yawn go back to kosland chump.

Huzzah.

Seriously Mods, if you're going to remove something from the rec list (and leave up stuff more than 24 hours old) you've got to post a reason, somewhere.

Or, preferably, post your comments in the thread and let them stand on their merits.

I know not every post can accuse Obama of flipping Hillary off, but even the ones dealing with tiny meaningless issues of voter suppression -- intentional or otherwise -- deserve some airing.

threat of violence?

Meet me in Austin, you weaklings, I'll wipe the floor with you!!

In any event, that childish comment detracts from your diary.

a.  the diary wasn't "censored" if it is the robo-call one - it is still here.

b.  A diary could have dropped from the rec'd list because perhaps people who initially rec'd it changed their minds & unrecommended it.  I have that option - don't you?

the kos echo-chamber beckons you....

But if censorship is what it takes to get you out of here and to discourage even more smarmy Kossaks from coming to this place and turning it into a ghetto of bile (like they've done with just about every other internet neighborhood they moved into and proceeded to take over), then I say censor away!

SHAME ON YOU, apparently you think nothing wrong with wrongly accusing playing the race cardn.  THAT is sad.

By the way.  Apparently you graced us with the reminder to tune in to watch Hillary on BillO.

...are you taking bets that he will be better to a former first lady and sitting Senator than KeithO

Or did you want to remind us Obama made his appearance on FOX first?

The Dailykos Obama supporters are just terrified that the 50% of the party that disagrees with them will have a place to talk to each other....

This diary is 100% about trying to deny the 50% who oppose Obama a place to be heard.

They denied that voice on Dailykos.

And now they are actively trying to deny it on Mydd.

If they succeed then Hillaryis44 or the next level site will become the MAINSTREAM location where the left 50% meets the right 50% in the democratic party.

Do they really want the center to shift that far conservative?

I think that their best interest lies in being happy that mydd a progressive site serves as the meeting place rather than a much less progressive site.

They also removed from TOP of the rec list around noon, mumphrey's diary Racism on this Site.

Things must be bad in the Hillary camp that they need to suppress the occasional pro Obama diary.

But WTF happened to the netroots principle of self governed progressive political blogging?

Wasn't the user-based, bottom-up, self-policed blog the whole point of netroots and Storming the Gates

First they came for our user privileges, and I did nothing.

Then they came for the IP access points, and I did nothing.

And when they come for the few remaining Rec diaries, and I did nothing.

And now they come for me, there's no one left to protest.

I think the diary this thread refers to is still on the diaries list, just not the rec'd.  If so it seems more like editorializing than censorshiop, no?

I just checked, it seems to be still there.

on how long this stays on the rec list?

A few of my friends were permanently banned from Dailykos just for dissenting or opposing argument.

In addition, most Dailykos posters behave as pack of wolves posting all kind of idiotic comments on dissenting or opposing diary or opinion.
My suggestion to you just go back to dailykos and fix dailykos first.
MYDD is much, much better in this regard.

Bob Johnson is a Obama shill with a bit of an attitude. That said he shouldn't have been pulled. I sincerely believe in both the first and that old Voltaire saw so if you do you can't condone pullling him. The fact that he never stops troll rating and trying to kick people off Kos who don't agree with him is irrelevant. It's dangerous. If someone had been censoring someone in Munich in 1923 it might have saved everyone a lot of trouble but truth is not divisible.  

Censorship, especially regarding this widely-reported story, will lead to this site's implosion, if not the whole Democratic Party's.

Blogfather, indeed.

If the author of the diary has just left the "blacks" out of the title then I believe this discussion wouldn't be happening.  JMO.

Met a girl called lola and I took her back to my place
Feelin guilty, feelin scared, hidden cameras everywhere
Stop! hold on. stay in control

Girl, I want you here with me
But Im really not as cool as Id like to be
cause theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little yellow man in my head
And theres a true blue inside of me
That keeps stoppin me, touchin ya, watchin ya, lovin ya

Paranoia, the destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer.

