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It's not much of a change, since the Examiner has nearly as many right-wingers as NRO does. <a href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/right-wing-tilt-drives-wa_b_191379.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">More here.</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:10:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "2318299dd8942a3f76b9164eccc05253", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8868743": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Is there a petition somewhere to demand a formal apology?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_13:09:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c6f45181a2b6d61fd209a6d8f2ab9b5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825224": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So why do only 20% of the country identify themselves as Republicans? Why do the Republicans have such a low approval rating? I'm thinking the trend will generally follow the IQ bell curve, most people fall somewhere in the fat part, and will listen when someone speaks commen sense... that stubborn 20% will tend to fall on the low side of the curve, they're greedy, racist or all three!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:35:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "471565f115c6beb6bda0fcaff54b91aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8828426": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "the republican party is composed of a lot of people and i did not say all i said some which seem to be the majority&lt;after watching the tea bag partys,listening to bloggers and reading this column. they as a party  have held the black race back stolen and pilfered from minoritys since the partys inception and rehtoric heard from them and you have done nothing but make my resolve notch up higher against, the sticking policys of this ancient,unrealistic party written by a black man who is independant,but leans strongly towards the democractic pholosophy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_18:08:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f97aaeb38e82ade71f8e071890fb208", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824715": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Gosh darn those Black folks.  If it were not for them, we would have voted in another White President who would have been president for \"REAL AMERICA\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:19:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "1ae8d50da0341bd5112810aada646db6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess such black support is wrong, right? Because you may want to do a research that is neutral based such as doing one on a national figure that is white such as Sarah Palin and then tell us how many whites vs whites suports her as an entity. Gosh how do you hope to expand the Republicabn party with this kinds of racially biased information. Some of us blacks are not so thrilled by the Democratic Party as you indicated. it just that the otherside is not even pretending to care anymore", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:47:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "b20a81d7bec932234d72d6225db47d8b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8881935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And in a related story ...90 percent of African Americans use the 14th Amendment as their right NEVER to vote for Michael Steele for ANYTHING!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_20:34:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "de7078bc6ece69a1dec8ea86a3c2694f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8876497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is utterly dense.  How often do we hear about the popularity of Republican policies being overstated because they are supported by white Evangelicals?  We never hear that and if we did we'd hear an outcry from them as a result.  We only hear that kind of nonsense about black people and we only hear about it from people like Byron York.  We only hear Byron York being defended by people like you.   Why do you feel the need to create a false argument in defense of a blatantly racist piece of commentary?", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_16:56:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "Lawnguylander", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8824902, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8826651": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "this is exaclty why there is no republican party with this type of B.S. you guys will never get the picture! just plain dumb! you repubracist  are loser and btw im white!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:21:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab1576d01757dbde64dd70f845ffabbf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8879390": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "IDIOT. Is it the 21st century, or what?  Does this guy realize that he is further alienating conservatives from the mainstream with this kind of drivel? I say, \"retire to your hold-out malitia compound NOW!\"  This sort of thing isn't going to wash forever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_18:42:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "184f16d5ef08fe1f5dc7d8e5b3fe317e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825761": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh, those silly black people!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:53:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "sjk03060", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8827163": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey Darnell you're close, but it is was actually the three-fifths compromise.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:38:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "52c5e124718de63ea0d7d5c894330de2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8825969, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8827300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Wow, I can't believe anyone took this seriously.  This is the same argument that York is making, well that and that black people don't really count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:43:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "c467ec947850cce29aaec211d263e78d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8826287, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8852389": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is insane. I'm almost at a loss for words to describe how angry I am at the hateful rhetoric spewed by this hack-", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_01:27:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "150014af4a957a05afb100cd3256748b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825807": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Byron York is doing nothing more than many others of his kind who have been trying to discount  and marginalize Black Americans for years.  He is quite likely to be the kind  who says, \" I wish they'd all go back to Africa . . . \"   Well, rest assured, we are not going ANYWHERE.  So calculate, reconfigure, and manipulate the demographics and statistics until your heart is content.  We are here to stay!  <br><br>And as for that dubious headline --  'INVESTIGATIVE Reporter Byron York EXPOSES Black Support For Democratic President' --there is no need to ' investigate' and 'expose' a damn thing. . . I am more than proud to SHOUT to the rooftops I voted for  President Obama in the 2008 election and am as ECSTATIC today as I was then!!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:55:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "e2d90efeb805434ce924bcb6eb851fbb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825639": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What an idiot York is.  