Touchy touchy

Here is one of the many comments to the Washington Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, that the Post removed for being "profane hate speech that made personal attacks on Ms. Howell."

Ms. Howell, I look forward to the Washington Post printing a pie chart of this spreadsheet:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/...

When one sees $172,933 contributed to Republicans and $0 contributed to Democrats, one can reasonably conclude "the remark in my column Sunday that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to both parties" requires a full retraction.

As an ombudsman, does your job not entail representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens?

Please read the comments above and the comments to follow with the interests of the Washington Post's readship in mind.

Posted by: bartkid | Jan 19, 2006 1:42:10 PM | Permalink

Most of the rest were just about as innocuous. Yet, the the liberal blogosphere is being accused of being a "vulgarian force" by the likes of Jim Lehrer.