I’ve been here for almost 4 years, asking the odd question and hoping I can goggle quicker than others in answering. With a little luck I’ll get a factual answer to this one though I’m in unknown territory here.
After having gone through the General Questions area, I head along to BBQ Pit. I just love reading some of the posts in there and sometimes I wish that I could formulate the thoughts in my head as well as some of the regular authors of the Pit.
So…before GWB, the current US president came into power, did the Pit have just as many threads regarding Clinton or other US leaders? It seems that in the past year every second thread either is about him or we get a “I blame Bush” post, which used to make me laugh but now the joke seems kinda stale.
Has the Pit always been like this (centered around US politics and the republicans) or was it once for more general flamings?
p.s. mods : Feel free to move this to Board Questions if you want.
having been here a while… (more as a lurker than a poster)… many of the peeps who post here are decidedly liberal. Not that that is an inherently BAD thing… but it seems to dominate here… so I half suspect that the Clinton Bashers are heavily outnumbered here. Though… Clinton was pretty adept at providing material for bashing.
My guess is no. One, this board is certainly left-leaning, so the right will make an easier target and two, this administration is a bit more controversial and polarizing than the last (and I’m trying not to editorialize here) so naturally would elecit more extreme reactions, especially given the political make-up of the group here.
Oh, yes, there was plenty of Clinton hating going on- still is. I don’t know if I had joined back then or was just lurking, but Clinton-bashing was a rather popular thing.
Perhpas there wasn’t the giant pile-on of “Me-toos” as there woudl be now with GWB, but remember- Rush L was riding high in those days and several posters were “dittoheads”.