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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Ithaca is... I've been seeing a lot of new takes on the "Ithaca is Gorges" t-shirt lately. "Ithaca is Gangsta" and "Ithaca is Cold," among others that escape me as I type this. But let's not forget my favorite and the one that pre-dates this trend... *big sarcastic grin*... "Ithaca is the City of Evil." FreeRepublic.com, which I have posted about before, bashes liberals and left-leaning Ithacans on their site. They post news stories in forums to allow people to make denigrating comments about the subjects of the articles. This is highly intellectual dialog, to be sure. Freepers, as they are commonly referred to, are also known to flood internet and news polls (like the Ithaca Times' Best of Ithaca) to try to skew the results. Not that I expect conservatives to have many intelligent things to say... Recently I was out having drinks... and someone was talking to me about a speech in which Dubbya advocated the creation of electronic medical records to streamline health care procedures. And I said, "Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Hillary wrote about it in last week's New York Times Magazine." So, basically, we agreed, right? Wrong. He turned to me and snapped, "The only thing Hillary Clinton knows about is licking twat!" So much for intelligent conversation with a conservative. But now that I have that off my chest... Recently there was a thread about a story that our local news did about the Web site, and in particular a page administered by a FreeRepublic member called BehindLiberalLines. News Channel 10 attempted to make contact with the individual responsible for the site and of course couldn't reach them. The news channel resorted to showing a local progressive politician's and businessperson's response. But then it got stranger... Ryan Parkhurst, Senior Producer at News 10 Now, posted a request to the forum in which he identified himself as a "card carrying republican"... and implored the person behind the "Ithaca is the City of Evil" site to come forward and be interviewed. Of course the individual denied, citing "at least one former conservative Ithaca website that was pretty much hounded off the web by the 'tolerant,' and 'enlightened' people of Ithaca, some of whom made a concentrated effort to discover the identities of the people behind that site as part of an effort to intimdate and harass them", i.e. "I can make money selling merchandise with my lame ideology printed on it, but I don't have the balls to step up and defend myself." How easy it is to lob insults and empty slogans from anonymity. | private feedback | |
Hey! I'm Shane... a proud gay progressive Democrat who has recently relocated to New York City from Ithaca, NY. As I am no longer in Ithaca, I haven't quite decided the fate of this blog. Drop me a line!
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