Ron Paul Bashing on Digg Front Page - NOT BURYING FAST ENOUGH!!!! - MOVE YOUR ASS

[Joe3113]

The socialist hacks on digg are getting their rocks off.

http://digg.com/politics/Ron_Paul_Wants_Millions_for_Ear_Marks_Pork

[BlackTerrel]

Anyone objective reading that and it's really not that negative about RP. I don't see anything wrong with what he did, and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 410 billion. All he's saying is if you're going to go ahead with this monstrosity then here's a couple things that could use that money. Makes sense to me.

So he gets some publicity... so be it. I could think of far worse things.

[Lord Xar]

wow. many of those posters are seriously weird and almost 'jim jones' like. they use no facts and bend the truth in such odd ways. I truly believe the dems and most notably, the obama supporters, are really on the verge of total denial for their messiah. It is truly strange. They rip on Ron Paul, then supporters set them straight with facts, and they just keep at it.. like nothing was said. Wow.... weird. And what is disturbing, these types come out in droves and vote.

[Xenophage]

I've never signed up for digg.

They don't get that the money is already taxed, already going to be spent. The earmarks are not the problem. The earmarks are in many ways the only way the people will see any use come of their tax money. The problem is the spending, and Ron Paul votes against it consistently.

[Joe3113]

It's clear to me that digg is totally fabricated.

The power users can manipulate everything to make it look the way they want their propaganda to go.

[Madison]

There's no need to bury it. If we bury it en masse we're just playing into their image of us, that we want to censor any criticism of RP. Just post comments stating logically, in a civil manner, why RP isn't doing anything wrong.

Like Lord Xar said, some of the people (the Obama lovers) are going to act like idiots and be completely devoid of logic and reason. But others with reason will look at the thread and make up their own mind.

No need to censor the thread, just say the truth. Just don't hold out hope for the Obama-bots.

Sadly though that submission and the comments are yet another example of the the level of critical thinking the average Obama supporter has. And these people are the majority of America's electorate. Makes everything seem pretty hopeless in the big picture.

[Chieftain1776]

There's no need to bury it. If we bury it en masse we're just playing into their image of us, that we want to censor any criticism of RP. Just post comments stating logically, in a civil manner, why RP isn't doing anything wrong.

Like Lord Xar said, some of the people (the Obama lovers) are going to act like idiots and be completely devoid of logic and reason. But others with reason will look at the thread and make up their own mind.

No need to censor the thread, just say the truth. Just don't hold out hope for the Obama-bots.

Sadly though that submission and the comments are yet another example of the the level of critical thinking the average Obama supporter has. And these people are the majority of America's electorate. Makes everything seem pretty hopeless in the big picture.

I agree, I didn't touch the story but I had a good time with the useless comments like "uh libertarians are idiots" and "here comes teh bury brigade".... blah blah blah

[Chieftain1776]

Something more constructive...Digg Obama's disgusting hypocrisy.

http://digg.com/politics/Obama_Tied_to_Millions_in_Budget_Earmarks

Here's my comment

"As shown above by others Paul doesn't oppose earmarks in principle. If the charge is "do as I say not as I do" then if everyone did what he said AND did what he did.... the budget would be A LOT smaller or it would get voted down 0-435.

If you want to find hypocrisy look no further than the President. After railing against earmarks in front of a joint session of congress and the whole country it appears he has "his fingerprints all over an earmark" he put in himself as a Senator AND now will sign into law as President. If it wasn't so HYPOCRITICAL it would be hilarious. Also add that to the earmark laden budget coming up.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/02/obama_catches_grief_for_spendi.html

Again Ron Paul always maintained his right to earmark and not transfer that power to the president and his corrupt bureaucracies.

In the final analysis it is the POTUS that is the hypocrite (and blatantly so) not Paul. "

[qh4dotcom]

Buried it

[Epic]

I (username: RonPauls) got BANNED from Digg yesterday after I posted a comment that explained Ron Paul's earmark philosophy.

I had built up quite a network of liberty-oriented friends and had just gotten "Ron Paul Brings The House Down at CPAC" to the front page and 2000 diggs.

I emailed Digg and haven't got a response back

[ClayTrainor]

we've lost this DIGG battle...

[Bryan]

There's no need to bury it. If we bury it en masse we're just playing into their image of us, that we want to censor any criticism of RP. Just post comments stating logically, in a civil manner, why RP isn't doing anything wrong.


I agree we don't want to bury en masse- there should be a justifiable reason, and here there was- the Digg headline was "Ron Paul Wants Millions for Ear Marks" which is totally false- he wants no such thing. So burying as "inaccurate" is the right thing to do- and I did last night right after this was posted. Thanks for the heads up Curlz31.

[Deborah K]

Rather than bury it, (cuz doesn't that make it look like we have something to hide?) Why not refute it with RP's own words: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22379734/

[dannno]

It's clear to me that digg is totally fabricated.

The power users can manipulate everything to make it look the way they want their propaganda to go.

I never really jumped on the "digg is pwned!!" bandwagon, but recently my roommate told me that he was playing around with the digg API back around the time of the primaries, and it was very apparent that the majority of the searches and diggs were for Ron Paul related articles, but he could never find any on the front page. Dunno why he didn't tell me that back then, but all the people who were screaming about digg cheating Ron Paul are absolutely correct.

[ItsTime]

Digg did put a warning on it


Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.

[QueenB4Liberty]

Anyone objective reading that and it's really not that negative about RP. I don't see anything wrong with what he did, and it's a drop in the bucket compared to the 410 billion. All he's saying is if you're going to go ahead with this monstrosity then here's a couple things that could use that money. Makes sense to me.

So he gets some publicity... so be it. I could think of far worse things.

Exactly.

And more importantly, he voted against the bill.


I've been explaining this to some confused Obamaniacs already today.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

I do not see it on the front page any longer.

[mczerone]

I (username: RonPauls) got BANNED from Digg yesterday after I posted a comment that explained Ron Paul's earmark philosophy.

I had built up quite a network of liberty-oriented friends and had just gotten "Ron Paul Brings The House Down at CPAC" to the front page and 2000 diggs.

I emailed Digg and haven't got a response back

Sry to see a fallen soldier.

I bumped your comment.


Im going through and voting up those comments like:


ohhhhhhhhhhhhh SNAP!!!

Just to make the opposition sound dumber.

[Knightskye]

Gah, I saw some of the comments. "Dugg up by friends" or whatever it says. I found out some who weren't friendly.

Too bad I can't "choke 'em unconscious" like Chuck Norris. :D

[UtahApocalypse]

So it's ok when we have a bury brigade but not when other bury liberty articles?

/rhetorical question

Just wanted top point out that we really should practice what we preach. rather then bury the article how about digg it, then add well written debate to the comments.

[Politicallore]

It won't be buried... it already went popular... Just letting you know.

[BlackTerrel]

It's clear to me that digg is totally fabricated.

The power users can manipulate everything to make it look the way they want their propaganda to go.

You remind me of the kid who lost at basketball and then claimed the "refs were biased".

It's a great thing to say because it frees you from actually doing anything.

[reagle]

this is a good sign