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A Ban on Ron Paul Supporters
Kate Phillips
New
York Times
Thursday October 25, 2007
The right-leaning side of the blogosphere, and especially some of the
leading Repub-blogs, have been ablaze over the decision by RedState.com
to bar comments and diaries from those enthusiastically Web-savvy and
driven backers of Representative Ron Paul.
To recap first of all, Leon Wolfe over at RedState, under a headline
that included “Life Is Really Not Fair,” wrote on Monday:
Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any
way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If
your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something
else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian
self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with accounts
more than six months old may proceed as normal.
Now, I could offer a long-winded explanation for *why* this new policy
is being instituted, but I’m guessing that most of you can probably
guess. Unless you lack the self-awareness to understand just how annoying,
time-consuming, and bandwidth-wasting responding to the same idiotic
arguments from a bunch of liberals pretending to be Republicans can
be. Which, judging by your comment history, you really don’t understand,
so allow me to offer an alternate explanation: we are a bunch of fascists
and we’re upset that you’ve discovered where we keep the
black helicopters, so we’re silencing you in an attempt to keep
you from warning the rest of your brethren so we can round you all up
and send you to re-education camps all at once.
(Early this year, RedState, which features several bloggers, was bought
by Eagle Publishing, a company that also owns Regnery Publishing and Human
Events, among other ventures that cater to conservative Republicans.)
Full
article here.
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