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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:31 PM
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Just so you know how the Freepers treated Helen Thomas
I monitored freerepublic.com every day for years. They despise Helen Thomas, and have made her an object of derision. I recall incidents where they would call her favorite dinner restaurant and ask to speak to her on the phone repeatedly. I recall them telling of various ways they poured their hatred out on her. There were many ethnic slurs (Helen is of Lebanese background, I believe) and slurs about alcohol.

DU has definitely modeled respect for the truth and respect for those who tell it, by honoring Helen Thomas.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:32 PM
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1. Freepers fear the TRUTH and she is the
symbol for TRUTH.
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BobRossi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:33 PM
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3. Truth to the right...
Like light to cockroaches.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:33 PM
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2. i saw a thread that they were watching our threads on the roses
hope their heads exploded :rofl:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:45 PM
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16. Watch, they'll try to send Rose to O'Liely LOL
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:50 PM
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19. They probably will, since they are so clueless.
He'd rather have a commemorative loofah.

:D
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:54 PM
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21. They'll have to use mommy's credit card to do it
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:33 PM
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4. A journalist of integrity ...
... a woman who seeks out honesty and justice.

Freepers just fear what they don't know, or understand.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:34 PM
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5. What did they say when they called her?
"Hey Helen is your refrigerator running?"

"Yes??"

"Well then you better go catch it! (snicker, snicker, snortle...click)"
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:43 PM
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13. was this the 3rd grade freepers
or the ones in middle school
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Chimichurri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:35 PM
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6. Did they really do those things? They are sick.
Republicans today have serious issues.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:36 PM
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7. They called her favorite restaurant and asked to speak to her?
What on earth for? :shrug:
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4 t 4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:38 PM
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9. Freepers using
ethnic slurs----------NEVER!!
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:41 PM
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11. just to make her get up and answer the phone, probably (eom)
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:45 PM
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14. Wow. Those zany tricksters.
:eyes:
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physioex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:37 PM
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8. Hey Freeps....
We know Uncle KKRove had Shrub call her on purpose to make the case for the blame Iraq on the media issue. Same ole crap recycled from another decade....
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GardeningGal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:40 PM
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10. Geez, I thought normal people outgrew the grade school bully
phase.

Oh, just realized the problem. I shouldn't have considered the Freepers as normal people.
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Yoda Yada Donating Member (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:48 PM
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17. We have a "grade school bully" for President....
...they are just following his example.:shrug: Yes, it is a bad example, but to the Bushbots...bullying is the only way they can get attention.
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:42 PM
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12. here's a post from February of this year
This stuff has been going on for YEARS!

..............

To: presidio9
I had dinner with Helen Thomas a few times at Mama Aeysha's Restaurant up near the National Zoo in DC.
A few observations.

#1. She is a mean drunk. Most nights, she gets that way very quickly on a cheap red wine she loves.

#2. She is Middle Eastern. Her parents here immigrants from Lebanon.

#3. She is virulently antisemitic, especially anti-Israel.

#4. She hates, absolutely hates the entire Bush family, from Barbara on down.

#5. Her nose is so big it looks like the arresting hook on an F-14 Tomcat.


72 posted on 02/02/2006 9:49:17 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:45 PM
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15. if you dare...
Here's the URL for the thread from which I posted one post above. Don't go there if you have blood pressure problems or anger management issues. It's degrading stuff.

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1570714/posts
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:48 PM
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18. Helen Thomas accompanied Nixon with the White House
press corps when he visited China for the first time. I just saw a documentary about Mao on the history channel. She's a reporter not a liberal. She isn't supposed to let her political bias interfere with her journalism. Can't they get this through their thick skulls? If their tin god does ungodlike things, it's her job to investigate and report on it.
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:53 PM
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20. Freepers are anti-American, so naturally they would hate someone who
upholds the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution.

However, they are losing support ~ I clicked the link from DU last night over to FR to watch them spew more hatred for Helen, jealous of the wonderful support she got and all the love that was apparent from so many people. The thread was very short, compared to what it would have been three years ago.

Helen should regard those tactics as proof of her courage and she ought to save every nasty, vile message she receives. One day soon, we will need evidence that these people existed and a book about them, using their own vicious cowardly words will probably be published. Future generations will need to see how the scum rose to the top under this regime, as a warning that we need to be ever-vigilent in protecting this democracy. Helen will be considered one of the heroes of this period, while those little cockroaches will be merely a footnote.

They will crawl back into the holes they were hiding in after this country is taken back from the coup e'etaters currently in control, and it might be difficult to find them. So saving their diatribe as Exhibit A of what happened to this country, and who supported it, might be a good thing to do for historical purposes before it is erased as they have a habit of doing whenever they are caught.

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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 12:58 PM
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22. Freepers are dumb shit bastards who live a life of getting
poked in the ass by their gop leadership and willingly ask for more. They are subhuman garbage without value.
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