Excerpts From Controversial Column Pulled From Post Comments Section

[Memekiller]

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Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 11:36:20 AM

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Columnists are supposed to write provocatively -- to express themselves in ways that force readers to take notice and think. But do such scribes get more leeway than Internet surfers posting comments on newspaper websites? To find out, a blogger conducted an experiment focusing on "Full-Blooded Americans Get a Vote," a recent column by Kathleen Parker (pictured), and the Denver Post, one of many papers to publish it -- and he thinks the results show that the average person is more closely monitored than are the pros.

[bemildred]

1. Reading Parker will give you brain damage.

Anybody that starts talking about "full-blooded" Americans is a bigot. Being American is not based on your ancestry.

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2. From Parker's column:

QUOTE:
"In a country that is rapidly changing demographically — and where new neighbors may have arrived last year, not last century — there is a very real sense that once-upon-a-time America is getting lost in the dash to diversity."END QUOTE

Statements like this boggle the mind on so many levels one hardly knows how to begin.

The lack of a solid historical memory is one of the things killing this nation...not to mention the fundamental bigotry of which you speak.

Back to the good old days of "100% Americanism" it seems...

[roseBudd]

3. Kathleen Parker is syndicated in my local rag, she has done nothing but bash Obama

shows you who she thinks the nominee & the real danger to McCain is.

[susankh4]

4. Well, that certainly means she should be censored!

Right?

[bemildred]

5. Let her talk. Let us call her a dim-witted bigot. That's what free speech is all about. nt

[roseBudd]

6. your bias blinds you, the column in question is disgusting, but you love anything that

harms the democratic candidate.

[Adsos Letter]

7. No.

I never said anything about censorship. I was only reflecting on the fact that her comment, which I highlighted, sounds like something straight out of the "100% Americanism" campaign that dominated American society around the time of the first World War.

It was a bigoted response to the massive waves of European immigration that began in the 1880's, aggravated by a hyper-nationalism that accompanied American entrance into the conflict.

My point was that if more Americans had a sense of history they would realize that we have been subject to this type of bigotry before, and that it fueled repressive policies against those who didn't fit the WASP definition of American.

That's all.

[roseBudd]

8. My response was to "Well, that certainly means she should be censored!" who has a history of

denigrating Obama. When Clinton supporters support the writings of the conservative punditry class, Novak, Krauthammer & Parker, we have a problem with the meaning of Democrat.

Where I live the local rag syndicates more conservative than local columnists and that is a steady diet of misinformation targeted at low information voters.

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9. My response was to her also, not you.

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