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Conservative Free Republic blog in free speech flap after racial slurs directed at Obama children
Hmm![eusa_think :eusa_think: :eusa_think:](/styles/smilies/eusa_think.gif)
Not a huge surprise from the same party that made regular jokes about Chelsea Clinton?![eusa_eh :eusa_eh: :eusa_eh:](/styles/smilies/eusa_eh.gif)
"A typical street whore." "A bunch of ghetto thugs." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion."
These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative 'Free Republic' blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.
The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds."
Though this may sound like the sort of thing one might read on an Aryan Nation or white power website, they actually appeared on what is commonly considered one of the prime online locations for U.S. Conservative grassroots political discussion and organizing - and for a short time, the comments seemed to have the okay of site administrators
"The writer has a point," wrote site owner Jim Thompson sarcastically. "We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig."
Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.
Hmm
![eusa_think :eusa_think: :eusa_think:](/styles/smilies/eusa_think.gif)
Not a huge surprise from the same party that made regular jokes about Chelsea Clinton?
![eusa_eh :eusa_eh: :eusa_eh:](/styles/smilies/eusa_eh.gif)
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