If we don't count blacks...........who else would Mr. York like not to count?  How about we don't count stupid white rednecks?  What would that mean?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:50:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e50ba2e27f452860d1ef73f17194ab3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8879915": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "HA! Nice one!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_19:04:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "184f16d5ef08fe1f5dc7d8e5b3fe317e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8825931, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8891309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Byron York must realize that the black population is just 13% of the entire population of the United States. So if Obama is adored by blacks, what is the other 87% of the United States doing that makes Obama so likable? I think that a melting pot of Americans is giving Obama his popularity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-01_07:12:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "2b087b2db932f5be6e3f8c53f0ef5de6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8826287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Obama's popularity with those that like him is skewing the polls. If we took the people who like Obama out of the polls we'd see the truth, no one likes him or his policies.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:09:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "c467ec947850cce29aaec211d263e78d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 4, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8826801": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Boy, are you stupid!!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:25:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b5d9421c058994eb141ff7d83eb80d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8826287, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825394": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "If you believe that outliers are skewing a poll then you have to remove them from both sides... i.e. if you discount the high approval rating among African Americans then you have to discount the high disaproval ratings among white inbred southern racists!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:40:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "471565f115c6beb6bda0fcaff54b91aa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8883636": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think York does not understand Black Politics. It is not ruled by the Democrats or the Republicans but the emotions of the Blacks who feel 'Treated Well\" or \"Treated Unfair.\" I've just released my book May 2009  breaking down the truth about White Supremacy in the Voting Industry towards Blacks and Politicians Fights to keep them at the Bottom here is the link to my book:<br><br><a href=\"http://www.publishersgraphicsbookstore.com/The-No-Way-Out-Syndrome--Robert-Taylor-Homes-Coup-detat-by-Tyrone-Galtney_p_374.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.publishersgraphicsbookstore.com/The-...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_22:02:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "dbc206b9ef88b6cb15d52ca623cb4f49", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8861493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "...I wonder what President Bush's approval ratings would've been without the evangelicals, or white southerners, or Republicans. All those evangelicals made Bush's positions more popular than they actually were.<br>..I think there's a word for someone who makes this distinction only when it comes to black people, but not white people.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_09:48:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "fb88b17d14da26c0f516d63a21855a22", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825654": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I'm no statistician but I'm guessing 99% of the 21%ers who claim to be Republicans these days are 100% ignorant racists......", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:50:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "2f544e7e22d1e22a741c0c0a9312aa6d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Redeploying the twisted logic of this nut job, how would George W Bush have fared if we discounted the white vote?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:04:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "4b1fc29e7bc92bfc3489919e43c333e8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824159": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thisis one dumb article.. I usually don't complain, but when I last check black people in this country are Americans too. So because a majority of black like <br>President Obama this is suppose to be bad. that is why the Republican party will fade away, because of their ideology. It pretty mess up. So according to this <br>article Black people don't count.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:02:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "6179073b0d02a293e2e698e019199c15", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I guess African Americans aren't supposed to have a voice", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:28:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e0205e49cf6178b121efb6742da26d9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8881598": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Now that! was funny", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_20:18:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "de7078bc6ece69a1dec8ea86a3c2694f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8825654, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8827076": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "r u serious?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:35:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "1adca0897fcdc934e6a35364e30cd8c3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8826287, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8834885": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>[Obama's] sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are..</i><br><br>'Cause, you know, <i>those</i> people shouldn't count.<br><br>What, Byron?  Than they actually are with, you know, white people?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_18:40:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "b03c9194ad03268c71896ef6499ce739", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824902": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "\"That\u2019s not a criticism you often hear of, say, white evangelical voters vis-a-vis Republicans.\"<br><br>Interesting point for which some illustrative date would be helpful.<br><br>if we actually had data, I would wonder whether evangelicals supported a Republican even on issues that lack any clear religious connection.  <br><br>I would also note that we hear about Republicans being in the pocket of and pandering to the Religious Right about every ten minutes.  How often do we hear of Obama and the Democrats pandering to blacks?<br><br>If Republicans *are* pandering, the evangelical support makes sense, yes?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:24:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "38092b393999876c463aecf3c882388e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8827975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "of course it did not count 3/5th of blacks as one person, but 3/5ths of slaves. free blacks were 100% people. not all black americans were slaves.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:57:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b0bc647195a125212f677e6d11d9cbd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8827163, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8848330": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who cares what the color of American voters is?  