[Cicero]

This is very bad news. Anything we can do to turn this around?

It seems possible that the threats to kill Muslims or burn mosques and the like may have been posted by leftist trolls, who wanted to take the site down.

We had some problems like that on FreeRepublic many years ago, before there were permanent Moderators on the scene. JimRob would go somewhere for a conservative meeting, and the trolls would all turn up and start posting racist remarks. Then FR would be accused of racism. Drudge removed the FR link from his website for years, because of those accusations that it was a racist site.

[Just4Him]

It seems possible that the threats to kill Muslims or burn mosques and the like may have been posted by leftist trolls, who wanted to take the site down.

....exactly what I was thinking

[Stepan12]

We had some problems like that on FreeRepublic many years ago, before there were permanent Moderators on the scene. JimRob would go somewhere for a conservative meeting, and the trolls would all turn up and start posting racist remarks. Then FR would be accused of racism. Drudge removed the FR link from his website for years, because of those accusations that it was a racist site

And this is taken from the playbook of Saul Alinsky. When Nixon's Defense Secretary went to speak at a college, Saul Alinsky beforehand suggested that college kids opposing him dress up in Ku Klux Klan uniforms and cheer at different times what Defense Secretary Laird was talking about.