Liberal Website's Members Pray for President Bush to Die

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It certainly comes as no great surprise that liberal Internet denizens hate George W. Bush.

However, when this derangement syndrome sinks to the level of hoping your president dies, one must wonder what has happened to our nation for the citizenry to have so morally degenerated.

With that in mind, the liberal website Think Progress posted an article Saturday about a Fox News poll which asked respondents whether or not they prayed for the President.

Sadly, the comments posted by site members were absolutely abysmal (h/t Charles Johnson):

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I pray for Bush every single night.

I pray for him to choke on a pretzel and die.

Comment by rf7777 - October 5, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

#5 yes, you are more precise - impeached, convicted, tried at the Hague, convicted, execu . . . . Oh, someone's at my door, just a minute.

Comment by NoMoreBush - October 5, 2007 @ 4:54 pm

I pray for Bush, and Cheney too. I pray that both die suddenly to free us from their neo-Nazi rule.

Comment by Uncle Ho - October 5, 2007 @ 4:58 pm

Yeah, I pray (no, not really - atheist) that lightning will strike him - twice for good measure.

Comment by austex - October 5, 2007 @ 5:39 pm

Honestly, there are times I wonder how such people can possibly consider themselves to be Americans.

Maybe more importantly, I'd love to know whether this site's management think such sentiments represent progress.

Regardless, I suddenly need to go take another shower.

*****Update: I just received an e-mail message from Faiz Shakir, the editor of Think Progress as well as the research director for the Center for American Progress (aka The Clinton Think Tank) --

I read your post (and LGF's) regarding the death wishes that were uttered against President Bush in our comments section. After you and others pointed them out, we deleted them. It is not our policy to allow such commentary. It is very difficult to moderate the thousands of comments we receive each day. We recently instituted comments registration to try to limit the violations of our Terms of Use. But we can't get them all. Once we're alerted to violators, we try to take prompt action.

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rf7777 = ding7777??

Is this another example of that liberal compassion I keep hearing about?? 

Indoctrinate-U 

Our Education. Their Politics.

LOL S Rock... You beat me

LOL S Rock...

You beat me to it as I was wondering the same thing when I saw those numbers too...

Pretty pathetic, but more so sad what this country has sunk to with such blatant hatred.

Poor simple souls is all I can say.

I noticed they took their filthy, despicable, disgraceful comments down on the site. 

I thought the same thing!!!

I thought the same thing!!! GMTA!!

I just love these oh-so-sensitive and caring liberals. The hatred and vitriol these supposedly "tolerant" people spew is disgusting.

It reminded me of Julianne Malveaux, who used to appear as a commentator from time to time; I haven't seen her in a while. She said of Justice Clarence Thomas (paraphrasing): I hope his wife feeds him lots of butter and bacon and eggs, and he dies young from heart disease like a lot of black men do.

And they say conservatives are mean.

mb... Great points about

mb...

Great points about Julianne M. my only problem is I haven't missed that leftist spewing piece of work one bit....it seems as soon as we mention someone we haven't seen in awhile they pop up on the screen (example Katrina Vanden Huevel, she came up the other day here, no one had seen her in awhile and poof she was on Hardball or something like the next day or two) so I am keeping my fingers crossed we will not be graced or better yet disgraced with the likes of Julianne anytime soon....

LOL

I know, bt...that was one

I know, bt...that was one hateful woman!

Poof! Like magic, evidence

Poof! Like magic, evidence of liberal tolerance and free speech disappears!

Sorry, no posts were found...

I'll fix this, you guys

I'll fix this, you guys just relax...

dut-da-da-DAAAH: 

A service of the new NB respect police

But what ever you do, don't

But what ever you do, don't question these nimrod's patriotism!

Patriots???

Patriots???...for which nation?

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.
Thompson/Rice

Bush

I suspect most of the more deranged haters are overweight, pimply-faced youngsters who post from mommy's cellar.  The simple, obscene, one syllable words betray them.  The rest are idiots who have no real goals or purpose in life and can't function in society without their keyboards. They are just plain nuts.  What they all have in common is a complete lack of a solution to the world's problems beyond "Bush must die".

