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Conservative Free Republic blog in free speech flap after racial slurs directed at Obama children
The Vancouver Sun ^ | July 11, 2009 | Chris Parry

Posted on 07/11/2009 12:01:08 PM PDT by buccaneer81

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To: Jim Robinson

I’m sure you will agree that we need to be self-policing here on FR. And we are, for the most part. “We” means all of us.

The success of FR has made it into the “go to site” for reporters (so-called journalists) looking for a quick soundbite from what they view as the “right wing kooks”. Let’s not do their bidding by stooping to the level of DU or Kos and making it easy for them to find the kind of dirt they found in this case. We’re better than that.

Our mission should be to get rid of Obama and the Democrat controlled congress and start taking this country back in the right direction. We need to attract Independents and others who can help to do that in the 2010 elections - not turn them off with derogatory racial comments about Obama’s kids.


101 posted on 07/11/2009 12:32:37 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: GeronL; Jim Robinson

cparry@vancouversun.com


102 posted on 07/11/2009 12:33:14 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: buccaneer81

I wonder how many of the slurs were from trolls and DU plants.


103 posted on 07/11/2009 12:33:15 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: gaijin
Excellent point!
104 posted on 07/11/2009 12:33:15 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Jim Robinson

So he couldn’t have meant you, could he?


105 posted on 07/11/2009 12:33:43 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: txhurl

Unless it is the Palin kids or the Bush twins, they can cry me a river because it is too late to worry about only some kids


107 posted on 07/11/2009 12:33:55 PM PDT by italianquaker (We went from a country that hates the president to a president that hates his country)
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To: rfp1234
I wonder how many of the slurs were from trolls and DU plants.

There was at least one ZOT on the thread.

108 posted on 07/11/2009 12:34:59 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

Vancouver, like Portland, sucks.


109 posted on 07/11/2009 12:36:05 PM PDT by Check6
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To: buccaneer81

Offensive posts were removed,as they should be.


110 posted on 07/11/2009 12:36:22 PM PDT by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: jakerobins

“If being the good guy means standing still while someone punches your lights out..NO THANKS.”

It doesn’t mean “standing still”, it means standing up, even if it is among your own peers when something is wrong.


111 posted on 07/11/2009 12:36:47 PM PDT by TexasBeth
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To: zeestephen

I don’t see anything wrong with the commwnts, anyone displaying the peace symbol is total garbage!


112 posted on 07/11/2009 12:37:24 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: linn37
Offensive posts were removed,as they should be.

Exactly. And that should have been the end of the story.

113 posted on 07/11/2009 12:38:03 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: aft_lizard

Another great post. Yes, we at Free Republic are better than that. MSM will ignore 99 of our respectful posts to zero in on the one disrespectful post. We need to be a place where that one lost sheep doesn’t stick our head in MSM’s noose. There are a million and counting faults of Obama we can criticize honestly and respectfully without punishing his innocent children.


114 posted on 07/11/2009 12:38:21 PM PDT by ActrFshr
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To: buccaneer81
"..wrote site owner Jim Thompson sarcastically.."

LoL. I always get a kick out of reading "critical" pieces on FR in the lib media.

115 posted on 07/11/2009 12:38:24 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Question_Assumptions

I think we can all agree that nuclear weapons are best not used but when they are used on us then let the hounds of hell loose. To answer your question, YES.


116 posted on 07/11/2009 12:38:55 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support The American Tea Party)
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To: Iron Munro

**1 - Democrats, commies, Palin Haters and other leftoids can do and say anything they like. Any vileness at all is acceptable because their motives are pure.

2 - Conservatives and Republicans must drive within the lines, be nice to their tormentors, help democrats destroy America, keep quiet when they see the press praising another racist hack, pretend they like Obama and swear that Michelle is beautiful or they will be sternly warned that people might not like them.**

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PREcisely.


117 posted on 07/11/2009 12:39:09 PM PDT by Check6
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To: Iron Munro

**1 - Democrats, commies, Palin Haters and other leftoids can do and say anything they like. Any vileness at all is acceptable because their motives are pure.

2 - Conservatives and Republicans must drive within the lines, be nice to their tormentors, help democrats destroy America, keep quiet when they see the press praising another racist hack, pretend they like Obama and swear that Michelle is beautiful or they will be sternly warned that people might not like them.**

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PREcisely.


118 posted on 07/11/2009 12:39:10 PM PDT by Check6
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To: Cyber Liberty
Don’t you find it disturbing that liberal bloggers now have veto power over our threads?

I don't think you are giving Jim Robinson the credit he deserves. In the original thread, he said that he gets a lot of emails like that every day and it sounds like he ignores plenty of them when he doesn't feel they have merit. He felt this one had merit and I agree with him on that. Just because a liberal blogger raised the thread doesn't mean that they can't make a good point and when they do, it' shouldn't be ignored just because of the source. If it's a valid point it's a valid point and that was a valid point. It's not about the left controlling what we say but about doing what's right.

Remember, the term "politically correct" was originally coined by Marxists because they'd just whether facts were correct or not based on their political utility. Conservatives are better than that. If it's right it's right and if it's wrong it's wrong, regardless of whether we get political brownie points from it or not.

119 posted on 07/11/2009 12:39:19 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: ElayneJ

I think this “journalist” probably hangs out at the blatantly hateful Kos site


120 posted on 07/11/2009 12:39:25 PM PDT by GeronL ( Patriotic Insurrectionist at tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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