What kind of irrelevant criterion of value is color?  Shame on the author of this article.  Get over your biases.  You are a dinosaur.  And yes, I am a white supporter of Obama.  What's your point??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_22:00:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "8adab09e35aff7b4085493adad343196", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825931": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "I think we should check the birth certificates of everyone of those Negroes polled. I betcha they were all born in Kenya. You just can't be too careful.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:59:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "sjk03060", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8855116": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "In York's world, was each black opinion counted as 3/5ths the value of a white opinion?  I'm just curious.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_03:19:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab4bad8716e6594dd8f7c379588e128f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9369935": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Newt Gingrich, from Wiki:<br><br>Personal life<br><br>\"Gingrich has been married three times. He married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old (she was seven years his senior at 26 years old).[8][9] They had two daughters and divorced in 1981. She claims he \"discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery\",[10] a fact that was used against him in 1992 by his Democratic opponent Tony Center.<br><br>In 1981, six months after his divorce was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther.[11] He remained married to Ginther until 2000, when they divorced. Shortly thereafter, Gingrich married Callista Bisek, with whom he later admitted to having had an affair during his second marriage,[12] at approximately the same time he was leading the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.<br><br>Gingrich admitted to providing inaccurate statements during the probe over the college course and agreed to pay US$300,000 for the cost of the investigation, despite denying the charges over misuse of tax-exempt funds. [30][31] The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented \"intentional or ... reckless\" disregard of House rules.\"<br><br>I really hope that, that SLEAZEBALL runs in 2012.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-05-15_15:01:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "davemartin7777", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "6 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8863953": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"[Obama's] sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.\"<br><br>Isn't this the money quote?  What *isn't* racist about that use of \"actually\"?  <br><br>Shorter York: Black people aren't actually people, you see.  Thus, Obama's \"popularity\" is not what it seems.<br><br>(I see everyone else here is noting this.  Serves me right.   I should read the extant comments first.  Still...)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_11:17:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "354448ccd470d23e1817ab4819719490", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824327": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well Byron, THE GOP WOULDN'T BE POPULAR WITHOUT THE WHITE SOUTHERN RACIST VOTE, THERE YOU FRINGE TROLL!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:07:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "02ca4f8bf52bf2e4981c370ae37974d8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8855258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "WOW - the comments below the original article are incredibly scary - and downright insane.<br>The people that have commented seem to not only 100% accept the idea, but ignore the Biden numbers and forget so much of why black, Hispanic and Asian Americans vote Democratic. <br>They seem to think racism is over for the white folk, and 80% of 'colored' folk are racist due to their support of Obama - whats more, this apparently means that the mid terms will be a landslide for republican nominees, because Obama won't be on the ballot. <br>How sad these folk are.<br>The racism and extremist insanity is unlimited to the point where if I had continued to read the comments on that page, I may well have thrown up. <br>I find it so hard to believe that there are that many people so ignorant, so desperate to project their own self hatred on to others in order that they not have to try to look into the mirror, and/or seriously ask themselves if there may be anything wrong with their own ideas and prejudices given their unpopularity with the vast majority of America.<br><br>They really don't realize that not only is Obama extremely popular, but they and their old ideas are extremely UNpopular.<br><br>It's just sickening to see in black and white how sad, bigoted and angry the right wing have become.<br>And a real shame for America - we need a serious opposition party, yet the only serious, intelligent and respectable opposition of any merit is coming from within the Democratic Party itself. <br><br>Do republicans even care about Democracy, tolerance, or even basic things like reading, and finding out other people's points of view?<br>I just find it so hard to believe that they are that self righteous, that ignorant and that bigoted. Yet they continue to prove it to us day  and day out.<br><br>Their behavior is becoming more and more depraved - and less and less American.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_03:30:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "d904049e98b6985a70ab5fc6291f19c5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8879835": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yeeeesh! The tough love approach? Geez, you made the reality of this situation almost seem as bad as it actually is.  Good on you, mate!", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_19:02:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "184f16d5ef08fe1f5dc7d8e5b3fe317e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8827111, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8847269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Read the comment again:  if you exclude all people who like Obama, then no one remaining would like Obama.  He was being sarcastic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_21:16:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "c96b7e25732f80b1bc5a40577cd0734b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 8827300, "depth": 2, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8851809": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Linda, the author of this article is pointing out how another author is making a big deal about the ethnicity of the peoploe polled.<br><br>Do keep up and follow links.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_00:43:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "Michilines", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825638": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "dum ass!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:50:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9e30f4e185eac1c7bf9062ee93e98b41", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8827111": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "It is all the fault of those dumb @ss founding fathers.<br><br>If they didn't bring slaves to the USA, then we would not have a BLACK President today.<br><br>Plus, all those dumb white people voted for the black guy.<br><br>He is not even an American because he is black.<br><br>And those ~12% African Americans should have never been given the right to vote.<br><br>Hey, why stop there. Let's pull back the right to vote from ALL women and non-white men!