Our story thus far: 1. WaPo's [cough] ombudsman, Little Debbie Howell, gets her facts wrong on Abramoff and smears all Democrats.

2. Dems call bullshit on her in the comments section of the Post's blog.

3. WaPo yanks the comments.

4. Jim "***" Brady goes on Hugh Hewitt to defend his paper--repeats Howell's lies, and smears Kos and Atrios too! (ibid.)

5. Then WaPo changes course, and puts some of the posts back (I wonder why they did that?). Apparently, the Post thinks that Dems just aren't Dignified enough. Or Civil. Here's a little gem of corporate-ese:

Some previously posted comments have been returned to post.blog. Specifically, all comments that meet washingtonpost.com's standards for community interaction have been returned to the post  "Deborah Howell Responds."

Lovely. Twenty years of Limbaugh calling all Dems traitors, Bush doing the same thing, and now the Post is worried about the state of American political discourse. So worried, in fact, that calling Debbie Howell incompetent comes under the heading of hate speech. Mercy!

All over a 300 comment thread with maybe a troll or two--something all of us deal with every day, without, unlike the troll or WaPo, being paid to do it.

Read the comments the Post doesn't want to you see. They look pretty innocuous to me. I mean, Brady is all upset about a post with some asterisks in it. But then I don't have the tender sensibilities of Steno Sue or Judy "Kneepads" Miller.

Grow up, WaPo.