I know what FR is about(in fact I signed up before you did). I know that threads often turn from their original subject and go off on some brilliant tangents. That doesn't bother me, in fact I like seeing where threads go. But it wasn't me that started chastising someone for going off-topic.
What did disgust me was the very unFReeper like activity of telling someone who is very ill to shut up about it. The press conference hadn't started yet and different things were being discussed in the lead up to it. But only Havoc's comments were deemed out of bounds?
Where were the "compassionate" conservatives last night? Howlin says she is only compassionate to those she misses, how noble.
Get off your high hobby horse. The hijacker wrote a post linking to his phony vanity whine, and thereafter made sure the thread was all about himself and his own personal agenda.
Your disgust is misplaced, since the person you are championing, is a liar and a fraud.Hes is NOT "very ill",he does NOT have a "handicap",and he high jacked a thread for attention;any kind of attention.Going off topic, with his bizarre soap opera,was neither a " brilliant tangent",nor helpful.It was irrelevant, shameless histrionics,and childish beyond belief!
President Bush used " Compassionate Conservative" in his first run for president,that doesn't mean that we who voted for him, need to turn ourselves into dribbling bleeding hearted LIBERALS,who dab our eyes and gush over every sad sack story to come down the pike, true or as in this case, not.