<br><br>Since they can't vote, they should not be able to run for office or work at a good job.<br><br>Don't stop there. Let's disallow all women and non-whites from getting educated.<br><br>Now that's what this racist really wanted to say.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:36:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "b1b5d9421c058994eb141ff7d83eb80d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8838632": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I voted for President Obama because he was the best man for the job.  I like many other African Americans were split between Obama & Hillary who is white...until she decided to use the race card...which offended most AA to the point that I wonder if she has lost that base.  Once the primaries were over, and McCain selected Palin and after the Republican's convention that was so full of hate AND there was sista Palin, the \"Pit Bull w/lipstick\" and the hateful speech that she gave, all while her little family wreaked of dysfunction.  To have voted any other way would have insulted the intelligence of the average voter as far as I am concerned.  Not to mention that Obama gave African Americans hope, something that generations to come can build on and believe in.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_20:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "68591c43a462f6bc779825c31686ff4b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8824816": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are more whites than there are African Americans in the U.S. population.  According to Wikipedia Whites make up 68% and African Americans make up on 12% of the US population.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:22:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8d28e291fd0d1d9e39af5c5714da4ab", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825969": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Hey, here's an idea?  <br>What happens to the polls if we just count 2/3 of blacks?<br><br>Afterall, that's what the constitution does (or did).<br><br>Racism is an ugly ugly thing Mr. York.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_17:00:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "5d2a0c35aa6338bb9cc18deb0be2c0a6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 2, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825846": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apparently York is among the branch of conservatives that thinks minority voices shouldn't be heard.  God forbid the black community or the rest of us for that matter are sick of listening to racist old white men tell us how to act proper while they run our country into the ground for a profit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:56:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "86c592b42f412364917bffc62d9c9b6a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8879480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And just as a further: I've tried to find a site to personally illiterate my disgust to this \"person,\" but was completely unsuccessful.  If anyone can help me, contact me.  Much appreciated. This bum has got to go.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-30_18:46:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "184f16d5ef08fe1f5dc7d8e5b3fe317e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "8825215": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You mean the 15th Amendment, not the 14th, fyi", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-29_16:35:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "a98dac4a420ba519c81361b5e53e6b74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 1, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "16949846", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "34441", "hash": 3734927897959449835}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president", "paginate": true, "num_pages": 2, "num_posts": 50, "per_page": 50, "total_posts": 70, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 16949846, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": false, "forum_facebook_key": "", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
	/* */ this.jsonData.cookie_messages = {"user_created": null, "post_has_profile": null, "post_twitter": null, "post_not_approved": null}; this.jsonData.session = {"url": null, "name": null, "email": null}; /* */

	
	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = '21bc467119200cb06806902fa8e2f5b0';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 Showing <span id="dsq-num-posts">50</span> of <span id="dsq-total-posts">70</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" >Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" selected="selected">Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on The Washington Independent" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:16949846" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'washingtonindependent',
			't'				: 'investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/washingtonindependent/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/16949846/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
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<ul id="dsq-comments">\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9369935" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9369935" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9369935">davemartin7777</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9369935" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9369935" class="dsq-comment-message">Newt Gingrich, from Wiki:<br><br>Personal life<br><br>"Gingrich has been married three times. He married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old (she was seven years his senior at 26 years old).[8][9] They had two daughters and divorced in 1981. She claims he "discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery",[10] a fact that was used against him in 1992 by his Democratic opponent Tony Center.<br><br>In 1981, six months after his divorce was final, Gingrich wed Marianne Ginther.[11] He remained married to Ginther until 2000, when they divorced. Shortly thereafter, Gingrich married Callista Bisek, with whom he later admitted to having had an affair during his second marriage,[12] at approximately the same time he was leading the Congressional investigation of Bill Clinton\'s affair with Monica Lewinsky.<br><br>Gingrich admitted to providing inaccurate statements during the probe over the college course and agreed to pay US$300,000 for the cost of the investigation, despite denying the charges over misuse of tax-exempt funds. [30][31] The House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of House rules."<br><br>I really hope that, that SLEAZEBALL runs in 2012.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8891309">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8891309" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8891309" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8891309">Dunnie Jackson</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8891309" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8891309" class="dsq-comment-message">Byron York must realize that the black population is just 13% of the entire population of the United States. So if Obama is adored by blacks, what is the other 87% of the United States doing that makes Obama so likable? I think that a melting pot of Americans is giving Obama his popularity.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8883636">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8883636" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8883636" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8883636" href="http://www.publishersgraphicsbookstore.com/The-No-Way-Out-Syndrome--Robert-Taylor-Homes-Coup-detat-by-Tyrone-Galtney_p_374.