The Democratic Undergound, a website I visit frequently and post at often, is in the news a lot these days. Rush Limbaugh and others have held it up as an example of what liberalism is all about in order to mock it. Nothing new there. But if Mr. Limbaugh is going to hold up every post at DU as reflective of liberalism (and, I note, he doesn't seem interested in quoting the many moderate liberals who post there), is it fair to hold up Free Republic and other conservative bulletin boards as examples of conservatism?
Mr. South Knox Bubba who runs a blog called South Knox Bubba, thinks this is a fine idea, and created a list of posts from Free Republic. I have to say this is a pretty good idea, if only to illustrate the folly of picking out random internet posters as indicitive of a whole movement.
Some selections, although I advise reading the whole list.
"- During the first four years of his presidency, and earlier while he was Governor of Arkansas, clinton regularly had inconvenient people rubbed out. The clinton body count was probably over a hundred."
"- The power-hungry prefer a nation of cripples - they're easier to rule. If you're not crippled to begin with, the State will be glad to break your legs."
"- For the die hard and mentally diseased left wing maggots, I hold zero hope that they will ever wake up. They hate America and the rest of us as much as the al Qaeda thugs/terrorists. Many liberals and liberal organizations are funded by the Islamofascists. They are more closely linked to the Islamofascists than they are to the America we know and love."
"And whenever a national socialist (liberal democrat) says, "Are you questioning my patriotism?", the correct answer is, "No, because you are a traitor and a member of the party of treason, nothing less".
"Finally, after years of suspicion and accusations, we not only found the smoking gun, we found the bullets, the target, the secret plans, and the conspirators plotting to politically assassinate a President who is guilty of protecting out nation from terrorists. Unmasked and caught red-handed, the modern Democrat is a traitor. They should be treated no differently than the Rosenbergs; tried in a court of law, convicted, and suffer the harshest punishment. Death by firing squad, preferably. On TV, if possible."
How common these views are among the Conservative movement is left as an exercise for the reader.
Edited to add: I forgot to mention where I got this from; from Tom Tomorrow over there at This Modern World.
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