Rev. Jerry Falwell Dead

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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Drew263 wrote:
    Check out the Democratic Underground msg board then.

    There is far more hate on the left side of the aisle than the right. Far more...it's really not even close.

    btw..I thought he was full of shit..just like I think Al Gore is..but I won't celebrate either's death.


    give me a break.... my favorite conservative radio trick - attribute a negative trait that both sides do an attribute it to only one :)

    If you go anywhere near a thread about Moore, Sheehan, Rosie, Hilary, Pelosi or any of the usual targets by the right on free repub or the hannity or rush boards, you will see more than enough hate to go around. Both sides do it...
    My whole life
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    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    And that's why we're seeing every leftist poster here jumping all over this! Oh wait....it's just a small few. I'd imagine the same number would be of righties would be doing the same if Al Franken died. The very fact that you need to make this a competition as to which has the most taste is telling.

    This is not the first time this lack of taste has been shown. I never did say that it was every poster on the left who makes comments like these. It's just the loudest of the bunch that seem to pollute this board with the hatred that they like to pretend to preach against.
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    blackredyellow wrote:
    give me a break.... my favorite conservative radio trick - attribute a negative trait that both sides do an attribute it to only one :)

    If you go anywhere near a thread about Moore, Sheehan, Rosie, Hilary, Pelosi or any of the usual targets by the right on free repub or the hannity or rush boards, you will see more than enough hate to go around. Both sides do it...

    Those who celebrated the death of any one of those people are a bunch of pricks too. I will not make a classless and tasteless hateful post like robbie's when any of them pass away either.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    Drew263 wrote:
    Check out the Democratic Underground msg board then.

    There is far more hate on the left side of the aisle than the right. Far more...it's really not even close.

    btw..I thought he was full of shit..just like I think Al Gore is..but I won't celebrate either's death.

    al gore?

    yikes ... how can you compare the two?
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    3inputchick wrote:
    Wonder what the "Rev Al and Jesse Jackson is dead" thread is going to say?!?!

    probaly a lot more..since they arent in hiding.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    zstillings wrote:
    This is not the first time this lack of taste has been shown. I never did say that it was every poster on the left who makes comments like these. It's just the loudest of the bunch that seem to pollute this board with the hatred that they like to pretend to preach against.

    And once again, I'll say both sides have an equal representation of loud mouth hatefulness here. One is no louder or more annoying than the other.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    Drew263 wrote:
    Check out the Democratic Underground msg board then.

    There is far more hate on the left side of the aisle than the right. Far more...it's really not even close.

    btw..I thought he was full of shit..just like I think Al Gore is..but I won't celebrate either's death.

    ok, I'll check it out...

    but, come on now, drew...there is hate everywhere...and on all sides...

    I do find it interesting that a man who preached hate in life is suddenly a saint in death, and bad things can't be said about him or his views...I say he made his bed, and now he's laying in it...

    please note, I'm not saying statements that are poor taste are ok...but since Jerry made a career out of those sort of statements, I would think he'd understand....
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    inmytree wrote:
    ok, I'll check it out...

    but, come on now, drew...there is hate everywhere...and on all sides...

    I do find it interesting that a man who preached hate in life is suddenly a saint in death, and bad things can't be said about him or his views...I say he made his bed, and now he's laying in it...

    please note, I'm not saying statements that are poor taste are ok...but since Jerry made a career out of those sort of statements, I would think he'd understand....

    They come off as extremely hypocritical from the "caring" bunch though.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    zstillings wrote:
    This is not the first time this lack of taste has been shown. I never did say that it was every poster on the left who makes comments like these. It's just the loudest of the bunch that seem to pollute this board with the hatred that they like to pretend to preach against.

    you view the left as if we are perfect...thanks!

    do me a favor, turn on the radio, give some of right leaning a listen...tell me what you think...:)
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    zstillings wrote:
    They come off as extremely hypocritical from the "caring" bunch though.


    Just as some come across as extremely hypocritical from the 'religious' bunch.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    inmytree wrote:
    you view the left as if we are perfect...thanks!

    do me a favor, turn on the radio, give some of right leaning a listen...tell me what you think...:)

    I don't like listening to it from the right either. That's why I made a distinction between this little board and the real world later on.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    zstillings wrote:
    They come off as extremely hypocritical from the "caring" bunch though.

    how so...?

    seriously...falwell was a hate monger..plain and simple...that was his shtick...it pissed people off...and now he gets that last bit of attention he craved....
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Just as some come across as extremely hypocritical from the 'religious' bunch.

    Absolutely. The religious bunch who show that lack of dignity doesn't really have all of that representation on this board though.
  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    zstillings wrote:
    I don't like listening to it from the right either. That's why I made a distinction between this little board and the real world later on.

    my fault, I missed that...:o
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    zstillings wrote:
    Absolutely. The religious bunch who show that lack of dignity doesn't really have all of that representation on this board though.

    Oh, I disagree.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • RainDog
    RainDog Posts: 1,824
    zstillings wrote:
    I don't like listening to it from the right either. That's why I made a distinction between this little board and the real world later on.
    Why make the "right, left" distinction, then? Why not just quote the specific person and say "what a horrible thing to post" or something along those lines? To use a line I hear from the right so very often - "People who look for things to be offended by will find them."
  • floyd1975
    floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    inmytree wrote:
    how so...?

    seriously...falwell was a hate monger..plain and simple...that was his shtick...it pissed people off...and now he gets that last bit of attention he craved....

    I have learned on this board that we should have forgiven Bin Laden. I have learned that all people from the side that opposes this board's dominant extremism do is preach hate. We have all been compared with Nazis and been called racists by people on this board. We have all been accused of having our heads stuck in the sand as we are just fearful of the world around us. This, all by people who call people who I vote for "hatemongers." This is where the hypocrisy is coming from. It is the holier than thou crowd. This crowd is much like the extreme right in many ways. The difference is that the left that I speak of here have a heavy representation on this board. I feel like I'm reading Ann Coulter's column every time I come here and see certain names around posts. Then I realize that they are coming from the left instead.
  • bryn_cmbs
    bryn_cmbs Posts: 407
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_falwell

    check out his wikipedia page. someone edited it say:

    "The world is a better place because he is now dead"
    http://alltimetopfive-boofcombs.blogspot.com/
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Ericastrada wrote:
    Agreed. If some one would have said something bad about him yesterday, no one would have cared. But now that he is dead, its supposed to make a difference about how we felt about him? I didn't like the guy, I didn't like what he stood for, and I'm not sad that hes dead.

    I agree with this. People who are "happy he's dead" aren't happy that a person died and a family is grieving. They are happy that person who they disagreed with will no longer be able to make choices they didn't agree with.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    zstillings wrote:
    I have learned on this board that we should have forgiven Bin Laden. I have learned that all people from the side that opposes this board's dominant extremism do is preach hate. We have all been compared with Nazis and been called racists by people on this board. We have all been accused of having our heads stuck in the sand as we are just fearful of the world around us. This, all by people who call people who I vote for "hatemongers." This is where the hypocrisy is coming from. It is the holier than thou crowd. This crowd is much like the extreme right in many ways. The difference is that the left that I speak of here have a heavy representation on this board. I feel like I'm reading Ann Coulter's column every time I come here and see certain names around posts. Then I realize that they are coming from the left instead.

    we are all hypocrites ... everyone is guilty of it ...

    all we can do is be truthful to our beliefs - calling people hypocrites for the sake of diminishing their comments serves no purpose ...

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