Well I fell asleep, then I woke feelin kinda queer
Lola looked at me and said, ooh you look so weird.
She said, man, theres really something wrong with you.
One day youre gonna self-destruct.
Youre up, youre down, I cant work you out
You get a good thing goin then you blow yourself out.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer. silly boy ya self-destroyer

Silly boy you got so much to live for
So much to aim for, so much to try for
You blowing it all with paranoia
Youre so insecure you self-destroyer

(and it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(here it goes again)
Paranoia, the destroyer

Dr. dr. help me please, I know youll understand
Theres a time device inside of me, Im a self-destructin man
Theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little green man in my head
And he said, youre not goin crazy, youre just a bit sad
cause theres a man in ya, knawin ya, tearin ya into two.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

Truly depressing that this makes the Rec list.

But why should he have to leave "blacks" out of the title? It WAS targeting "blacks".

Why not ask him to just edit it to AA's?

Markos... the sheep are straying from the flock!

Here is how it works:

1: Something Racist happens (like attempted targeted disenfranchisment of AA voters), by the supporters of a candidate.

2: A Diarist notes in the title that something Racist happened, and points out that it was, in fact, targeted towards a certain race, which just so happens to be happening before a primary that  contains a member of that race.

3: The Powers that Be basically accuse the Diarist of either being racist or of stirring the racial pot somehow.

4: People get outraged

5: Other People get Outraged that some people are Outraged, because the target of the attacks doesn't agree with their view.

This is how Hannity does racism, you know... He loves to defend people who use racist terms by calling the people he offended "counter racists" or whatever...

It's pathetic for a progressive site to be behaving this way.

Democrats, is a Joke"

The GOPers have taken over as well as the race baiters on this site.  And guess what?  When Obama is the nominee, this site will be irrelevant, but DEAD if he becomes the President.  Have you thought about that one?

The owner of this site should be ashamed.  Ashamed that he let it become a haven for racist remarks against a DEMOCRAT, and ones to use in the general election.

And to delete Bob Johnson's diary which will become a MEGAPHONE on Daily Kos, which is the site that the media go to?

This site has become irrelevant.

Put Bob Johnson's diary back up, and if you have issue, fucking write one of your own to battle what he wrote, that is IF YOU CAN.

Honestly, you're being a whiner and wrongheaded.

I don't mind agitprop and stupidity getting deleted- either side's.  It just annoys.

As for posting that Big Hillary videoclip...in two years, or five, will you stand by it?  I mean, at one level it's a fun exaggeration of the emotion of the late 2007 political moment, it makes a point that Left activists do feel left out of the game.

But on another level, it's so demeaning that only the pathetic, the people who feel Republican lovels of both entitlement and desperate inferiority, can really like it.

Dropping a diary with a headline that had "racist connotations" from the recommended list but not changing the headline almost gives the impression a moderator thinks it is  O.K. to post racist remarks just so long as they are restricted to certain areas.

Whatever is being drunk, it is not kool aid.

I wonder if it was beyond the power of that person to change the 'offending' word or to ask the original poster to change the offending word.

Good way to bury bad news for Senator Clinton.

I would Rec this post, but like so many I had my rec privileges taken away with no warning or explanation.

Great diary Al Rogers, please keep writing here, we need experienced Diarists, alot of the stuff here is rather weak.

Thanks again.

Read this: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/15/1427 30/254

See, by removing the reccing abilities of those of us who prefer Obama, they can slowly but surely control the message, Republican style.

Far worse diaries have remained on the rec list, yet diaries pointing out the problems here get removed...right...

So let me get this straight.  You haven't posted a comment or a diary here in 3 years.  Someone was mean to BJ.  So you came to complain about someone being mean to BJ.  

This is the only thing you have come here for over 3 years.  I have to ask.  If you aren't a current poster here, why is it your business?

I'm thinking Bob went and got you and whined on DKos about all the meanies, and everybody came a runnin'.