F.R. Pulls...Then Restores...Thread Bashing Malia Obama

[Amerigo Vespucci]

This is a L-O-N-G post, so go to the link below if you want to read the whole thing. Short version is that F.R. posted racist bullshit, got called on it, deleted it, then restored it.

Jim "RimJob" Robinson also posted the KOS diary below on F.R. without comment. Freep reaction, as you would expect, was "fuck 'em."

*UPDATE* Free Republic Pulls *then Restores* Thread Bashing Malia Obama by CatM

Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 09:07:59 AM PDT

Yesterday, theHalfrican posted a link to the Free Republic Website where several of its regular members were bashing Malia Obama for wearing a peace symbol t-shirt. The thread had several derogotary, racist, and sexual remarks about Malia. It also included a picture of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that was accompanied with a racist caption.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/9/164711/4347

I wrote the media contact at Free Republic yesterday, [e-mail], questioning the nature of the posters and the site.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/10/752031/-Free-Republic-Pulls-Thread-Bashing-Mahlia-Obama

[WeDidIt]

1. It's pending review again.

[optimal-tomato]

16. I actually want to read the posts.

I'm messed up in the head like that.

[Robbie88]

19. Some of them can be found (in quotation form)...

here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/9/164711/4347

I knew the FReepers were bigots, but they've lowered themselves to a new level of filth with some of these posts..

[Saphire]

29. Nothing new really.....just read any thread about any Obama and

they show their racism very clearly.

[Robbie88]

76. Yeah, you're right, but I still can't help but be a little shocked when I see people (even FReepers)

go after a child so aggressively.

[Name removed]

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[Ron Green]

3. Racism is essential to their world view, but it's just ... so hard ... to do it without

getting caught, you know?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I can't get past the fact that the post was directed at a KID

Yes, racism is racism, no doubt about it. But when I see "conservative values" in action, in this manner, I rocket right past "disgusted."

[HillbillyBob]

12. Racists usually are bullies too.

I guess its from their small minds that they see something superior in bein able to beat up on others whether figuratively or physically.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. They also see missed opportunities, I guess...

...a ten-year old kid raised by good parents whose dad happens to be the President of the United States?

It may be "Psychology 101," but I'm thinking that someone whose life has been less than fruitful and has various self-resentment or self-loathing issues would look at that kind of kid and go into a tailspin.

It's not as if that person never had a chance. It's the fact that they didn't use their chances wisely, and now they can't go back to being that ten-year old kid, so the easiest way to express regret over the way they've lived their own life (without taking any actual responsibility) is to attack that kid.

Like I said, Psych 101, and it doesn't explain every racist idiot out there, but I'll bet the farm that it explains a few.

:patriot:

[glitch]

5. There really is no limit to the depths they will sink. Loathsome people. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

47. What bothers me is ... who does not what peace?

[Lasher]

52. Read up on the neoconservatives.

It was their dreams of world conquest that got us into Iraq. And that was to be just the beginning.

[whathehell]

55. .."and that was just the beginning"...What was next...A Third Reich? (successful version)

[Lasher]

72. Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia,

then Lebanon and the PLO, and finally Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia -- are slated to capitulate, collapse or face U.S. military action. To those states, says cabal ringleader Richard Perle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an influential Pentagon advisory committee, "We could deliver a short message, a two-word message: 'You're next.'" In the aftermath, several of those states, including Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia, may end up as dismantled, unstable shards in the form of mini-states that resemble Yugoslavia's piecemeal wreckage. And despite the Wilsonian rhetoric from the president and his advisers about bringing democracy to the Middle East, at bottom it's clear that their version of democracy might have to be imposed by force of arms.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=110x80

They planned to use Iraq as a base to launch attacks against other nations in the region. They still do. These are truly evil people with dreams of world conquest.

Neocon 101

Not exactly another Third Reich but there is some similarity.

[Pat Riot]

81. war profiteers........nt

[mnhtnbb]

6. Why are people surprised that freepers are mean, ugly, racist bigots?

:shrug:

Oh, but of course in their eyes they are righteous, holy, Christians whom God loves because
they are Ammurikans!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. I grew up in a Massachusetts town that was 99% while, middle-to-lower middle class...

