hypocritexposer
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From the same people that brought you Obama's birth certificate.
http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/404674.asp
Jul 13 2009 12:00AM
Chris Parry of the Vancouver Sun recently wrote an article about a bunch of nasty comments posted about Obama’s daughter Malia on Free Republic:
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion. “Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?” wrote one commenter.
“They make me sick .... The whole family… mammy, pappy, the free loadin’ mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin’, and especially ‘lil cuz… This is not the America I want representin’ my peeps,” wrote another. Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.
Those comments are pretty stupid. As much as I dislike Obama and his policies and his lack of honest with the public, and as much as I think he’s taking this country in the absolute wrong direction, his family doesn’t deserve comments like this. And such comments certainly aren’t productive, politically. People who might have been swayed by arguments focusing on Obama’s policies are just going to be turned off by such nonsense.
And besides, FreeRepublic.com isn’t alone in having comments like this. They happen at any blog with open comments liberal, conservative or otherwise. I’m sure I could troll through the comments at Daily Kos, for instance, and come up with no small amount of mean-spirited and hateful invective aimed at the Bush family, including the twins Jenna and Barbara. Cherry-picking a few threads of comments and using those comments to smear an entire website and/or group of people is a silly game serious political commentators should stop playing.
All that being said, it’s also worth nothing that this reporter, Mr. Parry, has actually advocated on Daily Kos for liberals to register on sites like FreeRepublic and post objectionable comments so that news reporters can report on them. From Gawker:
Chris Parry, it appears, has advocated on his Daily Kos blog any number of egregious offenses, among them: posting hate speech on sites like Free Republic and blaming it on conservatives. Parry posted under the name “hollywoodoz” on Daily Kos, where his signature was “Fool me once, I’ll punch you in the ******* head.” Parry outed himself as hollywoodoz here, where he discloses the company he helped start. In essence: Parry, the journalist, found his story right where he’d been circling it for a very long time, and reported it as news.
I don’t know if some or all of the FreeRepublic comments were, in fact, staged by Parry or others but certainly this undermines Parry’s credibility.
http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/404674.asp