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tyrone</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8883636" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8883636" class="dsq-comment-message">I think York does not understand Black Politics. It is not ruled by the Democrats or the Republicans but the emotions of the Blacks who feel \'Treated Well" or "Treated Unfair." I\'ve just released my book May 2009  breaking down the truth about White Supremacy in the Voting Industry towards Blacks and Politicians Fights to keep them at the Bottom here is the link to my book:<br><br><a href="http://www.publishersgraphicsbookstore.com/The-No-Way-Out-Syndrome--Robert-Taylor-Homes-Coup-detat-by-Tyrone-Galtney_p_374.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.publishersgraphicsbookstore.com/The-...</a></div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8881935">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8881935" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8881935" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8881935">ph</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8881935" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8881935" class="dsq-comment-message">And in a related story ...90 percent of African Americans use the 14th Amendment as their right NEVER to vote for Michael Steele for ANYTHING!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8879480">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8879480" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8879480" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8879480">Chris Lindsay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8879480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8879480" class="dsq-comment-message">And just as a further: I\'ve tried to find a site to personally illiterate my disgust to this "person," but was completely unsuccessful.  If anyone can help me, contact me.  Much appreciated. This bum has got to go.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8879390">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8879390" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8879390" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8879390">Chris Lindsay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8879390" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8879390" class="dsq-comment-message">IDIOT. Is it the 21st century, or what?  Does this guy realize that he is further alienating conservatives from the mainstream with this kind of drivel? I say, "retire to your hold-out malitia compound NOW!"  This sort of thing isn\'t going to wash forever.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8868743">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8868743" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8868743" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8868743">Forensicator</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8868743" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8868743" class="dsq-comment-message">Is there a petition somewhere to demand a formal apology?</div>\
	 </div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8863953">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8863953" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8863953" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8863953">Mr. Wonderful</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8863953" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8863953" class="dsq-comment-message">"[Obama\'s] sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are."<br><br>Isn\'t this the money quote?  What *isn\'t* racist about that use of "actually"?  <br><br>Shorter York: Black people aren\'t actually people, you see.  Thus, Obama\'s "popularity" is not what it seems.<br><br>(I see everyone else here is noting this.  Serves me right.   I should read the extant comments first.  Still...)</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8861493">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8861493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8861493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8861493">CallIt4WhatItIs</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8861493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8861493" class="dsq-comment-message">...I wonder what President Bush\'s approval ratings would\'ve been without the evangelicals, or white southerners, or Republicans. All those evangelicals made Bush\'s positions more popular than they actually were.<br>..I think there\'s a word for someone who makes this distinction only when it comes to black people, but not white people.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8855258" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8855258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8855258">cinesimon</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8855258" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8855258" class="dsq-comment-message">WOW - the comments below the original article are incredibly scary - and downright insane.<br>The people that have commented seem to not only 100% accept the idea, but ignore the Biden numbers and forget so much of why black, Hispanic and Asian Americans vote Democratic. <br>They seem to think racism is over for the white folk, and 80% of \'colored\' folk are racist due to their support of Obama - whats more, this apparently means that the mid terms will be a landslide for republican nominees, because Obama won\'t be on the ballot. <br>How sad these folk are.<br>The racism and extremist insanity is unlimited to the point where if I had continued to read the comments on that page, I may well have thrown up. <br>I find it so hard to believe that there are that many people so ignorant, so desperate to project their own self hatred on to others in order that they not have to try to look into the mirror, and/or seriously ask themselves if there may be anything wrong with their own ideas and prejudices given their unpopularity with the vast majority of America.<br><br>They really don\'t realize that not only is Obama extremely popular, but they and their old ideas are extremely UNpopular.<br><br>It\'s just sickening to see in black and white how sad, bigoted and angry the right wing have become.<br>And a real shame for America - we need a serious opposition party, yet the only serious, intelligent and respectable opposition of any merit is coming from within the Democratic Party itself. <br><br>Do republicans even care about Democracy, tolerance, or even basic things like reading, and finding out other people\'s points of view?<br>I just find it so hard to believe that they are that self righteous, that ignorant and that bigoted. Yet they continue to prove it to us day  and day out.<br><br>Their behavior is becoming more and more depraved - and less and less American.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8855116">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8855116" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8855116" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8855116" href="http://vagbondsaint.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VagabondSaint</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8855116" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8855116" class="dsq-comment-message">In York\'s world, was each black opinion counted as 3/5ths the value of a white opinion?  I\'m just curious.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8852389">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8852389" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8852389" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8852389">Gil</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8852389" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8852389" class="dsq-comment-message">This is insane. I\'m almost at a loss for words to describe how angry I am at the hateful rhetoric spewed by this hack-</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8851809" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8851809" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8851809" href="http://www.michilines.