A lovely thread from the FReepers on MLK wreath laying. . .

[Faygo Kid]

. . .and the protesters against Bush. Forgive me for subjecting you to this, but all those who sometimes tend to think (like those here sympathetic to Limbaugh) that maybe the Bushies aren't really evil and hateful occasionally need a wake up call. Well, WAKE UP. If you're easily offended, be warned: Not for those of tender sensibilities. But these are Bush's hard core supporters; his "base," if you will, and some need a reminder of this. Here's one example - just one of many - about Bush laying the wreath, and the link:

To: denydenydeny
"laid a wreath?"
Shoulda pinched a loaf.
5 posted on 01/15/2004 3:34:06 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1058816/posts

[mot78]

1. I'd love to see someone send this out

Every time a DUer posts something stupid, it gets on Pigboy's show.

[Terwilliger]

2. OK, send THAT to the courts for the "hate-group" charge

Repukes are a bunch of fucking racists.

[PaDUer]

50. It's over...

they made their bundle of dough already..$60,000.00 to the owner.

[Cleita]

3. Euwwwww.

"Those people"??? I take it that these conservatives are white and don't think there are any African American conservatives. Attitudes like these really make you wonder about Colin Powell and Condaleeza Rice's affiliation with these evil white people. This was really disgusting reading.

[salinen]

10. I wonder how many African American

freepers there are at FR?

[corporatewhore]

15. well there was at least one and was pissed

[Bandit]

33. Maybe they should be sent an example of their base for consideration

Send a link to their e-mail and let them decide if these are the people they want to be part of.

[lovedems]

4. Their compassion just warms my heart.

What a disgusting display of hatred.

[gulliver]

5. I'd like to see someone call Bush on it.

Bush should be forced to address this part of his base. Why doesn't he tell them to take their votes somewhere else?

[calimary]

13. Yeah, by thy friends art thou known, georgie-poo!

[Faygo Kid]

21. Bush will never criticize his base - no "Sister Souljah" moment for him

I have waited since 1994 for some Republican - any Republican, anywhere - to say that Limbaugh has occasionally gone over the top. It has never happened. It never will happen. Only Dems are ever expected to criticize members of their base. Even this, one of the most racist threads I have ever seen on FR (and there have been plenty) is there because the posters know that Bush is with them, with a wink and a nudge. Blacks who vote GOP may as well drink the Kool-Aid, and thank God most know it.

[mike1963]

6. Hm. "Lawn Jockeys". That guy must be a real prince.

:grr:

[Qutzupalotl]

7. They think *the protesters* are exploiting King's grave?!

:wtf:

And maybe I'm naive, but I don't get the "pinched a loaf" reference at all. Can someone explain that to me?

[Robbien]

8. Elimination of human solid waste

Number two. Poo Poo.

Got it?

[0007]

27. Sounds like freeper humor, 'eh?

Another freeper answered with a LOL!!

What a bunch of racist pricks.

[greekspeak]

48. The protestors need to get out of the way for Bush's exploitation

of MLK to do a fundyraiser on gubment money. What hypocrites freepers are.

[Military Brat]

9. The Ladyinred freeper is clearly blessed with an irony gene

Except she doesn't have the wits to recognize it.

"What a sad legacy for MLK. I doubt he would approve of his grave site being exploited by the protesters in this way. No dignity, no shame."

It's okay for the chimp to exploit it for a photo-op, though. Go, lady in red, you shameless, undignified freeper hussy.

[rumguy]

11. ladyinred has a serious ignorance problem

[Nevernose]

34. The same post struck me as well.

Maybe someone should show her this picture, taken on the Washington Mall (and posted by someone in the Air Force, apparently):

[the populist]

12. Say what you want about Freepers...

but they sure do have a serious sense of humor.

And at least they admit that it was a photo-op.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

24. Why don't you go back over then?

i'll bet they're a laugh a minute...all that sadistic humor. Remember the Rachel Corrie jokes?

[Pattib]

36. If you think calling people animals in a zoo

then you really should move along. I perused a couple of the MLK/Bush visit threads yesterday at FR and was disgusted by the overt racism. I found nothing "funny" about their comments. It just reinforces what I have always thought about many posters there. They are racist, homophobic, sexist....and I'll leave it at that.

[Anaxamander]

40. "Serious sense of humor"? Seriously racist, I'd say. (nt)

[DiverDave]

14. Yeah, the lawn

jockey remark was classic redneck, kkk, freeper.
Oh, and taking a dump, now there is SOME class.:eyes:

[mrfrapp]

16. IMO

I wouldn't be surprised if these "protestors" were drafted to do nothing more than hail abuse at Bush in the hope that it will smear all Bush protestors as anti-MLK; and by extension, anti-freedom and anti-civil-liberty. It's a classic political propoganda technique -- Bush associates himself with someone who is widely respected and revered and deliberately exposes himself to protest. By doing this, he can claim a "moral superiority" over the "protestors" and in his mind, hopefully plant a seed in the minds of the general population that says that everyone who protests against him is also anti-MLK.

