I haven't done a freeper diving diary for awhile, and what better day than
Fox News publicity,
upside down,
welcoming Fox readers/viewers day.
I'll begin with a diary I found. Just a few comments that aren't very good, but the diary itself is pretty funny
Posted on 07/10/2006 2:45:52 PM PDT by 13Sisters76
I would like to post the next two sites for those who haven't seen them, or who don't know about them (anything is possible) in an effort to make sure we hone our ability to recognize the enemy.
http://www.dailykos.com
http://www.moveon.org
These two groups largely speak the mind of the democrat party candidates and operatives. They are comprised of some of the most virulent, despicable and anti-American bloggers you will ever read. Yet the demoRATs bow at these altars. I urge everyone to visit these sites and read some of the evil they post.
...And to remember it at election time...
More below, but I highly recommend booster shots and penicillin before continuing.
The following comments are to the Fox News story we were having fun with earlier. On a copyright note, they did a complete cut/paste as is their style, even after the law suit.
The first commentable comment, unfortunately (to some), goes after MSOC.
To: veronica
Liberalism is egomania by another name; liberal bloggers arguing over trifles is like watching toddlers argue over who gets the red cereal bowl. It's amusing to watch but ultimately unimportant except to the other wingnut bloggers like Maryscott "Hotflash" O'Connor (her Wash Post profile is a hoot).
As you can see the disagreements are never about facts or policy, they are just more of the same finger-pointing and preening. Everyone's quest seems to be how many name-checks they can receive. Then it's back to arguing about angels dancing on the head of a pin (for those libs who believe angels exist, anyway).
It's a bit scary, but understandable, that 'serious' Dem leaders would pay these foam-at-the-mouth ranters any attention. What in the world can a workshy empty nester in Maryland tell them that would be relevant to leadership or electoral politics?
The smell of desperation permeates the Dem sphere. If the DNC leadership tries to satisfy the wingnut bloggers, they will be somewhere to the left of VI Lenin. If the DNC ignores the bloggers in search of a moderate (i.e., policies with half a chance of being accepted/implemented) then the bloggers will throw another tanty. What a crew. They deserve each other.
6 posted on 07/11/2006 12:47:47 PM PDT by relictele
I think this next one may have been mentioned in Bob Johnson's diary, but I didn't read all 1100+ comments. Personally, think it's true (wink, nod).
pretty soon the moonbats are going to say Kos is a paid agent of Karl Rove hired to make them look foolish and sink the party... :D
This next comment, I mistook their nomenclature for Republicans...can you blame me?
This is great. With the Kossacks and DUmmies on the loose and the all-out attempt to lynch Joe Lieberman, the Dims will be divided, again, this fall. Only they are dumb enough to be able to lose to the pubbies in a year like this.
This next comment is only a small part of a dissection of Kos himself, but gets to the major misunderstanding of a community like dKos.
Kos is demonstrating he isn't an exception. The real question is how long his readership will accept he's "one of them" even though he has sold out to their cause. How long can he fool them.
Honestly, the only stories Kos posts that I read are the linky open threads. There are lots of people here who could care less what Kos has to say but stay because of the other writers.
This next comment has the right idea...we've done it to them several times and continue to do it.
I've never done so but I assume it is an exercise in futility to venture over there and to DU land trying to reason with them. How about acting as unpaid agents- do any Freepers go on and try to get the groupthink going? Anyone engaged in psy-ops with them? I'd like to but just don't know if I could pull it off. I'm chuckling at the idea.
They seem like excitable lots- if they hear more of their own unhinged juvenile mythology presented they may assume it is an even larger "groundswell of support" that they claim reflects the views of most Americans.
Perhaps a few from FR could blend in with them for a while and then help steer them over the cliff? It would require a very strong stomach, a good deal of antiseptic soap, and periods where you turn your belief system upside down but it might be worthwhile. Its a place where the juvenile and the imbecilic (think of the rabbit cage experiment that "debunked" the Twin Towers) conspire on how to "reclaim America".
If they are so willing to accept very obvious frauds as "war heroes who oppose" (think of the coffee shop protestor with the surplus store beret) couldn't a few genuine veterans command them and spread disinformation to further their kook theories?
32 posted on 07/11/2006 1:48:12 PM PDT by philled ("Enshrine mediocrity, and your shrines are razed." -- Ellsworth Toohey)
I doubt they could wait the full week to post a diary. If they did their research and posted a tip jar, they'd probably get autobanned.
Here's a classic case of projection
Stealth FReepers have been infiltrating the leftists since the early days of MoveOn.org. Within days after that site went up, the FReeper investigative team uncovered the site's "owners" -- Clintonistas send to do damage control during the impeachment.
Very little escapes notice by FReepers.
The problem in trying to reason with the denizens of the left is that they are fundamentally unreasonable. The moment a poster deviates from the mantra, he or she is banned.
Leftists are pros at filtering out facts that conflict with their world view.
Again, projection.
I wasn't thinking of necessarily dissenting but riding a stalking horse along with them. They want to think they are NOT the fringe. Then, trying to generate steam behind ridiculous plans online that may result in calling campaigns or for action to their candidates or representation that help expose them as crackpots. I guess Rush is probably right in that it is jsut becoming difficult to satirize the left because so much of what they say and do is unintentionally funny.
38 posted on 07/11/2006 2:35:14 PM PDT by philled ("Enshrine mediocrity, and your shrines are razed." -- Ellsworth Toohey
Projection, yet again.
The DNC can safely ignore the bloggers in this case. The left wing bloggers have tried many times to pin a scandal on Bush, often helped by the old media. (Gannon, Rove indicated, and many more) All of them have fizzled. If they try to sabotage a viable Democratic candidate the old media won't help them.
Blogs and sites like FR are best when they analyze evidence (the forged memo that took down Dan Rather) and publicize facts that the mainstream media won't cover. The leftist opinions of Kos and his cultists don't matter, except to the extent that they reflect the opinions of Democratic primary voters. But blogs are the wagging tail, the Democratic base is the yellow dog.
43 posted on 07/11/2006 6:10:03 PM PDT by MaxFlint
Well folks, that's it. I'm off to do a quick tequilla shot (or two or three). and then I'll be back for comments.
Oh, and no links. Why give them publicity? Just head on over to the obvious location and do a keyword search for "dailykos" and the two diaries/stories I'm sampling from are the first two.