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michilines</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8851809" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8851809" class="dsq-comment-message">Linda, the author of this article is pointing out how another author is making a big deal about the ethnicity of the peoploe polled.<br><br>Do keep up and follow links.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8848330">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8848330" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8848330" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8848330">linda rubenstein</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8848330" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8848330" class="dsq-comment-message">Who cares what the color of American voters is?  What kind of irrelevant criterion of value is color?  Shame on the author of this article.  Get over your biases.  You are a dinosaur.  And yes, I am a white supporter of Obama.  What\'s your point??</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8838632">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8838632" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8838632" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8838632">Cheryl</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8838632" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8838632" class="dsq-comment-message">I voted for President Obama because he was the best man for the job.  I like many other African Americans were split between Obama & Hillary who is white...until she decided to use the race card...which offended most AA to the point that I wonder if she has lost that base.  Once the primaries were over, and McCain selected Palin and after the Republican\'s convention that was so full of hate AND there was sista Palin, the "Pit Bull w/lipstick" and the hateful speech that she gave, all while her little family wreaked of dysfunction.  To have voted any other way would have insulted the intelligence of the average voter as far as I am concerned.  Not to mention that Obama gave African Americans hope, something that generations to come can build on and believe in.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8834885" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8834885" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8834885">Pug</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8834885" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8834885" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>[Obama\'s] sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are..</i><br><br>\'Cause, you know, <i>those</i> people shouldn\'t count.<br><br>What, Byron?  Than they actually are with, you know, white people?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8828426">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8828426" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8828426" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8828426">dennis</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8828426" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8828426" class="dsq-comment-message">the republican party is composed of a lot of people and i did not say all i said some which seem to be the majority&lt;after watching the tea bag partys,listening to bloggers and reading this column. they as a party  have held the black race back stolen and pilfered from minoritys since the partys inception and rehtoric heard from them and you have done nothing but make my resolve notch up higher against, the sticking policys of this ancient,unrealistic party written by a black man who is independant,but leans strongly towards the democractic pholosophy.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8827111">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8827111" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8827111" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8827111">EdW</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8827111" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8827111" class="dsq-comment-message">It is all the fault of those dumb @ss founding fathers.<br><br>If they didn\'t bring slaves to the USA, then we would not have a BLACK President today.<br><br>Plus, all those dumb white people voted for the black guy.<br><br>He is not even an American because he is black.<br><br>And those ~12% African Americans should have never been given the right to vote.<br><br>Hey, why stop there. Let\'s pull back the right to vote from ALL women and non-white men!<br><br>Since they can\'t vote, they should not be able to run for office or work at a good job.<br><br>Don\'t stop there. Let\'s disallow all women and non-whites from getting educated.<br><br>Now that\'s what this racist really wanted to say.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8879835">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8879835" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8879835" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8879835">Chris Lindsay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8879835" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8879835" class="dsq-comment-message">Yeeeesh! The tough love approach? Geez, you made the reality of this situation almost seem as bad as it actually is.  Good on you, mate!</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8826651">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8826651" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8826651" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8826651">rin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8826651" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8826651" class="dsq-comment-message">this is exaclty why there is no republican party with this type of B.S. you guys will never get the picture! just plain dumb! you repubracist  are loser and btw im white!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8826287">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8826287" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8826287" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8826287">jarrett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8826287" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8826287" class="dsq-comment-message">Obama\'s popularity with those that like him is skewing the polls. If we took the people who like Obama out of the polls we\'d see the truth, no one likes him or his policies.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8827300">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8827300" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8827300" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8827300">jarrett</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8827300" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8827300" class="dsq-comment-message">Wow, I can\'t believe anyone took this seriously.  This is the same argument that York is making, well that and that black people don\'t really count.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8847269">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8847269" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8847269" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8847269">anonevent</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8847269" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8847269" class="dsq-comment-message">Read the comment again:  if you exclude all people who like Obama, then no one remaining would like Obama.  He was being sarcastic.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8827076">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8827076" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8827076" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8827076">Deb</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8827076" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8827076" class="dsq-comment-message">r u serious?