I’m probably going to be lambasted, but I was on the debate thread last night. The people who thought the debate was boring or that McCain wasn’t doing well were blasted with the usual ‘troll’ rudeness. Now, I’m listening to Rush and he’s said it was boring, niether did really well. He’s gotten emails from friends thinking McCain wasn’t doing very well.
My thought is that some of you need to take responsibilty for the harrassment you give to people who disagree with you. When, tada! the next day Rush agrees with most of those people. It’s really quite odd behavior to blast those people and say ‘Go, Rush!’ the next day. Am I the only one who sees this inconsistency? Aren’t we supposed to be about taking responsibility?
Now, I thought McCain did well last night. Didn’t like everything he said, but Obama was a mindless disaster. But I remember the Palin/Biden debate and my own berating from the witch hunters here. It’s really a problem. I thought it was the libs who beat people to death for not jumping in line with the popular thinking? And we are capable of having an intelligent disagreement with someone. I don’t see much of that in the ‘Go away, troll!’ mentality.
No, the ones who were saying McCain wasn’t doing well or that the debate was boring were not getting the troll treatment. The ones who were where the ones who were saying that it was all over, that Obama was going to win the election, and that McCain just lost the election, etc. There is a key difference. Too many people thought McCain was doing poorly, or not as good as he could/should to get the troll treament.
Sure there’s a “Me, too” chorus on Free Republic, but it is far smaller than the dem plants and operatives who sign up to demoralize the rest of us. The difference is how far they’ll extrapolate a particular event into total failure.
There were a lot of trolls on the thread and more are showing up on forum. It is the season, and being a noobie, you have that “aroma” about you.