Emma.... I can't help but

Emma.... I can't help but wonder how many are old wasted brain dead hippies too in the mess of posters.

Bush

Yes, bt - I am sure they are plentiful as well.  Many of them never had the courage to leave home, and they simply stayed around until the parents passed away, then got the house! 

On a related note - Virginia Republican congressman Jo Ann Davis passed away today after a battle with breast cancer.  May she rest in peace.  While over in enemy territory at the Huff and Puff post, all posts on this item have been closed, no doubt due to the volume of vile comments from the brain-dead cellar-dwellers., depicting her and her family as some sub-human demons.  Isn't that a fine tribute to her................and only because she was a Republican. Similar to what they did to Tony Snow when he faced his surgery.  Such compassion is simply overwhelming....

Emma... Thanks for

Emma...

Thanks for letting me know about Jo Ann Davis.

My prayers go out to her family and friends.

I was taken back when you posted that...I never knew she was ill, she was a very good congresswoman.

Bush

bt, it was a sad loss for her family and they have my condolences.  Sounds like it ended a two year battle with the disease.

I was never taught to hate anyone badly enough to wish them ill, or worse, dead, but the partisan divisiveness in the nation today is simply abominable, when soul-less people are actually wish others dead.  All because of political affiliations.

Defeatism

Libs are supporting

  • Terrorism
  • Bush's death
  • An end to our freedom
  • Destroying our economy
  • Socialized medicine
  • High taxes

Why the hell is anyone surprised they do not want more people dead?

JDW

Sen Clinton: Founder of Media Matters

 

Link

Not sure if the link in Noel's story is working or not, but the posts are still there in all their tawdriness.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/05/do-you-pray-for-bush/#comments

"There is a tendency for the world to say to America, 'the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,' and then to worry when America wants to sort them out." - Tony Blair

stl.... Hey thanks...had

stl....

Hey thanks...had to stop at the praying for Waxman BS.

What a pathetic group of critters...they need prayer(s).

Stopping

Yeah, I had to stop pretty quickly too.  Tedious.

Prayer

Most people like liberals never equate that spoken words have intent even in a joke so everything is a prayer, because of the intent for good or for evil from someone.

Besides being a horrid thing in even wanting someone to die, liberals should get something through their heads when a national leader dies unexpectedly.

1. Other nations will always "test" the new leader which usually gets people killed.

2. Stock Markets go down and it costs even liberals a fortune.

3. Nations which loose leaders rarely get back on track for almost 10 years. Behold Lincoln's death and what it did to the chaos in the south and the later Indian wars to FDR dying with botched leader Truman getting atomic bombs to Korea.......to Kennedy dying got LBJ an exploding America in Vietnam to "get Nixon" by Democrats got the gigantic mess which America is still dealing with from the buffoon Carter mistakes.

A dead President is the last thing America should have or want, even if it is a Bill Clinton who by staying in office caused 9 11 and the mess America is in after being impeached.........I thought I would never say this, but America would have been better off if Al Gore had finished Clinton's term.
Not saying I agree with Al Globalgorist, but at least he understand when to pull the trigger and would have done it.

Liberals though are stupid breed in thinking murder someone and all the problems disappear. If they looked at any nation in history where a leader dies in office, all sorts of vile things start happening in a chain reaction.

 

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

President Gore?

"I thought I would never say this, but America would have been better off if Al Gore had finished Clinton's term."

You're absolutely correct, LC. The Democrats missed a golden opportunity-if they had persuaded Clinton to resign, similar to what the Repubs did with Nixon, President Al Gore would have been in office for over a year by the time the 2000 elections rolled around, and would have most likely won that election based on the alleged "Clinton Economy". He would then have been eligible to run for and win re-election in 2004.

But as we all know, liberals live for the moment and instant gratification, and never look at the long term picture. They could have had Dems in the White House for 16 years. Instead, their limited vision gave them the Smirking Chimp and Dick McHalliburton.

