Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:24:11 AM
All This Because Of A Peace T-Shirt
Posted in Liberaland by Alan
July 13th, 2009, 9:47 PM EDT
The next time Sarah Palin or one of her defenders complains about how her family is being treated, note the Free Republic website and the things it publishes [ http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html ] about Barack Obama’s children.
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”
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.”
The thread was removed and then reinstated, attracting even more slurs.
“This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution,” while another read, “I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but…”
The site’s owner only added fuel to the fire in response to one of the few complaints he received.
“The writer has a point,” wrote site owner Jim Robinson sarcastically. “We should steer clear of Obama’s children. They can’t help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig.”
Here’s a screen capture [ http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7610/missobamaspeaceniktshir.jpg ] of some of the comments. And add to this some of the comments on a fan site of the conservative radio host Mark Levin, as mentioned by Frank Rich in Sunday’s Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12rich.html (at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39466986 ) (many primary source links embedded in the original)].
“Bottomline, do you know of any way we can remove these idiots before this country goes down the crapper?” wrote one Levin fan. “I WILL HELP!!! Should I buy a gun?” Another called for a new American revolution, promising “there will be blood.”
This is what passes in 2009 America as the “loyal opposition.”
Copyright © 2009 Alan Colmes
http://www.alan.com/2009/07/13/all-this-because-of-a-peace-t-shirt/ [with comments]
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the first comment strikes me as particularly apt:
This is why the radical rightwing extremists do not deserve America, and America does not deserve them. And its the best reason I’ve seen in a long time for using the law, not as a shield, but as a sword.
Posted in Liberaland by Alan
July 13th, 2009, 9:47 PM EDT
The next time Sarah Palin or one of her defenders complains about how her family is being treated, note the Free Republic website and the things it publishes [ http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html ] about Barack Obama’s children.
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”
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.”
The thread was removed and then reinstated, attracting even more slurs.
“This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution,” while another read, “I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but…”
The site’s owner only added fuel to the fire in response to one of the few complaints he received.
“The writer has a point,” wrote site owner Jim Robinson sarcastically. “We should steer clear of Obama’s children. They can’t help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig.”
Here’s a screen capture [ http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7610/missobamaspeaceniktshir.jpg ] of some of the comments. And add to this some of the comments on a fan site of the conservative radio host Mark Levin, as mentioned by Frank Rich in Sunday’s Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12rich.html (at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39466986 ) (many primary source links embedded in the original)].
“Bottomline, do you know of any way we can remove these idiots before this country goes down the crapper?” wrote one Levin fan. “I WILL HELP!!! Should I buy a gun?” Another called for a new American revolution, promising “there will be blood.”
This is what passes in 2009 America as the “loyal opposition.”
Copyright © 2009 Alan Colmes
http://www.alan.com/2009/07/13/all-this-because-of-a-peace-t-shirt/ [with comments]
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the first comment strikes me as particularly apt:
This is why the radical rightwing extremists do not deserve America, and America does not deserve them. And its the best reason I’ve seen in a long time for using the law, not as a shield, but as a sword.
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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