I just saw this question and had that thought. My other thought is, why can lib-tards not play above-board?

"Is Amazon.com Deleting New Conservative Book Reviews?
By Warner Todd Huston on (Aug 11, 08)

So, here is a curious thing. I have been reviewing books at Amazon for a few years now and never had the occasion to have one censored by Amazon.com. But, I just had two reviews in a row deleted by Amazon and it has caused me to wonder how often other conservatives have their reviews summarily eliminated from the Amazon site?

I have noticed, of course, that leftists use Amazon quite well to give conservative books a bad Amazon rating. In the past, whenever I wrote a positive review of a conservative book, for instance, I would be loaded up with negative votes on the review by Amazon visitors. But whenever I wrote a review of a non-political book, I got favorable votes on my review.

But, up until now, I’ve never had a review completely deleted by Amazon.

The first review that was deleted by Amazon was for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failure of a book titled “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters.” This book is horrible and is horribly tanking at the booksellers.

I wrote the review on-line and posted it from the Amazon site. I did not save my review in a word document because I did not imagine that I would be censored. But, let’s just suffice to say I hated her trite piece of garbage. Still, I did not call her names but I did say this (and I paraphrase from memory):

Some may recall the oft quoted and badly mauled Shakespeare quote that goes something to the effect that we should “first kill all the lawyers.” Well, I would like to paraphrase that saying and direct it to a profession more worthy of such a genocide. It would go thusly: “First kill all the political book ghostwriters.”

I know, I know. I’m very clever. But, Amazon apparently didn’t think so because the on-line bookseller deleted my review. And without so much as a by your leave, at that.

The next one I reviewed was for a music CD called “Levittown, Go Out Dancing - Part II” (2008). This is a CD by Tony Carey’s occasional band Planet P Project. Carey is a self-loathing, ex-pat American that lives in Germany now and since 1983 his Plant P band has put out four albums.

His first one from 1983 was an 80s style pop album that sound OK even today, if not a bit dated with that typical 80s sound. The second, “Pink World” from 1984 began to show Carey’s obsession with Hitler and his hippie-esque worry over the bomb and western totalitarianism - as all the while he ignored, like every other hippie did, the worse totalitarianism of the Far East and Russia. Still, “Pink World” has some interesting Pink Floyd-like tunes that are listenable. The third album “1931, Go Out Dancing Part I” (2003), is a full-blown nightmare of hippie angst replete with Hitler speeches recorded into the songs. I began to sour on Planet P Project with that one.

And now we get to their newest one, “Levittown.” This one is a frontal assault on the evil, evil America that Carey left behind when he went to Germany, turning his back on his country. Still, he loves to whine about us, just the same.

Just as I was ripped off by Pelosi’s “book” I was similarly cheated out of good money for “Levittown.” And that is what I wrote in my Amazon review. But, Amazon didn’t want me to say so, apparently. My review was deleted unceremoniously.

So, now, I leave the assessment to you, kind readers. Was my review too mean, too harsh, not on target or somehow deserving of being deleted by Amazon? Is my opinion of this album not as legitimate as those who love it? Or is Amazon trying to shill for the left?

Here is what I wrote:

Levittown? Try LEAVE IT Town!

Planet P Project has been steadily getting worse and this fourth album offering is the worst of them yet. Tony Carey’s first Planet P Project album (un-inventively called the “Planet P Project") in 1983 at least had a great 80s sound that almost stands the test of time today and the double album “Pink World” (1984) was a really great album filled with tons of Pink Floydesque music. But the 2003 offering “1931” began the over-the-top, self-hating, nihilism that this new offering, “Levittown,” loads up in spades.

There is lots of hand wringing and self-hate piled on top of finger wagging scolding of western culture and history in the lyrics of this ponderous album. Worse, Carey’s vocals seem strained and sorrowful giving each tune—and by each I mean EVERY—a whiny character that seems to make a mockery of the harsh subject matter he is attempting to highlight. It all seems over wrought, petulant, and eye rolling.

With a sort of stilted narration in the song “The New Frontier,” Carey tries to scold America for its wonderful economic growth in the Post WWII world, an economic growth that later improved the standard of living for the whole world. Naturally, like most with his anti-western point of view, he just complains and offers no solution to what he obviously sees as some sort of evil—except the empty advice of “just fight it,” what ever THAT is supposed to mean. Carey uses this whiny narration in several other songs but it ends up sounding like an attempt to impress with sonority instead of really being thoughtful.

