Think Progress Scrubs Troubling Rhetoric from Website

Published January 26, 2012 1:05pm ET



With the Center for American Progress’s Think Progress blog under scrutiny for publishing what some would consider borderline anti-Semitic content, it would seem likely that bloggers over there might be careful about the content. (Even Think Progress’s editor Faiz Shakir admitted that some of the language used by employees of the liberal institution is anti-Semitic, according to an email obtained by the Jerusalem Post.) At least, one would think, the higher ups are presumably now being more careful, considering they backed away from the controversial content last week, as the Washington Post reported at the time.

But it seems that no matter how careful they might be, some bizarre and disturbing rhetoric is continuing to slip past the watchful eyes of editors and higher ups—that is, at least, for a little while before it gets scrubbed.

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