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There have been a couple references in this letters thread to some posts by ShawnWM that were deleted. Also, this past weekend, I read about other posts (one was by a "JohnCP", I think?) being deleted. By the time I read through the letters threads, apparently these posts had already been deleted, so I did not get to read them. Also, it seems that most of these specific posts were particulary negative towards Obama and perhaps even contained specifically racist comments.
Did anyone read these posts? JasonF provided one by ShawnWM earlier in this thread. What did these posts say? How often does Salon delete letters? Has Salon deleted posts that are negative about Clinton?
If there is a particularly negative or vile post, then I can understand why Salon would want to delete it. However, I can't help but think of these deleted posts in the larger contact of the pro-Clinton tilt on Salon. It's a common complaint by Joan Walsh and many Clinton-supporting posters that many/most of the Obama-supporting posters are mean and negative towards Clinton. Others (including myself) have repeatedly challenged Ms. Walsh et al. to acknowledge some of the equally offensive posts about Obama. I would hate to think that there is a preferential pattern to which posts are deleted.
Who knows, maybe there are a lot of vile anti-Clinton posts that have also been deleted. But I don't remember seeing so many specific references to those types of posts being deleted. Anyone else notice this?
