Peter Rost, M.D., is a former Pfizer Marketing Vice President providing services as a medical device and drug expert witness and pharmaceutical marketing expert. Judge Sanders: "The court agrees with defendants' view that Dr. Rost is a very adept and seasoned expert witness." He is also the author of Emergency Surgery, The Whistleblower and Killer Drug. You can reach him on rostpeter (insert symbol) hotmail.com. Follow on https://twitter.com/peterrost
Or perhaps the troll I suspected roamed the Huffington Post got to me first.
You can read the blog and readers' comments below, or in the link above.
11 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I just saw the whole thing happen. That has got to be the strangest thing I have ever seen happen on a major blog site. I tried to e-mail Arianna about it, but here mail box is full. Absolutly diabolical...
I wonder when HuffPo asked you to blog on their site, did they have avenues where you can file complaints or feedback with them i.e. you informing them of this "Troll"?
HuffPo has lost lot of credibility due to overblogging and a mess of opinions all over site (and I am a liberal). This "troll" seems to add to that.
I'm not sure if they censored it since I just opened it up without a problem. If they did in fact delete it it may not be censorship, you may have violeted their terms of service by posting someone's private information. It's considered a major faux pas to "out" someone's real identity on the internet. To me this looks like you got pissed off at someone who wrote nasty comments on your blog and then outed them. The only "weird" part is that the guy works for HuffPo and may have been abusing his position there, although your only evidence is that his comment was voted up quickly, in my book that isn't a lot of evidence but it is at least suspicious. So, have you made any effort to contact this person directly? Or to contact their supervisor?
Also, the guy was right about the internet being public. You will see .gov and .mil hitting your site all the time, they have bored people sitting in offices just like everywhere else. If "they" wanted to read your site you would not know about it.
Not sure if it was censored? It was the top story on the block just below Arianna's column for about an hour and then it was yanked!! People trying to post positive comments about the article were errored out of doing so and all references to this guys posts were removed from the site. As for outing this guy, he is listed by his screen name and his real name on the huffpost tech page!! He shouldnt even be allowed to post comments on the site at all, or at least have to identify himself has a huffpost employee if he does so. Face it, this guy is a troll and needs to be drug out in to the daylight...
I was able to get in a post or two to your blog at Huffingtonpost.com (the one about the Rendon Group as I posted the Rolling Stone article link and the additional links about Bamford as well). Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me for making posts about Mearsheimer and Walt (and similar) like the following one:
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
Huffingtonpost.com just banned me again within minutes for posting the following to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-freedom-to-blog-on-th_b_23712.html?p=2#comments as there is incredible censorship going on there:
The following was posted in the comments section of the various blog entries by Peter Rost via http://peterrost.blogspot.com
Dear Mr. Rost,
I was able to get in a post or two to your blog at Huffingtonpost.com (the one about the Rendon Group as I posted the Rolling Stone article link and the additional links about Bamford as well). Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me for making posts about Mearsheimer and Walt (and similar) like the following one:
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
Just noticed that Huffingtonpost.com even removed the above post from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-freedom-to-blog-on-th_b_23712.html?p=2#comments after I was banned for making it just minutes ago.
They are censoring anything on Israel because, the Zionists know the jig is up thats obvious.
Israel and the Zionists can't hide or play the blame game now that they've ruined our country, via neocon intervention.
Those losers are all the same now, just like the trolls such as returnofdrevil2, Al Rogers, Nan Ellen of the Daily "KOS" propaganda press.
6/25/2006
Very much agree with the above.. My HPCensoringBigTime Username was just banned at Huffingtonpost.com for posting on pages 1 and 2 of the comments at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/24/excia-aide-reveals-new-d_n_23738.html about the Zionist war for Israel agenda and the Mearsheimer/Walt paper on the pro-Israel lobby segment which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' program this past Friday..
Abraham Foxman (of the ADL) was hammered hard by the caller (a lady with the Brit accent calling from London) on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning as she mentioned the USS Liberty attack/cover-up (http://www.ussliberty.org) and Paul Findley's 'There Dare to Speak Out' book and Jim Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book as well (both the Mearsheimer/Walt and Abraham Foxman segments can be viewed online via the links at the following URL):
I got banned again minutes after posting the following at Huffingtonpost.com via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/25/dem-senator-now-it-tur_n_23773.html and other blog entries there (incredible censorship still going on as mentioned prior):
JINSA/PNAC Neocon Richard Perle: Why Did Bush Blink on Iran?:
11 comments:
I just saw the whole thing happen. That has got to be the strangest thing I have ever seen happen on a major blog site. I tried to e-mail Arianna about it, but here mail box is full. Absolutly diabolical...
Rost,
Any thoughts on what might have started this mess. I mean has this guy done this to anyone else or just you?
