Elsberry censored comments under blog posts cited by Miami Herald!

I have long pointed out that blogs where visitors' comments are arbitrarily censored lack fairness, reliability, and credibility and therefore should not be authoritatively cited by official news media, court opinions, scholarly journal articles, etc.. Now I have an example.

BVD-clad blogger Wesley "Ding" Elsberry has two recent blog articles -- one on Panda's Thumb and another on his personal blog Austringer -- charging that a top Florida education official, Cheri Yecke, had four years ago as a Minnesota education official misinterpreted the "No Child Left Behind Act" and the significance of the Act's proposed Santorum Amendment that was not adopted into the Act but was included in an accompanying Congressional report. This charge and one of the blogs was the subject of a recent Miami Herald article that I discussed here. Comments that attempted to defend Yecke's interpretation of the Act were brazenly censored on Panda's Thumb! Elsberry, responding to a censored comment posted by "Anonymous," who Elsberry claimed is me, said,
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[quoting Minnesota State Rep. Jim Davnie in a videotaped discussion with commissioner Yecke] What the commissioner is failing to mention [undecipherable] is that the Santorum amendment that she refers to never passed into law. And Minnesota has to follow federal law, not, uh, amendments that were offered in conference committees at the federal level.

Larry “Anonymous” Fafarman wants to know why Rep. Davnie would make the comment he does about following federal law. It isn’t because there is an explicit power involved; it’s because the federal government can withhold federal funds from schools that do not comply with things such as the “No Child Left Behind” act. Any school that has no use for such federal funding can, of course, tell the federal government to go get stuffed concerning those particular federal programs. That amounts to a vanishingly small percentage of the many thousand local school districts throughout the country.

"Anonymous" then replied with a statement essentially saying that the No Child Left Behind Act does not authorize the withholding of federal funds from states or local school districts that require, allow, or do not prohibit the teaching of intelligent design or other criticisms of Darwinism. That statement was censored and there was no reply.
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