some are incivil about it, delete them, but why on earth are we talking about what a bunch of commenters wrote on a blog, when we should be talking about what the Post wrote, and the deliberate corruption the Republicans have been flagrantly instituting for the last 5 yrs?

The Post is desperately trying to change the subject, and you helped them.  I think professional solidarity clouded your judgement on this one....