A LITTLE CENSORSHIP

I was trying to reply to some nonsense Jonah Goldberg wrote in USA Today, "Obama's real patriotism problem," and I quoted this line in my reply:

Many progressives in the 1920s considered the American hinterlands a vast sea of yokels and boobs, incapable of grasping how much they needed what the activists were selling.

This is the "error message" I received:

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