Foxnews.com no longer has reader comments, hmmm! Are they EMBARRASSED of their fans' comments??

[K8-EEE]

I saw somebody on Freeperville complaining that Fox had purged all the existing reader comments and you could no longer comment on articles there.

There were a couple of tin-foil theories on why but, thinking as I do that Fox is just the Pravda branch of the RNC, I think they have concluded that the CREEEPY reader comments did not represent "conservatism" very well.

Or maybe they represented it TOO well?

Anyway, lurking Freepers, I think your Fox News misinformers are humiliated to be publicly associated with you weirdos, just IMO. Maybe the Whitney Houston comments were the last straw. That was some sick racist shit and was getting a fair amount of attention!

[LeftyMom]

1. The election is coming up.

The only thing worse for them than conservatives saying embarrassing and crazy things would be their complaining about how much they hate Romney.

[K8-EEE]

2. Ah!! That too! The official line is "they are rallying around Romney" but

You sure dont see that at FR or on the comments of the wingnut sites including Fox!

[KurtNYC]

4. hadn't thought of that. It fits. n/t

[KurtNYC]

3. Interesting. A couple theories

- People who scroll through comments and rant back don't click on ads. Therefore it is just bandwidth without income.

- Too many death threats, threats on the President or other posts that require law enforcement investigations

but I would rule out embarrassment since this is Fox we are talking about.

[K8-EEE]

5. Well, I wouldn't rule out embarrassment because

They constantly make the case that they are not racist and the Trayvon Martin / Whitney Houston / pretty much ANY black person stories kind of reveals that they are the preferred network of the Stormfront/Freeper crowd.

[KurtNYC]

12. they could just point to YouTube

where the comments are easily and sadly as ignorant, violent and obscene.

[K8-EEE]

13. True but we all know Fox talks "real American codespeak" to the goons

And they probably don't like it when they answer back in dumbass racist-ese!

[marlakay]

6. They don't want any chance

that even one person would be swayed out of their brain washing….

[K8-EEE]

7. Their truthiness doesn't like to be tainted with any truth n/t

[Ian David]

8. I think it's still working... on SOME

<snip>

And I thought Pakistan was our "friend". Also, has anyone else noticed the comment boards have all but disapearred from the articles? It's been that way for almost a week and so far this is the only article that has a comment board.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/25/pakistan-officials-doctor-jailing-was-payback-for-bin-laden-raid-us-need-to/#comment

[K8-EEE]

9. Do you think that was an error, to leave that comment board up?

I can't imagine why that article would have comments and all the others not....very curious!

It seems some bloggers have been showcasing some of the comments like these:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/20/trayvon-martin-a-little-thug-ghetto-monkey-fox-news-readers-set-new-high-water-mark-for-racism/


In any event, it appears to be a case of one sc u m bag Cuban-type (Zimmerman) offing some scummy b l a ck kid (Trayyy-Vonnnn)…in some trash neighborhood….

but now, because the dead kid’s a kneegrow, we have:

the BIG BAD FBI on this “important” case…and

the usual BLACK-RADICAL-PROTESTERS who can’t mind their own business!

[…]

Gated communities exist because people are afraid….& negros thrive on crime…Look at our prisons.


Sure they play to these people knowingly but they don't want it OUT THERE like that.

[freshwest]

10. The power of the Goebbels network is unaccountability. They can stop video being shared legally, but

They can't stop screencaps of the filth they stir up from the right wing cess pool. Just removing the evidence, is all.

[K8-EEE]

11. Check it out there is a site dedicated to creepy foxnews comments, their comment on it:

http://foxnewscomments.com/

In any event, this website’s source material is gone. Is Fox experiencing technical difficulties, or do they simply recognize how toxic their users are? My guess is the former, but, it doesn’t really matter much. The comments section, about a year ago, gained a huge influx of liberal-minded trolls. For every “hang ‘im from the highest tree” comment, there’d be another calling the commenter out as a KKK member. Fox’s comments section essentially became self-regulated, and the FoxNewsComments.com well ran dry. I’m as sad as I am grateful of it, because I did enjoy finding the most horrible (and horribly popular) comments, but at least there’s one nest of hate that’s been fumigated.