You can't compare the half-joking stuff that very few posters here posted, vs. the absolutely despicable tactics of a whole horde of lefties...
Giving them an out may be ok to you, but I don't feel that giving them a free pass, before they can even start to feel foolish about their actions... What does he hope to accomplish by this? Showing that we're hypocrites? Condemning FR for doing, in his opinion, what they did, and providing moral equivalence?
The MSM never picked up the Chelsea comparison, and no one accused a grown lady (Chelsea) of this kind of stuff... We're talking about a 16 year old girl, who they're trying to destroy, in a 2-fer... I'm enraged by their actions, and find folks trying to link this with that action just plain, flat-out wrong.
What you said in 141 was fine. But the personal insults and name calling directed at Sam Paine that were over the top.
In the interest of disclosure it is not like I've never name called or insulted another FReeper before either that in no way justifies the action.