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...
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.