Peter,
I wonder when HuffPo asked you to blog on their site, did they have avenues where you can file complaints or feedback with them i.e. you informing them of this "Troll"?
HuffPo has lost lot of credibility due to overblogging and a mess of opinions all over site (and I am a liberal). This "troll" seems to add to that.
I'm not sure if they censored it since I just opened it up without a problem. If they did in fact delete it it may not be censorship, you may have violeted their terms of service by posting someone's private information. It's considered a major faux pas to "out" someone's real identity on the internet.
To me this looks like you got pissed off at someone who wrote nasty comments on your blog and then outed them. The only "weird" part is that the guy works for HuffPo and may have been abusing his position there, although your only evidence is that his comment was voted up quickly, in my book that isn't a lot of evidence but it is at least suspicious. So, have you made any effort to contact this person directly? Or to contact their supervisor?
Also, the guy was right about the internet being public. You will see .gov and .mil hitting your site all the time, they have bored people sitting in offices just like everywhere else. If "they" wanted to read your site you would not know about it.
Not sure if it was censored? It was the top story on the block just below Arianna's column for about an hour and then it was yanked!! People trying to post positive comments about the article were errored out of doing so and all references to this guys posts were removed from the site. As for outing this guy, he is listed by his screen name and his real name on the huffpost tech page!! He shouldnt even be allowed to post comments on the site at all, or at least have to identify himself has a huffpost employee if he does so. Face it, this guy is a troll and needs to be drug out in to the daylight...
Dear Mr. Rost,
I was able to get in a post or two to your blog at Huffingtonpost.com (the one about the Rendon Group as I posted the Rolling Stone article link and the additional links about Bamford as well). Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me for making posts about Mearsheimer and Walt (and similar) like the following one:
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54755
The following includes the comments page at which I posted what was mentioned above:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-rost/how-a-public-relations-fi_b_22912.html?p=2#comments
Here is a tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/g6jkk
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
Huffingtonpost.com just banned me again within minutes for posting the following to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-freedom-to-blog-on-th_b_23712.html?p=2#comments as there is incredible censorship going on there:
The following was posted in the comments section of the various blog entries by Peter Rost via http://peterrost.blogspot.com
Dear Mr. Rost,
I was able to get in a post or two to your blog at Huffingtonpost.com (the one about the Rendon Group as I posted the Rolling Stone article link and the additional links about Bamford as well). Huffingtonpost.com has been banning me for making posts about Mearsheimer and Walt (and similar) like the following one:
Why aren't we discussing this Mearsheimer/Walt segment on the pro-Israel lobby which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning?:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54755
6/24/2006
The following includes the comments page at which I posted what was mentioned above:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-peter-rost/how-a-public-relations-fi_b_22912.html?p=2#comments
Here is a tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/g6jkk
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
By: HPcensoringtruthhere on June 24, 2006 at 03:01pm
Just noticed that Huffingtonpost.com even removed the above post from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-freedom-to-blog-on-th_b_23712.html?p=2#comments after I was banned for making it just minutes ago.
Anonymous said...
They are censoring anything on Israel because, the Zionists know the jig is up thats obvious.
Israel and the Zionists can't hide or play the blame game now that they've ruined our country, via neocon intervention.
Those losers are all the same now, just like the trolls such as returnofdrevil2, Al Rogers, Nan Ellen of the Daily "KOS" propaganda press.
6/25/2006
Very much agree with the above.. My HPCensoringBigTime Username was just banned at Huffingtonpost.com for posting on pages 1 and 2 of the comments at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/24/excia-aide-reveals-new-d_n_23738.html about the Zionist war for Israel agenda and the Mearsheimer/Walt paper on the pro-Israel lobby segment which aired on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' program this past Friday..
Abraham Foxman (of the ADL) was hammered hard by the caller (a lady with the Brit accent calling from London) on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning as she mentioned the USS Liberty attack/cover-up (http://www.ussliberty.org) and Paul Findley's 'There Dare to Speak Out' book and Jim Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book as well (both the Mearsheimer/Walt and Abraham Foxman segments can be viewed online via the links at the following URL):
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30
Here is the tiny URL for the above one:
http://tinyurl.com/dl5na
Additional at following URLs about how MSNBC's Keith Olbermann dissed the Mearsheimer/Walt paper:
MSNBC's Olbermann Disses Mearsheimer and Walt Critique:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=412
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/stopcollection.htm#james_morris
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
I got banned again minutes after posting the following at Huffingtonpost.com via http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/25/dem-senator-now-it-tur_n_23773.html and other blog entries there (incredible censorship still going on as mentioned prior):
JINSA/PNAC Neocon Richard Perle: Why Did Bush Blink on Iran?:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=54827
http://nomorewarforisrael.blogspot.com
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