Democratic Underground Administrator Posts Absurdly Detailed Rules to Micromanage Dissent

NewsBusters ^ | June 21, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The leftwing blogosphere has a big problem: dissent. Last week we saw Keith Olbermann leaving the Daily Kos because he was attacked there for mildly criticizing Barack Obama. And this week, the administrator of the Democratic Underground, David Allen aka Skinner, was forced to deal with a recent wave of purges (tombstoning). One reason was due to simple liberal crackup temper tantrums among the DUers as happened when their most prominent member, William Rivers Pitt of Karl Rove indictment hoax fame, was tombstoned last month for threatening physical violence upon a fellow DUer who turned out to be a homeless woman. More serious is the current wave of dissent from DUers who are expressing dissatification with Obama's poor performance as president.

In order to stifle more dissent, Allen has set forth an absurdly detailed and lengthy set of rules for posting at the Democratic Underground. The result is pure comedy gold. So enjoy this small sampling from the buffet table of Allen's obsessive micromanagement down to the smallest laughable detail:

{ } Inappropriate attacks against Democrats
- Insults against prominent Democrats, such as "F--- Obama."
- Name-calling against prominent Democrats. Calling Barack Obama "Barry" or some other name.
- Repeating Republican partisan attacks against Democrats.
- Broadly suggesting that there is no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush, or that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. (Arguing that specific policies are the same would be permitted.)
- Suggesting that President Obama has perpetrated a "con job" or "fraud," or similarly over-the-top assertions of bad faith.
- Advocating voting against Democrats, or in favor of third-party or GOP candidates.
- Broad-brush smears against Democrats generally.

[Humble Servant]

Sit down,shut up, watch the birdie, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Rebelbase]

Maybe Axlerod is really one of the boys from Brazil?

[rlmorel]

Heh..."I am Spartacus!"

[GreenLanternCorps]

[rlmorel]

This brought to mind a quote from Ann Coulter’s book “Slander” (I think) where she is describing how baiting Liberals with certain words or phrases is the equivalent of a box, a stick and a banana. “Oooh Look! I got a Jonathan Alter! And here’s a Dan Rather!’

(I had to paraphrase it...can’t remember it exactly, but that is what the picture reminded me of...:)

[justsaynomore]

Wow, what is left for them to talk about?

[PhiloBedo]

Tell me about it. I just got rid of number 3.

[gogeo]

Reminds me of the three ‘F’ rule.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

OK, fess up, who has been orchestrating DOS attacks on the DUmp?

DOS 1.0 is especially virulent. That is why it is keep in a freezer in the WHO by the illuminati since its invention in 1917.

[freekitty]

Cracking up.

[rlmorel]

"...Wow, what is left for them to talk about?"

"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have "racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would nearly cripple them." -- Ann Coulter

[Oceander]

Liberal mark-up:



Query whether there will be anyone other than Skinner left on the island after this.

[CORedneck]

Bingo ! We got a winner :)

In the workplace, the managers who are democrats were the worse ! They get mad that you didn’t get a given task completed but yet, to complete the different steps, you had to get permission to perform them.

I winder why I p!$$ off liberals so much without any kind of effort ! One thing to add, they don’t like independent thinking and prefer you to work frustratingly hard, not smart.

> Democrats love complicated rules, they love micromanagement, and they live to tell people to live their lives in a way they’d never dream of doing themselves. The absurd part of the whole thing is that they were worried that someone like Ronald Reagan would introduce a 1984-like society.

[mockingbyrd]

Well, they did claim that dissent is patriotic, which must be why they hate it.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

That’s what test drives are all about....the thrill without the payment.

[Bob]

I have friends who grew up here on LI with Jerry Rivera.

that is what everyone called him through HS...Jerry.

Am I misinformed? I had always heard that he went by the name "Jerry Rivers" before he learned of the benefits of getting Hispanicized.

[Miztiki]

Has 3 accounts at DU and posts now and so he’ll have an active account the day after we win the presidential election.

DU has gone from Bush Derangement Syndrome to Jesus Derangement Syndrome (hating Bush & Jesus til insane).

He listens to [talk shows] that prove how evil Obamabots are, mocking God.

Some DUmmies are so evil that they’d exterminate us (kill us all) if they had the power.

Last sentence:

“When you aspire for perfection with fluid secular morality as your guidepost, this is where it always leads, ALWAYS.”

(Think Hitler)

[Salamander]

Where am I?

[*who* am I?]

/wanders off, dazed and confused

[Gator113]

Rove did it.

[JSDude1]

{ } Inappropriate attacks against Democrats
- Insults against prominent Democrats, such as “F-— Obama.”
- Name-calling against prominent Democrats. Calling Barack Obama “Barry” or some other name.
- Repeating Republican partisan attacks against Democrats.
- Broadly suggesting that there is no difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush, or that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans. (Arguing that specific policies are the same would be permitted.)
- Suggesting that President Obama has perpetrated a “con job” or “fraud,” or similarly over-the-top assertions of bad faith.
- Advocating voting against Democrats, or in favor of third-party or GOP candidates.
- Broad-brush smears against Democrats generally.

I see no problem with any of these (except the cursing)..