I have been a frequent linker to Hot Air, and a regular commenter there.
NO MORE, EVIDENTLY:
Since I posted a comment they didn't like about Michelle Obama resembling the missing link, they screen my comments.
I think it also has to do with the fact that - despite their reputation for fast hot links - I have scooped them 18 times this year and a few hundred times in the last few years.
What peeves me is this: many of the comments they allow and leave up have idiotic adolescent humor - like saying Bill Maher has small hands.
They're allowed to screen comments - I do. It's interesting what kind of crass comments they leave up. It shatters any claim they might have that they're screening mine for crassness. They are simply being pigheaded. It's their blog; they can be pigheaded if they want.
I will continue to give them hat-tips - why not? - I link to the NYTIMES all the time.
And I will continue to scoop the crap out of them - even though I'm a part-timer with a 10 year old laptop.
Update: BTW: we're #33 in Technorati in world politics:
33. THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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Auth: 749
THANKS TO YOU!
No thanks to Hot Air.
UPDATE:
DEAR HOT AIR,
I WAS AMONG THE FIRST BLOGGERS TO BE BANNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON AT LGF.
SO YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY!
You are, as advertised, astute.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty good comment screening accomplishment- but having pioneered the art of having my witty comments deleted right here off of this site, I like to think that I scooped you on this skill by about five years. So, you are a bit late, but in good company.
ReplyDeleteI am constantly annoyed with the attitudes of Ed Morrisey and Allahpundit. They often post one sided articles that fit their own personal agenda, and ignore issues they don't like. They may be ostensibly on our side, but they engage in the very same behavior as the Legacy media.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS RAVINGDAVE!
ReplyDeleteDAVE CYRUS: I ONLY DELETED COMMENTS THAT WERE PERSONAL ATTACKS OR OFF TOPIC OR ASSERTED FAKE FACTS OR PSEUDO-FACTS WITHOUT ANY BACKUP.
MANY COMMENTS WERE INADVERTENTLY LOST WHEN SWITCHING FROM ONE THREAD SERVER TO ANOTHER. NEVERTHELESS MOST OF YOU COMMENTS REMAIN UP.
I THINK BLOGGERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO MODERATE THEIR COMMENT THREADS.
I POINT OUT THAT HOT AIR LEAVES A LOT OF CRAPPY STUPID ONES UP BUT CHOSE TO DELETE MY GERMANE ONES.
RAVING DAVE AND OTHER REGULAR READERS OF HOT AIR KNOW WHY.
ALLAHP IS A LIB AND ED A SQUISHY CON. I LIKE ED A LOT BUT HE'S TOO NICE A GUY WHEN IT COMES TO THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE WORLD OF BLOGOSPHERE AND NEW MEDIA.
AND NOW THAT SALEM OWNS THEIR ASSES THEY WILL HAVE TO BE EVEN MORE CENSORIOUS.
BOTTOM-LINE: KICK THEIR ASSES AND I'M A PART-TIMER. THIS GETS THEIR GOAT.
This sounds a lot like Harry's Place; there they love the sound of their own voices but apart from that, no scoops( apart from the doggy type) just repulsive lefty marxist lingo and self-abuse by the cart-load.
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