Del

you're not playing nice.  Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt us!

Sorry

I was re-programmed by Karl Rove at the Halliburton re-education camp at Gitmo last week.

I am still recovering from the Rum and Coca-Colas, and also being waterboarded in order to make me smoke the Cuban stogies.

Americans??!! How about human??!!

 "Honestly, there are times I wonder how such people can possibly consider themselves to be Americans."

 Forget Americans, how can they consider themselves to be human?!  Hate speech has become the 23rd Psalm to liberals these days.   The MSM, MoveOn.org, Media Matters and Air America, together with the continual bombardment of hateful rhetoric from leaders like Reid, Pelosi, Murtha, the Clintons and their ilk have indoctrinated liberals so completely in the art of intolerance, that I fear some of their weak-minded disciples, including groups like Code Pink and International ANSWER, might go from wishing harm on conservatives to wish fulfillment.  Liberal leaders are already trying to suffocate our right to free speech! 

It's Probably not unique to

It's Probably not unique to the left but the mindset of wishing personal ill on those who do not share your beliefs is certainly much more prominent than in conservative circles.

It's beyond ironic and well into the realm of hypocrisy that the political ideology which rhetorically talks about tollerance and inclusion of all ideas is the one where you are most likely to be denegrated, hated and villified for simply not sharing their ideas.



The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Fred08.com

A Prime Example

The best recent example of this "tolerance" on the Left is the spate of hate threads on Daily KAOS, DU and Puffington Host in regards to Tony Snow's colon cancer. The majority of the posts were absolutely repulsive and cretinesque.

Hey Del Dolemonte!

Did you mean cretinesque or Clintonesque?

Now, Now

There is one thing that the Democrats are totally busted on, and that is this:

For over 200 years, America's ex-Presidents never made a public spectacle out of criticizing the person who replaced them as President.

That long-held Amnerican tradition was trashed by the last two "Presidents" who had a D after their name.

Pretty disgusting, isn't it? But they control the minds of half of our population. SCARY.

That does it! Gloves are

That does it! Gloves are off! I'm tired of sitting at the sidelines.

Since I can't sign up at the site without a password:

Hey, "pretzel" guy, you really choke and die on something that resembles a sausage, if you know what I mean.

Oh, and "neo-Nazi" guy: gee, I hope you like fascist terrorist ruling, because that's what's going to happen if you libs try to let the terrorists win.

And "lightning" guy. You probably should believe in God now, I see that lightning's hitting you three, four, no twenty times now.  God must be really ticked off at you.

 

I'm tired of deal with these thoughtless loads of human crap known as liberals.  I'm tired of being nice and tolerant.  They don't want to be nice and "tolerant" themselves, I say, to h&ll with all of them!

What none of them seem to realize

is if their wishes do come true and America pulls out and the terrorists win - THEY, the liberal pro-abortion, pro-homosexual bunch are all going to be first to be hung in the public square!

It will be interesting to see what hateful messages they will come up with for our next president - I'm sure it won't take them long to forget GWB and start in on the next guy! 

Republicans must unite and not stay home come November 2008, regardless of the final Republican candidate.  He might not be your first choice, but do we really want to have people in charge of our country who are supported by ilk such as this???  Not me!

For Reference...

I direct your attention to a recent thread on this website about a book speculating as to what would happen if there were no more humans on earth: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2007/09/04/today-shows-environmental-solution-just-get-rid-humans

The comments are illuminating.  Many witty and original people suggest that liberals should die first.  Someone comments that he hopes a dolphin will drown Hillary Clinton.  Why did you guys make those comments?  Because the subject matter invited it.  Similarly, if you ask a bunch of liberals whether or not they pray for Bush, someone is undoubtedly going to chime in with "You bet I pray..." and some equally witty comment about how they wish Bush would die.

It is a distasteful in either case, particularly so when an individual is singled out.  But honestly, even if you guys just say "liberals" I read that and know that you're talking about me.

