It’s getting to be a full-time job monitoring AOL/Huffington Post for the ad hominem attacks they want to avoid, but we don’t mind helping for the public good.
Jason Linkins, Banned from HuffPo Front Page! Today, Huffington Post’s Mario Ruiz announced a new policy-that someone who engages in an “ad hominem” attack (even if it’s not in the pages of HuffPo )”violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, we will no longer feature his posts on the front page.”
Seems a reasonably clear rule.
First on the docket: Here’s what HuffPo writer Jason Linkins wrote in 2008 about right wing writer Jerome Corsi:
I want to end today by offering my thanks to Jerome Corsi, white-supremacist Swift Boat turd heel un-American wouldn’t-piss-on-ya-if-you-were-on-fire foamy chancre on the ass of subhumanity extraordinaire. You want to talk about voter enthusiasm? Well, Mr. Corsi, the thought of casting vote against everything you stand for doesn’t just make me feel enthusiastic, it makes me feel ten feet taller, and I get the coppery taste of the gladiator in my mouth. So thank you, pig. [E.A.]
Seems ad hominem to me! It’s almost hard to see how you could be more ad hominem…. Since Linkins clearly violated the tenets of debate and civil discourse HuffPo has strived for since the day they launched, he’s as good as gone from their front page. Open and shut. … Looks like the “nether regions” of HuffPo will be where you have to go to get the juicy stuff. … [Linkins on HuffPo front page right now–ed. That can’t be. Someone tell Arianna.]
I’m sure we’ll see this author banned immediately in keeping with AOL/Huffington Post’s new and fairly and rigidly applied anti ad hominem rule.
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