I’m shocked.

Thaddeus Matthews, the blogger known for having the most rambunctious comments section in the Memphis blogosphere, has apparently deleted a comment I left on his blog this morning.

Given the rude, foul, obscene things he leaves up, I’m simply astonished that he deleted mine.

What could I have written was so bad that even Thaddeus Matthews had to delete it?

Apparently, Thaddeus doesn’t like to be confronted with his own hypocrisy, especially if it might get in the way of his shilling for certain poli-trick-ans, as he calls them.

In this case, Thaddeus had posted another fawning entry about Rep. Steve Cohen, who has apparently earned an “A” from the NAACP.

In a comment, I reminded Thaddeus of something he said on a Dutch Treat Luncheon panel last year. At that event, Thaddeus had been arguing that mayoral candidate Herman Morris had no support among black voters. When I mentioned the work Morris did as leader of the local NAACP, Thaddeus repeatedly responded, “the what?”

It doesn’t appear that Thaddeus has changed his view of the NAACP; he writes in a comment:

I STILL THINK THAT THE NAACP IS WORTHLESS TO BLACKS AND ITS LEADERSHIP ARE PAWNS OF WHITE CORPORATE AMERICA, BUT THAT STIL DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FROM WHAT DECISION THE GROUP MADE AS FAR AS GIVING A WHITE MAN AN “A”.

Why, then, delete my comment?

All Thaddeus simply explains, “this is my site and i delete what i chose.”

That’s rather telling, not so much because of what he deletes as what he keeps.

It also speaks to the great lengths Thaddeus will go in order to ingratiate himself with those in power, even if it means disassociating himself from his own statements and positions. The 180 he took for King Willie apparently wasn’t an isolated incident.