TIGER MESSAGE BOARD FEATURES ENTRY URGING THE LYNCHING OF ERIC HOLDER
By FITSNews || We don’t like outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder one bit. And have said so … repeatedly. This week we used the occasion of Holder’s forthcoming resignation to remind readers of our disdain for him and his nanny statist policies. We also rebuked Holder’s propensity to view legitimate criticism of his policies as being racially motivated – i.e. playing the “race card” (something he’s done repeatedly since taking office).
Well guess what … leave it to some redneck Clemson football fan to provide Holder with some small measure of validation.
“Like the potus, Holder is an affirmative action hire,” a contributor known as ‘Cohiba Tiger’ wrote on TigerNet, a popular Clemson football message board. “He should be hanged by the neck until he reaches room temperature. Totally unqualified…..a BIG mistake.”
Whoa …
Don’t get us wrong: We think Holder should be in jail right now. His involvement in the failed “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation is criminal. So is his ongoing coverup of that scandal – and his refusal to investigate a flagrant example of election fraud here in South Carolina.
But whatever punishment you think Holder deserves for his crimes against the people of this country, can’t we all agree that proposing the lynching of a black man (especially in the deep south) is probably not the wisest addition to the suggestion box?
What does that sort of statement accomplish? Other than lending credence to Holder’s “white versus black” worldview?
More to the point, what does Holder have to do with a bunch of beer-guzzling backwoods hicks assessing the “tight ends” of their favorite black athletes?
Seriously …
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The Holder comment immediately provoked a response.
“Post something about how great Steve Spurrier is, it gets removed,” one fan noted. “Post a racist rant that describes lynching a guy, it gets a thumbs up. Only on TigerNet!”
Nice …
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Give me a break. I’m sure one of you Cock fans have done something like that. That’s one guy. It’s not like you don’t have racists here.
Indeed … and if somebody sends us some “CockyTalk” (or whatever it is) craziness, we’ll write on that too.
So you read Tigernet but not the USCe sites like FGF, etc. You expect us to believe that? To see crazy posts on gamecock sites, you will first have to remove your garnet colored glasses.
here ya go
https://southcarolina.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1829&tid=204629171&mid=204629171&sid=1017&style=2
Don’t see anything about hanging on there
https://southcarolina.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1829&tid=204629171&mid=204629171&sid=1017&style=2
BOOM!
What did Frank Howard say about his first black player? “That Indian sure is fast!!” Mentality still holds true in Tigertown… a bunch of racists who deny the very fact that they pull for a team full of minorities every weekend. Ever notice how their favorite player is always the one white receiver on the team?
Deshaun Watson is getting all the praise.
Boy, you ever hear of Sammy Watkins, Deandre Hopkins, CJ Spiller, Tajh Boyb, Woody Dantzler, or Levon Kirkland?
Yeah, y’all had a whole tribe of them Indians…
Good thing we never made a state holiday about them because he twisted his leg in circles.
Are you just trolling today, Col?
Yes
You are not much of a historian or you would remember what happen before the last few years. like most, you enjoy rewriting it to your satisfaction.
The University of South Carolina kicked all the black students out in 1880 and went all white until integration in the 50’s. They even named all their academic buildings after slave holders. Damn those racist bastards. Columbia…a bunch of racists. Ever notice how their favorite player is always the white QB?
This is a fun game!
From the school that Tillman started…
Yeah..everyone there is a racist. Even the Chinese, Indian, and black students.
Those Chinese kids hate everyone…
and another school named a building after Strom Thurman in 2003…way past the knowledge of his racism
Tillman: “…”We have done our level best [to prevent blacks from voting] … we have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it…”.
Thurmond:
As an alleged history buff, go back to what was going on in SC (and other Southern states) as a result of “reconstruction”. Living in that environment colors their actions. Was it the right thing to do? No. Why were Tillman and his followers all Democrats? Events have to be put into the context of their times. It does not excuse their actions but it explains them.
