And I'm talking to you at Daily Kos, not the McCain campaign. And if you think for one minute this is a troll diary, follow me below the fold...
Already today I have seen three highly offensive and ugly diaries posted about John McCain. And no, I'm not going to link to them because they are utterly dicusting and have no place on this site.
First there was an attack on McCain's POW experience. Not only did the poster basically call McCain a traitor, he had his facts wrong as well. Here is what I had to say in my comment:
As a vet, this is offensive to me. Look, whatever else you want to say about the man, and there are plenty of negatives, he spent 5 and a half years of his life under conditions that you can only imagine. Or perhaps you can't. Attacking McCain on his POW experience is just plain stupid. And by the way, McCain had an opportunity for early release, and turned it down. That is a fact. IMO you should delete the diary.
As if that wasn't bad enough, some moron thought it would be great to talk about McCain's medical records. Specifically, the fact that McCain may have, may have mind you, had herpes. As if that was remotely relevant to this campaign in any way. Here is how I responded to that diary:
This Diary Is something I would expect to see on Red State. Please have the decency to delete. Immediately, if not sooner.
And finally, the cherry on the whipped cream of offensive diaries, a bunch of childish photoshopped picutres, published without the photagraphers permission (can you say copyright violation boys and girls?). These pictures of McCain were allegedly taken by a professional photographer. They were simply immature and crass. Here is what I had to say to the diarist:
How about we attack the positions and not the person? This is not funny, and frankly has no place on this site. First we have a diary alleging McCain has herpes, (who cares) and now this crap. Plus there are copyright issues here, did you have permission from the author to republish? If not, delete.
Good Lord people, grow up. There should be no place for this kind of ugly, putrid, hateful posting. It makes me ashamed to say I am a member of this communtiy. This is the kind of thing that BillO eats up. The kind of thing the right does day in and day out while we howl with rage.
Stop it. Stop it now. You want to attack McCain because he is a lyihg sack of crap, be my guest. Write the diary, support it with facts and links, you'll get my rec every time. But enough with the infantile smear diaries. Enough.