Uh, you’ve drawn a few odd conclusions here.
Yep, I absolutely posted at DailyKos.com before starting work at The Sun. Also posted here. Also posted at MLB.com and scout.com and... god, after fifteen years on the internet, I might even have visited a porn site or two.
I guess the big question here is “and?”
Has no Fox News personality ever posted here? Has no conservative columnist ever deigned you worthy to post a comment?
Your massive ‘find’ is nothing more than a couple of breadcrumbs on the internet trail that point to a couple of websites I long ago sold off (Unreel Media is owned by another company these days, though if you’re looking for editorial services, they’re amazing and worth a call).
Did I organize a Google Bomb of Bill O’Reilly a few years back when he called for an attack on San Francisco? Sure enough. Proud moment.
Do I think Carrie Prejean is a moron? I do. Absolutely.
Do I think Michael Moore was right? Yup. I think history proved it, though I’ll agree he cheats to get the footage he wants (you can find plenty on dKos where I’ve said as much).
Do I think it’s understandable Saddam tried to off Bush Sr? Sure. Bush told him that the US had no beef with Iraq muscling Kuwait over an oil dispute, so when the US suddenly called him evil for doing so, it would make sense they’d have a beef. I’m not saying he’d be right in going after Pappy, I just think the urge to do so would be understandable coming from him.
As far as girl on girl action is concerned, like I said, I don’t own those sites anymore. Well, not all of them. Not that one, anyway. Last I heard it was going to be a techy review site, but I guess they opted for automated news aggregation of a given sort. I contacted the owner and he took the phrase off the site just now, so there’s one for the little guy.
Yes, i have had contact with Markos Moulitsas. I emailed him once. I’m guessing Jim (sorry for the name screw-up - will fix it when i’m next at my desk) has done same.
As for the loan sharking bit... well, that’s just a terrible lie. I’m a member of a website called Kiva.org, that lends money to third world people who want to start a business and can’t get credit due to their circumstances. I would send $50 every few weeks to be loaned to an ox farmer in Zambia or a baker in Azerbaijan, and they would then pay the loan back as they could (interest-free) and the money could then be re-loaned elsewhere. If that’s loan-sharking, then I guess I’m a loan shark, but I’m thinking any rational person would see it as a good thing to do. Sending aid is dumb, because you’re just temporarily filling a hole. Offering microcredit builds an economy. Again, proud moment.
What motivated me to write the piece about FR?
Well, you see, I’ve seen a lot of anonymous blog posts in my time that were nasty, vicious and beyond the pale. They happen on dKos too, as you know, but most of the time they’re isolated incidents and quickly stomped.
But this was an entire thread in which everyone - bar a couple - were pounding out racial, sexist and just plain boorish abuse at an 11-year-old girl. That’s not cool.
That it was suppressed and placed under review would make it a non-story, if it stayed suppressed, but when it came back, with a note mocking the person that complained, that comes across as ‘site approval’ to me.
More comments of the same nature followed before someone finally put the kybosh on things - after it went public.
Say what you will about my political beliefs (I’m a lefty, never hidden it), but that’s a story.
For those who wondered, yes, I believe Letterman’s joke was wrong. I also note he apologized and clarified his intent on national TV. So be it.
What it all comes down to is, if you properly moderate your forum (Gosh, I called it a blog? Consider me flayed) so that 11-year-old girls aren’t called whores, we can go back to just believing in opposite things and I can get back to writing about MMA, Jon and Kate Plus 8, and other such important things.
Much love, and feel free to drop me a line at cparry@vancouversun.com if you want to discuss things further. I’m an open book, as should be any journalist, left, right or otherwise.
However, this: Do I think it’s understandable Saddam tried to off Bush Sr? Sure.
Pray, dear sircialist: If I were to post a similar comment about Obama, would your ilk not respond with calls for Secret Service investigation, cries of 'he endorses assassination', and calls of being a KKK-enabler?
Color me unimpressed.
Yet, unsurprised.
First, I don’t have the means right now to determine whether the screen-name Chris Parry = the Chris Parry we’re talking about, but I assume that can be determined quickly enough.
If you are, please answer this:
1) Do you specifically deny that the any of racist comments under discussion were made by either:
a)yourself,
b)someone you we’re cooperating with, or
c)someone you had reason to know to be a plant intended to damage Freerepublic.com?
2) Have you ever made comments on the Internet, with the intention of spoofing and thereby damaging those with whom you disagree?
You forthright answers may help to resolve this controversy.
Thanks.
At what point did you cry foul against Letterman's disgusting excuse for a joke about Palin's daughter? Your hypocrisy is laughable. Michael Moore's hypocrisy is astounding. You will forever excuse the hypocrisy of your limousine liberal idols. So it is written, so it shall be.
I’M A LEFTY!
When you and your friends in the MSM start posting that next to your name on every byline and stop pretending that you are objective journalists, then and only then will we believe that you have a shred of honesty in anything you write. Until then it is all manipulation.
I ignored the person who contacted me for comment about the thread in question because my instinct told me they were lying about their intent (that instinct was proven correct when the person posted about it at the Daily Kos). However, if you had reached out to me from the Vancouver Sun I would have spoken with you about it.
