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Monday, December 19, 2011

Anti Albero Blogger Goes After Advertisers Once Again

I'd like to take a moment to reach out to all of our readers and especially our advertisers. The message you see below in bold is a message from one of the Anti Albero people to one of our advertisers. If you have been the recipient of such a message I have the following to say.

On a daily basis we field anywhere from 600 to 800 comments a day, most of which are rejected. When I contacted our moderator and read her the message she said, OK, what's wrong with that. On a completely innocent level she never picked up on the comment being a problem and went on to say, honestly, I thought maybe Michelle Obama had done an interview with National Geographic.

I want to make something very clear. The mere fact that HUNDREDS of comments are rejected on a daily basis shows there are some pretty sick people out there. Not a lot, just a hand full that try day and night to get racist comments to slip through. We work VERY hard at making sure these comments are clean. Do we make mistakes, absolutely. We are TWO people working extremely hard every day while some will do just about anything to make us look bad.

Now, did this tsjackson ever make an attempt to contact US about the comment, NO. Considering they are now contacting ALL of our advertisers clearly shows they are again out to destroy and I can pretty much assure you they are the original author of the comment. The time they took alone to contact all of our advertisers and not us convinces me of such.

That being said, to those this comment have offended, we apologize and hope you can forgive us? One thing is for sure, considering WE know how many of these type of comments come in each day, I can say with all confidence we do a pretty damn good job and eliminating such racism. I have removed the comment from the original Post but have put it up in this message to not only show you our human error but to also explain how the moderator thought it was something other than its intended racial attack.

Now, if you'd be so kind as to let us know any time something gets past us we'd greatly appreciate that very much. Like President and Michelle Obama or not, that is the President of the United States and his Wife. The intent of their message is uncalled for, racist and un American.

Thank you for your time and consideration towards my request for forgiveness.

During my visit I saw that the publisher allowed a comment through that commented on Lindsay Lohan's Playboy spread. It said "She got a million bucks for this. Mr's Obama got the same offer from National Geographic".

Is this the kind of racist, sexist attitude that you endorse? Would your customers approve of this? Please re-think your affiliation with this person.

tsjackson58@aol.com

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I bet if some real checking went on you would find the one complaining about the comment to the advertisers is the one that made the comment to begin with

Anonymous said...

Well done Joe. It says a lot about a man who faces such critisism head on. You are forgiven.

Anonymous said...

I think censorship is much worse then racial comedy.

Anonymous said...

A great Christmas Present would be Mayor Ireton dumping Jeff Simpson!!

Anonymous said...

For the fun of it I used to go to their sites and watch the train wreck. I grew tired of the Joe bashing and personal attacks on Joe's wife. I heard Mike Dunn and Barrie Tilghman were behind these sites somehow. You handled this well Joe.

Anonymous said...

i thought it was kind of funny