I don't for one minute believe that even the freepers of this world would protest Bush simply because he attended MLK's grave. That's too dumb even for them.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Not sure I understand your post.

The protesters were anti-Bush, and pro-MLK's message. The protesters were furious that Dr. King's message of peace and social justice should be used as a photo op by this warmongering, elitist SOB president. The Freepers know where Bush is coming from, they are slavishly loyal to him (for the most part; a few exceptions always shouted down). They know how he really feels about MLK, because he is one of them. And now you have seen just how awful and degraded they are.

[Snappy]

17. Who knows?

"Why doesn't he tell them to take their votes somewhere else?"

He would lose the re-elelction if he did that.

Twilight Zone- Maybe those protesters were paid by the Neo Fascists?

If not, these protesters should really think about what sort of image they create. It just makes Dubya look picked on and makes the protesters seem small minded and disrespectful. In other words, it doesn't help their cause. They should've all dressed in black clothes and had signs that said GW Bush-Hypocrite and stayed silent.

[RandomKoolzip]

31. This is either satire or nonsense.

I can't tell if you're joking. "It makes Dubya look picked on and makes the protestors seem small minded."

You know, if I had a fucking penny for every johnny-come-lately on DU who claimed that Dems speaking our minds only makes us look bad, I'd be able to pay off the national debt. No. No. No!

Why would we listen to anyone who claims that expressing ourselves damages our cause? What moral authority do these kinds of posters have that they think that any time a Dem or a liberal acts like a feeling, thinking human being it'll backfire? Doesn't sound like a person who shares my views, nor someone I'd go to for advice. I could give a FLYING FUCK what the right thinks of me and of my party. THEY ARE WRONG and I refuse to adapt my actions, nor would I advocate any other Democrat or Progressive, to better conform to their false paradigm. It's bullshit. Either we go through life constantly cringing in fear that some fascist blowhard might - OH NO!!! - say a bad word about us, or WE FIGHT FOR OUR SURVIVAL. I make the latter choice.....you are free to choose for either. (For just how long you ARE free to do ANYTHING depends on whether you support progressive causes....)

[Faygo Kid]

32. I agree - To remain silent in the face of this evil is immoral

Why does the poster say nothing about the FReeper thread, which is the subject of this post? Makes Dubya "look picked on?" What kind of moral courage is that? Protesters are "small minded?" What about the Freepers? Does that thread from Bush's base not indicate that maybe some protesting is in order? No wonder you used the language you did, which I never do, but I sure as hell am getting worked up as I try to respond to Snappy's assertions. Hope Snappy will return with some amplification.

[Hubert Flottz]

44. LMAO!

I get sick of that goody two shoes line of bullshit too! The Freepers want to kill off all the undesirables like us so Bushites can have their Lebensraum! The Bush KKKlan is into eugenics up to their pink little ears!

Bush & Eugenics

snip>

On Eugenics ---- "The must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children.... The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years, would ... free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune."
-- Adolph Hitler

"The per capita income gap between the developed and the developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of higher birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in India, unwanted babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to form an unbreakable chain for millions of people--how should we tackle these problems?.... It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of the 1970s ... will be to curb the world's fertility."
-- George Bush Sr.

http://www.tribalmessenger.org/t-secret-gov/eugenics.htm

[Mike Niendorff]

18. sick and sad.

DU needs a page just for archiving threads like this one, as a handy up-front reference for when Rush and his brownshirts start spreading horror-stories about all us evildoers here at DU.

In particular, note post #5 (by billorites) saying that GWB should really have taken a shit on MLK's grave (not the mention the flagrant KKK-style bigotry, the stock Bircher claims that all protestors are really just "rent-a-mobs", etc, etc, etc).

The point : remember this thread next time a freeper mentions the name "Starpass".


MDN

(edit: typo)

[Faygo Kid]

22. Maybe a good one for Idiot Conservatives. Not very funny, though.

Could do Freepers every week. Still, this one is a special case.

[Mike Niendorff]

51. Update: looks like we got their attention.

They've now edited the thread, and, in particular, they've deleted the post (#5) that said that Bush should have taken a shit on MLK's grave (although they still left in the responsive posts -- "Good one!", etc).

As I said: we need a central place for archiving these kinds of threads in their original form, so that JimRob can't simply stuff them down the memory hole when the neighbors start to notice the stench.

MDN

[Ksec]

19. That site just drips with hatred for everyone but extremists like themselv

Out of touch with the real world. People like that are to be pitied.

Honestly did you ever hear people with so much hatred for the world?

