DUers with Che Avatar are making us look bad and uniting FR

[RetroLounge]

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RL

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[arcane1]

1. DUers expressing liberal ideas make us look bad, too

:silly:

[RetroLounge]

2. Hippy

:D

Nice pics from the SF get together, by the way...

:hi:

RL

[arcane1]

11. pinko!

:P

[RetroLounge]

12. Commie!

RL

[arcane1]

16. um, um....

I've run out of single-word freepish insults!!

*tunes into Rush*

[kevinmc]

3. Who Cares What Those Paint Huffers Think

[name not needed]

4. the freepers, right?

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Who cares what they think at FR?

!!

[Cocoa]

6. uniting them?

what does that mean and who cares of some other message board is "united" or not?

[manic expression]

7. Gosh Darn it!!!!! I hate it when that happens!!!!

:sarcasm:

[RetroLounge]

9. Best response

:hi:

RL

p.s. To others: It was a copycat...

[H2O Man]

8. But what if we call him

"Ernie Lynch"?

[Stirk]

10. Hobbit gardens are uniting the orcs!

Quickly, little people! Burn your gardens and start practicing cannibalism! We mustn't give them any reason to be angry.

[RetroLounge]

14. uniting the orcs

:rofl:

RL

[yurbud]

13. to freeper lurkers

Do some research on Che (besides reading old An Coulter columns).


Also, since drudge is running that nonsense about Bill raping Hillary, ask yourself who that male prostitute Jeff Gannon was servicing when he was in the White House without signing out with the implication that he stayed over night. If it was a staffer, would that person risk his career by doing a ho in the White House instead of at home? The only person that would run a greater risk of meeting a ho elsewhere is the one whose motorcade you'd notice outside the bath house, the retarded grandson of a nazi collaborator.

[yurbud]

15. the only thing worse is getting your pic taken at Joseph McCarthy's grave

Oh wait, that was Ann Coulter.

My bad.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

17. Anyone who lauds Che has no right to criticize Bush for warmongering

(From Slate:)

So they have finally given Che Guevara a proper burial--the interment took place Oct. 17--in Cuban soil, in the town where he achieved his greatest revolutionary victory. You might suppose that, in these after-days of communism, Che's legendary glamour will soon enough find its way to a similar interment, though perhaps not in Cuba itself, where glamour, like everything else, remains under state control.

Che was not, after all, the best of communists. He was, in his dashing manner, the worst--an extreme dogmatist, instinctively authoritarian, allergic to any democratic or libertarian impulses, quick to order executions, and quicker still to lead his own comrades to their deaths in doomed guerrilla wars. Love of the Soviet Union was his first instinct, and when he evolved a second, more critical instinct, it was only because the Soviet leaders turned out to be less rigidly Marxist-Leninist and less suicidal than himself.

Of the innumerable commentaries on Che that have been published in the last few weeks, Alma Guillermoprieto offered the clearest, in The New Yorker. "He was a fanatic," she wrote, "consumed by restlessness and a frightening abstract hatred, who in the end recognized only one moral value as supreme: the willingness to be slaughtered for a cause." But I am struck most by a commentary that appeared in the Mexican weekly Etcétera, under the byline Gilberto Guevara Niebla--no relation to Che himself, yet a figure of great importance in the revolutionary history of the 1960s. Gilberto Guevara Niebla was arguably the single most important student leader of the Mexican student uprising of 1968--the uprising that was finally put down in a massacre by the Mexican army in October 1968.

He wrote, "Che offered his life to the cause of the disinherited, but he did it by offering a political method that, in the long run, had disastrous effects on whoever tried to uphold it. Guerrilla war imposed a militarist logic and closed the space for democracy. What Latin America lived since Che launched his slogans was a bloodbath and a wave of destruction and terror. ... The myth of Che has been a wall impeding the observation of those fatal historical results." Who was Che? A man who "wanted to change the world through the means--always sordid--of killing other men."

The full article is here.

[H2O Man]

20. Ha-ha! That's as funny

as the orc garden joke. Maybe funnier. Possibly funnierest. Maybe Robin Williams could read it.

[yurbud]

23. what do you think we have been doing in Latin America?

I don't know or care much about che, and there probably aren't too many fans of the Soviets outside of Russia, but people down there live in conditions comparable to our sharecroppers, and whenever they try to get a a better deal for themselves,United Fruit or Dole or whoever owns that plantation calls us up, we call them commies, send troops down to kill them or hire local thugs to do it. We even pretend their elections didn't happen if we don't like how they turned out.

I don't support anyone who doesn't agree to a democratic framework. Unfortunately, most of the time that would include our own government when it comes to foreign policy.

[Vickers]

18. *wringing hands*

Oh dear!

:rofl:

[AntiCoup2K4]

19. At least one of the "Che's" *IS* from FR

I'll leave it up to experienced DU'ers to figure out who (if they haven't done so already)

[yurbud]

21. I just hope the don't find out about us buying klan mailing list

Oh, my bad. That was the Family Research council

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20050509&s=blumenthal

Senate majority leader Bill Frist appeared through a telecast as a speaker at "Justice Sunday," at the invitation of the event's main sponsor, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. "Justice Sunday" was promoted as a rally to portray Democrats as being "against people of faith." Many of the speakers compared the plight of conservative Christians to the civil rights movement. But in sharing the stage with Perkins, who introduced him to the rally, Frist was associating himself with someone who has longstanding ties to racist organizations.

Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America's premier white supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens Councils, which battled integration in the South. In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

[rppper]

22. thank gawd for my ramones avatar....johnny ramone was a.....

gawd feerin' r'publickin'...bless his dead cancer ridden heart.....those tree huggin' tofoo eetin' goons deedee and joey did'nut make to thah perly' gates-o-hevin........downt no 'bout that freek marky.....he aint ded yit.......

[Moderator]

24. copycat

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