Comments on Right Winger site LGF about Elizabeth Edwards

[Bucky]

They're universally sympathetic toward her, but they're running about 50-50 between those who think Johnny is being self-centered or opportunistic about staying in the race right now and those who recognize that if he is staying in the running, it's because she absolutely insists that he do so.

I wouldn't wish this fate on any of Giuliani's wives. But if it did happen, I would hope that as many as half of us would be so charitable. Remember that not all winger websites are the Freepers, next time we castigate Republicans for their bad political judgment, let's remember they're not all Nazis.

[ComerPerro]

1. that site is disgusting, even has a deeply racist name

[DesertRat]

2. Can you explain the meaning of the name to me?

[DBoon]

5. It is slang for hand grenades

standard for right wingers to worship violence

[Bucky]

7. ...and hand grenades are racist how again?

I don't see the racism here. I just see macho posing by armchair warriors. That's bad, but hardly racist.

[ComerPerro]

8. basically it stems from Vietnam vet wannabes, and their contempt for anything "foreign"

[Bucky]

11. In other words, there's nothing out there to show LGF is racist.

They're neocons, they're Likudniks, they got blinders on whenever Israel comes up and they wrongly conflate Islam with terrorism. That's all bad, but it's not exactly racism. They love Rice and Gonzales and John Yoo and probably even loved Colin Powell until he quit and started talking sane again.

The pen is mightier than the sword, my friend. I think we need to use our weapons with precision.

[ComerPerro]

13. ultimately, it comes down to dehumanizing minority "enemies" and glorifying violence against them

of course, no concrete evidence that their site name has a racist tie, but its just their perception.

And all you really need to do is spend five minutes there to find utter contempt for anything non-White and non-Christian.

[Bucky]

20. Utter contempt for Gonzo? For Rice? For John Yoo? For Mel Martinez?

For JC Watt? For Alan Keys? For Elaine Chao? For Paul Wolfowitz? No, they do not have utter contempt for "anything non-Whiteand non-Christian," my friend. Please quit beating up straw dragons from the 1960s and join us in the real fight against reckless neocon insanity. We could really use your help.

[drm604]

18. How about their logo?

Racist enough for you?

[Bucky]

19. I see a cartoon Anglo hippie and a ninja style terrorist of indetermined pigment

It's inflammatory. It's simply not racist. I don't know what's worse, LGF flogging fake issues or you flogging a dead horse.

[azurnoir]

14. Always thought of it as slang for

boogers, the trogs sit in easy chairs with a 6 pack of blue ribbon picking their noses and well making .......

[AlCzervik]

3. LGF is just about one of the worst freeper sites, worse the FR imo.

and thats saying something.

[Bucky]

6. I'm just going by the comments I saw there. The comments were not ugly or gloaty.

Only about half of those commenting on how Sen Edwards was handling his end of their partnership (among those I read) berated him for staying in the race. The other half were saying he was honoring her wishes too.

Again, would half of the posters in DU be so open minded if a random tragedy befell a neocon? When Limbaugh started losing his hearing, the people who weren't saying "karma's a bitch" were a distinct minority, as I recall.

[AlCzervik]

9. i don't celebrate anybody's death or disease and yeah there have been some ugly

moments here--Reagan's, death, the popes death, the picking of the pope, Gerald Ford's death, Anna Nicole's death and so on but LGF is pretty hardcore most of the time and pretty damn ugly. When people post ugly things they have to live with and yes it can reflect poorly on all of us.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Can someone please explain what the name "Little Green Footballs" is all about? Is it the bricks of

money that were thrown around in Iraq? What?

[DesertRat]

10. see post #5. n/t

[MikeNearMcChord]

12. I would like to remind the trolls at LGF and (not so) Free Republic

that at least John Edwards has far more class(Christian Compassion eh, RimJob?) in his dealing with his wife as opposed to Newt Gingrich, who dumped on his when she was trying to recover from her cancer

[drm604]

15. LGF "exposed" the supposed "forgery" of the Killian documents

and destroyed Dan Rather's career. Here is their logo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Greenienew.gif

It looks racist to me (as well as including a ridiculous charicature of a peacenik).

[barb162]

17. Dan Rather had a really long and great career.

Dan's staffer hurt Rather, not LGF. LGF just exposed something. Despite the exposing, Dan's career was still a very great and prosperous one.

[DaveJ]

16. Yeah, I took a look and ...

Their posts on the topic definitely are in lockstep.