You don't need to explain it, I know that you don't actually mean it.. Just keep in mind that that is exactly what most of those posters would probably say if you asked them if they really do want President Bush to die.

but pigstermeister

who brought up the end of humanity in the first place?

and who brought up the death of Bush in the first place?

Thirdly, get over yourself, you ain't all that that we should be concerned to write about you

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pigstermeister?

LMAO-Damn, botg, that is funny.


When I'm president, privatization is off the table because it's not the answer to anything.
-Hillary Rodham, September 3, 2007 AARP Legislative Conference.

The end of humanity was a

The end of humanity was a purely hypothetical, non-political speculation.  Eventually, maybe millions of years in the future, there probably will be an earth without humans regardless of who gets elected in 2008 or whether AGW turns out to be a hoax.  The book was a scientific exercise.  It wasn't an attack on anybody, you guys made it an attack.  Why?  Because you thought it was funny and silly!  I get it, I just want you to try to keep a little perspective when you read what comes from the other side.

piggly-wiggly

certaintly you and i will clock out long before that.  Are you ready?  (I usually do have perspective)

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Good lord, what does that

Good lord, what does that have to do with anything?!

apparantly

perspective isn't your strong suit, so why'd ya bring it up?

goodnight cleverpig

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Ahem. I was referring to

Ahem.

I was referring to keeping people's comments about public figures in perspective, not having perspective on life and death.

Are you asking if I'm ready to die?  No, not particularly.  I like being alive.  Is there some other perspective I'm supposed to have about the human condition before I'm fit to bring up the topic?

actually CP

it brings out some of the basic premises of your worldview and epistemology, which directly effect your conclusions on the human condition.

That aside in both cases the death of Bush, and the exticntion of humanity was brought up by others.  The NB comments made fun of said positions.  Are you saying we need to view the the thinkprogress site as having forgotten the </sarc off> key?  If so i believe that is mistaken there's too much rage.  (and anyone who would take a dolphin finds Hillary the shark comment as anything BUT sarcky????)

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C'mon

it brings out some of the basic premises of your worldview and epistemology, which directly effect your conclusions on the human condition.

You know you're being silly here... I've never heard anyone else's comments evaluated in light of their preparedness for death unless that was the actual subject!

The comments I linked are not the only ones in which people here wished death on someone, just the easiest collection of similar sentiments to find.  Every now and then you find gems like this on otherwise civilized discussions:  

May 15, 2007 - 03:45 ET by SportPolitics I've got a solution.

For the lib crybabies do as they say to them, torture with various sharp objects before the end, a good bleed lightens the carbon load, make sure they experience waterboarding (this gets their "spirit" use to their final resting place) - also so they know what horrid torture they tried to prevent and what good people they are because of it - a nice and neccessary self esteem boost, also make sure there's a cup or two of blood left in them, so they can "share with nature" soon. Grab their psycho mesmer chant candles and various fornication plugs from around the room, and drip the hot wax to seal from leakage - sure this will induce more screams and struggling and burn more calories, but hey you can't win them all.

Maybe you guys only make these kind of comments when the subject of death has already come up, but the fact is you have people on this site willing to go beyond acceptable discourse to make a point.  I know much of it is sarcastic, and that's true of any liberal website you go to as well.

pigmeister

I've never heard anyone else's comments evaluated in light of their preparedness for death unless that was the actual subject! 

death to Bush, and human extinction were the topics, so a quick extension to personalize the issue isn't too far for you is it?  It also as i noted gets to the premises of each of our view points. 

you use SP as typical here?  It is about a general tone cleverpig, there's always some stuff here at NB i disagree with.  The point is the tone and flat out hostility.  I've seen the hate Bush people live and in person it is not a sarcastic rebuke, it's from the gut.

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I thought the subject was

I thought the subject was acceptable discourse, but fine:

I'm an atheist and a scientist.  I don't believe in an afterlife.  I'd like to live as long as I happily can.  I believe in doing good in the world.  I don't pray for people, but I do wish them luck.  I feel guilty every time I imagine stabbing GWB in the eye with a fork.  Good enough?

