"Pro-life' outrage gets some notice
The outrageous behavior of Pro-Life Wisconsin, which accused a grieving widow and HospiceaCare of murder for following the wishes of a critically wounded Marine and allowing him to die, has still gotten scant notice in the media.
It is getting some attention today on the best-read blog in the country, DailyKos, and in an article by yours truly in this week's Shepherd Express.
Earlier post.
posted by xoff @ 1:50 PM
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7 Comments:
How bloody outrageous indeed. Did you ever notice that your side only gets worked up when the question at hand is one of life and death? Your side is universally on the side of death.
Oddly, when one idiotic parent of a fallen solider has a mental convulsion in front of television cameras you go into a puritanical rant about the sanctity of – well who knows what.
It must be tough to sustain your liberalism given the vacuous, varied and relative truths that pop up like hurdles in your race through reality.
Once again, thanks for sharing, but you might lower your own risk of stroke and perhaps prolong your life if you read a right-wing blog instead of this one.
No. This is fun. I don't usually read the Shepherd though.
Thanks for your concern though.
I chose the ID after your hero began purging posts that challenged his liberal dogma a few weeks ago. I had been X’dOut. You know – like a rejected golf ball – where they put X’s over the top of the ball manufacturer’s name. It became quite apparent that dissent was not tolerated at planet XOff. Finally, at the end of his meltdown he simply disabled comments entirely.
Fortunately Mr. XOffRson has come to the realization that deleting comments or disabling commentary makes him no better than any of the book-burning fascists that he frequently believes he is warring against.
Bill may be a liberal weenie but he at least saw the completely hypocritical conduct and regained his senses. For that he gets a tiny tip-o-the-hat.
Just for the record, I have never been afraid of disagreement or criticism.
I drew the line at some particularly vile and offensive comment Xout made, and deleted it. He responded with dozens of comments accusing me of cowardice and censorship.
The last one was: "You are nothing but chicken shit, Mr. C. You keep deleting any criticism of your extreme liberal bias, like a miserable coward. Too bad, I will keep cluttering up your stupid BLog with MY comments as long as it is on the web."
So I turned off the comments, just to remind him that I will always have the last word. (Xout is free to start his own blog, of course, where I could leave comments in the wee hours. That is what freedom of speech on the Internet is really about.)
This is not a free speech issue. This is my blog; I am the editor. I have no obligation to publish every comment, any more than a newspaper editor is obliged to publish every letter.
As long as they are within the bounds of good taste, very liberally defined, and don't make personal attacks, I am inclined to let comments stand, no matter how far out they may be.
I think discussion and debate is healthy. But many of Xout's one-liners add nothing to the dialogue and mostly spew vitriol (the Gary Hart is dog vomit comment, for example).
I want to keep comments open. But I will not hesitate to delete those which cross the line, or to shut them off altogether -- which would, I guess, make me a fascist like Charlie Sykes, Jessica McBride and many other conservatives who allow no comments at all on their blogs.
That wasn't me (the chicken s#!&)- I wouldn't resort to that. That is the problem with annonomous posting. This works much better.
I did do quite a few censorship posts - specifically because the posts of mine that you deleted were dissenting but not objectionable like the one you reference.
Debate is healthy - glad you brought it back.
I am indeed off-center... quite right of it actually and I put a great deal of effort into not being round and I am most certainly inclined to hook right.
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