Posted on 04/27/2005 6:35:43 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
"Compassionate" liberals? You wouldn't get that impression from the hate spewed from Democratic Underground upon the news of Laura Ingraham being diagnosed with breast cancer.
"nonews" posts a thread stating: "Laura Ingraham has breast cancer, Let's keep her in our prayers.
"nothingshocksmeanymore" responds: "No. Cancer isn't a good thing, but it's her problem. I fell no obligation to pray for people who make the world worse.
Several others post similar comments.
Then "ElizabethEdwards" responds to "nothingshocksmeanymore":
"Of course we wish the best for her in this fight.
I have been a Democrat for a long time, and part of the Democratic principles that attracted me as a young person and kept me a Democrat all these years is our compassion. Democrats are simply good and decent people. And good and decent people want everyone to do well -- those who agree with them and those who do not. We fight for the right of voices with which we disagree to speak out, for the right of people to say things we don't believe to be true, even for the right to be malicious and mean-spirited. If we fight for the right for LI to say what she says, how in the world can we use our disagreement with those words as an excuse not to be compassionate in her fight with cancer. Being willing to have her voice muted by illness is the same thing as not wanting her voice to be heard. It is not Democratic or democratic.
I hope others will join me in wishing her Godspeed in this fight, for the easiest road that she can have, and even for the development of compassion about others who have faced hardship and disease without the support network she -- and I -- have. As I go through treatment for this same disease, I think often about the women who fight breast cancer without health insurance, without a supportive husband, with a physically demanding job that doesn't know or doesn't care that she is exhausted and weak and aching, with children but no child care. I find it absolutely impossible that LI won't also have those thoughts run through her head or that she won't rethink her position on health care or the social safety net. Pray for her health AND her enlightenment, if you must. But pray, with me, for her good health."
You would think this post from the legendary "ElizabethEdwards" might help change the tone. But it doesn't.
Later in the same thread, Marnieworld 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.
So much for "compassion".
Read it for yourself at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3545777#3545787
God speed to Mrs Edwards and Laura.
It is important to differentiate between right and wrong and not right and left!
Can't expect much from a bunch of candy-assed baboons
Not surprising. We are at war with these people.
In all honesty if this was Michael Moore with cancer I doubt the reaction would be much different here from many Freepers.
They profess such admiration and proudly hail Elizabeth Edwards as a member. I can say with certainty, they have seen the last of her on that site.
"In all honesty if this was Michael Moore with cancer I doubt the reaction would be much different here from many Freepers."
I would just keep my mouth shut if I couldn't wish him luck.
They are envious people. Cold and cruel. Willing to misuse government in any way they must in order to obtain unearned wealth.
I doubt it. I've been very surprised by the reaction from FR when our political foes have been diagnosed with illness or hospitalised. Check out threads about Hillary fainting and Bill Clinton being hospitalsied with heart problems. Not to say we are all sweetness and light but I have never read "F*** Hillary" or F*** Bill Clinton" during one of those threads. FR pulls such disgraceful posts.
Same here.
Yes, that one. She posts at DU, believe it or not.
I wonder if Ms. Edwards ever hangs out here at FR?
Does Eliz Edwards hang out at DU?
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I disagree. I've seen just the opposite response by FReepers, actually.
I wonder if Elizabeth thinks Randi Rhoads is a 'good and decent person' after her radio parody on GWB?
First, you don't really want to say Laura Ingraham is a conservative Michael Moore, do you?
Second, even if it were Moore, I think we'd be much more civilized than they are.
BS. I know many Freepers who sent personal notes of condolence and goodwill to the Edwards family when Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer.
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