Is HuffPost lying about their Comment Policy?

The Huffington Post's comment policy states that a comment will not be posted if it is "abusive, off-topic, uses excessive foul language, or includes an ad hominem attack". I've tried to post comments critial of HuffPost on topics such as Peter Rost's firing, their JWT advertising compaign, and Arianna's trip to the "Cannes Marketing Festival", but these comments never got posted. They conformed to HuffPost's comment policy, but the censors there chose not to post them.

The firing of Peter Rost for exposing a troll on the HuffPost staff is a touchy subject for them, and they seem to want to limit how much is said on the issue.

JWT is creating commercials that they like to call mini art films, and hopes people will pass them around (and then buy the products of course). One of these commericals featured a still picture of a child smoking a cigarette on the home page of HuffPost. They removed it his weekend, possibly because I kept insisting.

Arianna Huffington has been in Cannes for the past few days attending a marketing conference. She was included in a discussion panel hosted by the Chief Creative Officer of JWT. JWT recently bought up all of HuffPost's advertising (although JWT is gone from their home page now). They brought Arianna along to Cannes so that she could write positive blog posts about them. Her review of the marketing festival and JWT is positively glowing.

At the conference and in one of Arianna's posts she proudly endorses JWT advertising philosophy by exclaiming "Make coitus interruptus the real intercourse." This curious statement seems to mean that a commerical should be the show itself.

Not only has HuffPost not posted most of my comments, they have now banned me from ever commenting again.

Here is an example of a comment HuffPost does allow: "I think the public experiment of justifying "Faggotness" has failed. Time to go back in the Fucking Closet you fucked up beings. By: cruises101 on June 25, 2006 at 01:03pm". I guess HuffPost thinks this comment is not abusive and lacks foul language.

UPDATE:
Here's a link to a MaxPower blog about The Huffington Post's new JWT viral marketing campaign, provided by a reader.

Huffingtonpost and JWT Astroturfing — Viral Marketing Foie Gras

And a quote from MaxPower's latest blog:
"... staff at THP have attempted to manipulate bloggers and the public by appearing as independent voices online. They have anonymously posted comments and sent emails to promote their product in an attempt to orchestrate a viral contagious marketing initiative. On their own site, THP, they censor critical comments refusing to publish them — contrary to their clients wishes (if you believe the adweek quote). I have no proof, but comments on THP blog within the JWT advertising section also appear to be written by marketers posing as you or me in an attempt to get us to endorse their product. There is a credibility problem at The Huffington Post. Who are they trying to fool — the public, or the advertisers willing to pay six figures a week for fake superlative feedback?"

Huffington Post Astroturfs for dollars, trolls, and loses credibility, loses Rost