...so I should probably be the last person to be surprised by racism, no matter where I find it. For the first 16 years of my life...before I moved to California...I never heard "the 'N' word"...people in my home town just used the WORD, and didn't give a shit WHO disapproved. I immediately flashed back on those days when I read the F.R. post.

I don't think I'll ever become desensitized to the point where the kind of remarks posted in that F.R. thread don't shock me, however. The fact that Robinson didn't just pull the thing. Instead, he posted the KOS diary with the title "One more from the left," as if to showcase the latest "crazy liberal" that dared to cross his path.

[mnhtnbb]

18. I grew up in northern New Jersey and moved to So Calif when in high school

I never heard really racist chatter until I moved to Missouri. I thought I was moving to the midwest.
Wrong. Missouri is part of the south.

There are a lot of mean, nasty people in the world--a lot of very insecure folks who are extremely
threatened by talented, smart, attractive people like the entire Obama family. The fact that they
are black just sends some people over the edge. They can't stand not being able to compete, so they trash
the people they envy not on their character or talents but on their skin color--believing that somehow white
is better than black and that way the bigots can pat themselves on their backs for being better.

[burning rain]

7. Goddamn maniacs.

I didn't think they could surprise me, but here they've done so. Check out any of their rather frequent "what Michelle Obama's wearing" for the more usual Freeper hatefulness.

[LynneSin]

13. Well if it means anything we did that to Laura Bush

and personally I think it's that's free game for either side to do. Michelle and Laura are grown-ups. I guess Freepers like their women dressed in the upolstery they use for curtains and we prefer our first lady to wear smart, stylish clothes.

When we busted on the Bush daughters they were both over 18.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. We certainly did.

...and we also knew where to draw the line, and if we didn't, the Mods drew it for us.

I've never found anything about the Bush family to be "admirable," and the media...for eight years...consistently held them up as some kind of heroic, regal figures. A lot of my Bush posts...whether they were about Junior, Pickles, the twins, or all of the above...were knee-jerk reactions to that kind of hero worship.

Laura got away with vehicular manslaughter because she was dating a Bush.

George W. Bush joked about weapons of mass destruction at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

I don't see them as "nice" people. They weren't my heroes, my role models, and Bush didn't get my vote.

He DID have a problems with drinking and drugs. He DOES have Oedipal issues with his parents. He's an arrogant, sarcastic, silver spoon fake Texan and I called him that over and over and over again, because I see no evidence of him being anything other than that.

But there was a line. And I did my best to never cross it. Freeps don't have a line. That's the sad part.

[noiretextatique]

22. can you tell us how you really feel?

:rofl: excellent post :thumbsup:

[Mrs. Overall]

30. I don't recall DU's lambasting of Laura as racist--sure, we knocked the clothing,

the make-up, the chain smoking, the manslaughter, and the fact that in some pictures she looked like a psycho Joker from Batman, but seriously, it didn't have the racial or even really the sexist component like FR's attack on Michelle and the Obama girls.

There are incredible things posted on that site in terms of African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, and Native Americans. I do not think that sort of commentary is even tolerated at all on DU, nor do most DUers even dream of posting such things.

[Cha]

39. Exactly..Apples and freakin'

Oranges.

We dealt in reality..and I don't freepers have ever been accused of that.

[lies and propaganda]

64. Bullshit.. we NEVER went after 11 yr olds

so dont compare taht to what we had to say about two boozy twins or a mom who literally got away with murder.

[Pacifist Patriot]

65. The poster didn't. You need to re-read it.

It was pointed out that there was a line that wasn't crossed and that 11 year olds weren't involved. The post was much more of a contrast than a comparison. Don't stop paying attention at a headline.

[varelse]

77. Well said

:thumbsup:

[jasi2006]

20. Like water off a ducks back, I'm sure, to the Obamas.

Remember, he won the election. Malia is a "First Daughter"...nothing they say or do can change that.

Malia is going to be one tall, stately, beautiful young lady in a couple of years...smart, fiesty, and a chip off the Michelle Obama block. And remember, they called the Clintons (and some here) "trailer trash." And remember the nasty things they said about Chelsea. Didn't stop her from becoming a the fine young lady she is today. It's more about their ignorance, bigotry, anger and stupidity than anything elese.

