Freeper thinks automated news feed is anti-Bush and comments on it

[zulchzulu]

I love this stuff. Apparently some sub-intelligent Freeper thinks my grassroots Kerry site somehow is complicit in being anti-Bush by the automated newsfeed I have on a couple pages (Feed Direct...used to be Moreover)

Here's the comment:

([e-mail]) on Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 17:53:41
city: Arlington
state: VA
zip: 22201
country: USA

comments: Why are ALL of the news items on the right side of your homepage NEGATIVE? All of them deal with problems in Iraq and domestic natural disasters. Are these somehow supposed to be Bush's fault? Where are stories that actually do what your site is purported to do (support Kerry?). This only serves to reassure me that liberals are thoroughly pessimistic and that no one really SUPPORTS Kerry. Maybe its Kerry's fault that he cant provide you with any rational reason to support him other than he is your only option besides Bush. Whatever the explanation, it is a sad situation in which you find yourselves.

Thanks for your time and consideration - I really would like for you to provide reasoned, FACTUAL reasons to support Kerry. I dont love Bush, but if liberals cant articulate a rationale for voting for Kerry, I'll vote GOP- and so will the majority of Americans.

Apparently, the international news is somehow trying to be "negative" towards Bush. Are these idiots THAT stupid? I guess that same media that sucked up to the endless droning Reagan dirtnap drivel parade is now back to being "the liberal media".

[Mz Pip]

1. I support Kerry

and can come up with a wide rage of factual reasons why I do.

Fact: Bush believes he has been chosen by God to lead this country. That is just plain scary. I do not want a man with a Messianic complex in the White House.

If that is negative towards Bush, too bad.

Also postives for Kerry:

Pro choice
Against Constitutional Amendment banning Gay Marriage
Against permanent tax cut

Maybe the guy should visit Kerry's website and do his own homework

MzPip
:dem:

[zulchzulu]

2. The Freeper doesn't want to do his homework

My site as well as Kerry's has plenty of info why Kerry kicks ass.

What bothers me about these Freepers is that they want to play the "indy" card, but basically spew the Hannity crap (I do my homework) ad nauseum and as verbatum as a knucklehead can.

I've lost patience with these people. I dealt with a few this weekend at a Kerry tabling event and all they say is the same "arguments" Hannity and Limp Pole say...and they are completely close-minded and have fully become charter Kool aid-drinking members of the Fox News Channel.

I say let them be. Hopefully, they are too stupid to remember when Election Day is.

[Lefty Pragmatist]

3. It costs nothing to engage people inquiring what the Kerry positives are

I don't see the big deal in the poster's question/comment. He obviously misunderstood that it was a blind autofeed and assumed you were filtering. So what? Just give him the facts back in a respectful manner and you might have a +2 swing.

How exactly does that hurt?

[zulchzulu]

5. There is plenty of info on the site if one wants to engage in knowledge

Screw the asshole that plays that crap and refuses to see what is plainly in front of his face.

If the person really cared, he or she would initiate an effort to check out what is offered.

Spoon-feeding someone who isn't hungry for answers or doesn't know how to find ways to learn is a futile, pointless effort.

They already have their mind made up. What little mind they have...

The crap this freepcreep posted is almost verbatim what Coulter, Hannity and the rest of the Bush shill parade spew. I can see it a mile away.

[Lefty Pragmatist]

6. IMHO that's shortsighted.

What's the point of the exercise -- to educate, or to condemn?

The right has creamed us at this for years, in large part due to our arrogance. They put information into the form that is comprehensible to the audience. The left gets up on its hind legs and makes the audience come to them. Result -- everybody thinks the left are a bunch of pseudo-sophisticated jerks. Hmm, wonder why...

[zulchzulu]

7. Shortsightedness walked into the room

If someone really wanted to find out about Kerry's positions on issues, they would not come galumphing in and accusing that a site was "anti-Bush" because of an automated newsfeed and thereby presume (without bothering to look at the other main content on the site) that it was ALL negative and ALL against our poor, precious President.

I've personally talked with many people on all parts of the political spectrum and know when people are indeed curious to find out about Kerry or if they are just looking for an excuse to diss Kerry without any level of knowledge about the issues.

Frankly, I have come to a decision recently that it is not worth trying to convince someone who is so set against Kerry. You may as well talk to a rock. I look at them only with the hope that they forget to register to vote or don't bother to vote.

There are too many people who are independents and prove it by their questions, concerns and attitude that they deserve more time and effort.

Let the close-minded, lazy, uninformed (and usually proud of it) people wallow in their mental fog.

[Catch22Dem]

4. Daily Show

Didn't Rob Courdry say some like "the facts themselves are anti-bush" HAHAHAHA