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Freepers refuse to apologize for calling Malia Obama 'a typical street whore'
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on Nov. 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM
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Freepers refuse to apologize for calling Malia Obama 'a typical street whore'
The popular conservative blog Free Republic is facing intensified scrutiny over its reader comments policy -- and its role in the American political debate -- after the blog's moderators allowed vicious attacks on the Obamas' 11-year-old daughter to remain on the site for more than a day.
And the bloggers who submit stories and discussions to Free Republic are fighting back against news outlets that have reported on the controversy, attacking the reporters who brought attention to the issue.
An article that appeared in the Vancouver Sun on Sunday described a thread entitled "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds," in which a discussion arose surrounding a photo of 11-year-old Malia Obama wearing a t-shirt featuring the peace sign.
Among the comments on that thread, according to the Sun, were: "A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion."
The Sun reports:
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.
Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.
After attention from other blogs, the thread was suppressed and placed under review, but before long it was returned to the site intact, and attracted a new series of racial slurs when the original complaint email was posted publicly to the site, with the sender's email address intact.
Free Republic may have decided again to remove the thread in question altogether, as a search of the blog performed Sunday failed to find it.
What has appeared, instead, is a series of new comment threads, such as one entitled "Hate Speech Against Malia Obama On Conservative Blogs Reported By Hate Speech Planting Journalist," in which the "Freepers" fight back.
That thread read in part:
Chris Parry [author of the Vancouver Sun article], it appears, has advocated on his Daily Kos blog any number of egregious offenses, among them: posting hate speech on sites like Free Republic and blaming it on conservatives. Parry posted under the name "hollywoodoz" on Daily Kos, where his signature was "Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head." Parry outed himself as hollywoodoz here, where he discloses the company he helped start. In essence: Parry, the journalist, found his story right where he'd been circling it for a very long time, and reported it as news. Sigh.
Another thread issues a "call to action" to get Parry fired as a Vancouver Sun writer. It features a long list of contact information to major North American media outlets, and lists a litany of alleged journalistic transgressions by the reporter and blogger.
Some of the quotes in Free Republic's original thread, as reported by the Sun:
"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?"
"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."
-- Daniel Tencer
Luc and Emily my reason for breathing!' About 35 and over with small children:This group is for Mommies wanting to make new friends with other People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution. (1893)Fredrick Douglass
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 8:05 PM
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You know whats sad is that these pigs were the same people that were up in arms when Letterman was talking about Palin's daughter.
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 8:05 PM
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Its a real shame when adults lower themselves to attacking children. But then again I think most of the people involved in these kinds of blogs are very child like.
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM
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That is a whole new level of pathetic...attacking children like that. That blog should be ashamed.
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM
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Sorry, I just stumbled on to it.
Quoting lilyrose73:
Here it is... from July...
Luc and Emily my reason for breathing!' About 35 and over with small children:This group is for Mommies wanting to make new friends with other People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution. (1893)Fredrick Douglass
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM
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Roger that ;-)
Quoting lilyrose73:
Isn't this an old story? I thought we discussed this months ago...
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- by on Nov. 4, 2009 at 9:12 PM
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sorry this is the first time I am hearing about it. I was shocked and disgusted.
Quoting mamadixon:
Roger that ;-)
Quoting lilyrose73:
Isn't this an old story? I thought we discussed this months ago...
Luc and Emily my reason for breathing!' About 35 and over with small children:This group is for Mommies wanting to make new friends with other People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution. (1893)Fredrick Douglass
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