Long-time readers know that I've been encouraging everyone to read the work of Evelyn Pringle, the investigative reporter who spent months looking into Obama's ties to the Illinois "Combine" -- a crook's paradise of unscrupulous businessmen and corrupt pols. Pringle previously had received great applause for her work exposing fraud and thievery in Iraq. She once was someone that the progs liked.

But Obama changes everything.

Lefty writers never lacked publication venues when they went after Democrats in the past. Older readers will recall that "progressive" pundits previously expended most of their hatred on Democrats, not Republicans. In the pre-net days, the "Progressive Mafia" (which consisted, in those days, of Cockburn, Vidal, the pre-switch Hitchens and a handful of others) filled many a column railing against Clinton, Dukakis, Mondale, Carter, and so forth. In 2000, Michael Moore and other like-minded dopes demonized Al Gore, thereby forcing us to endure eight years of Dubya. Rags like The Nation and Z Magazine pretty much existed to attack Democrats from the left flank. The New Republic assailed Clinton with such vigor that I started calling it The Newly Republican.

But Obama changes everything.

Obama may not be criticized. No matter how deep his corruption, Obama may not be criticized. The left had no problem with Michael Moore's portrayal of Al Gore as being somewhere to the right of Mussolini -- but anyone who tells the truth about Barack Holy Obama must be a racist.

And so Evelyn Pringle must be silenced.

OpEdNews’ Rob Kall is wondering whether to remove Evelyn Pringle’s articles because she “attacked Obama”. Kall says she did so because she is a Hillary supporter.

Pringle's response:

This is the first I heard of this.

I did not write my articles because I was a Hillary supporter. I wrote my articles because my investigation turned up what it did, even though I was absolutely not looking or expecting what I found. As a journalist and as a human being, I could not not write about what I found just because I am a Democrat!!!

I find it very disturbing that Rob would even consider such an outright censorship of truthful information.

Shortly after I wrote my first article, I put out a commentary of sorts saying that if anyone found one factual statement that was false or incorrect to contact me and show me where it was wrong and I would make a correction.

NOT ONE PERSON contacted with a single example of an untrue or false statement in any of the 11 articles I wrote.

I will be outraged if Rob removes those articles and I will make it known! I spent 2 and a half months of my life, unpaid, 12 and 18 hours a day 7 days a week, investigating the matters I wrote about and if he does something like this to me I will never forgive him.

The articles are up in full on Scoop and several other websites so if he pulls this, their removal from OpEd will stick out like a sore thumb on the internet.

After a further back and forth:

When I found out Obama was as corrupt as any Republican, I was not about to keep my mouth shut just because he was a Democrat. Believe me, I knew what might happen to me if I went public - but that was not reason enough to keep quiet either - at least not when you have a conscience like mine.

The thought of the Illinois political mob running this country is the most disgusting thing I can think of at this point.

Yeah I dislike McCain but I always knew the Republicans were corrupt bastards - Democrats were supposed to be different - well not anymore