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If you are MoveOn.org and trying to win an election it makes sense to disable the web based discussion forum in the weeks leading up to the election right?

As we did in 2004, we’ve suspended ActionForum for the final push to the election to conserve technology bandwidth. ActionForum will be back after the election.

Well that is one theory as long as you subscribe to the belief that George Soros can’t afford to fund the extra bandwidth needed to keep the forum alive.

Another theory is that they are trying to protect the Democrat Party from the rampant anti-Semitism and racism that has found its way onto one of the lefts feature discussion groups.

The forum went down, then came back up under heavy moderation. It appears that re-enabling the forumn still provided access to some questionable content even though they attempted to remove it. It now looks to be down for good

What could have caused such a commotion? Moveon - Please Move On has the goods. Here are a couple samples which have since been removed from the MoveOn site.

MoveOn.org-er: Jews Deserved to be Exterminated

9 of 12 Action Forum members agree, “By blaming Hitler you don’t have to face the truth.”
http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?&comment_id=309094

The Jews have 9,000 prisoners the Arabs have 3.
It’s the Jews that are trying to push the Arabs into the sea by occupying and annexing their land, bulldozing refugee camps and orchards.
The Jews are killing the Arabs on a ratio of 10 to 1.
The Palestinians live in a prison, no way in or out without passing through an abusive Jewish guard gate.
The Jews demand that the Pals. disarm prior to any negotiating of what if anything they’ll get back. That is called begging not negotiating.
Nearly 3/4 of the entire Jewish population was exterminated. If you can’t tell us why, We are stuck with logic and commonsense.
I’m saying Jews instead of Israelis because I read the Israeli newspapers, the “Israeli Lobby” papers and have seen the House vote 410-8 in support Israel while the UN typically votes 191-4 against Israel. Also the billions in aid and military equipment are conspicuous. The world court unanimously voted against Israel.

By blaming Hitler you don’t have to face the truth.

I will stop condemning Jews when they become acclimated with all people.

Stop professing to know and start reading.

posted by Winged Hussar 1683 at 10:01 AM | 0 comments

“fat, white, rich Christians”

http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?comment_id=228956

We would have more women candidates, more black, hispanic, asian descent, native-american, middle eastern descent that truly represent our society. Not fat, white, rich Christians who represent themselves and their fat rich friends.

4 of 4 Action Forum participants voted to AGREE

http://www.actionforum.com/forum/scores.html?&comment_id=285174

First, you’re right about one thing: Bush is no Hitler. Hitler was a socialist and believed in something beside money. He did not dodge real military service and he believed at least in Germany which was a real nation and not a corporation like the US. Moreover, Hitler did not use depleted uranium and phosphorous to burn people alive. He did not condone the torture of prisoners “for fun” or “to relieve stress”.

["I knew Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a friend of mine. And believe me, Mr. Bush, you are no Hitler."]

The Google videos associated with these posts have been removed as well. Other topics from various posts on the forum:

• Bin Laden no worse than Bush
• Islam respects women’s rights, Jews and Christians don’t
• “Mother ‘jumping’ Jews”
• Black soldiers should mutiny or desert
• Republicans are racist and homophobic pigs
• Bush = Hitler
• Vietnam Veterans were “Mercenaries”

Irasapundit responded to people who have questioned the attempts to tie MoveOn to the language of its members.

I posted material that called MoveOn a liability to the Democratic Party, and said MoveOn’s members were encouraging racism and anti-Semitism by agreeing with racist and anti-Semitic postings. My material was found and deleted very promptly, thus proving that MoveOn also saw the anti-Semitic and racist material but chose to let it stand. MoveOn’s exercise of editorial control in that manner proves MoveOn a bigoted hate organization, just as Indymedia’s deletion of articles that point to Islamofascist oppression of women and gays proves that Indymedia’s support of women’s and gay rights is lip service at best.

This is simply another example of the far left rearing its ugly head. Unfortunately for Democrats they have embraced this community even when they don’t necessarily share the same racist and anti-Semitic views. Not supporting those views and embracing the group at the same time doesn’t fly for me.

Read many of the comments that have been removed from the forum here. Hat tip Irasapundit.

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