"Fremont Street” sees Carey whining that his family should have been millionaires from Vegas land sales after the turn of the century (that apparently they somehow missed because his grandaddy was a “gamblin’ man."). Unfortunately, he ends up sounding more like an envious complainer. Not only that but his whole worry about the bomb, such as in the song “What We Did,” and the finger pointing at the USA as all that is evil in the world smacks of the failed tactics of the anti-western hippie set from the 1960s causing this album to seem dated and silly. Remember, all those hippies became stockbrokers or government workers in the 1980s, partaking quite easily in the so-called evil profits that Carey whines about in his “Levittown” tunes. Few ever kept to the claimed “principles” of the Counter Culture.

With “Where We Want You,” Carey seems to blame the USA for the attacks on 9/11. This one was the most offensive of the bunch. Apparently we Americans just used “the big lie” and “found the common enemy” to force the lowly people to do our government’s bidding. Also apparently, the planes flying into the Twin Towers was somehow a “big lie” that never really happened, or maybe was caused by the US government its hard to tell which Carey is positing. I wonder if Carey is scared by the black helicopters floating above his European home as he worries over 9/11 truther conspiracy tales? Naturally he seems to think all Americans assume “the devil himself wears sandals and a robe,” too. This causes me to wonder if he sees anything at all wrong with people who use Islam as an excuse to chop off people’s heads, stone gays to death, rape women and small boys and the like? After all, he has all sorts of complaints about America and the west, but doesn’t seem to display any opprobrium of the East.

All in all, the entire subject matter of this album sounds as outdated and wrong headed as the failed ideas of the childish, nihilistic, troublemakers that shut down University campuses all across the country in the 1960s. The vaunted Counter Culture that ended up doing absolutely nothing but causing strife fills this backward looking and pointless collection.

I suggest passing this one up unless you hate America, too. I, for one, will also be passing up part three of Tony Carey’s “Go Out Dancing” trilogy. Worse, I wish I hadn’t wasted my time with this one. But, like I said, if you think America is evil… well, this one will fit the bill for you.

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So, there you go folks. Was this so out of line that it should have been deleted by Amazon? And is Amazon deliberately deleting conservative reviews? And if so, how long has this been going on?

By Warner Todd Huston on Aug 11, 08
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Let us just stop and think about what is happening here for a moment. Folks, America is in CRISIS. We have abortions that are out of control (even one is one too many), we have an entire movement to take “One nation under God” out of our schools and off our coinage. And, we have a bunch of kool-aid drinking morons who, despite overwhelming scientific contradiction, say that the world is heating up to the point that we will soon need a rationing slip just to pass gas.

Now, right when we have oil and gas prices just below record highs, we have liberal idiots who feel that their August vacation is much more important than staying in D.C. and taking care of The People’s Business.

I would very much like to go on record as saying that I am very proud of the House Republicans who have vowed to stay in the Capitol as long as it takes to resolve this drilling issue. We can now honestly see the true colors of those elected to represent us in Washington.

When the Democrats won both Houses of Congress two years ago by promising to lower gas prices and have us out of Iraq in one years time…they LIED. They led their sheeple to the Kool-Aid, and the sheeple drank.

Now, two years later, we are still in Iraq. I am OK with this personally, as I think we need to stay until the job is done to the best of America’s ability. However, the fact that the DEMWITS are willing to take off in the midst of the worst energy crisis since Carter was in office is unacceptable.

Please remember this one, folks, when election time comes around. My prayer is that you will remember this, and elect the party who has your best interests at heart. The good guys, the Elephants, the Grand Old Party!

I know in most articles I write, I tend to focus on national issues, Well, this article is really no different. In this article, I shall focus on the two Republicans with whom I have had the most experience campaigning: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is the current Senate Minority Leader, and former Rep. Anne Northup (R-KY). Naturally, in doing so, I also must talk about their upcoming opponents, Bruce Lunsford and John Yarmuth, respectively.

