Posted on 07/12/2009 1:52:21 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Well, should've seen this coming: conservative blog Free Republic fired hate speech off at Malia Obama after this photo of her appeared, letting their commenters go to town. But the journalist who reported this as news isn't innocent, either.
Chris Parry of The Vancouver Sun highlighted some of the comments on the mainstream, hard right-wing blog/news aggregator Free Republic. Among them, a picture of Michelle talking to Malia Obama with the caption: "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds." Classy. These mouthbreathing, borderline morons then kept piled on:
"A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion. "Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?" wrote one commenter. "They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps," wrote another. Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.
FreeRepublic claims to be a site that "does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government." Yet, the thread went down, and back up with the original comments in tact, and then some, notes Chris Parry, the story's writer. Parry was careful and kind enough to - maybe unnecessarily - note the few reasonable voices in the crowd who were conservative, on Free Republic, and not racist. But there're always going to be a few exceptions to the rule, which, as far as you should be concerned, are absolute swamp creatures. Pardon any political incorrectness, but I think you'll agree if you happen to go over and dip your toe in what's mostly a bog of contagiously slimy invective and general retardation.
It gets worse, though. Chris Parry, it appears, has advocated on his Daily Kos blog any number of egregious offenses, among them: posting hate speech on sites like Free Republic and blaming it on conservatives. Parry posted under the name "hollywoodoz" on Daily Kos, where his signature was "Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head." Parry outed himself as hollywoodoz here, where he discloses the company he helped start. In essence: Parry, the journalist, found his story right where he'd been circling it for a very long time, and reported it as news. Sigh.
Bottom line: Parry's noble intentions are paving him a road to hell, by taking the same one the slimeball majority at Free Republic employs. They're probably going to cheer a "mainstream," centrist blog pointing out the offenses of a liberal reporter trying to expose hate speech, but they shouldn't get it mixed up. A quick glance at Free Republic and you'll probably see the same thing I did: some of the most egregious examples that lend credence to the idea that some people just shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard, or to open their mouths, no matter what their political affiliation. Or, as some would have it: STFU.
I'm getting the distinct feeling we're being set up in more ways than one, just a hunch
Enjoy Free Republic while you can.
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Then get ready for a battle in the Supreme Court and they will lose. They target FR because it’s a threat to their take over of America. They couldn’t care less about vicious sites like stormfront and chimpout that blatantly discuss how much they hate blacks, Jews, they hate everyone.
Screw him and his whiny garbage. According to the deep thinking left, anyone who thinks hussein is a POS is automatically a rascist. I’m tired of them labeling people, the heck with the loser leftwing press and the hell with the communist prez.
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I agree, I’m not going to walk on eggshells to please them. They don’t like it, tough. The more they try to label, the more they will actually create racists, but that’s what they want so they can play the wounded deer. Screw them, they aren’t worth worrying about. FIRST AMENDMENT
The purse story is erroneous. The bag maker claimed they recognized the purse from a photo but later had to retract on the style. The bag was still expensive (several hundred dollars) but it wasn’t the $5K one.
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Whatever! Enlarge the picture. It wasn’t 5K it was 5995.00K
Kos is full of anti-Semites, as was the Obama website during the campaign. See any articles or TV reports on that?
Didn’t Obama’s campaign site have the New Black Panthers, the ones who AG Holder had the charges of voter intimidation dropped after their conviction.
I love it when the left goes all pure, pure double standard, pure smear machine, pure BS that is.
And does the left really think any comment here compared to the sexual jokes about Palin’s children. Dead silence on that from the left, that is, when they weren’t the ones making the jokes.
And can any comment compare to the infamous Kos comment about the tortured, murdered and violated contractors in Fallujah “screw ‘em” because they were mercenaries. And that comment was made by Kos himself. And wasn’t a joke.
We do need to watch our language and not to be tawdry in our jokes. Children should be off limits. Some FReepers do indeed start getting racist on on some threads, and the rest of us need to hit ABUSE every time.
It’s not because we look bad to liberals with this idiocy. It’s because most CONSERVATIVES find racism utterly disgusting and won’t want any part of this place.
This thread here, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2289048/posts?page=51 has SEVERAL FReepers insisting that Obama’s children are fair game.
FR will go down like Bill Clinton’s shorts if we do not set CLEAR standards here. Are we a moral site or aren’t we?
CHILDREN are off limits.
