Posted on 07/13/2009 2:11:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Chris Parry of the Vancouver Sun recently wrote an article about a bunch of nasty comments posted about Obama’s daughter Malia on Free Republic:
“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.
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Those comments are pretty stupid. As much as I dislike Obama and his policies and his lack of honest with the public, and as much as I think he’s taking this country in the absolute wrong direction, his family doesn’t deserve comments like this. And such comments certainly aren’t productive, politically. People who might have been swayed by arguments focusing on Obama’s policies are just going to be turned off by such nonsense.
And besides, FreeRepublic.com isn’t alone in having comments like this. They happen at any blog with open comments liberal, conservative or otherwise. I’m sure I could troll through the comments at Daily Kos, for instance, and come up with no small amount of mean-spirited and hateful invective aimed at the Bush family, including the twins Jenna and Barbara. Cherry-picking a few threads of comments and using those comments to smear an entire website and/or group of people is a silly game serious political commentators should stop playing.
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I don’t know if some or all of the FreeRepublic comments were, in fact, staged by Parry or others but certainly this undermines Parry’s credibility.
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How interesting. Can we trace the accounts? How new were they? Were they active? Mods? An info on this?
What a surprise ...
There are special places in hell for evil persons such as Chris Parry.
There are special places in Heaven for angels like Jim Robinson.
(HUG)
I am sure its just a coincidence that a guy who was at KOS advocating the planting of racist comments on conservative boards then came to FR and lo and behold found racist comments very quickly and that he was a “reporter”...
..yes all just a coincidence
I don’t know that it undermines his credibility. The loony left won’t care a bit. And they are the only ones that listen to this loon anyway.
The MSM is the enemy. They influence EVERYTHING in politics.
Down with the trolls.
Has anyone attempted to contact the Vancouver Sun? It would be interesting to talk to their editor and see if he knows about this.
Bah, JimRob is no angel. But he knows how to stick it to the leftist's like no other human on earth. Chris Parry is screwed, and not in the way he is used to.
When does wishful thinking become a self serving lie?
How many of their perceptions have been created by their own attempt to frame the story? How much is their own projection?
So.. it’s also worth nothing that this reporter, Mr. Parry, has actually advocated on Daily Kos for liberals to register on sites like FreeRepublic and post objectionable comments so that news reporters can report on them.
I don’t know if some or all of the FreeRepublic comments were, in fact, staged by Parry or others but certainly this undermines Parry’s and any reporting Media’s credibility.
This reporter has a vendetta against FR! I have communicated with him privately and he is dead set against everything FR stands for! He watches this site like a weasel!
The guy just cause me to become a monthly donor again, lol.
A lot of FReepers did. Parry claims it caused his article to be bumped up to a feature.
I know one thread on here yesterday was discussing the picture with Malia in her peace t-shirt. There were a lot of comments in that thread directed at the guy who was next to her in the picture and he looked like a bum. A lot of those comments went along the lines of what was said in your post above. I wonder if he is taking some of the comments directed at the bum next to her and attributing it to comments directed at her?
That Sorry Tory needs to focus on his own country...
Jim,
I didn’t see the original comments, but were the accounts recent signups? While a wide range of opinions are expressed on FR, it’s obvious that the most all of us would never make or condone comments such as these. Parry or his followers no doubt planted them to discredit the right and Free Republic, and I suspect this type of thing happens a lot in various forms. Good thing this guy was outed, though I won’t hold my breath for the MSM to give it any space.
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