News For The Left posted this yesterday:

After seeing this post by John Aravosis on AmericaBlog, I was incensed and concerned at the same time. Here is the comment on O’Reilly’s blog that crossed the line:

If Hillary wins, I will be respectful of our leader. If you could read my thoughts, I would be on the SS [Secret Service] watch list.

So, I did what a responsible person should do when they see something like this on a blog. I called the Secret Service to report it. This comment isn’t about politics or defaming Senator Clinton. It outright states a threat to her life. It is unacceptable.

After reading this, I got thinking about when that bomb went off in Afghanistan that was targeting Cheney. People posted comments like “damn they missed” on Huffington Post about the incident. Of course the staff at Huffington Post did the reasonable thing and instantly shut off the comments on that post. That didn’t stop the rabid dogs on the right from launching a full assault against the Huffington Post and the left in general.

Now these comments appeared on a site that anyone can register to post on. You don’t have to pay to voice your opinion over there, just register for a free account and post away.

O’Reilly’s site is different. To post on his blog you need to pay $49.95 a year. To even access his forums, you must become a paid member. So why are posts like this allowed to exist? His posters don’t have the anonymity that people posting on Huffington Post do (or any other progressive site). They have a record of payment from their posters, which must contain their personal information.

So we got an example of a very popular right wing site allowing this kind of illegal talk to exist. Under federal law they should be reporting this information to the authorities to prevent any possible crimes. But they haven’t – and that isn’t the worse of it. To make matters worse, they haven’t posted it and they allow the comments to remain on their site.

Of course the Malkin’s out there won’t point out this hypocritical point that crosses the line of legality. Instead they will go to any extreme to protect their idol. It just shows why the left has dominated the blogosphere, while the right continues to fail. On the left we have adopted a code of ethics and conduct. Of course comments appear from people that cross the line, but every major site has moderators that instantly deletes them and bans the person if needed. The right don’t even allow anonymous comments, and yet this stuff is allowed to remain. Something is wrong here and it isn’t on our side of the blogosphere.