Tillman really believed the bovine excreta he was espousing his personal actions showed it. Tillman actively participated in the Hamburg massacre (and later embellished his role in it to gain supporters) where at least seven African Americans were killed and a number of others shot or beaten.
I think you can make the case for Thurmond that he was “a man of the times” but in Tillman’s case he was just a POS. In 1895, in response to a SCOTUS decision outlawing literacy test at the polling place, Tillman installed a new state constitution making a literacy test part of the requirement to register vice vote – a majority black state had less than 5,000 registered black voters when he was done.
Strom and George Wallace modified their views over time not, IMO, because they thought they were wrong but because they wanted/needed the black vote. Tillman obviously never felt the need to change his.
I think Strom actually had a change of heart based on his actions.
I should clarify, Tillman never felt there was a need to change his views because they were premised on the belief that blacks should not be allowed to vote and should be lynched when they got uppity.
The little screen name stealer strikes again. Sorry Will I am not going to join disqus.
The little screen name stealer strikes again. Sorry Will I am not going to join disqus.
Strom and George Wallace modified their views over time not, IMO, because they thought they were wrong but because they wanted/needed the black vote. Tillman obviously never felt the need to change his.
Thurmond had “deep roots in the black community”.
He definitely had a deep root in his housekeeper, which resulted in Essie Mae.
Exactly.
http://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2013/02/07/strom-thurmond-and-essie-mae-n1507297/page/full
More sophomoric utterances from a little screen name stealer.
USC’s famous Horseshoe was built with slave labor and buildings named for slave holders…something about “glass houses” comes to mind.
Forgot to add that South Carolina College itself owned slaves that took care of the campus…
USC owned/used slaves legally – Tillman’s action came long after all that had changed. Not making the case that slavery was right but that those were the rules of the game at the time something about “context” CNSYD.
If that makes you feel better, fine. Tillman was a racist asshole, but so were the founders of USC. You know that student fees back then included a “servant”…not only did the school promote slavery, the students had their own slaves, paid for with university fees. Great history there, Col.
Clearly slavery was wrong – but you brought up the subject of context. Consider that “formal institutional slavery’ didn’t end in “America” until 1865 and the University opened in 1801
Serious questions: do you believe it is a good thing that Clemson was founded? Why does it matter if there’s a building named after him on the campus of schools (Winthrop, too) he helped found? Does it bother you that there’s a statue of him on the State House grounds? Do you believe he did anything “good” or is everything tainted by the fact that he was a white supremacist? TIA.
Do I think it was a good thing Clempson was founded – sure, somebody needs to prepare future highway workers…
No, all kidding aside and I’ll only admit this this one time, I’m proud of Clemson and Winthrop and Coastal and all the rest. Our little podunk state has some remarkable public (and private) institutions of higher learning.
Tillman’s one truly great, magnanimous gesture, in my opinion was his support of higher learning. You could make the case that he did great things for the farmers in the state but his reasoning was less than honorable. As for his statue on state house grounds, it offends me mightily that we still have battles over a flag yet Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman stands smugly overlooking one of the most beautiful State House grounds in the country with nary a peep made.
Well said Colonel. IRT Tillman’s statue. How many South Carolinians do you think even have a clue who he was?
Counting me and you? I’d venture to guess very very few have any idea who he was.
I married into the family. I will bet that you have lower lives in your family than they do. You just will not admit to it.
Sorry, I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.
Counting me and you? I’d guess less than 10% of the state could correctly identify who he was without help. Less than that could tell you anything good or bad about him.
SomeMost of my life long South Carolina resident students have never heard of him.Well, what do you know? I agree with you here. Still gets to me when people associate Tillman and Clemson as a racial smear and I’ll react every time. No institution in SC is immune from our history and we’d do well to leave it all in the past.
I’d disagree with you on the idea of leaving it in the past, admittedly I’m biased because I teach history, but unfortunately think it’s a good idea to drag the skeletons out once in a while to remind us of how far we’ve come and the repercussions of following the wrong people.
