JF Beck has been on the case exposing Loewenstein's glass jaw for a little while now but if there's one thing that can be said for the serial censor it's that his skin is as thick as his intellect.
In response to a post Is the US headed for another great depression? that describes US military expenditure as an 'insane burden' I wrote what I considered a reasonable response and included a link to a piece I'd done showing US defence spending as a percent of GDP since 1940.
Post submitted. Post censored within about 15 minutes.
Here it is. You work out why it would be censored:
I then responded to another comment with:
That's all true and correct in the real world but it's completely contradictory to what passes as reality in Loewenstein's truth-barren parallel universe.I then responded to a post Oil law hit's more bumps in the road with:
By 'almost none' it's actually around 16% but people have a view that it's the major source and that's why we're involved in Iraq. I'm actually preparing a post on that subject at the moment. This post was sunk immediately and you can see below that BenZ makes a very similar enquiry about the apostrophe an hour and a half later and...that it's fixed.
According to a post at JF Beck's site, Andre states that "Ant and I are strongly against censoring comments unless of course, they get seriously out of hand."
Do my comments really constitute being "seriously out of hand"? Perhaps I'm being censored for having a history of calling Loewenstein's intellect into question, a position that puts me in the vast majority of people familiar with his work.
I've been blogging for three months, have had a surprising 13,000+ unique visits and have not ever censored a comment.
Unlike Loewenstein, I'm not afraid of being challenged on, and arguing, any of my positions.
2 comments:
I wonder if Loewenstein censors trackback as well.
I've just pinged http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/05/13/is-the-us-headed-for-another-great-depression/ with a trackback from your post.
I reckon it's got as much hope as anything else that goes into Loewy's moderation.
What an asshat.
The answer is apparently yes. He censors trackback as well.
I would have thought a career media-whore would realise that any publicity is good publicity, but we know how Antony really is about debate.
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