Posted on 07/12/2009 3:35:20 PM PDT by bocopar
Bill O'Reilly has called Free Republic a hate site and he may now have some ammunition to back up that assertion.
"A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion."At a time when the administration is seeking any reason to squelch any speech it deems "hate", as well as the entities where that speech may be found, what the hell were these people thinking?These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative 'Free Republic' blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.
The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds."
(Excerpt) Read more at black-and-right.com ...
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That’s right.
Hey, maybe Bob would be interested in shining the light of truth on how Barry illegally fired the AmericCorp IG......
I guess these people were thinking the 1st Amendment still applies.
He is wrong about this particular situation, but for the right reasons. He is right that our side shouldn’t be attacking the kids and the comments IF they where by FReepers, where wrong.
However, as well all know, just because someone posts here doesn’t make him a FReeper, we have trolls all over the place as does every internet forum. Heck, Chris Parry posted here so by his own charges, he is a FReeper and just as guilty of the comments by association.
Seems this story is growing legs. That to me is suspect.
Not giving Parry a pass at all, but are we going to say that NO racial slurs have every been posted here, let alone about the Malia Obama?
I have a thick skin and while being a conservative, have taken my shots here for some commentary not always agreed with. But WHY give assholes like Parry and Kos any ammo at all?
The Obamas like the Clintons are the same. They don’t want to be reminded of all the trash talk about the Bush twins and the unforgivable remarks made about Sarah and Todd Palins children. Only the bottom of barrel scum suckers would make those kinds of remarks. That and not knowing any of the names of the posters making those remarks made me wonder if they were not real Freepers.
It should be obvious to everyone by now that this is a planned and concerted attack on FR by the really radical left.
Any site which is open to the public will have opinions all over the map. Some will be mild some stronger and a few will be over the top.
So what?
I don’t frequent the leftist web sites but from what I have read, they are basically hate filled, lies and distortions purposely intended to mislead.
They could take a lesson from FR’s posters which I am sure would be like a breath of fresh air to them.
O'Reilly has also said that the Left's websites are far more vicious than any sites on the Right. He has positioned FR as the dominant site on the Right, and in my opinion, he has unfairly used moral equivalence to put the dominant Right site and dominant Left site on equal footing.
However, I would like to see O'Reilly come to his senses on the proportion of differences between sites on the Right and Left. I'd like to see O'Reilly report that the person from Kos who reported on the racial slurs on FR had previously posted about falsifying racist charges against Free Republic, and hid the fact that he was also a reporter for the Seattle newspaper which "broke" the story.
-PJ
Yes, we have a few pinheads on FR who sometimes post despicable comments. And the thread was pulled. Ask O’Reilly, you’ll find pinheads in every group.
I’d be willing to be if you took a poll of this site, one vote per active member, you’d have no less than a 99% majority agreeing that the comments were unacceptable. That’s not the issue.
The real problem is that we have no idea who posted the comments. Not all of us were here to catch the thread, and in my experience the moderators (acting on tips from members, no doubt) are very quick to clean up comments that have no place in the intelligent discourse we pride ourselves on. A few posters making crude comments at worst indicates some long-standing members gone off the rails. However, as you can see, there remains a very distinct possibility that those comments were deliberately planted. The fact that the story was jumped on almost immediately suggests that quite strongly in my opinion.
You may want to look into that aspect.
Bob is sane but he may not have realized yet that the offending posters were possibly KOS crud engaging their vile tactics.
Given what we know now about Parry there is more than reasonable doubt that the offending posters were real FReepers but instead KOS/DU trolls.
Bill O'Reilly will be far more interested in the man who planted those racist screeds, Chris Parry--the same man who tried to execute a "Google Bomb" so that when you typed "terrorist" in Google, Bill O'Reilly's name would come up.
Perhaps some people here can inform Bill of this fact. and Bob Parks as well, since he is clearly a pretty lousy researcher. Most of us try and get the facts before we post such strong accusations.
Can someone post the thread.I never noticed it.
Don’t ya know how liberals work, it’s Ok to ask for the rape of a conservative woman, it’s Ok to say hateful, disgusting, vile things about a beautiful baby, but when the shoe is on the other foot they start bitching and whining.
Parks has been here a long time. He surely knows that he is painting Freepers with a broad brush when he is certainly aware there is a subsection of posters who are idiots on any given subject.
He's getting all "victim" on us.
That's just not right.
It's merely opportunist.
Exactly what that chris parry guy has instructed posters at KOS and DU to do!
I don’t know if that would make any difference as trolls lie and pretend. There are trolls here and they do it and you can see they usually flock to the same threads.
Plenty to attack Obama on without resorting to race and attacking his children. Those are guaranteed losers.
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