[Purrcival]

Y'know, one thing has occurred to me while following all of this action:

I remember one thread in DUmmieland, just after news of Laura Ingraham's cancer broke. The DUmmies were submitting inane posts about how people with cancer had developed the disease because they were "full of hate", and that Laura Ingraham's cancer was proof positive that she was "full of hate". I remember thinking at the time that this would come as a surprise to Elizabeth Edwards, or Melissa Etheridge, or even John Kerry (who had prostate cancer...good, I left the extra "r" out of "prostate" this time). And in fact, Elizabeth Edwards, herself, appeared on the thread to smack 'em down for those comments.

So now, DUmmie Undie claims to have cancer. I didn't see any of the DUmmies claiming that he had developed it because he was "full of hate".

[Not A Snowbird]

Now, you wouldn't want to hold the DUmmies to the same standards they hold us to, would you?!

[MisterRepublican]

I was thinking the same thing. They lash out at "heartless, right wingers who have no compassion". Go look at their comments regarding Laura Ingraham and her fight with breast cancer. Overall, they are caring and compassionate. But the rantings of some (who haven't since been deleted) are pretty vicious. Even some of the DU'ers themselves were disgusted by it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3545777&mesg_id=3545777&page=

One that really stuck out for me was from Marnieworld and should have been deleted immediately, but wasn't; it states:

"She's another Ann Coulter. David Brock wrote much about Ingrahm in "Blinded by the Right." She is part of everything evil in the GOP since the revolution in the late 80s. F*** Laura Ingrahm. F*** her."

While I do not deny that their are mean and nasty Freepers and that this may have been a troll (I should have done a screen capture) I have never read anything like that at FR that wasn't immediately deleted.

[kevkrom]

So now, DUmmie Undie claims to have cancer. I didn't see any of the DUmmies claiming that he had developed it because he was "full of hate".

Of course not. 1) That would require them to be consistent, and 2) Andy's "cancer" is actually one of the evil doings of the massive Rovian empire...