[WatchWhatISay]

50. Except we busted them for their bad behavior not for their hair color,

skin color, shoe size or any other physical traits.

[CoffeeCat]

8. So......

Palin's pregnant daughter was paragon of virtue and an Obama daughter sporting a t-shirt with
a peace sign draws their outrage and racist name calling?

Who are these freaks?

I'm so glad the FR comments are everywhere. Most don't know about FR, but slowly, the site is
becoming well known for its extremist and ignorant members and their sickening posts.

[PA Democrat]

9. I read some of that freeper thread and felt sick.

Those people are VILE. There were a very small minority of freepers who felt that it was unfair to bash Malia, but the vast majority were hateful and racist. They even got a chuckle out of one poster's remark that Michelle's mom looked like a "hotel maid".

But more than anything I want to ask those idiots what is wrong with wanting peace. Would they prefer their children grow up in a WAR ZONE? For god's sake what is wrong with them?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. The racism directed toward Obama and his entire family is unapologetic and unrelenting

I look at the site once, maybe twice a week, and I primarily go there to see what they are saying about DU or Palin. Most of the time, it's just too stupid to bother copying and pasting here. But I would say that a disturbingly high percentages of any references to Obama...or his family...are accompanied by one form of racist epithet or another. It's not an exception to their rule...it is their rule.

[get the red out]

10. If they had ideas

If they actually had they could remain human beings and talk about them. But they don't have ideas. These people really are the lowest possible scum humanity has to offer.

[cap]

14. some of the remarks are psychological projection of Palin problems on Obama kids

wonder when she'll have her first abortion? -- uhhh... did we already have a FIRST OUTOFWEDLOCK PREGNANCY?

lack of education -- uhmmmm yeah right...etc.

[noiretextatique]

23. what evoked such ugly comments?

a tee shirt with a peace symbol and shorts :eyes: malia has had a more privileged upbringing than most of the pea-brained losers who post at that pathetic site. that's what they REALLY can't stand. my dad always use to tell me: there are some white people who don't want you to have anything. i believe they all post a FR.

[whathehell]

56. Freaking A...Did they criticize her just for wearing SHORTS..or did the shorts have a peace symbol?

Not, um, that it's rational either way...but you have to be really nuts to criticize a kid for wearing shorts in the summer...These people are diseased.:puke:

[noiretextatique]

88. they are racist nitwits

plain and simple. as i mentioned, the obama girls are far more privileged than most of them...i think that's what gets their goats.

[KamaAina]

24. If they hate peace symbols so much, why aren't they in Iraq or Afghanistan?

instead of sitting on their ample duffs spewing racist filth at a child. :grr: :banghead: :argh:

[whathehell]

57. Excellent question....Yellow Elephants. n/t

[progressoid]

25. I didn't think they were allowed to say "fuck 'em."

I though they had to use symbols for the naughty words.

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. These are the same people who laughed when Rush called Chelsea Clinton a dog

Nothing surprises me from this bunch.

[Enthusiast]

46. They are as low as

a human can go. They could wear the SS symbol and fit right in.

[Fuzz]

27. Here's their thread discussing the issue

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289769/posts

The thread I posted yesterday here in GD pointing out the original FR thread about this was pulled:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288379/posts

Someone even ignored me because I pointed it out. :(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6019035

[Mrs. Overall]

28. OMFG. Now some of them are saying that DU trolls are the ones who posted the racist comments--

and yet other members aren't being apologetic at all.

Simply astounding.

[burning rain]

40. Self-pity and self-righteousness are related.

Not so much opposites as two sides of the same coin.

[EFerrari]

41. Yeah, they're related to cowardice.

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. Why would anyone care enough to add to the traffic of that board?

The best thing to do is to ignore them and let that board die.

[Mrs. Overall]

68. I respectfully disagree with you. I don't hang out there, but I do

occasionally check to see what sort of chatter they are participating in because I think many Democrats dismiss the far right as a bunch of loons (I'm not saying you are doing that).

I have republican family members who have downright frightening views and some of them are doing bizarre things because Obama's election has pushed them over the edge--stockpiling ammunition for their guns, making life difficult for minorities with whom they work, etc... I feel the need to be informed as to what the far right is doing and thinking because I do believe they are dangerous.

