An continuously negative echo chamber is what some want here. They surely follow each other around and/or ping each other.
Posted on 05/06/2005 8:22:41 AM PDT by Duff
Perhaps some of you would like to wish him well.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1397821/posts#comment?q=1
The British people have been and continue to be our good friends and staunch allies... I don't know what anti-Brit trolls you've been running into on FR lately. (?)
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
THERE ARE MANY THINGS that can be said against Michael Moore. An odd combination of Howard Stern and Paul Krugman, Moore is the king of all left-wing media, from films to books, who specializes in trashing everything that conservative America holds dear. For Moore, businessmen are always trampling on the faces of the poor, Republicans are always the tools of sinister vested interests, and America is always up to no good in the world. But say this for the pudgy auteur, he has his uses as a timesaver at dinner parties in hyper-partisan America. If the woman next to you admires Moore, she probably dated Dean and is now firmly married to Kerry; if she regards Moore as a bilious blowhard, then she is probably going to vote for George W. Bush.
Things are a bit more complicated in my native England. Take, for instance, a lunch at a famous Conservative haunt in London's clubland in the tense weeks before the invasion of Iraq. As a visitor from Washington, D.C., I would normally have expected a few warm inquiries about the health of Britain's closest ally; instead, I was subjected to a vigorous inquisition from the assembled Tories.
A retired Foreign Office panjandrum denounced the Bush administration for its crass ignorance of the Arab world. A curmudgeonly barrister proclaimed his intention to march for peace. A senior banker complained that he can't visit New York these days without being shocked by the money-grubbing vulgarity of the place. The only person present who didn't regard George W. Bush as a warmongering simpleton was an American émigré who had worked for Richard Perle in the Pentagon back in the 1980s.
This was my first introduction to the world of Britain's Michael Moore conservatives. Think of all the baggage that one finds in Moore's ideological duffel bag--from his first film, the anti-GM attack Roger & Me, through his denunciation of the "thief in chief" in the bestselling Stupid White Men, through last week's standing ovation at the Cannes film festival for his latest conspiratorial anti-Bush film, Fahrenheit 9/11. There is the belief that American politics is shaped by evil special interests (oil barons, neoconservatives, evangelicals); a preference for "sophisticated" European policies over "simpleminded" American ones; and, above all, a loathing for George W. Bush. All of these views are commonly voiced in the most impeccably conservative circles in London. This is not to say that every true blue cloakroom has a stock of Moore's books, though some do, particularly in houses with children at university (he has sold a million copies in Britain); it is more that British Tories have come independently to exactly the same views as Moore.
Howlin: So many of the "terri was murdered folks" stood in front of that hospice/nursing home and did nothing. The stood and watched as their perception of murder was carried out. The stood by and did NOTHING. They stood and waited for others to act. They decried the fact that others did not act or act in the right way. For as much blood as they want to put on everyone elses hands, there is just as much if not more since they STOOD, WATCHED AND DID NOTHING.
I know exactly what you mean! I was th one asking the stupid questions -- and I got answers back that fully informed me. I freely admitted I am clueless about what was going on over there and looked to them as point people to keep us informed.
I am praying he reconsiders.
Well stated, Howlin......... twice..... : )
I like Mad Ivan and hope he stays, but on the thread he posted his opus on there is allot of talk of dragging fights from one thread to another. Like what you have done here. But the mods have allowed it to remain, so they have their own reasons.
No Silly, he's Ivan....
It's no different than on the Laura threads or the Runaway bride or the Kidd Rock threads, and on and on and on.
When did this forum turn into such prigs and, FGS, liberals! "Apologize, I was o-ffended!"
I really believe that when the "Terri was murdered" crowd throws that response around, we need to throw it back at them that the stood by, watched and did nothing.
I always say to people they should not make decisions when they're in pain, sad or on drugs.
Hold on Mad. . . .
Don't go away until you've taken some walks, played with a dog or children, and had your favorite food and drink.
Then see if you still feel the same. If you do, we'll understand. We won't like it, but we'll understand.
Hang in here Mad Ivan, hell these Yankee Doodle Dandies even booed Santa Claus in Philly, a tough crowd no doubt. This old Canucklehead has been blistered on more than one occasion, even by you from time to time as I recall, however the pain is worth it because most of the folks in here are pretty damn fine and honorable and this forum has no equal. Come on over to Free Dominion and visit us from time to time, we still like you Brits.
Post 19 was not mine.
It was a post from a moderator asking someone (can't imagine who) not to start flame wars and was incorrectly posted as a reply to one of my posts.
When the mod saw the error he or she immediatley deleted the post and also Freep-mailed me to apologise (see also post 32 of this thread).
I'm off now so you can have the last word on this if you want.
An continuously negative echo chamber is what some want here. They surely follow each other around and/or ping each other.
Lando 
Jim, could you do a freeper poll on how freepers feel about Britian. I think Ivan is reacting to a small group of bigots.
Perhaps Duff is a 'MadIvan' new handle for the hand-off.
A question. My choice on FR,when confronted with what I consider to be idiotic comments, is to just ignore them..that is, NOT respond to them..I treat them like obscene phone calls..just hang up...some, like our good friend Ivan, are more disturbed by them. So, my question ensues..could the system software be tweaked/modified so that Freepers would have the ability to "block" certain people from replying to them? If so, it might go a long ways to solving much of the recent unhappiness here?
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