This column omits the Parry post at DKos that if Laura Bush were on fire he’d use a fire extinguished .. to bash her head like a coconut. The guy is just a total charmer.
Ping for later
Liberals are driven by a world view that is so anti-reality that they are all textbook “Dysfuctionals”....in other words they are psychological cripples who have denial issues that keep them in a state of hysteria and panic.
There is a solution for this but it would be very traumatic.
Posts like yours don’t help. Saying someone “looks like” a street whore isn’t insulting enough? She’s a kid and she was wearing a t-shirt and shorts like millions of other kids. To talk about the inappropriateness of her sightseeing outfit is beyond ridiculous.
Are we like the British, in pretty formations, walking into the cannon fire?
Why can't we let them know, just a little bit, WHY children should be “off limits”???
If we say that they are completely off limits, we will find ourselves, more and more, at the mercy of the Democrats favorite PR trick:
Give us liberal spokespersons whom we are not allowed to debate or attack!
It is undeniable that Obama is using his kids, in a political fashion. When THAT happens, they should have little protection.
This thread, and the several others like it, are beyond pathetic. The lefty blogs and faux news outlets have posters on FR jumping through hoops trying to disprove a negative. It’s ridiculous. Why are you allowing yourselves to be divided against yourselves when it can only be for their amusement?
Here is the truth.
The obama children would remain VERY off limits IF their parents were not using them as marketing tools for fashion houses and making money off them. If anyone is exploiting these children, it is their gutter parents who are using them for everything from photo-ops to excuses for other things they do.
For instance, obama visited a 17th century castle in Ghana, (press term later changed to fortress), because he wanted to show his daughters man’s inhumanity to man. The implication was that the white British Colonialists were purely at fault for the slave trade out of Africa.
There was not a single mention of the African Tribal raids on neighboring tribes to steal people to be sold into slavery, (black people kidnapping black people,) nor a single mention of the arab muslim traders, (brown people who hate black people to this day,) who ultimately made their fortunes selling human beings as if they were cattle and transporting them to their final destinations which was often death.
If this is the kind of selective history obama intends to teach his children, then we are looking at two future adults who will be equally as racist and anti-American as their parents. That doesn’t bode well for the future for them OR for us.
To me, that is child abuse.
If the premise he espoused was true, why didn’t he take them to Buchenwald with him? Surely, nowhere on earth is a more stark lesson in man’s inhumanity to man.
Like his muslim ancestors, the obamas have put their children onto the open market and are doing it for personal monetary gain. You can’t be that exploitive and then when you are displeased with the result, say that your children are off limits.
Now the left will say that Sarah Palin did the same thing, so why should HER children be off limits and his aren’t? And the answer is simple. Sarah didn’t do the “SAME” thing. Sarah isn’t selling her children. Her children were NEVER considered off limits by the whacko left and for no other reason than they were her children.
What should be abundantly clear is the difference in the WAY both sets of children have been treated from the day they stepped onto the national stage.
The Palins have always been The Palins. I can’t recall a single article where anything they wore was marketed to the public because they wore it, up to, and including a $900 plastic watch or $500 plastic sneakers, sandals, etc. I can’t recall Sarah putting a mic into her child’s hand for purely political purposes on or off the national stage.
I can’t recall a single article touting the beautiful family relationship the Palins have with their children. If anything, it has been opposite in the extreme.The left’s reaction to Sarah was kneejerk hatred and it extended to her children in ways that would have made satan blush.
No one in the leftworld seems to notice that the obama daughters are being lavishly doted on in a way that other American children, especially black children, won’t and can’t be. During a time when the economy is being systematically destroyed by their father, they are being shown in all the press and all over TV tripping in Paris, tripping in Britain, showcased as fashion idols for the very children their father is stripping of their present and future wealth.
How many of you would faint if your kids demanded even a $200 knock off plastic watch because Malia Obama was wearing one?
Do any of your kids get to party with the Jonas brothers?
Get back to basics here. If we don’t like what the obama’s are doing with their kids, we have every right to say so without this holier than thou backbiting going on around here.
It’s the left that has been unrepentent, bigoted, racist, and abhorently evil, not us. I ain’t apologizing to them OR the obamas.
Some of the comments on the Malia thread were no worse than things I have heard about other children in the real world whose parents allow them to dress older than their years or wear political statements they don’t agree with. The only difference is they weren’t being marketed to the world at large and the price of their clothing from hair accessories to footwear weren’t being advertised down to the cents internationally.