Unfortunately, Clemson passionatly embraces its racist heritage of Calhoun, Tillman, and Thurmond.
cnsyd, you are a moron. Don’t you know that ALL South Carolinians passionately embrace our state’s racist heritage?
Most Clemson students/alumni either don’t know about or don’t give a rats ass about people from 100 years ago…they are just names on buildings/statues. They have nothing to do with today…but you already knew that. The only founding figure that’s ever even mentioned at Clemson is it’s namesake.
More sophmoric comments from the little screen name stealer. Is that you Will?
That is because you had rather bitch about the small things in life and refuse to address things that really matter.
You got me, spot on…
Yes, no, no and no.
Another little child hijacking my screen name. Maybe one day they will grow up. Probably were in a frat.
Sorry to disappoint you but I only post using only my screen name. It used to have an avatar until Mace left and Folks went to that abomination disqus or whatever it is called. I refuse to “join” it and give them my info. It would seem that the great Ron Paul libertarian Will Folks would not buy into a “tracking system” but maybe there was a dollar or two there.
Wasn’t implying that you were PB, just drawing attention to the fact that we had already discussed the idea of context.
Good grief; slow news day? So slow that you have to lurk a Clemson Fanboy site for an off-color figure of speech? Based on Holder’s contempt of Congress and numerous other scandals, I would imagine that you, too, would want to see him hung/strung up/thrown in the slammer/deep sixed/pink slipped, etc.
As referenced in the piece, our views on Eric Holder are no secret …
So, you agree with the Cohiba Tiger?
He should be in jail, in our humblest of estimations …
Who, Holder or Cohiba?
Sorry, we’re trying to forget how badly we Clemsoned last week playing Florida State.
Little screen name stealer is busy today.
BTW what is the term for USCjr’s performance versus Texas A&M?
And then there is beer-guzzling backwoods hick #2. Busy day for you fella. Good luck to Pickens Tech this weekend. High Five!
You Cooted.
He is trying improve his image by citing Gamecock Central & Tiger Nation. Failing at it too.
Typical Will Folks bullshit. Tigernet is analogous to FITSNews. ANYONE can invent a screen name and post on it. Whether what they say is what they really believe or is just posted to create a shit storm (see FITSNews for examples) is unknown. So based on this FITSNews article, if one of a million posts on Tigernet say something reprehensible then all posters and or fans are of the same opinion. How does that work in regard to viewers posts on FITSNews?
We don’t host/ moderate/ approve/ delete comments … it’s an entirely separate entity with its own standards/ servers, etc. Big difference.
A rose by any other name. So answer the question. Does a viewer post on YOUR web site automatically mean that it is the unanimous opinion of every other poster and/or reader. A simple yes or no will suffice.
You’re too reasonable…reasonable doesn’t drive clicks. Sic doesn’t care if anything he says is actually true, and you know this, man.
West Virginia just scored again.
So did Texas A&M..but they did it this year.
Desperation creeping in.
On cue, beer-guzzling backwoods hick #1 has chimed in.
Cohiba Tiger could be the Click Whore publisher of FITS news too. Clicks must be way down~
If the forum is moderated, and the moderator removes some posts that may be of a viewpoint that the moderator and/or audience do not like (i.e., greatness of Steve Spurrier), then doesn’t it stand to reason that posts left up express a viewpoint endorsed by the moderator? Or, at the very least, that the moderator does not dislike the viewpoint enough to delete it?
The thread was deleted a long time ago. So the moderator, along with everyone else that posted in that thread, obviously doesn’t agree.
Will claims that his site is ” not moderated”. I have no clue about Tigernet as I could not even tell you the last time I viewed it. I have heard claims that some gamecock sites will ban you if you make negative comments about USCe. Again I don’t know as I don’t view them.
