Posted on 04/06/2008 2:06:13 AM PDT by Lady J USA 1981
Daily Kos Attacking Charlton Heston on His Passing
Posted on April 6, 2008
I guess we shouldnt expect any sense of decorum from Kossacks, but it is pretty lame that they had to unleash their hatred only minutes after the announcement of the passing of famed American actor Charlton Heston. A Daily Kos diarist named doriangz started out calling Heston a gun-nut and ending with his life and causes being considered political nutdouchebaggery, and the incivility just flowed like the opening of a damn from Kos posters keyboards after that. Not much respect for a man whos film career spanned many decades, who marched with Martin Luther King, and fought to uphold our Constitution.
One poster said that Heston tore into the victims of Columbine, one Marcus Tullius said he laughed when Jerry Falwell died and that Hestons death made the world a better place. And Fairy Tale echoed that with a post that said, Things are already getting better in America now that Heston was dead. RandySF said that he was sorry but that he cant think of anything nice to say about Heston. Aqualad08 seemed to think that if there were no guns in heaven that would make it hell for Heston.
And they were just getting warmed up.
Then, we always have to have the hes a crappy actor types like poster jazzmaniac and the ones that have no respect, like ohcanada who said, As we sow.. I didnt respect him in life..and I wont in death. Then FischFry jumped in to say that he assumed that mention of the Heston film A Touch of Evil was really a description of Heston himself.
And, predictably, there is the foul mouthed type that we have all come to associate so specifically with uncivil leftists, too. PerfectStormer posted a loving So long, motherf***er when he heard the news of Hestons death.
But remember, these are the same sort of people who claim that it is they that are the more compassionate, more caring,, and more civilized in our society. Well, if the compassion they displayed for Charlton Heston is any indication, we are in more trouble than we thought either that or the left has no real compassion at all.
I favor the later, dont you?
Still, there were several posters that were chagrined by the hate and uncivil postings by their fellow lefties. So, at least some of the Kos posters were sorry to hear of Hestons passing and upset at the ignorance of the other posters.
But, all the vitriol is sadly to be expected from the more loving left, unfortunately. I can only imagine how the media will treat him over the next few days. Who can doubt that their compassion will quickly fade to be replaced by sniping and attacks of this iconic and quintessentially American personality?
Since when did the left believe in Heaven & Hell?
You are known by the enemies you keep. One reason I don't trust Sean Hannity.
Sigh...
Charming
What till Carter or Bin Laden kicks the bucket. The left will be wailing over that like you won’t believe
I come here to FR to get away from the endless fascination some other sites have with everything that the Kossacks and the DUmbasses have to say about anything and everything; but still things like this pop up here from time to time.
A portion of the time the posts that show up at Kos and DU are flamebait that is deliberately posted by agitators from some of the alternative so-called “underground” sites (and their many, many spinoffs) who have made good sport of this kind of activity for years. Just like we get left-wing agitators trolling FR, Kos and DU get the same treatment (although a lot more effectively...) from our side. I know of several DU trollers who have been posting inflammatory and disrespectful articles like this for years; in fact I think I recognize a particular writing style in this one...
Kos and DU try to zot the most obvious agitators but they have never rooted out all of the deep-cover Right wing cyber-commandos that still haunt their websites posting inflammatory things just like this article, in order to attract the most outrageous and stupid replies as possible. I know a few of these people who have been doing this for years, and first honed their skills doing this stuff back during the campaigns for the 2000 elections.
I would not be surprized to find a post on one of the alleged Conservative “underground” sites, claiming responsibility for this post, detailing all of the stupid responses to it, and bragging about how clever the perp is.
Given Charlton Heston’s popularity among Conservatives, and the speed at which this particular post went up on Kos, I give it pretty good odds that this was flamebait of the type I described.
In any case, I really don’t give a big rat’s ass what anyone at Kos or DU says about anything. I hang here at FR to discuss what Freepers think, not what Freepers think about Kos and DU...
Moving on...
I did and, unfortunately, you are right.
Machiavelli: The Prince: Chapter XVII
“Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved,”
I'm a regular FR poster and I usually refer to her thighness as "bitch" and never consider that to be profanity.
To equate the usual postings on FR to the usual postings on DU is irrational and impossible to substantiate.
There are singular posts that are crude {and some maybe profane} that the mods don't remove, but they are the exception, not the norm.
This moral equivalence that you are trying to draw between FR and DU doesn't pass the smell test.
Heston’s passing is a legit news item that made headlines on all the major news sites like Yahoo. It would have been odd if it hadn’t been quickly posted at the political forums. I doubt it was a mole that posted it at DU, but even if it were, it would have gotten the same response from them.
Keep in mind, these are the same folks that applauded when Georgia Clooney said “Good” when told of Heston’s ALS diagnosis.
The Mike Moore took the shots at him in Bowling for Columbine, I can’t get angry at them, only pity them.
They need a hug or something.
Belafonte does not belong in such august company.
Quite sincerely, ‘Pod.
I’m sorry. I’ve seen a fair amount of vile stuff posted here, but neither the amount nor the tone approaches anything close to what the Left does.
There is no moral equivalence here. There is a good side and a bad side. ‘Pod.
Yeah, third rate commie loser Belafonte took his 15 minutes of fame and stretched it longer than any human could conceive.
I went to the link but can not tell who authored this piece. I want that person to stop calling these anti-American sub-humans “Kossacks”! “Cossacks” were a martial people famous for their self-reliance, patriotism and military skills, particularly horsemanship. “Kossacks” are the polar opposites . . . metrosexual, anti-patriot, dependents with NO martial skills whatsoever. And their only association with horses would be more aligned with non-consenting sexual acts.
That these vile people feel threatened by a real — albeit, dead — man is no surprise.
And Aqualad08 would have a cardiac if he found that during one of the LA Riots his liberal actor 'heroes' were calling Heston to borrow guns for protection from the rioting blacks. Heston in effect told them to go to hell.
IIRC he said, "You wanted tough guns laws and waiting periods - well, you got them."
Most of them would have likely blown their own toes off with them.
“Have you never read the threads here on FR concerning those on the opposite side of the political fence? Read a thread that concerns the late Princess Diana. DailyKos has nothing on ill-bred Freepers... nothing.”
Just shows that stupidity can be well spread out amongst the population.
Education costs money. Stupidity is free.
Beautifully put. I've worked around liberals for many years in their Mecca of Washington, DC. That describes them perfectly. They are superiorists through and through who routinely belittle common folk. Leftists love to hate.
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