Wingnuts in bloom, another downside: LVJR to roll on comments
Tough choices often present themselves at the worst of times. The editor Mitchell's choice to err on the side of caution, while perhaps somewhat understandable, fails to live up to newspapers' historic role and undermines the very often wild conversation with readers that newspapers need in order to move forward.
As for the legal boilerplate defense: We'll go with a comments proxy.