Freepers on Susan Sontag's passing

[Charlie Brown]

I don't want to take advantage of Sontag's death in order to demonize others, but I think she'd appreciate revealing the hypocricy and contempt in some of these posts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309660/posts

"May she rest in eternal anxiety in hell."

"Turn out the lights, the parties over. Another lefty lines up for Hell again."

"Thanks.

Yet ANOTHER grave I'll have to void my bladder on in my travels around this big ol globe."

"Ding dong, the bitch is dead. She earns no pass in death that she didn't deserve in life."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It is so remarkable...

That people born without a cerebrum or cerebellum can still operate computers.

Brings a tear to my glass eye.

[bluestateguy]

2. Well

If that was Ann Coulter, people here (including me) would say some pretty harsh things too.

[Bertha Venation]

3. You took the words right out of my mouth. n/t

[GRLMGC]

4. You're probably right

It's still nasty.

[Walt Starr]

5. Personally, I wish Ann Coulter had gotten on that plane

instead of Barbara Olsen.

[JohnLocke]

32. Ditto (nt)

[mitchum]

33. I wish she had been her seatmate

[Hello_Kitty]

11. I see your point. But I think comparing Sontag to Coulter is like

Comparing a diamond to a turd.

[Bertha Venation]

26. false analogy

Diamonds and turds are not human beings.

:shrug:

[sui generis]

13. why wait until she's daid?

The Coulter Creature is open season all year long.

[mitchum]

29. I'm only sorry that Coulter wasn't sitting beside Barbara Olson

[miss_kitty]

6. I'm surprised they even know who she is

[devilgrrl]

12. So am I!

go figure

[mitchum]

35. Those knuckledraggers only know of her because of "Bull Durham"

[InvisibleBallots]

7. my favorite was the guy who said he would

"shit in Reggie White's skull" - that was a vivid image.

[madinmaryland]

17. Someone actually said that?

I try to stay away from freeperland (don't want to get any viruses on my computer). I think this is a repulsive comment regardless of your feeling of the man.

[InvisibleBallots]

31. er, no, that was on DU

in regards to Reggie White. sorry to disappoint.

What happened to the sigs? I felt mine was appropriate - "Each thing evokes its opposite."

[fryguy]

8. no respect whatsoever

freepers just amaze me that they are able to degrade people even in death....i guess they're not so much the compassionate conservatives, as they are the spiteful and vindictive philistines

[sui generis]

9. oh poor freepers

IF there is such a thing as hell they're already living in it, and will be until Will and Grace go off the air, Janet Jackson's nipples fall off, liberals, gays and uppity minorities are outlawed, and only then finally they will stop having those dang homoerotic dreams that leave them all hot and flushed and ashamed and inexplicably excited all at the same time.

[jonnyblitz]

10. let them. who cares.

and let me, too, when an enemy of the left who spews hate that I don't like dies...

[Bat Boy]

14. Here's my favorite post.

To: denydenydeny
Somehow I think there will be some Bull Durham quotes on this thread.
Are you thinking of Susan Sarandon?

That's just too funny.

All them Susans are alike, you know.

[RUDUing2]

15. pretty much the same thing as DU'ers have posted about Reggie White.

[Chimpanzee]

19. Not all DU'ers, only the hate-filled ones

[RUDUing2]

21. true..but I don't think all freepers posted about Sontag...so it kindof is

a pot meet kettle scenario...

[Chimpanzee]

16. These people are the slime of the earth!

And as much as I think Ann Coulter is an insane bitch, I wouldn't react to her death in any way resembling these assholes. Probably the harshest thing I'd say is that I wouln't be missing her.

[Tweed]

18. Sounds like a lot of DUers on the death of Reggie White

All the negative responses are tasteless, crude and absolutely unnecessary.

[Chimpanzee]

20. They were just as pathetic if not moreso

[FizzFuzz]

23. Who the hell IS Reggie White, and why are DUers and freepers BOTH trashing

him?

Sorry to be dense. :dunce:

[RUDUing2]

24. football star who was also a fundie minister and used

team meetings, etc to bash anyone who was not a fundi..esp. gays, but also hispanics, etc..

[FizzFuzz]

27. ew! Thanks for explaining

So, I understand now why DUers were trashing him, but he sounds like just the sort of guy the freepers would be writing eulogies over.

[InvisibleBallots]

37. he never "bashed" Hispanics

well not that I remember. He did make some stupid remark like "Hispanics love family so much, they have lots of kids". He obviously did not meant to be offensive, it was more of a "Black people walk like this, and White people walk like this" crap. His comments about gays were considered hateful, but I don't remember what he said.

[Charlie Brown]

22. On Bush:

"Watching the (democ)RATS attempt to deal with the President has been a fascinating example of totally underestimating one's enemy. Since they do not recognize him for the master statesman he is they have NO chance of dealing with him. Thank goodness."

[msmcghee]

25. Susan is a symbol of liberalism . .

. . just as Reggie White is a symbol of bigotry and racism.

When you are in a war. Each side denigrates the others' symbols. Pissing on graves is a particularly potent form of that.

Back in the eighties I drove fifty miles out of my way once so that my dog could shit on Reagan's lawn in Scaramento. I still relish the image.

War is ugly. But it's even worse than that if you lose.

[Royal Observer]

36. Yeah

There's enough shit to go around for everyone.

[Gothmog]

28. Remember how upset freepers were at DU when Regan died

This is what you expect of freepers. Remember how they got so upset when we discussed the failings of Reagan after the funeral? Reagan has some serious flaws and was not the saint that the Freepers thought and felt that any criticism of Reagan was grounds for damnation.

[maxsolomon]

30. maybe i missed something, but...

what did susan sontag ever do to conservatism? her concerns were typically more rarefied than bare-knuckle culture wars.

have these people READ susan sontag or do they just hate her from TV?

[RUDUing2]

34. she is an intelligent woman who didn't buy into the "males are the master

race" credo..ergo: evil personified..

[mcscajun]

39. If the Freepers trashing Sontag have ever read any of her work...

...I'll eat the first "tin hat" I can find.

I'll buy that they've watched "Bull Durham", though.

"...I believe...that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap."

[wicket]

40. they hate her because of Andrew Sullivan

And his "Sontag Award". 'Course, most of them hate Sully now too since he endorsed Kerry.

[MissBrooks]

38. They really think she is anti-American...

I didn't know that.

[Bertha Venation]

41. We are all anti-American, Our Miss Brooks. If you're not a RWNB

you are anti-American. :shrug: