Posted on 09/01/2008 8:26:27 AM PDT by sam_paine
How many times have we seen this photo on FR?
How many times have we propagated the Huma/Hillary lesbian rumor mill with a wink and a nod and a [POST]?
FR’s list of conspiratorial bs is long and you are correct.
This reminds me of how much better looking Chelsea is now than when she was a little girl. Who is the guy in the picture?
People here were raising that issue before she was an adult campaigning for her mother. Seriously, the left brings up comments on Free Republic and other right-wing sites that look every bit as tacky and bad as what Kos and DU do. Consider, for example, how Jerome Corsi’s quips about Catholics and Muslims have been used to undermine his credibility. As difficult as it is to admit, our crap smells bad, too.
Here’s the difference:
Sarah Palin is a moral, decent human being who puts the interest and well-being of others ahead of her own. Hillary is an evil, corrupt, self-serving power-monger. I have no problem taking shots at her.
Fair enough. But shouldn't we keep our FR backyard policed at least as well as we demand of others?
To be fair, the “troll” joined a year before you did.
This is WAR! A cultural war between decent people and slackers who don’t want to work.
That'd be the first time for me. Then again, I've only been around here for 10 years or so, so what would I know?
I've seen the rumor posted by an individual or two. Multiple rabid posts on the topic? Never.
KOS- Most believe any absurd smear or conspiracy theory with very few dissenters.
FR- Few believe any absurd smear or conspiracy theory with many dissenters.
Kos and DU slander isn’t our fault and it’s wrong. But the point is that people act is if only the left does nasty stuff like that and it happens here, too. Saying that Hillary deserves the attacks and Palin doesn’t misses the fact that the left feels the same way in reverse. So this is less a matter of principle than of partisan indignation.
Who?
Exactly who did this?
Names?
Links to posts?
You got anything sharper than a dull with and a smart mouth to back this crap up?
This isn’t DU or Kos where you can come in and make some broadbrush BS claim and expect a Hallelujah Chorus for your effort.
I agree. But that's also what I see in the Obama birth certificate zombie and the muslim schoolkid at the catholic church.
It detracts from the fact that Obama is a MARXIST and is bad for the country no matter where he was born or what religion he is.
Focus on the dead issues just drives simpletons toward him in sympathy.
It’s true that, as you say, “hillary wasn’t a kid,” but Chelsea was when lots of the Webb-Hubbell-is-her-daddy stuff was going on at Free Republic. And even if Chelsea was 21 or older, that stuff was inappropriate. Yes, there seems to be more trash at DU than at FR and there certainly seems to be a lot more good people at FR than at DU, but there is too much slime at FR sometimes.
The only difference is that it wasn't as widespread here at FR and it wasn't picked up by major media outlets, but it's none the less true.
Oh well. Then all's well. No harm, just joking. har ha.
I’ve been here for about 10 years, too, and I saw plenty of insinuation about Chelsea Clinton while she was still a minor. Since you seemed to miss them, try “chelsea web hubble site:freerepublic.com” in Google.
Joes, Same way we (and Drudge) paint all Dems by association with what we see on Kos or DU.
To this day no one even remembers the "joke".
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