All,
I was lurking on the Dose Saturday afternoon, January 20. I witnessed the entire exchange between Common Tator, SnarlinCubBear and Wolfstar and read all of the comments involved before they were pulled.
I wasn’t going to comment on this at all--it was such a minor event. But CT’s bruised ego seems so bent on making this molehill into a mountain, slandering good Freepers in the process, that I have to say something.
So this post is for everyone who might have read Common Tator’s inflammatory post on this thread (#189) and assumed he’s the victim in all this. That appears to be his intention. But there are some facts that he has omitted from his rants that need to be put back into context.
The Facts:
Common Tator posted this comment on last Friday’s Dose, January 19, post #100. In that comment he made a remark about immigration. We all know what a hot potato immigration is. You mention it at your own risk.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770492/posts?page=100#100
The next morning, January 20, SnarlinCubBear replied to that comment at post #160. She took CT’s immigration remarks personally.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770492/posts?page=160#160
Please click the links above and read the comments for yourselves. Everything was civilized, but as you can see the words were becoming a bit heated.
This friction continued when Common Tator directed his next post (#174) to SnarlinCubBear.
Now this is where things got a bit sticky.
Later that day, Wolfstar piggy-backed the Saturday Dose onto Friday’s thread at post #176.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770492/posts?page=176#176
SnarlinCubBear’s reply to Common Tator appeared at almost the same time at post #180.
This was bad timing, of course. Neither Snarlin nor Wolfstar knew that their posts were going to interfere with each other. It was just one of those things.
To her credit, Snarlin recognized that her post was putting Wolfstar in an awkward position and she asked to have it removed.
Please pull my last post. I did not realize that you were piggy-back posting and I do not intend to ruin the thread for everyone with my post. It's not appropriate for the dose.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770492/posts?page=183#183
(NOTE: For those that missed it, Snarlin’s #180 wasn’t a brief comment. It was quite lengthy and thought out; a lot of time had gone into it—just as much as anything Common Tator had posted. Yet once she saw that it was in the way, she didn’t hesitate to have it removed. That was a mature decision by Snarlin and it reflects well on her, in my opinion.)
Wolfstar also made a mature decision by asking the mods to remove not only Snarlin’s #180 but CT’s #174 as well. This was nothing personal against CT, as he seems to think it was. This was Wolfstar, our friend and trusted custodian of Sanity Island, trying to defuse a situation before it got worse.
(Wolfstar to SnarlinCubBear) Per your request, I'm asking the Admin Moderator to pull your post #180, but also Common Tator's post #174, which is the one to which you responded.In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with either post, but you're right. We try as best we can to keep such discussions off the Dose. I'm asking that they be pulled only so that they don't set an unwanted precedent on the Dose.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770492/posts?page=185#185
So this is the way I see it:
Wolfstar did nothing wrong.
SnarlinCubBear did nothing wrong.
Common Tator did nothing wrong … at the time.
As I said, this was a minor event. And the whole thing would have been forgotten three days ago if Common Tator and a few other people had just let it pass.
But no.
Common Tator couldn’t accept that one of his “commontators” was deleted for the sake of the Dose and reacted like a child, opus-ing out over this silly thing, not once, but twice. His most recent opus at post #189 on this thread even included a FRAGMENT OF A PRIVATE MESSAGE that he chose to share with us in public. Not only is that immature, it’s irresponsible and potentially dangerous.
I won’t even get into the secret behind-the-back mail I received today about this from a fourth party, other than to say that I’m disappointed in the person who sent it. And grow up! This isn’t high school.
For Heaven’s sake, the country is at war. The president is going to address the nation tonight in front of a hostile crowd. And here we are, preoccupied with this horsesh!t.
Wolfstar, my friend, you did everything right and for that you’re getting dragged through the mud. It’s disgraceful and you are the one that is owed the apology. A HUGE apology.
Wolfstar
"Blessed are the peacemakers" ~ Matthew 5:9
(((God Bless you!)))