If you want to talk about general tone, it would just take too long for me to compile every nasty insult that has been levelled at liberals on this site.  Some of those are sarcastic, but plenty of them are "from the gut."  I honestly believe some people here hate liberals, though it doesn't partisularly bother me.  We're called stupid more times than I can count, venomous, treasonous, immoral, the list would go on and on.

It is just part of what happens on any forum where the majority of posters agree with one another.  The comments about Bush were removed, and I think you all should get off your high horses!

yes cleverpig

all groups have their good and bad agreed.  Just note the general tone at the sites is all, decide for yourself.  And yes when you 'bait' the thread with posts you know will get a reaction well, you'll get what you start.  Really if you like them better, go there, if you're not having fun why do it?  This isn't a job or anything.  Do you consider me to be on a high horse because i joke with you?  After all who was sticking out their tongue?

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Oh believe me, I am having

Oh believe me, I am having fun!

The folks on high horses, as far as I am concerned, include anyone who honestly thinks that rhetoric on liberal sites is worse than what you find on conservative sites.  I didn't specifically mean you.  I quite enjoy our conversations :)

Of course, notsocleverpig, it's easier to pretend to yourself

that you're "objective" when you fall back on whining and claiming that others are "bullying" you because they hold your ideological feet to the fire...   ;^>

I'm not whining.  Other

I'm not whining.  Other people are complaining about how mean and nasty liberals are.  I'm suggesting that they stop whining.

I'm not sure why you put "bullying" in quotation marks.  I'm pretty sure I never used the word.  I've never felt bullied here.  Insulted, sure, now and again, but only when the discussion moves beyond ideological foot burning to personal attacks.

"I'm not whining" (Try past tense, notsocleverpig)

...and I'm not surprised you "don't remember" using the word, notsoclever.    It seems to be a leftist trait.  In fact, Rush has a funny parody song about all the times Hillary testified that she "can't remember."   :^)

Actually, you said I was bullying you in the long discussion we had about your belief in Socialism.  One thing you didn't like, for example, is when I pointed out that you were spouting Marxisms without being aware that they WERE Marxisms.  I think it was right after that that you said I was bullying you.

Ah yes.  I said that using

Ah yes.  I said that using extremes to counter more nuanced suggestions were "bully tactics" when employed by either the left or the right.  While I was definitely casting aspersions on your method of discussion, I didn't mean to say that I felt bullied by you.

"...never used the word" says notsocleverpig

...but when confronted with her "faulty memory," she denies any accusatory intent.   "Just making a debate point", says notsoclever.

Except, Miss Piggy, you also said "you can't scare me" immediately before that.  Add that to "bully", and you have a pretty clear accusation.  

Gotta love your self-referenced "nuanced suggestions."  Actually, you paint with a pretty broad brush....oh, wait....you think that because you're talking to a dumb conservative I  might have difficulty understanding your fine "nuances."   ;^>

Except, notsoclever, you don't understand the nuances of your own arguments.  You parrot Marx without knowing it, you deny the accuracy that a tenet of communism is that socialism is just a way-point, and you openly want Socialism (capital S)without being aware of what that entails.   When I challenged you about some of those things, your response was "well I'm an optimist!"  

Wow.  Great "nuance", notsocleverpig. 

Well, as I said, it wasn't

Well, as I said, it wasn't what I intended. You weren't scaring me! I made the point not because I was feeling whiny and wanted you to back off, as you strongly imply, but because I considered communism a strawman in the argument.

And if you insist on talking about socialism everytime you see one of my posts, these conversations are going to get very boring, very quickly.

I agree that one of the tenets of communism is that socialism is a step on the way. My point is that that is NOT one of the tenets of SOCIALISM. Plenty of people think that socialism is a good ENDPOINT, and so it is silly to argue against socialism by saying that it must untimately lead to communism when I can point to many examples where it hasn't and shows no sign of doing so in the future. Western European democratic socialism is alive and well and currently in no danger of becoming totalitarian and communist!

