Terry Jeffrey has turned CNS into a honey trap for racists, homophobes, misogynists, and other just plain hateful readers who hang out in the website’s comment forums.
That continues in a July 18 CNS article by Eric Scheiner in which he quotes Democratic National Committee chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz telling a women’s gathering that it should focus on electing women to Congress who will work for “ensuring access to birth control.”
Scheiner’s article brought out misogynistic readers who not only engaged in the usual sexist jokes about her looks, they called Wasserman Schultz a “bitch,” a “slut,” a “whore,’ “heifer” and a “wench” who should be “moving to NY and turning tricks near the Holland Tunnel,” “needs a bucket of fast drying cement poured down her throat,” not to mention should have been aborted. One reader served up a more explicit death threat: “Let’s drag her behind a car.”
Some of these comments date back three days, which says that either CNS doesn’t monitor its comments or nobody flagged them as offensive. Both possibilities raise questions about CNS and its readership.