Posted on 07/23/2009 4:43:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You've probably already heard about the little mini-drama kicked off by President Obama's daughter Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace symbol recently. But the wingnuts at Free Republic went absolutely apesh*t over it in a thread that has since been removed, then restored, then removed again. The racist idiots came out of the woodwork to say things like this:
"A typical street whore."
"A bunch of ghetto thugs."
"Ghetto street trash."
"Wonder when she will get her first abortion."
And as the Vancouver Sun notes:
The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds."
As the tone of the comments became more and more racist and violent in nature, the response of the site's management was to first ignore it, then pull down the thread, then put it back up and actually join the fun.
Though this may sound like the sort of thing one might read on an Aryan Nation or white power website, they actually appeared on what is commonly considered one of the prime online locations for U.S. Conservative grassroots political discussion and organizing - and for a short time, the comments seemed to have the okay of site administrators.
Moderators of the blog left the comments - and commenters - in place until a complaint was lodged by a writer doing research on the conservative movement, almost a full day later.
"Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?" wrote one commenter.
"They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps," wrote another.
Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.
A note on the front of the blog reads, "Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government," but one comment on the thread read, "This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution," while another read, "I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but..."
After attention from other blogs, the thread was suppressed and placed under review, but before long it was returned to the site intact, and attracted a new series of racial slurs when the original complaint email was posted publicly to the site, with the sender's email address intact.
"The writer has a point," wrote site owner Jim Thompson sarcastically. "We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig."
"I agree Jim," wrote commenter, by the nickname NoobRep. "The kids didn't pick their commie pinko pansy of a father. Nor did they choose to be put into the spotlight. But Obama/Soetoro is fair game and so is his witch of a wife."
"Poor kids. I hope they're not 'punished with a baby'," wrote another. "Hopefully they won't deal cocaine like the Kenyan."
"DIRTBAGS! All of them. Our [White House] is now a joke to the rest of the world. We have no respect and this is not going to turn out well, mark my words. We will be hit, and much worse than last time. We are now seen as weak and vulnerable. Ghetto and Chicago thugs have taken over."
Only after significant negative attention from a host of left wing political blogs did the maintainers of the Free Republic site place the thread under review for a second time, before finally pulling it.
A few regulars there did complain about the racism and violence being expressed, but only a few. Sadly, this is quite typical of that site.
Gosh, those meanies at Free Republic sure are nasty!/s
Sadly, this is quite typical of that site. ................................ Really? I must have missed it, where were they? Typical? Geeeeze, has he ever read the stuff they have at DU? Maybe he should spend about 15 minutes looking there, I’m sure he won’t be disappointed. I monitor both sites, maybe he should too. What’s the sense, you can’t fix stupid.
I don’t believe a lying word in this sham of a hitpiece against this site.
Jim Thompson is a bad boy.
Don’t these people ever check the DATES on some of these stories? Isn’t this about a month old already?
Ping!
SHOVE IT! Take your JUVENILE propaganda and peddle it somewhere else. It’s quite obvious what you are “trying” to accomplish with your adolescent rambling...ROTFLMAO.
Grow up Axeldolf....LOL.
“Don’t these people ever check the DATES on some of these stories? Isn’t this about a month old already?”
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No, they don’t. They can’t find any “real” stories so they keep circulating the same old lies. It works for the MSM so they think it’ll work for them too...lol.
Barry really should hire better people in his propaganda dept....his current staff is over worked and dumber than rocks.
Obama is a Marxist/racist pig!
That Jim Thompson sure gets around!
I was a registered poster on Democratic Underground; I was cast out when I posted a question about Clinton....without profanity.
To this day I do not know which of those points they did not like.
My PEEPS? I don't think I've ever read that from any Freeper. Has anyone else?
It would lend one to consider the possibility that folks from DU or some other Dems either posted the thread to begin with, or just bombed the thread with nasty comments just to get Freepers to add negative comments, then paint everyone with their dirty brush.
I AM SPARTICUS!
Ed, check out the DU or the KOS Kids. You may go now Ed, you are dismissed.
self ping
Brayton looks like that Kristinn guy.
The story that will NOT die.
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