Posted on 06/15/2008 12:27:19 AM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
I was here day the story broke about Ted Kennedy's cancer. For the most part, members were civil. Look at this boldface LIE, the last post on the bottom.
http://letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/13/russert/view/index2.html?show=all
Sorry, can someone please make the link I posted “live”. Thanks.
Ooh lies and scandal.
Where is the lie? All I see is stuff about the msnbc anchor.
oh second to last post:
“When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed a couple weeks back, Free Republic had to shut down its forum because the negative comments got out of hand. Let that sink in: the most conservative website had to shut down a forum because they were repulsed by what was being posted about a liberal.”
Well I don’t even bother seeing what the dopes at DU say about conservatives. I gurantee they are nastier than we are as a group overall.
It doesn’t surprise me.
Liberals never have their heads out of their butts long enough to learn the truth of any matter.
I think it was creative use of the definition of a “forum”. They tried to make a few threads sound like the whole forum.
They knew what they were doing I am sure.
This is the post:
“To those who feel like making their point”
A number of you have posted only to have your post deleted. You may not have used profanities. You may not have been racist, sexist or inflammatory. But you broke all standards of good taste.
When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed a couple weeks back, Free Republic had to shut down its forum because the negative comments got out of hand. Let that sink in: the most conservative website had to shut down a forum because they were repulsed by what was being posted about a liberal.
Salon is doing you a favor because even if you won’t look back and be embarrassed, a lot of other people will be pretty disappointed in you. A person, especially a liberal, should never celebrate another’s death, especially when it is someone who has never killed another person but was merely a news personality. You never liked him? Fine. But don’t celebrate his death. That’s morbid and it is, in many ways, inhumane.
Everyone is free to have these thoughts, but for the sake of your own standing you should probably keep them to yourself. If you are unable to understand this, imagine if similar things were said after your wife/parents/child died.
Though I’ll never meet them, I feel very sorry for Mr. Russert’s son and father, and the rest of his family.
You mean this one?:
> When Ted Kennedy was diagnosed a couple weeks back, Free Republic had to shut down its forum because the negative comments got out of hand. Let that sink in: the most conservative website had to shut down a forum because they were repulsed by what was being posted about a liberal.
It suffers from the usual exaggeration that the Lefties seem wont to do. There were multiple threads on the subject, as I recall, and the Admin Mods locked a few threads and deleted many individual posts, and threatened to ban some posters, because of off-color attempts at humor by a tiny minority.
There were many prayers for Ted Kennedy, and many well-wishes: these were by far-and-away the majority of posts.
I don't recall the FRee Republic as a Forum being shut down as a result. But it wasn't destined to be of our brighter moments because of a few off-color posts -- except for the timely and tasteful intervention of our Admin Mods.
Beyond that, there's nothing to get exercized over: the poster has paid the FRee Republic the high compliment of gentlemanly and civilized editorial standard for shutting down the trash talk, and in the same breath criticizing some of their own posters for not achieving those high standards.
Frankly, I'm pleased he said that. It needed to be said.
They got it wrong about FR shutting down entirely, but FR did shut down every Kennedy thread that day because each one that got started eventually had comments on it that were unbecoming.
This person is giving us a compliment, actually: saying that we have too much class to stand evil comments about even our political enemy when he’s taken ill.
We were also this decent when Bill Clinton had his heart attack. I am proud of the high standards here.
From what I heard they celebrated Charlton Heston’s death at DU. Don’t know if this is true I never checked.
I see it differently and certainly not meant as a hat tip to FR. I see it as a lie that FR that had to shut down its forum, and more of a, ‘Let’s not act like they did over Tim Russert.’
Thanks for fixing the link for me. :)
DU was disgraceful towards Lauran Ingraham when she was diagnosed with cancer. Read it with my own two peeps.
Not being a person that would ever spend any of my wasted hours visiting DU, anybody ever hear of DU shutting down a thread because it had fallen in to ad homonym attacks and wishes for an individuals demise?
I know that they get pretty nasty over there. I occasionally read the DU Funnies thread.
> I see it differently and certainly not meant as a hat tip to FR. I see it as a lie that FR that had to shut down its forum, and more of a, ‘Let’s not act like they did over Tim Russert.’
Yes... I see how you get there, it can certainly read that way too. Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt, I say: the main point is right — they shouldn’t speak ill of Tim Russert.
I'll try my best. If a lib says, "Good Morning", I suspect a hidden agenda, lol. I've had the same tagline for years.
A person, especially a liberal, should never celebrate another’s death, especially when it is someone who has never killed another person...
LOL!
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