Makes you wonder why I’m constantly reading and commenting on FITSNews articles, if it has such massive credibility problems.
From the REAL CNSYD. Because there are actually dolts on here to believe every utterance from the lips of Sic Willie.
That should be “who” in lieu of “to”.
Everybody on TigerNet knows I’m an idiot. I just have to keep proving it.
Sad, but not surprising that some random asshole on a message board would have the “courage” to make an anonymous comment like that. I suppose the real sad thing is if the message board admins do nothing about it. I’m not one for censorship, but damn, deleting rubbish like that may as well be akin to banning trolls: nothing of value was lost.
I think the mods are counting clicks ($$) for a while. They’ll take the thread down but will be evil capitalists for a while.
You know they are. You can tell when Wills having a “click count week” by the topics he chooses.
Not the real FITS Frank Howard. Totally out of character of my previous posts.
Never realized this before, but Bond exercised horrible trigger etiquette.
I know you’re not the most intellectually curious person, Fits, but what if he’s suggesting hanging him for treason?
Every site has a Grand Tango. Over there it’s the Big Cohiba.
Maybe Cohiba Tiger is Grand Tango’s “Doppler-Ganger”?
You’re reaching to the Tigernet main board now for political opinion?
You might get a bit more intelligent conversation from the callers calling into Phil Kornblut the week of the USC/Clemson game.
You might.
may want to check the gamecock board, too. You missed that, huh? That thread was started yesterday
https://southcarolina.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1829&tid=204629171&mid=204629171&sid=1017&style=2
Nope, you would be incorrect, what fits cited is the only dumbass outrageous over the top thing ever written on a Clemson message board, and no one has ever written anything fascist racist death encouraging et cetera on a USC message board EVER or here at fits for that matter…right…right?
Another cluckfemsoning moment brought to you by Mister Wilbert..
Hell, I’ve been wishing that Bush and Cheney would get their punishment the same way for lying us into the Iraq War and the current quagmire that has resulted.
I’m a Gamecock fan and booster because we only have white quarterbacks! Even better, the most recent one we had was a skinhead! That’s why I love this school and team so much! White QB Power!
Exactly! And you and I represent all Gamecock fans, and you know we are Gamecock fans because we say we are, just like everyone on Tigernet is a Clemson fan because they say they are, and they represent all Clemson fans! We are having a white QB party at our Cockaboose this weekend, everyone invited to come by, long as you fit the “criteria”–wink!
Has Superior, uh I mean Spurrier ever had a black QB? Why is he so racist?
Stay classy? They’ve never been classy.You can’t lose what you’ve never had.
One more time….. Idiots!!!!!!!
By the way CU has more class than uSC. Get real SC. You people in this state have no clue!!!
Stay Classy, Clemson Fans…Unlikely.
Didn’t fits wish McCain was killed in Vietnam once?
Physician, heal thyself. Didn’t FITS call for a “bullet to the head” of a federal official with whom they disagreed once? I can’t remember who that was (NSA Director, maybe…can’t recall). You can’t have it both ways (and both of these examples, the Clemson post and the “bullet to the head” bit were stupid).
Damn it Mike ATB, you stole my comment! You should be shot, hung (hanged?) etc. Okay, I honestly only clicked on this article because I wasn’t sure how the shameless ravanel plug was going to fit in. Probably will be in an update.
I think the pace of the nearly non-stop TR fellatio slowed a bit because of the hilarious ass whippings they toted on these boards, not the whippings themselves stooped them, but they indicated that the coverage here wasn’t exactly having the desired impact.
Speaking of classy: http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/get-it-because-michael-sam-is-gay-1639836569
Stay classy, gamecock fans… https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/516055073038692354/photo/1
Necks
Hmm…not like the “classy” Cock fan flipping a bird on national television after Mizzou scored for the win. A top story on Yahoo no less. Way to bring attention to a fan base. Can we all agree that every school has idiots that seem to find a way to get attention?
in front of her kid, no less.