[Faygo Kid]

23. That's why I felt compelled to post the FR thread

Really thought about it, but pretending these people don't exist doesn't help, only hurts. And given that FR is indeed Bush's base, it reminds us of what is at stake this November.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. What a hateful low class bunch!

[candy331]

26. It all confirms that this election is

going to be down and dirty. Mud slinging is too gentle a phrase it is going to be dirty stinking shit slinging no matter who the Dem is who wins the primary.

[ComerPerro]

28. This post says it all

This FReeper asshole may be a lowlife, ass kissing piece of slime, but he seems to know how Republican warmongerers like to run things:

Money for jobs and housing, not war"
Volunteer to join the army. They'll give you a job and housing. You'll be doing something useful for your country, your family and yourself.


15 posted on 01/15/2004 3:41:23 PM PST by Vigilanteman


So... the plan is trash the economy, let unemployment benifits expire, start more wars then you have troops to fight, and then encourage the jobless to join the military.

[Webster Green]

29. "Rent-A-Mob"?

Are they so stupid that they think its necessary to pay people to protest the chimp?

[demgrrrll]

30. Projection. The real Brooks Brothers Rent a Mob was in Florida in 2000.

Sad group of folks.

[snooper2]

35. Stupid Trash

Like this:

To: denydenydeny
Boooooooooooooooooooo Booooooooooooooooooooo Boooooooooooooooooo. No Blood for oil. Mo Money for ma beeatch. We have regressed to a bunch of puddle monkies waiting for the next rainstorm. I give up.

[Loonman]

37. Freeps hate Freedom and equality

Yep.

[Gringo]

38. Dumbya has a lot of nerve

to visit the grave of a man who stood foursquare against EVERYTHING Dumbya has promoted. Whether it be the exploitation of the poor & working class by the oligarchy, or imperialist wars of agression, MLK was our country's most eloquent critic.

Dumbya wouldn't be fit to shine Dr. King's shoes.

[monobrau]

39. Oh, the irony

A freeper quotes Reagan on the MLK holiday:

"On the national holiday you mentioned, I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them the perception is reality."

Pot, kettle, black.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

41. made a copy and faxed to Albany Times Union along with a cover letter

to editor friend of mine....he will know how to handle and print this in the paper...very interesting...thanks for posting :thumbsup:

this is gonna be fun :7

[Faygo Kid]

52. Please let us know what happens!

Will make a great post, and I hope it opens some eyes up in Albany. Thanks!

[proud patriot]

42. Didn't bush make a move in Fresno to protect free rupublic

from the attack on it by a city board member .

I think bush stepped in to help FR in their lawsuit
to sue the person on the board who called FR a hate group.

I think this thread should be sent in to the lawyers
defending the City Board member being sued .

[PaDUer]

49. Yep..

and they received $60,000.00...they made their goal..I don't have the url for the thread on this, but it's there.

[Rich Hunt]

43. right wing sites and censorship

Right wing sites are often quoted by their opponents to illustrate the hate that is masked by 'mainstream' Republican rhetoric.

The site masters are getting wise and are snipping and censoring the blatantly bigoted stuff. This appears to have happened at FR.

I would advise people to archive stuff before it gets snipped.

[Rich Hunt]

45. republicans = phonies

See, FR is useful. For example, this gem :

From the online article, "Honoring the King Myth" - http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/01-04-99/king_myth.htm

In 1983, shortly after Congress approved the bill which would create a national holiday honoring the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King, former New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson sent a letter to his old friend Ronald Reagan, urging the President not to sign the bill for a holiday honoring "the memory of a man of immoral character whose frequent associations with leading agents of communism is well established."

In response to Thomson, the President wrote: "On the national holiday you mentioned, I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them the perception is reality." (Emphasis in original.) In other words, Mr. Reagan knew that Martin Luther King was, in reality, unworthy of national adulation. Nonetheless, on November 2, 1983, he put his signature on the bill and the holiday became law.


Good to see FR spelling out the real Republican agenda.

[Tommy_Douglas]

46. Wow I love the comment....

That money doesn't create jobs... Then what were all those job creating tax cuts bush was mumbling about? Total moron...

[mwb970]

47. How disturbing (and disturbed) these people are...

Especially the bit about the protesters exploiting MLK. Like a photo op followed by a fundraiser isn't exploitation! And hiding protesters behind buses, for Pete's sake. What are we becoming?

[Faygo Kid]

53. Doesn't the Pickering appointment fit perfect with this?

The Pickering recess appointment, right after laying a wreath on MLK's grave, is Bush's way of giving a wink and a nod to his supporters that he really didn't mean the wreath thing. The FReepers may get pissed occasionally at Bush, but they know he will always send a message - like the Pickering appointment on MLK weekend - that lets them know where he really stands. As pointed out earlier, you will hear utter silence in terms of condemnation of these comments from any Republican leaders. Blacks and gays who vote Republican are just drinking the Kool-Aid.