</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-8826801">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8826801" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8826801" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8826801">EdW</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8826801" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8826801" class="dsq-comment-message">Boy, are you stupid!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825969">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825969" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825969">Darnell</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825969" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, here\'s an idea?  <br>What happens to the polls if we just count 2/3 of blacks?<br><br>Afterall, that\'s what the constitution does (or did).<br><br>Racism is an ugly ugly thing Mr. York.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8827163">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8827163" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8827163" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8827163">Alan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8827163" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8827163" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Darnell you\'re close, but it is was actually the three-fifths compromise.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8827975">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8827975" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8827975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8827975">joe blow</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8827975" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8827975" class="dsq-comment-message">of course it did not count 3/5th of blacks as one person, but 3/5ths of slaves. free blacks were 100% people. not all black americans were slaves.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825931">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825931" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825931" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825931">librul</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825931" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825931" class="dsq-comment-message">I think we should check the birth certificates of everyone of those Negroes polled. I betcha they were all born in Kenya. You just can\'t be too careful.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8879915">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8879915" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8879915" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8879915">Chris Lindsay</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8879915" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8879915" class="dsq-comment-message">HA! Nice one!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825846">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825846" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825846" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825846">Forceton Banfodder</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825846" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825846" class="dsq-comment-message">Apparently York is among the branch of conservatives that thinks minority voices shouldn\'t be heard.  God forbid the black community or the rest of us for that matter are sick of listening to racist old white men tell us how to act proper while they run our country into the ground for a profit.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825807">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825807" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825807" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825807">OpinionatedOne</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825807" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825807" class="dsq-comment-message">Byron York is doing nothing more than many others of his kind who have been trying to discount  and marginalize Black Americans for years.  He is quite likely to be the kind  who says, " I wish they\'d all go back to Africa . . . "   Well, rest assured, we are not going ANYWHERE.  So calculate, reconfigure, and manipulate the demographics and statistics until your heart is content.  We are here to stay!  <br><br>And as for that dubious headline --  \'INVESTIGATIVE Reporter Byron York EXPOSES Black Support For Democratic President\' --there is no need to \' investigate\' and \'expose\' a damn thing. . . I am more than proud to SHOUT to the rooftops I voted for  President Obama in the 2008 election and am as ECSTATIC today as I was then!!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825761">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825761" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825761" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825761">librul</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825761" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825761" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh, those silly black people!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825654">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825654" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825654" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825654">dan</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825654" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825654" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m no statistician but I\'m guessing 99% of the 21%ers who claim to be Republicans these days are 100% ignorant racists......</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8881598">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8881598" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8881598" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8881598">ph</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8881598" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8881598" class="dsq-comment-message">Now that! was funny</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825639">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825639" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825639" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825639">JT</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825639" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825639" class="dsq-comment-message">What an idiot York is.  If we don\'t count blacks...........who else would Mr. York like not to count?  How about we don\'t count stupid white rednecks?  What would that mean?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825638">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825638" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825638" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825638">Doc</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825638" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825638" class="dsq-comment-message">dum ass!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825576">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825576" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825576">Trai</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825576" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825576" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess such black support is wrong, right? Because you may want to do a research that is neutral based such as doing one on a national figure that is white such as Sarah Palin and then tell us how many whites vs whites suports her as an entity. Gosh how do you hope to expand the Republicabn party with this kinds of racially biased information. Some of us blacks are not so thrilled by the Democratic Party as you indicated. it just that the otherside is not even pretending to care anymore</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825394">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825394" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825394" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825394">BD</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825394" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825394" class="dsq-comment-message">If you believe that outliers are skewing a poll then you have to remove them from both sides... i.e. if you discount the high approval rating among African Americans then you have to discount the high disaproval ratings among white inbred southern racists!