Comments on: Open Thread * Fox News Special Programming Tonight (Let’s All Watch and “Live Blog”)

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:02:20 +0000

Hi UBM, sad to hear about Eartha Kitt, she was striking in both beauty and talent. She will be missed. R.I.P.

Harold Pinter also passed. He’ll live on through his timeless plays.

By: slobodaneee

slobodaneee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:00:03 +0000

No you are not. Most folks here though believe the crap he spewed and looked quite silly.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:51:29 +0000

Hell no AnnieO, as far as Larry S. is concerned, I’m with you 100%. He should be viewed with complete skepticism right now. If he is later able to provide credible evidence, that’ll be great. Until then, consider it a dead end. Happy New Year.

By: Ferd Berfle

Ferd Berfle — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:43:39 +0000

No–you would be the only one who doesn’t think about anything prior to commenting, BM.

By: Undercover Black Man

Undercover Black Man — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:36:07 +0000

BTW, am I the only semi-regular/regular who thinks Larry Sinclair is full of sh*t?

Prob’ly.

By: AnnieO

AnnieO — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:22:51 +0000

This was a great post! I remember how powerful this story was way back when and how Geraldo Riveria became almost a household name because of it. My daughter is very interested in this topic and was excited to see these videos. She has been asking me about this story for a few years, but she had never seen it. Gosh, I feel old watching these.

Regarding the others comments about the “Did you get invited?” post, I was lurking but was not going to jump into that ugly mess. BTW, am I the only semi-regular/regular who thinks Larry Sinclair is full of sh*t?

By: oowawa

oowawa — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:38:19 +0000

I seriously doubt that bots and trolls are intellectually capable of the Machiavelian tactics you described.

Well they should be! If they can’t manage such Machiavelian tactics, it’s just another reason to doubt their overall competence . . .

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:24:50 +0000

I think you can relax oowawa, kick your shoes off, and give your scalp a breather. I seriously doubt that bots and trolls are intellectually capable of the Machiavelian tactics you described.

By: Bud White

Bud White — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:24:28 +0000

Robert F. Kennedy so moved me, so motivated me, so filled me with the belief that somehow we could get out of the madness of Vietnam and thousands of American soldiers and Vietnamese dying needlessly, that I began to campaign for RFK that day.

Thanks for sharing this, Susan. Very powerful.

By: oowawa

oowawa — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:13:59 +0000

Yes Andrew191, on that particular thread, I thought that sometimes the firing squad was being circled, and there was a lot of confusion and casualties from friendly fire.
What worries me is this. I have no doubt that there are people, perhaps associated with the O campaign, who are interested in disrupting sites where honest dissent is allowed and encouraged. If I were really interested in doing this, I would not jump right in and scream “Whitey Tape Whitey Tape!” like many obvious trolls will do. I would first establish myself as a mole, as a sympathetic poster, and then try to breed internal dischord by insinuating that other posters are bots or trolls. This would be effective in creating an atmosphere of mutual distrust that could create chaos. Excuse me while I put another lining of tin foil in my beanie.

And Happy New Year to you too!

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:49:09 +0000

Thankyou oowawa. On the marathon “did you get invited?” thread I felt that some of the insults and ad hominems were getting out of control. I made the mistake of defending a bot that I thought had been unfairly attacked. My mistake! My father warned me about trying break up dog fights.

It would be rather silly to be required to prove my unreserved dislike and mistrust of Obama and his courtesans and sycophants every time I post here just to avoid the automatic ad hominem attack “Troll or Bot alert! Everything this jerk says is wrong because he’s stupid”. Grow up. If I post something wrong, correct me. When I feel that you’ve posted something wrong, or that I disagree with, I’ll lay out my argument.

Simply because we may all share dislike of Obama to varying degrees, that alone does not mean you should launch bloody attacks on posters because they might dissagree on other subjects. Telling others to piss off or go away because they disagree with you is about like telling the visiting team to get lost when they show up to play you. Where’s the fun in that? Happy New Year!

By: oowawa

oowawa — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:58:53 +0000

Okay, this is an open thread so I’ll post this observation here even though probably not a lot of people are going to see it.

Lately, I have been seeing some regular NQ posters accuse other NQ posters of being “bots,” or “trolls,” when I know that those accused are no such thing. This can get out of hand real fast, and it reminds me sometimes of a witch hunt.

There are REAL trolls and bots out there, and we need to save our ammunition for them, and not drive off other posters who are really on our side of most issues. Let’s do our best to recognize “snark” when it appears (sometimes it’s hard), and be slow to condemn others of being “bots” or “trolls,” unless we are dead sure.

That’s all I’ve got to say.

By: getfitnow

getfitnow — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:41:17 +0000

This site is running very slow today. Anybody else having problems?