[proud2BlibKansan]

70. I do that too but there are many other boards you can learn from

I just refuse to give any hits to freeperville.

[chatnoir]

31. I so didn't get why someone chose to ignore

you for pointing that out. Didn't make sense then or now. :hug:

[Pacifist Patriot]

66. If it makes you feel any better...

I have no idea who put you on Ignore because I already have whoever it is on my Ignore list. :)

[CatWoman]

32. So what? Pretty much matches some of the behavior displayed here

in the past week.

[Number23]

33. !!!

:wow:

And I wish I could say that you were being dishonest or exaggerating, but THAT would be dishonest.

[NYC Liberal]

34. About who??

[Divine Discontent]

53. oh yeah, racists attacks on President Obama's daughter and other similarly coarse comments are

sooooooo common here.

:crazy:


voicing strong opposition to Obama's policies is not anything REMOTELY akin to the bigoted shit at nutrepublic.

[varelse]

78. Whose ten year old daughter was DU reviling and abusing?

I missed that. If I do see something similar happen here and isn't swiftly and severely dealt with, I won't be around to comment on it. I'll be gone.

[Jefferson23]

35. I never read their stuff, how disgusting.

[ckimmy57]

43. I never read it either

until now and I wish I wouldn't of read it. Never heard of the FR until this post (I really need to get a life :boring: )and I was absolutely SHOCKED at the vile spewing in their words. THEN I found out they were a white supremacist group. Wellllll, that just explained it all. Talk about white trash. Not a one of them would make a pimple on any of the Obama's asses. Malia has more class in her little toe nail then the whole damn bunch of them have in all of their stinking worthless, racist, skin head, swastika wearing, Hitler lovers, chicken shit asses, burger picking snot noses, yellow bellied, skank ass bodies. :mad:

Sorry, I got carried away with my fury:shrug:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. where was that poll taken? free republic? or daily kos?

[shaniqua6392]

37. Free Republic is a white supremacist website.

Nothing they do surprises me in the least. They are horrible, sick people.

[notesdev]

38. Save your brain

don't go to wingnut sites

[ckimmy57]

44. Amen to that

[tomm2thumbs]

42. kick

[pasto76]

45. they all have small peckers, and none of them have served

having been a sorcerer of death's construction, Im all for peace!

Brought home a few huge lessons from Iraq. One of the top three is now I understand that war must always be the absolute final answer. Not the first or third.

[annabanana]

67. glad you made it back...

those are some hard learned lessons...

Welcome here...

[Not Sure]

48. These people are pure, concentrated evil

It should be straight from the IP address to the fucking guillotine for these assholes.

[Iggo]

49. They HAD to restore it.

Probably their biggest draw all month.

[madrchsod]

51. freerepublic is now being monitored daily by agent mike.

the freeper convention is in washington ,dc this fall...look over your shoulder freepers-- you are being watched.

[polmaven]

75. Poor Agent Mike!

I can't imagine the horror of having to go there on a regular basis. That is one very BRAVE agent.

[RBInMaine]

54. Right Wing SCUM ! Ha ha ha, they are SCREWING themselves with minority voters FOREVER. They'll pay

at the ballot box !

[Just Saying]

58. My fave

"This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution."

WTF?!? It's one thing to be sore losers, but another to continue to threaten to overthrow the government when your guy doesn't get in. Sick bastards.

[George II]

59. It appears to be gone again, but let's keep checking..they may wait until the heat's off!!

[whathehell]

61. I read the posts...Those attacking little Malia, were, I suppose, the worst but

What makes me almost laugh (I said almost) is when they call this educated uber-classy family "ghetto trash".

It's like "Yeah, you WISH"!...They are SO far from anything that could be construed as such, and the posters are so CLOSE to it, that it makes one wonder, for one thing, about their Hold on Reality..Hello?....Someone should send them a blueprint for a double-wide and tell them how at home they'd feel in White Trash Republican digs.

..I actually hate to get into that "trailer trash" epithet because it's kind of elitist, but what else can you call these people but "Trailer Trash Republicans"?..Regardless of WHERE they live...They're minds are full of hate and ignorance.

Seriously, this shit boils my blood...Is there action we can direct at the FR that would be legal?..Like maybe sending them a bunch of White Hoods?...I'd contribute and I'd love to see it!

