And salvaging from various caches I can only recall one comment that I would have deleted. It had no particularly content and described Howell (if I recall right) as "a lying little bitch". Obviously this was inappropriate, would never have been printed in a regular Letters to the Editor piece, but should and would have been deleted from any comments section pretty much anywhere. But I suspect the regular LTE folk encounter that much language in the course of any given day and worse. People who were monitoring the posting in real time noted that posts were going up immediately (i.e. with no evidence of real time monitoring and deletion) and did not see this torrent of profanity.

If the Washington Post really has an archive of abusive posts they should produce it in print form for an independent panel to assess. Because frankly I don't believe it.