Posted on 01/24/2003 11:25:01 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear
It seems the two sisters will dominate the world of women's tennis for quite some time. Already Serena is ranked as the number 1 player (and Venus is no. 2)! And that is in singles. In doubles they are just as unbeatable.
Do you mean Tiger Woods? Or did that family have another great athlete? ;^)
Honestly that thread was one of the worst on FR, and just showed that even in a great forum like this you will find people who will make a mountain out of a mole hill, and even try to attach negative connotations to what was an innocent pic! Gosh, reading some of those posts i did not know whether to laugh or simply shake my head in shame!
Anyways to those sane freepers out there (most of us luckily, i hope) here is the photograph that had many saying Serena is the veritable incarnation of the anti-Christ). Sheesh, a girl tries to take a patriotic pic that shows her winning the cup for herself and her country and suddenly folks who do not know one iota about her start scrambling to be the first to call her traitorous (one even insinuated that she had been paid a lot of money to disgrace the American flag! Puh-lease, now that is being paranoid)
Come think of it i do not recall ever hearing such vitriolic diatribe even when some 'peacenik hobo' set an american flag on fire! There are so many worthy targets out there that are more deserving than some teen girl who was just trying to get a victory photo with her nation's glorious flag. To be honest with you some of the comments on that thread are only worthy to come out of the maws of democrats ...and it is a shame to find them within FR.
Anyways here is the pic of Serena being a 'traitor' to America and 'maligning' the flag because she was 'paid to demean it' by her daddy who is 'standing behind the camera smiling!' (Wow, i wish i had such great vision as to be able to see what is 'behind the camera.' I guess some Freepers must have potent preternatural powers of cognition and uber-perception).
At the very worst that flag sitting was just a faux pas. A faux pas in that although she meant well (she wanted a victory pic drapped in the American flag) she did not know that flag ettiquete has certain rules about sitting on a flag! However in my opinion she is much better than the faceless miyriads who will seemingly honor the flag (for example democrats at congress) yet have their hearts in the wrong place! By far much better. Serena may have been sitting on the lower corner of the flag (sheesh, talk about molehills turned into mountains) but her heart was in the right place.
If DU ever needed a thread to defame FR then they have it!
This thread is an example of what I call "pinch your nose" Republicanism..... stupid, mindless nitpicking by a bunch of old farts.
Serena kicks butt and I am proud to call her my countryman, as she has, once again, won a major tennis title.
Those of us who joined Free Republic back in the late 90's were outraged by the blatant disrespect and desecration of our White House by the "Penis in Chief" and his lying spouse.....that was worthy of outrage and vitriol...but this?!!!! A young woman who has dared to pose in front (or accidentally on top of a corner of) of our national banner???
Many of the bozos on this thread are the main reason the Democraps are still breathing.
Thus i stand with you on the part of the etiquette and decorum pertaining to flags. However i ask you to look at some of those posts on that thread and tell me if they were deserving. What the girl did was make a faux pas, while trying to be patriotic. I doubt she was 'paid' to deface the American flag ....but then again unlike some freepers i am not able to perceive what is happening on the other side of the lens!
What she did may not have been fitting accoridng to the rules of propriety and decorum ....but for sure she was not trying to be traitorous or doing that because she knew she 'was african-American and could get away with it.' She was just trying to be a patriot, but did not know that sitting on a flag would make certain people go into melt-down.
Never been to DU ....and thus there is no way for me to know what they said. Glad you informed me of their posts.
Secondly i stand by what i said. I think she made a faux pas and should have found a more appropriate way to incorporate the US flag in her victory pic.....however i also believe going as far as having people call her a traitor and all that is simply a silly mix of paranoia and blowing things out of proportion. It is that simple really. Sitting on a flag may be against certain rules of decorum ....however having Serena called a traitor who is probably being paid to malign the US flag is just going so far to the other end of the spectrum it is pathetic.
And i can say that and still respect the flag far more than virtually all people i personally know. Yet at the same time i am not quick to judge and call people traitors whenever they look askance at a flag!
If you object to what's being said on the "flag desecration" thread, why aren't you making your points there, instead of here, where it's barely been mentioned?
Let me answer that. First of all i got linked to that thread through this one, and this one also pertained to Serena hence the info tied in. Secondly there were many freepers who basically said what i thought on that particular thread, hence it would have been injudicious to add to what they had to say (and anyways that thread was just too saturated). Hence this thread ....and if you notice it was in reply to no.8 where the whole Serena'desecrates' flag thing popped up.
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