# My fellow Conservative posters.... A word, please (No liberals) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435 "2003-09-04T00:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435/161 "2003-09-08T11:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shodan \* > \*\* My objection to your post was the double standard. Al Franken lies/misrepresents his sources in order to get his political opponents to say something which will embarass them. **december** lies/misrepresents his sources in order to get his political opponents to say something which will embarass them. \*\* **Shodan** , my friend, there is one obvious difference between Franken and **december**. **december** was debating, Franken was writing comedy. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435/162 "2003-09-08T14:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > \*\ ***Shodan** , my friend, there is one obvious difference between Franken and **december**. **december** was debating, Franken was writing comedy. \*\* Well that and Franken wasn’t posting here either. . . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435/163 "2003-09-08T14:16:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shodan \* > My assumption would be you could legitimately call someone a liar if you could prove with cites that they were clearly lying. The instance I was thinking of was not such a case. > > Actually, I think “you are lying”(with a cite) would be OK, but “you are a liar” would not. Attack the post and not the poster is the general rule of thumb. I don’t think that rule holds. I’m quite sure that you can call someone a racist in GD, for instance, and that is clearly attacking the poster. My understanding, such as it is, is that calling someone a racist is OK because if a person has made a racist statement in a post he is in fact a racist. So that calling him a racist is the equivalent of saying that his post was racist. Similarly, a person who lied in a single post is a liar, so saying “your statement is a lie” and saying “you are a liar” are essentially equivalent. By contrast, a person can say something stupid in one post and still not be stupid, so saying “you are stupid” goes beyond saying “your post was stupid”. But again, that is just me fumbling around at guessing what the overall principle might be. Who can truly plumb the depths of the SDMB rules? Only the moderators, and I’m not so sure even about them… ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435/164 "2003-09-08T16:21:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spooje \* > … Franken was writing comedy. Only in the loosest sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435/165 "2003-09-11T06:33:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*So where’s Sparticus, Aceospades, DPWhite? > > \*\* i’m right here. i hated that guy just for the fact that _some_ people think i’m him. i haven’t had a chance to read the thread. let me peruse a little and i’ll come back with my thoughts. ps: oh and **Scylla** take note of what your arch rival has to say about me in my sig 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-fellow-conservative-posters-a-word-please-no-liberals/199435.md?page=8)