Daily Kos Attacking Charlton Heston on His Passing

Stop The ACLU ^ | April 6, 2008

[Lady J USA 1981]

Daily Kos Attacking Charlton Heston on His Passing

Posted on April 6, 2008

I guess we shouldn’t 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 who’s 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 Heston’s 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 “can’t 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 “he’s a crappy actor” types like poster jazzmaniac and the ones that have no respect, like ohcanada who said, “As we sow.. I didn’t respect him in life..and I won’t 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 Heston’s 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, don’t 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 Heston’s 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?

[UCANSEE2]

“You know I used to go to those sites to see what they wrote but I really don`t even think of them much anymore.

I am more concerned now with spending my time at places where people have some decency and values.”

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Yeah. It’s why I gave up porn sites and switched to F.R.

[Emmett McCarthy]

There are any number of people I dislike and disagree with and whose actions I find reprehensible. Yet, what kind of person takes it upon themselves to comment on the eternal destination of another? So many of these folks would jump to condemn another as “judgemental” if their behaviour were criticised or questioned, but are very quick to lay out their personal determination of “heaven or hell” for others. This is exactly the kind of “judgement” we are warned against making and, even if I wanted to engage in it, I’d be too afraid of bringing down God’s true judgement on myself.

[UCANSEE2]

“I was looking at DU, and there’s some of that there, too.”

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I only go there for the pictures.

[usmcobra]

[Charles Martel]

Overall, the more angry and frustrated they are, the greater the indication that they know they’re on the losing side of the issue. I look at their behavior this morning and don’t feel angry ... I feel schadenfreude.

Yep. I feel... kinda like Judah Ben-Hur after the big chariot race, looking down on his stricken and dying enemy.

[Fred Hayek]

“Classical liberalism,” what is commonly known as “open-mindedness,” was purged from the left many decades ago. Those who took over the left have steadily moved from “classical liberalism” to leninist, and eventually to stalinist philosophies.

And that is what the current Democratic Party has become. Minnesota may well have an alternate energy source - Hubert Humphrey’s coffin. Old Hubert must be spinning at 10.000 rpm now. He thought he drove the commies out of the DFL. Old Hubert was also pro-2A.

[UCANSEE2]

“Leftists seem unable to express themselves without resorting to the basest profanity.”

An approximation of IQ can be obtained by taking the inverse proportion of the number of cuss-words per sentence.

[UCANSEE2]

“I can’t imagine why anybody would want to say anything negative about Heston.”

Because they think it makes them ‘popular’ with their ‘crowd’.

[carton253]

Oh, I see... pointing out the truth is “Clintonian.” Got it.

[carton253]

Sorry it doesn’t pass your test. But, as you can tell by the thread... I’m not alone in my belief.

[peggybac]

I hope O’Reilly mentions this. The word needs to get out more how vile these liberals really are.

[fella]

Ah, the party of inclusiveness and tolerance......

The mind set of the run of the mill liberals that is currently being exposed is the same one that lead to marching people into the dessert until they died, the setting up of concentration/death camps, the intentional starving of entire areas, mass executions and the hacking murders of entire villages that we witnessed during the last century. And this mind set was inculcated into the perpetrators by willing mass media.

[Charles Henrickson]

DUFUable?

[Paul Heinzman]

I wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not. Every time these idiots pull this crap it just makes me sad and angry.

[eyedigress]

It is best to stay away from the state dependant morons. They know not the power that governs them. They are ignorant and dangerous.

[eyedigress]

I’m with you. I am loaded and locked at all times. Those bastards want to take me? :^)

[mware]

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They bloody well could not do it while he was alive.

...but it figures steal from the dead, the only thing the liberal think the dead are good for is votes.

They are a bunch of hypocrites. I remember Heston telling us at CPAC that during the Rodney King riots, he had a lot of his liberal FRiends ask if they could borrow firearms from him, just in case.

I think he said, he could not do that because they were not trained in handling firearms and might injure themselves.

[mware]

Hey Bender how ya feeling???

Good to see ya back at FR.

[eyedigress]

Well said Emmett, the dead are now left to God. If anyone dare speak ill, that will be marked upon their answers.

[Fawn]

My mouth just hung open watching the CBS news about him! They showed him marching with Martin Luther King....and then they showed him saying that it was one of the highlights of his life ...THEN....the announcer says: THEN HE TURNED TO CONSERVATIVE ISSUES...blah blah.

As if only a Dem believed in MLK! UNBELIEVABLE!!