Media Matters' systematic removal of my responses from their website, also most of my responses to their attacks in one place

I was going to post this in June this year when I thought that the Washington Post's Eric Wemple was going to run a story on what Media Matters' behavior, but I put it off as I waited for him to run something.  In any case, here is the information that I was going to post:

ORIGINAL POST:

Media Matters' practices what I call hit-and-run journalism, where they make an attack and ignore any response that is provided.  I have tried over about seven years to put up comments on their website responding to these claims (often quotes out of context or deliberately misread data).  It appears to me that Media Matters wants to leave their readers with the impression that the other side never provides a response to their claims.  

Media Matters has removed all sorts of comments that I have placed on their website (indeed, I never kept count, but it is a lot), even ones that involve me explaining to people why my eyebrows are deformed because of surgery that I had as a kid.  Here is one case recently where they made the mistake of removing my comments, but not the comments that responded to my original post.

After Erik Wemple from the Washington Post contacted them about their removal of my comments, some recent ones reappeared.  In this screen shot you can see Media Matters putting back the links to my response to one of their attacks (in this case see the second comment from the bottom).

Media Matters apparently told Wemple that my comments were removed because their readers had tagged them as offensive.  But Media Matters only very recently changed their system for putting up comments.  Prior to that they would have to approve someone twelve times before their comments would automatically be posted on their website.  The problem is that their screeners would virtually never let any of my comments through (surely not enough that I ever got close to the magic number of twelve).  This problem over many years had absolutely nothing to do with their readers supposed complaints.  In addition, Media Matters confirmed to Wemple that I had previously complained to them multiple times over the last seven years about them refusing to publish my comments.

More information will be provided soon.  But you can see that I have long complained about Media Matters sanitizing its comment section.  Indeed, I have complained in person several times to people from David Brock on down from at least 2008.  I have also made notes about this attempt to shield their readers from my responses on my website (see links below) as well as on Twitter.  A couple of my many responses to Media Matters posts on Twitter can be seen here.  One from May 2012 (note that I only joined Twitter in March 2012):

Here is one from mid-2013.

Here are numerous other Tweets from 2013 and the beginning of 2014.

I also have copies of emails that I sent them.  Other exchanges about there unwillingness to post my comments were made in person and on the telephone.

When Media Matters has attacked me, I would write up a response and post a link to the comment on their website.  Here are 23 times that I wrote up and posted, though I haven't gone through everything that I have written and I am sure that there were more responses.  Below I first show Media Matters' title and then a link to their claims and then my response.

-- Who Is Gun Advocate John Lott?

My response

-- Watch A Medal Of Honor Recipient Smack Down A Pro-Gun Researcher's "Foolish" Plan To Arm Troops On Bases

My response

-- On Obama's Surgeon General Nominee, It's Medical Experts Vs. Discredited Gun Zealots

My response

-- The NRA Encourages Its Members To Lie To Their Families At Thanksgiving

My response

-- Gun Researcher John Lott Offers False Firearm Statistics Days Before Congressional Appearance

My response

-- Gun Advocate John Lott: Travyon Martin's Mother Used As A Prop To Make Stand Your Ground Seem Racist

My response

-- The Nine Worst Claims About Guns From John Lott's New Book

My response

-- New Report Debunks Right-Wing Falsehood About Public Mass Shootings

My response

-- Why Is NY Times Citing Discredited Gun Researcher John Lott?

My response

-- Gun "Researcher" Pushes Sham Statistics In The Wall Street Journal

My response

-- Discredited Gun Researcher John Lott's Failed Attempt To Correct Obama's Gun Statistic

My response and a Washington Post Fact Checker article available here.

-- John Lott Tries To Substantiate His Debunked Assertions By Repeating Them

My response

-- John Lott Vs. The FBI

My response

-- "Mother Jones and Media Matters bungle study on Mass Public Shootings" 

My response.

--  "Napolitano And John Lott Advocate For Allowing People To Carry Concealed Guns Without Permits" 

My response

-- Coulter: High-Capacity Magazine Put Loughner "At A Disadvantage" During Massacre

My response

-- John Lott Continues Media Tour In Defense Of "Kill At Will"

My response

-- John Lott Tries To Substantiate His Debunked Assertions By Repeating Them

My response

-- Progressive Economists Refute AP, Defend The Buffett Rule

My response

-- Fox Column Shrugs Off Unprecedented Obstruction Of Obama's Judicial Nominees

My response

Other responses to Media Matters by me:
Media Matters, 'Stand Your Ground' and me 
David Brock, Media Matters and gun control hypocrisy
MEDIA MATTERS' POTENTIALLY LETHAL DISTORTIONS ON GUNS

"Media Matter's dishonest attacks on Fox News" -- discussion here.

Media Matters has also done everything from doctoring pictures of me (see here) to .

Here is a response that I didn't post on Media Matters website.

-- Fox's Bolling Inadvertently Advocates For Gun-Free Zones

My response.

Here is a response that I tried posting about seven weeks after I sent Erik Wemple the original story.

-- "Gun Researcher John Lott Relies On Falsehoods To Downplay Gun Violence Threat To Women"

My response

Finally, let me point to a column that Ann Coulter has on this general topic, where she takes on the claims that keep on calling me "Discredited." See Ann's column available here.