O Brother, Where Art Thou Indeed?

I read the following on IMDB just moments ago....

The CBS News website has decided not to allow comments from the public concerning presidential candidate Barack Obama because many of them to date have turned out to be racist in nature, the CBS blog Public Eye reported Friday. It quoted Mike Sims, director of news and operations for CBSNews.com, as saying that the website has often deleted racist comments about Obama; however, "the volume and the persistence" of them made them difficult to handle.

The sad thing is that I'm not overly surprised. I suppose I had hoped that "the volume and the persistence" would be fairly low. Criminy! How many e-comments does a news empire like CBS need to receive in order to prompt it to take such action? *shudders*