Now, a Republican couldn’t buy a fair story from the Louisville Courier Journal (or most any Gannett newspaper). But I would like to simply let all Americans, but especially all Kentuckians, know the truth about these candidates and their stands on the energy “crunch” in America.

John Yarmuth, in a vote in January, 2007, essentially voted to “ increase the competitive edge of foreign oil imported to this country. If the problem is foreign oil, why increase taxes and make it harder to produce American oil and gas? That makes no sense. We should insert taxes on all foreign oil imported. That would raise your money for renewable resources. But what we are doing here today is taxing our domestic oil. We are raising dollars supposedly for renewable resources, yet we are still burning fossil fuels.”
Reference: Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation(CLEAN); Bill HR 6 ("First 100 hours") vote number 2007-040 on Jan 18, 2007
(Quote found on http://www.ontheissues.org/House/John_Yarmuth.htm)

Yarmuth also, just recently, sided with “Dirty” Harry Reid and House Speaker (choke) Nancy Pelosi, to disallow outer-continental shelf oil drilling and exploration.

In the meantime, his predecessor and current Republican hunter of his job, Anne Northup, has said she would decline an additional federal tax on oil, and she believes, as anybody with any sense would, that we need to open up more American landscape to oil exploration and mining.

Please, if you are in her district, vote Anne Northup back into the House.

And, lest we forget, another VERY important upcoming race will be that which pits Se. Mitch McConnell against a very rich, but mainly an empty-suit, Bruce Lunsford.

As far as Energy goes, Sen. McConnell beats this guy hands-down. For example, in June, 2008, McConnell voted NO to removing oil and gas exploration subsidies. Some may disagree, but taking away incentives is just like adding another tax, with which we will just get hit in the end anyway.

At the same time, he did vote NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. This, in turn, was one less tax that big oil could turn around and slap us with.
Bruce Lunsford, on the other hand, is playing out of the same tired, worn out, liberal handbook. He thinks raising taxes on these oil companies will help the average American. However, it is well-know that oil companies will not eat this tax alone…they will have John and Jane Q. Taxpayer over for dinner.

Please, don’t let these liberals fool you with empty promises. From Barack Hussein Obama on down, the Democrat party is rife with those who would tax you to death, and then would give you a dollar and call it a “rebate.”

Keep both Mitch McConnell and Anne Northup in mind when you vote this November.

May God Bless you, and may God continue to Bless America.

I just cannot understand why in the world all the various groups who have 30,000 different ways to solve the energy “crisis” cannot get together and formulate a plan which could both help solve the problem, and could profitably put these big oil companies into renewable energies, and thus keep them from bankruptcy.

Right now, we buy, if memory serves, roughly sixty-five percent of our oil from overseas adversaries. This number could be dramatically reduced, if not ELIMINATED ALL TOGETHER if we would just work together and open up a small amount of the land that we have at our disposal. As long as we do it responsibly and not just tear the land up like there’s no tomorrow, it will be a great way to tap into a vast supply of “carry-over” (my word) energy.

Carry-over energy, or carry-over oil, as I have come to call it in my grand scheme, is the amount we would need to carry us over from dependence on Middle-Eastern oil, as well as oil from other countries which we consider hostile toward the United States, to complete energy independence by using alternative fuels; solar, wind, nuclear, etc.

Then, once we have all the cards in place and we can have all of our alternative energies online in the next five, ten, or even fifteen years…BAM! You tree-hugging liberals can shut down the drilling operation in this country indefinitely as far as I am concerned.

During this carry-over time of ten to fifteen years, as we are supplying our own country’s oil, the very oil companies that are now enjoying record-breaking, windfall quarterly profits, well, they can be investing some of those record profits in the new technologies and greener fuel alternatives.

The liberal left thinks it can “spread the wealth” (kind of smacks of Socialism, don’t you think?) of big oil by demanding that they pay a “windfall tax” on their unprecedented record profits. Folks let me tell you something: if you honestly think that big oil is just going to take it on the chin, without passing any of this “windfall tax” onto you, I’ve got some “ocean-front property in Arizona.”

This can work, folks. Americans have never been known as quitters. If we choose to make history, God will bless us, and we will have many more centuries of good citizenship and good stewardship. But if we choose to let history make us, well, I am afraid that we will go the way of all great societies who came before us.

Either way, it is indeed up to us.