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825224">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825224" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825224" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825224">BD</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825224" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825224" class="dsq-comment-message">So why do only 20% of the country identify themselves as Republicans? Why do the Republicans have such a low approval rating? I\'m thinking the trend will generally follow the IQ bell curve, most people fall somewhere in the fat part, and will listen when someone speaks commen sense... that stubborn 20% will tend to fall on the low side of the curve, they\'re greedy, racist or all three!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825215">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825215" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825215" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825215">whiskey</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825215" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825215" class="dsq-comment-message">You mean the 15th Amendment, not the 14th, fyi</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8825020">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8825020" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8825020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8825020">Lisa</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8825020" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8825020" class="dsq-comment-message">I guess African Americans aren\'t supposed to have a voice</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824902">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824902" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824902" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824902">Tom Maguire</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824902" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824902" class="dsq-comment-message">"That’s not a criticism you often hear of, say, white evangelical voters vis-a-vis Republicans."<br><br>Interesting point for which some illustrative date would be helpful.<br><br>if we actually had data, I would wonder whether evangelicals supported a Republican even on issues that lack any clear religious connection.  <br><br>I would also note that we hear about Republicans being in the pocket of and pandering to the Religious Right about every ten minutes.  How often do we hear of Obama and the Democrats pandering to blacks?<br><br>If Republicans *are* pandering, the evangelical support makes sense, yes?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8876497">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8876497" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8876497" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8876497">Lawnguylander</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8876497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8876497" class="dsq-comment-message">This is utterly dense.  How often do we hear about the popularity of Republican policies being overstated because they are supported by white Evangelicals?  We never hear that and if we did we\'d hear an outcry from them as a result.  We only hear that kind of nonsense about black people and we only hear about it from people like Byron York.  We only hear Byron York being defended by people like you.   Why do you feel the need to create a false argument in defense of a blatantly racist piece of commentary?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824816">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824816" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824816" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824816">ob08</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824816" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824816" class="dsq-comment-message">There are more whites than there are African Americans in the U.S. population.  According to Wikipedia Whites make up 68% and African Americans make up on 12% of the US population.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824715">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824715" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824715" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824715">lede3957</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824715" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824715" class="dsq-comment-message">Gosh darn those Black folks.  If it were not for them, we would have voted in another White President who would have been president for "REAL AMERICA".</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824450">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824450" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824450" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-8824450" href="http://www.conwebwatch.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Terry K.</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824450" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824450" class="dsq-comment-message">Byron York isn\'t with NRO anymore -- he moved to the Washington Examiner in February. It\'s not much of a change, since the Examiner has nearly as many right-wingers as NRO does. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/right-wing-tilt-drives-wa_b_191379.html" rel="nofollow">More here.</a></div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824327">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824327" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824327" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824327">AndreaD</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824327" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824327" class="dsq-comment-message">Well Byron, THE GOP WOULDN\'T BE POPULAR WITHOUT THE WHITE SOUTHERN RACIST VOTE, THERE YOU FRINGE TROLL!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824249">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824249" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824249" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824249">woeisme</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824249" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824249" class="dsq-comment-message">Redeploying the twisted logic of this nut job, how would George W Bush have fared if we discounted the white vote?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-8824159">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-8824159" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-8824159" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-8824159">Melvin</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-8824159" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-8824159" class="dsq-comment-message">Thisis one dumb article.. I usually don\'t complain, but when I last check black people in this country are Americans too. So because a majority of black like <br>President Obama this is suppose to be bad. that is why the Republican party will fade away, because of their ideology. It pretty mess up. So according to this <br>article Black people don\'t count.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=washingtonindependent&t=investigative_reporter_byron_york_exposes_black_support_for_democratic_president&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	




if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




