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Today CBSNews.com informed its staff via email that they should no longer enable comments on stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The reason for the new policy, according to the email, is that stories about Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

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TechnologyExpert
May 5, 2007, 10:50 a.m.
What a sad state of affairs we have that after all this time, this sort of thing still happens.
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tiurok4500
May 5, 2007, 11:28 a.m.
That is just very very strange. And as I think about it may show a way in which the Net can be one of the most UGLY mirrors of our who our country is made up of. On the other hand, of course, there are amazing things the web does for us. But this is just creepy.
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GoldRush
May 5, 2007, 2:19 p.m.
This is designed to censor public comment and tacitly endorse Mr Barrack Hussain Obama. This meets everything CBS has been accused of over the past several years. By the way, didn't Dan Rather work for CBS?
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simonsez
May 5, 2007, 2:47 p.m.
They might just as well stop comments on all stories then. What about all the nasty comments about Bush, Cheney, Kennedy, Hillary, etc.
This has a slight odor.
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jumpmaster
May 5, 2007, 10:45 p.m.
It looks like the Hillary camp got to CBS.
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