[pipi_k]

63. Sending them a bunch of white hoods...

That would sort of be like sending your constipated grandma a case of prune juice...

A welcome gift.

they'd probably wear the things with pride.


yech

[whathehell]

69. I don't know...The fact that they pulled that post and "reviewed" it

even though the least evolved may have pressured the rest to put it back, tells me they want SOME claim to legitmacy -- even if it's just for "show".

It would be so "in your face, bigots"..I would love it..Anyone who agrees and thinks we can get it together, please pm me.

[Marje]

62. How important are they .... really

How important is the FR website anyway. They just seem like an insignificant group of miserable people with less-than-average-intelligence and not much to do. Why pay so much attention to them?

[Mrs. Overall]

71. Because they sometimes do things like murder doctors or commit hate crimes

against gays, African Americans, Muslims, and Hispanics.

They can whip unstable right-leaning people into a fury and since I have some far-right family members, I want to know exactly what those loons are thinking and doing.

On Edit--I'm just responding to your question with my opinion--didn't mean to sound harsh. Welcome to DU, by the way!

[myrna minx]

73. Or sabotage the medical treatment of Andy Stephenson, a cowardly and nasty

act that cost him his life. :-(

[Mrs. Overall]

74. Yes, exactly.

Those assholes were horrendous in how they went after Andy.

[The Wizard]

79. To all the scumbags at freerepublic:

Your mothers should have had abortions.
I wouldn't piss in their mouths if their throats were on fire.

[demwing]

80. We really don't understand the opposition.

If it wasn't race, it woud be religion, if not religion, it would be gender, if not gender, sexuality, if not "A", then "B." It could be age, or education, or intelligence, or income, or hair style, or shoe color, or car, or address, or TV channel selection. Some sneeches have stars upon thars. That's all it takes.

They are purposefully misled by the media talking heads, political leaders, and neighbors and family members. They don't know who their friends are and who the enemy is. They are ignorant. They fear what they don't understand, and they hate what causes them fear.

You cannot cure racism, because it is a symptom, not a condition.

[earthlite]

82. Kids are now fair game

I think it goes back to Amy Carter. Chelsea, the Bush twins, Palin's kids have all taken fire. It's sad but these days if you're a politician and you don't want your kids to become targets you have to keep them locked in a cellar.

[clarence swinney]

83. $110,000,000

GAO REPORTED NEWT CONGRESS SPENT ON HEARINGS AND INVESTIGATIONS TRYING TO DESTROY THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.

13 HEARINGS A NOTHING--WHITEWATER

A SIMPLE LAND DEAL BORROW $200,000-BUY 210 ACRES--CUT ROADS- LET REALTOR SELL THE LOTS.

MCDOUGAL HAD DONE IT FOR DECADES AND MADE MUCH MONEY

IT WAS USED AS A PLATFORM FROM WHICH TO LAUNCH ATTACKS

WHAT GET FOR 110M??

ONE----ONE--ONE PERSON CONVICTED OF A FELONY WHICH WAS COMMITTED WHILE WORKING FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON

ONE=1=UNO SI SENOR!

[nytemare]

84. Now, didn't they have a cow about the Letterman jokes?

Just asking.

[Kajsa]

85. Unfortunately, white supremacists have seized the election of Pres. Obama

as an opportunity to increase their numbers.

Hate groups are on the rise.

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=366

Two new factors were introduced to the volatile hate movement in 2008: the faltering economy and the Obama campaign.

"Barack Obama's election has inflamed racist extremists who see it as another sign that their country is under siege by non-whites," said Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, a quarterly investigative journal that monitors the radical right. "The idea of a black man in the White House, combined with the deepening economic crisis and continuing high levels of Latino immigration, has given white supremacists a real platform on which to recruit."

Several white supremacists have been arrested while allegedly plotting to kill Obama, and following the election he received more threats than any previous president-elect. Scores of racially charged incidents — beatings, effigy burnings, racist graffiti, threats and intimidation — were reported across the country after the election.

[AngryOldDem]

86. FU, FR.

Complete and total waste of bandwith.

[Yavin4]

87. The Conservative Movement Has Moved To The Fringe of America

They're becoming less and less relevant every day, and the only ideas they have are from the Jim Crow playbook.