Posted on 07/11/2009 12:01:08 PM PDT by buccaneer81
I’m sure you will agree that we need to be self-policing here on FR. And we are, for the most part. “We” means all of us.
The success of FR has made it into the “go to site” for reporters (so-called journalists) looking for a quick soundbite from what they view as the “right wing kooks”. Let’s not do their bidding by stooping to the level of DU or Kos and making it easy for them to find the kind of dirt they found in this case. We’re better than that.
Our mission should be to get rid of Obama and the Democrat controlled congress and start taking this country back in the right direction. We need to attract Independents and others who can help to do that in the 2010 elections - not turn them off with derogatory racial comments about Obama’s kids.
I wonder how many of the slurs were from trolls and DU plants.
So he couldn’t have meant you, could he?
Unless it is the Palin kids or the Bush twins, they can cry me a river because it is too late to worry about only some kids
There was at least one ZOT on the thread.
Vancouver, like Portland, sucks.
Offensive posts were removed,as they should be.
“If being the good guy means standing still while someone punches your lights out..NO THANKS.”
It doesn’t mean “standing still”, it means standing up, even if it is among your own peers when something is wrong.
I don’t see anything wrong with the commwnts, anyone displaying the peace symbol is total garbage!
Exactly. And that should have been the end of the story.
Another great post. Yes, we at Free Republic are better than that. MSM will ignore 99 of our respectful posts to zero in on the one disrespectful post. We need to be a place where that one lost sheep doesn’t stick our head in MSM’s noose. There are a million and counting faults of Obama we can criticize honestly and respectfully without punishing his innocent children.
LoL. I always get a kick out of reading "critical" pieces on FR in the lib media.
I think we can all agree that nuclear weapons are best not used but when they are used on us then let the hounds of hell loose. To answer your question, YES.
**1 - Democrats, commies, Palin Haters and other leftoids can do and say anything they like. Any vileness at all is acceptable because their motives are pure.
2 - Conservatives and Republicans must drive within the lines, be nice to their tormentors, help democrats destroy America, keep quiet when they see the press praising another racist hack, pretend they like Obama and swear that Michelle is beautiful or they will be sternly warned that people might not like them.**
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PREcisely.
**1 - Democrats, commies, Palin Haters and other leftoids can do and say anything they like. Any vileness at all is acceptable because their motives are pure.
2 - Conservatives and Republicans must drive within the lines, be nice to their tormentors, help democrats destroy America, keep quiet when they see the press praising another racist hack, pretend they like Obama and swear that Michelle is beautiful or they will be sternly warned that people might not like them.**
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PREcisely.
I don't think you are giving Jim Robinson the credit he deserves. In the original thread, he said that he gets a lot of emails like that every day and it sounds like he ignores plenty of them when he doesn't feel they have merit. He felt this one had merit and I agree with him on that. Just because a liberal blogger raised the thread doesn't mean that they can't make a good point and when they do, it' shouldn't be ignored just because of the source. If it's a valid point it's a valid point and that was a valid point. It's not about the left controlling what we say but about doing what's right.
Remember, the term "politically correct" was originally coined by Marxists because they'd just whether facts were correct or not based on their political utility. Conservatives are better than that. If it's right it's right and if it's wrong it's wrong, regardless of whether we get political brownie points from it or not.
I think this “journalist” probably hangs out at the blatantly hateful Kos site
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