Well, notsocleverpig, blame yourself

for the conversation returning to socialism.  Your faulty memory forced me to go back and drag the old conversation into this one. 

Hey, big step forward.  You now agree that communism sees socialism as a necessary step along the way.   Clever girl!   Been reading Marx?  Next step is to recognize that Marxists (like Hillary) are using you kumbayah types to achieve their goals.   You think they'll stop when you're ready?  even if you say please?    ;^>

 

Wow.  That's incredibly

Wow.  That's incredibly condescending.  I haven't realized anything new, or read anything new.  I still maintain that communism is a meaningless boogeyman in this country. 

How is it condescending, Miss Piggy?

"Harry Reid is a complete buffoon."  -Lou Dobbs

CP

but i truly do believe the hostility at say Kos exceeds that here.

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Well, it is a much less

Well, it is a much less moderated forum, so I don't think that's terribly surprising.

Arnold Ziffle

somehow i think if i were to post there i'd be "moderated" out in a week!!!

"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."       Groucho

Allow me to translate

Allow me to translate "cleverpigspeak":

"MANY" = 1-2 comments.

1-2 comments at NB = 100 douchbags at thinkprogress.

Cleverpig, I do not wish for you to die. I am sure you offer this world something. You offer the gift of laughter, at least for us. You see, everytime I read one of your Marxist rambling posts, you make me laugh.

I love you too.

I love you too.

Oooo, more

Oooo, more "cleverpigspeak".

"I love you" = "I have absolutely no comeback. I skulk away in shame."

 

Is it just me?

From reading most of the posts at that site, and others previously on other "progressive" sites, I get the image of the poster laying on the floor pounding his fists repeatedly on the carpet and kicking his feet screaming against the evil President Bush, the unjustice of his terms of office and thier impotency to do anything about it.

"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine."

-David Moulton

If only they would hate

If only they would hate terrorist as much.

Why would Liberals like

Why would Liberals like those that post on Thinkprogress.org hate terrorists?

These terrorists are just like them and want to do what these Liberals want to do, destroy America, create havoc and anarchy. 

Most of the Liberals that post on sites like Thinkprogress.org consider the leader of a Iran a military hero and worship him. 

I live in Chicago, I have quite a few Liberal friends and while many of them dislike very strongly President Bush, and most of them are socially and morally Liberal, none of them are the type of nut cases that wish death on the President, death to our military and death to Conservatives. 

 

I don't know if we should give them the benefit of the doubt

I am not sure if I believe Thinkprogress.org when they claim that they can't moderate the thousands of comments that they get each they on their website. 

They sure do a heck of a job and a quick one to, deleting comments of Conservatives. 

Thinkprogress.org swims in this cest pool of vile and hatred for anyone that they disagree with politically and morally.  Anyone they deem Conservative will be attacked and considered a sub-human. 

Just go in and read their comments, this type of hatred and vitrol is a daily thing for Thinkprogress.org. 

Thinkprogress.org doesn't clean it up at all, unless of course they get caught with their pants down, which seems to be the case with this issue. 

but believe me, thinkprogress.org doesn't moderate hateful comments from Liberals spewed out against Conservatives. 

Pelosi prays for Bush

Pelosi prays for Bush

Uh, Nancy how about first praying that your stances line up with the official stances of the Catholic Church (only because she claims to be Catholic)

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}}---> Pelosi's prayers

Was that a bucket of puke? or what?

She's unaware of the enhanced interrogation procedures, too.

I pray.  I lie.  I lie about praying.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

Phake

Pelosie's a Phake, Phony, Pathetic Polictical-Party Pray-er.

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 And these people are the

 And these people are the reason why I say that if ever we are attacked in this country and these anti-un-Americans start protesting,   our soldiers need to attack in both directions.

At least they had some

At least they had some sense of decency and deleted the comments. I'll salute them at that.

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