Threads and posts happy about Ted's condition being removed like Crazy at Free Republic.

Not fast enough, RimJob.

I will not repeat what I have seen over there in the last few minutes.

One trick that they like in this situation, is posting something like: "To avoid suspension, I will not say what is on my mind."

RimJob for some reason doesn't delete those.

If only from a liability standpoint, I'd think they'd get those deleted fast.

of the deaths of Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell, and Thurmond.

it's a bit different--than encouraging some loose cannon to go out and try to kill someone.

Well, maybe not, but I hate to think of a genuine progressive being that much of an ass.

want, torture or death on millions of people.

Being dead doesn't make you righteous, it makes you the subject of memory. The way people remember you is determined in part by who you were in life.

Reagan, Falwell and Thurmond were destructive in life and were remembered that way. When Senator Kennedy passes, which hopefully won't be for a long, long time if we are lucky, our remembrance will be of his innumerable efforts on behalf of the American people.

There is no equivalence whatsoever.

Behaving like ghouls when our enemies die is just plain crass.

after the torture exporting, union busting, poverty generating evil bastard Reagan died.

Sorry, I'll risk being called "crass" to keep the record straight, not to mention, my grasp on reality.

Edit to add (because it's hard to keep track of all the damage he did) AIDS denier evil bastard Reagan.

then. I might disagree with them but they consider him their enemy. And I used to think we were classier than them.
Sadly DU has taught me that extremeists on both sides are very alike in some way.

And, do you consider it extreme to object to the propaganda narrative of the day?

Is it extreme to point out the truth? I guess I need to be an extremist, then. :)

ETA: Some of us seem to be using the Faux model where there are two equal sides to every bs argument. There isn't. There are people whose net worth to a culture is positive and others whose net worth is negative. It doesn't really go "both ways" unless you are willing to overlook the actual content of a person's life, although that has been the Faux argument for the last twenty years.

in gleefull joy. and as many du'ers suggest they not be so disgustingly gleefull over others pain, ... it is ignored and stated they have the right to HATE.....

we started with reagan and have progressed over the other deaths and illnesses and then dare to turn to freerepug and say shame

it is pure hypocrisy

it is not a matter of saying we both od it like how you are referring to so many instances. in this situation du has MATCHED anything free repug has handed out. i didnt like it when we did it. and said we could no longer take the higher road. and though i never danced on the graves or wished someone pain.... i will not now stand in hypocrisy cause freepugs do it with kennedy.

we have nowhere ot point the finger, but back at ourselves

i always felt shame when the board went thru that and walked away from the board until it died down

i wont pretend our board didnt do it too

maybe this will finally be a lesson for us... but gotta own it.

With this kind of hatred on both sides, there will more than likely be (and I pray that I am wrong)a general election of Third World proportions.

some folks posted in glee with language that should have been removed

By the way I did not remember you using that language either

Those people get a lot of attention and imho, we over correct for them.

It took four or five days for the media to print or play correctives to the Reagan b#llshit and, you know, that was too long. There were plenty of measured responses before then.

ETA: This was what I posted when Falwell died:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=913617

/oops

There was a lot of classy people here when his cancer was announced. But there was JUST as much nastiness towards him that the mods had to remove quickly as well.
To pretend we are any better when someone from the right is ill/dies is utter nonsense. Just as many asshats on the left.

That always sticks out in my mind, when she announced she had breast cancer. There were quite a few vile posts, so that Elizabeth Edwards rebuked those posters. I don't think I've seen Elizabeth Edwards post here since.

and I can think of more recent examples as well

pot calling kettle.

that is a promise ;)

That does not, as recently as Charlton Heston's death, happen here

shower with bleach after a visit?

practice on all discussion boards. GOP threads and pro-Clinton threads are always deleted on democratic discussion boards.

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

I never touch or condone illegal drug use or behavior.

I am offended. :nuke:

"GOP threads and pro-Clinton threads are always deleted on democratic discussion boards."
Pot, kettle

forgot the link so edited to add, top of GD-P http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6009305&mesg_id=6009305

I guess they're yanking threads and posts like crazy, trying to pass themselves off as 'classy.' Here's a few they missed:


To: COUNTrecount

Mary Jo.......

2 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:03:49 AM by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)


To: COUNTrecount

Not my thread, but don’t make the moderator babysit. You know, my mama said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.”

5 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:04:16 AM by refreshed


To: refreshed

The nicest thing I can think of right now is: “....”

19 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:05:48 AM by clintonh8r (Leaving the top of my ballot blank.)



To: COUNTrecount

Lemme get this srt8,

a stroke requires a brain correct ?

22 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:06:09 AM by Para-Ord.45


To: conservativefromGa

the people of massachusetts have kept this guy on the public dole for too long.

he has been kept very comfortable at taxpayers expense.

36 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:08:10 AM by television is just wrong




To: RummyChick
I certianly don't think so.

MA likes Ted Kennedy. The rest of the country? Not so much.

The average American wouldn't get a pass if some chick dies in their car and they leave the scene of the accident.

I do hope he recovers. He is the best example of dems being able to get away with anything that we have in the Senate.
43 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:09:29 AM by JRochelle (Keep sweet means shut up and take it.)




To: Maverick68

To avoid suspension, I will not say what is on my mind.

53 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:10:47 AM by ohioman


To: refreshed
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.”

Then I'll just say..................................
65 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:12:58 AM by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")



To: Professional Engineer

Mary Jo had a terrible time too as she was dying!! And, who was responsible?
No sympathy here.

100 posted on Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:23:50 AM by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017381/posts

just saying

Info here. And please, no snarky jokes about the site not having a leg to stand on... :evilgrin:

I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I genuinely hope that he recovers soon.

I have a really good friend with diabetes, and it's a goddamned hard thing to manage, sometimes.

I don't like his politics or words, but this news just makes him a sick guy that gets a "hope every thing go's O.K." message from me.

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...better than leaving them there, like what happens here sometimes when something happens to a republican.

I'll assume that the poster posted before Kennedy was hospitalized. But the thread should have been pulled from the home page, not highlighted there.

JimRob himself chimes in here. Instant Karma, indeed...