The Purpose of This Blog

The Huffington Post has positioned itself as a kind of progressive online newspaper and is operated by former Newt Gingrich groupie Arianna Huffington, who was also once married to empty suit California Republican pol Michael Huffington, who, and this is going to sound familiar to anyone who has been following the GOP, turned out to be a closeted gay. Arianna has since seen the light and has been largely a positive addition to the liberal media lineup.

However, part of being a progressive is having respect for the opinions of others and allowing all reasoned submissions on a discussion site to be aired, as it were.

Unfortunately, the sad truth is that HuffPo, as I will refer to it from here on in, is full of snippy limousine liberal moderators who engage in censorship when you either challenge the ideas propounded in a given article and do real damage to the author's thesis, or really go after one of its sacred media cows such as thankfully departed fatass Dick Cheney dupe Tim Russert. Like me, you might be on the shitlist of a moderator or two, who will then delete anything you submit, no matter how relevant or thoughtful it is.

An example of said behavior was when they ran an article about King of the Media assholes Robert Novak and his brain tumor (must be a pretty small lump) and didn't allow any reader input on it because the HuffPo vanguard knew that a slew of missives would have ensued eviscerating the Machiavellian conservative mouthpiece. Maybe Arianna has some kind of friendship with Novak, who really is a scumbag and who should have been jailed for treason for helping to out a covert operative, and didn't want to see him subjected to the inevitable storm of torridly negative reaction that he would have engendered. May Novak's death be slow and very, very painful.

In any event, as much as HuffPo is a private enterprise and can thus do whatever it wants, it's supposed posting standards are little more than an empty gesture since the moderators don't follow the guidelines and instead filter posters according to their own personal taste and agenda.

Okay, that being said, here is how this site will work:

I will re-post all my HuffPo submissions here and then reveal whether or not they have been posted on the site. I will also highlight messages that are just flat out inane or violate the printed criteria and were shown anyway.

In addition, I would like you to make copies of your posts and if one doesn't get through, send it to me and I will post it here with an end note about whether, if I was a moderator, I would have allowed it in. Please make sure you include a URL to the article you wanted to comment on. Your submissions to me must conform the HuffPo posting regulations since that is the point of this site: highlighting thoughtful dialogue that is being unfairly excised by supposed progressives.

As far as raw language goes, I don't care about that. If your post is viciously satirical and as long as it actually says something interesting and just isn't the same old "liberals/conservatives suck (which is often even seen on, as it turns out, HuffPo, such is their inconsistency)" etc that you see elsewhere, then I will run it.

Keep in mind, though, I am not interested in what you think about my posts. If you want to respond to them, go ahead, but that isn't the intent of this exercise.