Inexplicable Edits on Sarah Palin's Facebook Page

[stevedeshazer]

:wow:

You gotta read the whole thing.

http://obamalondon.blogspot.com/2011/01/inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html

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Sarah Palin has a reputation for being an agressive editor of comments on her Facebook page - a reputation that has always seemed likely accurate to me, given the tedious consistency with which all comments on the page are along the lines of "I love you SARAH!"

But in the wake of the terrible events in Arizona, with many commentators pointing out the obvious fact that Gabrielle Giffords had been targetted by Palin in the November election on a map that used a chilling gun site graphic, I thought it would be worth watching her page for a little while to see if her team were indeed deleting negative comments routinely. But I had no idea how incredibly, almost comically, efficient her people would turn out to be in deleting comments that were even slightly critical of the former Governor. And then I came across... well, what I guess you'd have to politely call an appalling example of editorial misjudgement at best.

Here's what I found, from a brief sample achieved by the simple expedient of hitting the refresh button repeatedly over a short period of time:

http://obamalondon.blogspot.com/2011/01/inexplicable-edits-on-sarah-palins.html

[stevedeshazer]

1. "It's ok. Christina Taylor Green was probably going to end up a left wing bleeding heart liberal"...

They left that comment up. That one's OK.

:grr:

[gateley]

2. A responder wrote that if you are a Fan you can click on Flag and the post

will be deleted. Don't know if this is automatic or not, or if it is the Palin Patrol. Does anybody know if that's accurate? If I'm a fan of yours and I think someone is dissing you, can I just flag it and have it disappear?

[EFerrari]

3. This is an excellent analysis. n/t