Six hours ago, I stated that Eric had deleted the entire thread on StogieChat which at the time, was a true statement.

He has since put the whole thread back up and here's the latest post from a guy named "Rob, The Long Island Cowboy" who seems to be a pretty level-headed, humorous guy for the most part:

Eric with all due respect to you and stogiechat, please delete this thread. I for one find the demeaning discussion of Tony disgusting and immature. A link to this on stogiechat both legitimizes it and draws our attention to it. I consider the man my friend as do many of us here. I doubt any of us wants a link to that on this site that we all enjoy.

I wholeheartedly apologize if I offend or overstep my boundaries but this truly has gone on long enough. I understand it was put back up because you were being called out for deleting it. So I will enlist in the stogiechat army. Mod me so I can delete it and then EVERYONE on EVERY board can "Blame Rob".

This should be a t-shirt. Big stogiechat logo on the front. Big cowboy smoker smiley on the back with the words, "I Blamed Rob. Stogie Chat 2006".
Well Rob, I think it's quite honorable of you to agree to step up and take the heat for Eric but he's already done irreparable harm to his own personal reputation and to the reputation of StogieChat with the way he conducts himself on:

CigarWeekly
CigarPass
CigarSmokers
ClubStogie

THREADS SHOULD NOT BE DELETED, PERIOD!!! Eric saw fit to make a complete asshole out of himself on StogieChat in that thread and he must learn that he has to stand by his flames, lies and insults instead of just hiding them under the rug. Same goes for tfire136 and again, while I admire his military service, that DOES NOT give him a license to be a flaming, name calling asshole.