I suspect he deleted the post. Rosenberg seems to be something of a controversy magnet. Not that he'd seek that status, or anything...

I still have the post and comments. Not sure if I should post it here or not, but I'll show M.J. some mercy, against my better judgment.

I went nutso, four months ago? Somebody 'hit me' and I pulled the blog.

Sometimes there is a reason.

I have not done that since.

I mean you can always 'edit'. It is soooooooo easy.

Oh, Dick. You're not being picked upon, I more than understand your point. In an unusual circumstance, removing a blog is plausible. Especially in the beginning when we're all unsure.

No camparison is being made here ... trust me.

Yes, I second DanK's comment that this is a tradition for M.J. Rosenberg going quite a ways back.

(I recall that one of the earliest times he did it--this was back when reader bloggers couldn't do it, but contributors already had the software we all have now--it had a lot of comments on it, and someone complained on his new thread. And he answered that complainer that the software allowed him to delete whole threads, and no one told him he couldn't or shouldn't delete them, so as long as he wasn't told otherwise, he was going to delete them if he didn't like how they were going as he saw fit.)

But since this is a thread that seems destined to hit the charts, I would like to add that the site now seems to have another, newer contributor that seems to have a prediliction for doing this, too: the contributors cross-posting from Mondoweiss blog.

So far, it doesn't seem to me that the Mondoweiss people do it because of what comments say, they do it because they have more than one person posting, and there is some kind of automatic feed posting the things here, and when a person from their blog shows up here and sees he might want to alter or fix a post a bit, so he takes the first one down and puts another up under his own name? And while they are busy doing that, they aren't even aware of the comments or don't think comments matter much, are unimportant, not anything they need to read, and can just go in the trash?

My warning to all: if you take time to make thoughtful and/or lengthy comment on a thread by M.J. Rosenberg or the Mondoweiss people, you have to to save a copy of your work on your computer as you never know when it might disappear.

I wish MJ would delete more of his posts, actually. 70% of what he posts is impulsive garbage like, Hey, look at this article I just read! A high school student could do a better job.