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My original post for today got held up because of a story coming down the pike about the ugly denizens of the rightwing site Free Republic.
It seems that these lovely leeches have turned their claws on President Obama's children, particularly his oldest daughter Malia:
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.”
Though this may sound like the sort of thing one might read on an Aryan Nation or white power website, they actually appeared on what is commonly considered one of the prime online locations for U.S. Conservative grassroots political discussion and organizing – and for a short time, the comments seemed to have the okay of site administrators.
Moderators of the blog left the comments – and commenters – in place until a complaint was lodged by a writer doing research on the conservative movement, almost a full day later.
“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.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the grassroots conservative movement. These aren't individuals out of the conservative mainstream. These are same folks who plan tea parties and give “tips” to conservative sites, like that recent bullcrap about President Obama allegedly checking out a young lady's behind (which was refuted by of all places, Fox News. Not that it mattered though because the lie still got traction.)
Of course if this story gets big, expect to see the usual cast of characters at Town Hall, One News Now and other sites plead ennui and whine about how the “Bush girls” got worse.
As if that makes the comments about Malia appropriate.
Why should I be surprised about the outright vindictiveness of the folks at Free Republic. This is the same site that has a section labeled “Homosexual Agenda,” where any and all outrageous lies about lgbts are commented on in the affirmative.
The comments about Malia is a walk in the park compared to these lovely gems:
I can think of a 100 reason for arresting the filthy disease ridden queers for kissing in public!!
The homosexuals will squeal about this being discrimination. What they don’t understand is most normal people who witness homosexuals kissing are utterly repulsed by this deviancy.
A little off topic here, but I note that for some reason, despite their support for homo marriage, the government controlled media never print kissing fag photos.
I think I've read more about gay sex on Free Republic than on Peter LaBarbera's site. There was a point when I actually considered taking notes on positions I should try.
Because Mormons have strong familyperspectives, the degenerates who serve the evil one are targeting Mormons because they are an anathema to the filthy disease ridden sexual degenerates. We should ALL stand with the Mormons to oppose the filthy democrat constituency seeking to ‘normalize sexual degeneracy.’ This little staged incident will be multiplied many fold. Eventually, someone is going to do exactly what the filth desire, take a few out into a desert and leave them to dry up and blow away. The democrat party is now directed by the Cloard-Piven/ Saul Alinsky methodology, so it is no surprise when their degerate filth constituencies use the tactics the affiramtive action figure feraud-in-chief taught to ACORN organizers.
I think it would have been OK to shoot them, as long as its safe, rare & legal.
To say that the folks at Free Republic are twisted would be stating the obvious. They would be funny if they weren't serious.
Pray for em cause they truly need Jesus.
Daily Kos is all over this story with an excellent breakdown.
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i actually like this comment:
Even denizens of the swamp realize that they are obsessed with gay sex.
She’s eleven. Just eleven.Same as our youngest kiddo. They are truly sick to attack a little girl like this.
I was afraid to click the link to this diaryI just knew it would be like this.
Coincidentally, I’m wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign today. I wore it around the Phoenix area. I wonder what a few sick people were saying about me. No. I don’t have to wonder.
Anyway, here’s a link to Overstock.com where you can buy the t-shirt I’m wearing today.
I think everyone should buy one and wear it as often as they can. I get lots of nice comments on mine.
http://www.overstock.com/Cloth…
free republic it’s not like I give a flying phuck what happens to your websitebut trust me…this will backfire so big, Hiroshima will look like a firecracker.
This looks like a job that takes Rahm’s sensitive touch
It’s one thing…It’s one thing to attack our President, and it’s one thing to attack our First Lady.
But the children? Come on, are they all five year-old’s? Though they are the children of the most powerful husband and wife in the nation – it doesn’t mean that they are without a defense.
Dirty dirty shame on the Freepi!
A peace sign of all thingsPeace. What an unbiblical concept! How could she? I’m looking for some shirts for my kids that promote torture. I wonder if The Free Republic sells them.
Torture? Why would you want a shirt with a Free Republic cover on it?Seriously, sick as these are, I welcome the comments. I would rather KNOW what’s out there and rip any “high ground” out from under them and have them lose all credibility than have people look at them with respect.
And if someone does respect the site and the unfettered commenters, then I know where that person stands too.
deja vuGreat. Like a virtual Palin rally.
It’s horribleAnd, thank you for reporting it.
However, as long as Obama refuses to support equal rights for all people, I see no reason to get outraged over racist attacks on him or his family.
I wrote a few letters about the Philly swimming pool incident, even though I said I wouldn’t, but it will be a cold day in Hell before I’ll go after racists attacking Obama.
FearThe upside is that these kinds of remarks are the cry of fear in a dying animal. Radical conservatism that stands for little more than religious hegemony is slowly dieing in this country and these kinds of statements, while evil and terrible, should be a good sign to us that given a generation of so, it will become a tiny voice.
I wonder if the idiot who posted the comment aboutworld leaders has ever been out of the US in his / her life.
S/he would probably die of shock the moment that s/he enters another country.
You should reread your JFK quoteand think about it.
Huh. I don’t remember the Freepers….getting up in arms about the Bush twins. And I think there was probably some legitimate stuff there.
How unfortunatethat you seem to conflate the two issues.
This is not about people attacking Obama. Its about them attacking his minor children.
Adults making derogatory comments about 7 year olds out to elicit outrage regardless of how you feel out their parent’s policies.
The foulest part of this storyThese knuckle draggers spew this toxic cr*p at children, and if you make a big deal about their foul comments, it only magnifies the slurs, and makes it that much more likely the target of this sh*t,(Obama’s daughters) will see and hear it.
There seems an endless supply of racist pieces of sh*t who feed on this crud, and will give Free Republic a bigger audience for doing this. I’d like a simple one step process, you attack children….anyone’s children, we don’t discuss it, and the Tanya Harding school of ettiqette takes over, and your knee caps hurt like a motherf*cker.
No the kids weren’t born before 1993….
I’d rather take the appropriate positionin calling out and opposing racism regardless of what I think of the parents of the people being targeted. That this might be more likely to win allies than “I won’t support you until you support me” is just gravy.
Poor kids.Jeez, the poor kid is eleven. It’s like the attacks on Chelsea Clinton when her family was in the White House- what kind of person goes after the looks of a fourteen year old in her “awkward period” for god’s sake?!
hippocracy at it’s finestconservatives flip their lid when Palin’s daughter is the butt of a joke, but for some reason it’s okay to make these terrible comments about an elementary school child.
These people make me feel so sick. And they think gay kissing is repulsive…