"O Villain, Villain; Smiling, Damned Villain!"

Shakespeare. A quote for every occasion.   

Everybody knows that the New York Post is best used to mop up the mess left by an overflowing toilet.

But did you also know that a reader's dissenting opinion is disallowed?

Let me paint you a picture, shall I?

Amir Taheri is a neocon hack writer with ties to every other neocon hack writer--and politician--who helped sell the Iraq War.

This routinely debunked keyboard-for-hire wrote a column for today's Post--itself the "Official Home of the Hack Writer's Club"--in which he claimed Barack Obama is secretly attempting to delay U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq.

So I did as I often do when I spot bullshit in a newspaper; I wrote a short, pointed rebuttal for the "comments" section where fellow readers could see it.

I'm not naive enough to believe this changes the minds of the true believers, but my two cents is worth at least as much as theirs, and I earned mine honestly.

By researching who writes such things.  

Here's the comment I left--twice:

Taheri is affiliated with Benador Associates, a neocon P.R. firm.
His writings have been discredited worldwide on numerous occasions.
Leave it to the NY Post to trumpet a discredited writer.
How long until Hannity and the rest of the boobs on FOX News abuse the synchronicity of their corporate umbrella--News Corp--and begin echoing these bogus allegations?

And here's the message I got when I pressed "submit"--twice:

We are sorry, an unexpected error occurred.

"Unexpected", my ass.

Maybe Rupert Murdoch himself was moderating comments this afternoon.

I've forwarded this post to the cretins at the Post.

I asked them to leave it with the rest of the reading materials in Rupert's private, executive john.