So that actually happened? Newbies were the ones who made the comments? The newbies were "left wing infiltrators"? Was this Chris Parry one of them? Looks like he could have been one of them or worked with them to do this, then take the opportunity to put it in a paper to try to draw attention to how alledgedly racist conservatives are. I mean really, I doubt he spends much of his waking moments scouring FR for dirt. He had to know in advance this was going to happen.
On another forum I read, one of their liberals posted a thread about this very thing and, of course, the libs there are up in arms. Would be nice to take back some facts to expose to them - that this was a planned hit to damage Free Republic.
Yes, all of the racial slurs were authored by people with brand-new accounts. The entire thread was locked and the accounts were banned.
It does appear that Chris Parry was either intimately involved in the authoring of the slurs, or even behind the entire event, as within minutes of the thread appearing on FR, he had a post up on Kos detailing how evil and racist we FReepers are.
Combine that timing with his past statements that libs should impersonate conservatives and make them look bad... well, there you go.