But you had an agenda as a reporter, and plowed ahead without doing some basic fact checking. We expect nothing less from the media these days. An honest reporter would have at least mentioned their ties to the Daily Kos and that this hit originated there, so readers could discern for themselves whether there is a political agenda behind your article or if you were really writing for the betterment of all mankind.
Thanks Jet Jaguar.
Ping for update at #365.
By the way, do those 30 writers you have employed for your company also troll for you?
You don’t have to admit it, I’m sure that the moderators here will just compare IP addresses of those they banned on that pulled thread to your own.
Congratulations! You have been voted useful tool for the week by the big government slave masters.
Have a Nice day.
And not only that, you wrote them.
Parry, you are a hypocrite. Open book my arse. You try to play yourself off as some sort of objective “journalist” when you are nothing more than a ultra left wing tool.
I figured you would slither in here sooner or later, BTW, I don’t remember any righteous indignation from your sorry ass when the kos kids were slandering Sarah s kids....screw you/
Do you identify yourself and your column as being from a liberal viewpoint or do you somehow just let it go out as if it is from an unbiased new source?
At least Rush and Hannity identify themselves and their programming as being a conservative talk show and don’t try to sell it as unbiased new coverage.
Chris Parry of the Vancouver Sun encourages violence against Joe Biden:
***”Now, I don’t know how disgusting Joe Biden needs to be before he’s set on fire and driven off a proverbial bridge by the Democratic leadership, but the passage above demonstrates exactly why, and where, he has become a liability.”***
***”Let me save Osama Bin Biden a little time in 2008... Joe, if you have any desire to not see yourself slammed and sledged from pillar to post, to be insulted and abused and cursed by millioins, retire now. The MBNA sell-out will not go away, the Citibank slavery bill will not be forgotten. You sold out the people to your highest financial contributors and if you think you can ignore that and play the “9/11 changed everything” card and that we’ll all buy into it, I have news for you.
You’re done.”***
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/18/100378/-Biden-attacks-Kerry,-discusses-2008-run.
Furthermore, do you deny advocating or participating in the cybersabotage of this forum by posting, or encouraging to be posted, racially insensitive remarks for the purpose of discrediting Free Republic (or, if the odious Cyberbullying Act gets passed, for the purpose of shutting it down)?
If so, is it de rigeur for journalists to participate in vandalism of websites? Is it acceptable for journalists to create controversy, and then report on it?
Chris, when will you give up the game? When your employer and the authorities question you, are you just going to keep pointing the finger while the evidence mounts? Or are you going to fess up and make it easier on yourself. EVERYONE, even your Kossack buddies, know you posted this monstrous racist screeds yourself. Everyone knows you yourself advocated "attacking 'negroes' and blaming Republicans" for it. It will ALL come out. Why don't you just stop lying now and save whatever shred of dignity remains? Does all the vile truth of your history as a pornographer, racist libeler, and financial swindler really need to come out? Can't you at least spare your family this embarrassement? Just admit what everyone already knows. You did this. ALL of it.
Ah, I just have to say, grats on admitting what amounts to a Hate crime in Canada.
Do you seriously consider yourself a journalist, with professional ethics? I’ll be curious to hear how you rectify your hit pieces in the Sun, with your activism - and why you haven’t been upfront about that with disclaimers in the newspaper?
Do you think that fair?
Do you think that odd?
Ya miss the point ol boy...Most of the posters were plants, when the powers that be realized what was happening they not only pulled the thread but banned the posters...Never happens at your sites.
Do you enjoy being a tool for the left?
Well well well, how’s that attack the republicans strategy (”hurt the black folks and blame it on the republicans”) working out for you?
B$. I bet there are still active threads on kos and the DUmp belittling teh Bush twins.
But this was an entire thread in which everyone - bar a couple - were pounding out racial, sexist and just plain boorish abuse at an 11-year-old girl.
Most of the replies were made about her mom, dressing her in that way to "appease" the summit atendees.
. . . . Say what you will about my political beliefs (I’m a lefty, never hidden it), but that’s a story.
It's not a story when the Palin family was and is still being belittled since last year? One reporter even admitted that the media was very one sided against Palin and let all the claims by Hussein and gaffe a minute Biden unreported. Hussein saying he campaigned in all 57 states and he may have missed one or two is NOT as story??????????????????????
For those who wondered, yes, I believe Letterman’s joke was wrong. I also note he apologized and clarified his intent on national TV. P>Piehole letterman did NOT apologize to Gov. Palin at all. He uttered a few words saying it was out of taste or something like that. What did he do the other night? Go back on the Palin attack mode again.
Something tells me that you won’t be associated with the Vancouver Sun for long. Ah Chris, you should have kept your arrogant mouth shut. There is no way a credible paper will keep someone such as you on it’s payroll. I will also not be surprised to see charges filed against you for you hate attacks and smear campaigns.
Has anyone ever told you, it is unethical to foment a story for you to report and then comment on? yea, not too cool in the world of journalism.
I have to give you some kudos though, when you went down you did it as a HUGE flaming ball of putrid snot. Bravo.