I did not personally comment on the Malia thread. Didn’t really think it was worth my time. The images and what they implied stood for themselves. It definitely wasn’t because I might have had someone from some lefty blog call me a racist afterward because I really don’t care what they think about ANYTHING.
Caption threads on Free republic are an ongoing feature. The sense of humor around here is exceptional. The graphic are great. STOP APOLOGIZING WHERE NONE IS NECESSARY.
We know who we are. We know who THEY are too. And THEY don’t get to make ME feel guilty, because they damn sure NEVER will.
ME to THEM. SCREW YOU!!!
ME to YOU. STOP letting them milk this!!!
“IMHO, the Left would be severely handicapped (more than they already are) if they were restricted from using any foul language.”
My mama always taught me that foul language was used by people with limited intelligence and restricted vocabulary as a replacement for coherent thought.
The “intellectual elite” use profanity because if the truth be known, most of them have little to no cognitative ability or original ideas of their own and simply parrot other peoples’ thoughts, often without knowing what they mean.
Note how many of them try incessantly to replace the language for the most lazy, stupid, and ignorant among us. They don’t want anyone to know how meaningless they are...just so they SOUND meaningful.
Take obama, PLEASE!
Anyone who attempts to defend or justify the hateful comments made on the Malia thread really has a serious problem with their moral compass. 2 wrongs do not make a right and I personally am tired of hearing the comparison to what the Left has said about the families of anyone on the Right. The fact is, it is IRRELEVANT what the Left has said. When it comes to what WE SAY and what WE DO we should SET AN EXAMPLE of language and behavior for ourselves, our families, our country. There is a difference between being strong, and sticking up for yourself and your family and your country, and turning into a bunch of foul-mouthed hateful people like I saw on that thread.
And to the poster who says the Obama kids are fair game because their parents have thrust them in the spotlight- are you for real? You hold the Obama’s responsible and deal with them directly, you don’t call the kid names or compare them to whores because their parents are commies taking this country the wrong way or because you don’t like that the press and the fashion world drools over every move the family makes.
As parents and a family the Obamas are responsible for their children and their kids need to mind the parent authority. One can only hope those girls grow up and are smart enough to educate themselves as to the real nature of things. But it is not “child abuse”. As a parent I certainly wouldn’t want anybody terming it “child abuse” if they didn’t like whatever abbreviated version of history I felt like giving my child when we visited someplace.
If you are referring to ME, please have the courtesy to ping me for a response. I never said the obama girls were fair game. I SAID we were not the ones who thrust them into the spotlight. I SAID their parents are to blame. Not ME, and NOT Free Republic. I ALSO said that it is the left that has been reprehensible in dealing with the children of pols, and that posts like YOURS makes it real easy for them to look over here and assign blame where none exists.
Just how, exactly, does anything I said even BEGIN to imply that I think the obama girls are “fair game?”
I said what is being done to these girls by their parents is CHILD ABUSE.
Get a grip. Methinks thou is protesting wayyy too much.
I am not “protesting wayy too much”, I am stating my opinions on the matter.
I didn’t ping you because I had limited time to go back and find the post and copy and paste your name. additionally, my comments were for “All”, which would include you.
As for implying the Obama kids are fair game? You said they would be off limits if their parents hadn’t put them in the limelight. That certainly implies they are not off limits by virtue of their parents’ actions.
In going back and reading your other post, I am amazed you state that the comments on that thread are no different from what you hear in the real world about inappropriate and/or political kids clothing? Sheesh, what kind of company do you keep that kids are referred to as street ghetto trash and dressing like whores and the other rude comments on that thread?
Posts like mine certainly do not make it easy for them to look here and assign blame, that’s some sort of backwards logic. Firstly because I stated, and do think, that at least some of those posts were made by plants and trolls. Secondly, decrying those types of posts hardly condones them, and thirdly it’s posts like yours that make excuses for nasty comments that make us look even worse than the original comments.
You and Yaelle are speaking the truth. FR has definitely become coarser lately with large amounts of bandwidth wasted on commenting about peoples appearances. If it wasn't for crude words, or their not so cleverly disguised acronyms, some posters would have nothing to say.
If conservatives want to be seen in stark contrast to liberals, they can't appear to stoop to the level of liberals. Whining that "well they say even worse stuff" is juvenile and will win no converts to conservatism.
I might not let my children dress like the Obama children, but I also would not let my children speak as some crude FReepers speak.
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