CBS News Turns Off Obama

Sorry for all of you who’ve already read about this but I couldn’t pass up posting this story. It seem that early this month CBSNews.com informed its staff via email that they should no longer enable comments on stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama. Why you ask? Because stories about Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

"It's very simple," Mike Sims, director of News and Operations for CBSNews.com. "We have our Rules of Engagement. They prohibit personal attacks, especially racist attacks. Stories about Obama have been problematic, and we won't tolerate it."

CBSNews.com does sometimes delete comments on an individual basis, but Sims said that was not sufficient in the case of Obama stories due to "the volume and the persistence" of the objectionable comments.

Ahhh, the wonderful world of online where any idiot can have a voice.