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Beau Biden’s Death Brings Out The ‘Christian Compassion’ In Some FoxNews.com Readers

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on May 30, 2015 · Flag

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Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau, has died of brain cancer. As you may know, Beau survived the horrendous tragedy that killed his other and sister when he was a child. But some FoxNews.com readers would not or could not put aside their hate even for this.

From the New York Times:

Mr. Biden’s death marks a second tragic loss for the vice president, whose first wife, Neilia, and 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident in 1972 when the station wagon they were driving in to go Christmas shopping was hit by a tractor-trailer. Beau Biden and his brother, Hunter, were also injured in the crash, but both survived.

…In a short, emotional speech introducing his father at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Mr. Biden recalled the tragedy that had touched his family, describing the moments after the crash.

“One of my earliest memories was being in that hospital, Dad always at our side. We, not the Senate, were all he cared about,” Mr. Biden said. “He decided not to take the oath of office. He said, ‘Delaware can get another senator, but my boys can’t get another father.’ However, great men like Ted Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, Hubert Humphrey — men who had been tested themselves — convinced him to serve. So he was sworn in, in the hospital, at my bedside.”

In the comments to a FoxNews.com article about Biden’s death, many of the readers expressed sentiments along the lines of “I may hate the vice president’s politics but I have nothing but sympathy for his family at this time.”

But plenty were shockingly mean-spirited. A sample below:

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Biden photo from WhiteHouse.gov.

(H/T reader Lawrence G. for the title)

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felix dcat commented 2015-06-02 16:26:52 -0400 · Flag
you know all you can do is feel sorry for those who literally “celebrate” Beau Biden’s death. While I admit that Joe has made mistakes along the way, his intentions were honorable….and his service to his country is “honored” by wishing more people to die. How angry do you have to be to wish harm on another human being? All I can do is feel pity for those poor sots.
CoCo Butter commented 2015-06-01 20:40:31 -0400 · Flag
I thought they would shut them down because they have so many great Christian rolemodels on their site
Ellen commented 2015-06-01 01:03:56 -0400 · Flag
Erich Pomfret, it does appear Fox shut down the comments. This has happened other times when we have exposed them. It also looks like they have updated the article.
Ellen commented 2015-06-01 00:59:05 -0400 · Flag
To clarify a few things…

1. The comments above came from an article on FoxNews.com, not Fox Nation. When I wrote this post, there wasn’t anything on Fox Nation about Beau Biden’s death.

2. I know that conservatives do not have a lock on the hate market. However, part of my point in posting these comments – which I probably should have said in the post – is that Fox allows them to stay. Whether they are too cheap to get a moderator or just don’t care what kind of awfulness goes on in their threads doesn’t really matter, it amounts to the same thing.
doors17 commented 2015-05-31 19:28:27 -0400 · Flag
Paul Ziccardi, usually Bill O’Reilly gives a tongue-lashing for such comments on what he calls far-left hate websites.

I seriously doubt that the same standards will apply.
Jim Grandone commented 2015-05-31 14:48:57 -0400 · Flag
Their comments should be etched on their tombstones.
Erich Pomfret commented 2015-05-31 14:26:42 -0400 · Flag
I couldn’t find any comments section on the story shown in this post. (Has it been shut down, maybe?) I did look on another right wing web site, and the readers were mostly respectful. However, every one of them included some variation of the phrase “although I don’t like him,…” Writing a condolence like that is nothing more than a self-congratulatory piece of crap.
Anne-claire Souza commented 2015-05-31 14:15:47 -0400 · Flag
It simply show us once again what a phony hatefilled bunch of people these faux Christian Republicans are .
Andy Culberson commented 2015-05-31 13:18:13 -0400 · Flag
Nameless/faceless internet troll comments should just be ignored. That said, they just lost their son. Lets not Left vs Right politic the story.
Bonnie Van der Mark commented 2015-05-31 12:41:05 -0400 · Flag
Death is no respecter of persons: the old, the young; the rich, the poor; Democrats, Republicans; Christians, Jews, atheists… We all experience death! And when our own loved one dies, we grieve, because we are all human. The Biden family is grieving, and no one should rejoice over or mock the passing of their beloved son. Many of us disagree with VP Biden on religion, politics, and policies; however, we should all agree that he loved and lost a son, who was, by all accounts, a decent, loving man. Let us be decent human beings: allow them to grieve, and forgo the mean-spirited comments.
Richard Santalone commented 2015-05-31 11:26:49 -0400 · Flag
From doors17’s comment:

“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Just wait for the day Jimmy Carter dies.”

Oh boy doors17, YOU SURE AIN’T WHISTLING DIXIE! Mark my words: What we’re seeing right now from “FoKKKs Nashun” is a day at the beach compared to what they will unleash the instant Jimmy Carter dies (just in case you don’t know yet, he turned 90 last October 1). Like I said before in my prior post, the fact that we still have TENS OF MILLIONS OF IGNORANT AND POSITIVELY DUMB AS ROCKS redneck Americans out there swallowing the sewage that pours from the “FoKKKs Nashun” website daily and raising Jesse Watters (in case you forgot, he runs the “FoKKKs Nashun” website) and his boss Bully O’Lielly almost to the level of divine beings is simply a VERY DANGEROUS AND TROUBLING THING. It tells us much about perennially frustrated people with TWISTED AND VERY WARPED MINDS — these are people who will often seek out scapegoats to blame for their problems and their position in life just like Germans living in the early 1930s, right before Adolf Hitler and his Nazis seized total power.
truman commented 2015-05-31 11:26:27 -0400 · Flag
FuxNoise.com and FuxNation.com are cesspools of hate.
doors17 commented 2015-05-31 10:34:39 -0400 · Flag
From the Biden family…

“It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life. The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us—especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter. Beau’s life was defined by service to others. As a young lawyer, he worked to establish the rule of law in war-torn Kosovo. A major in the Delaware National Guard, he was an Iraq War veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star. As Delaware’s Attorney General, he fought for the powerless and made it his mission to protect children from abuse. More than his professional accomplishments, Beau measured himself as a husband, father, son and brother. His absolute honor made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did. In the words of the Biden family: Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known.”
doors17 commented 2015-05-31 10:22:50 -0400 · Flag
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Just wait for the day Jimmy Carter dies.
john howard commented 2015-05-31 09:05:22 -0400 · Flag
Well Jeff your time is coming, just like all the other haters,and remember you have love one also!!!!!
Richard Santalone commented 2015-05-31 08:31:16 -0400 · Flag
From Ellen’s post:

“But plenty were shockingly mean-spirited. A sample below:”

Mark my words: I am TOTALLY SICK TO MY STOMACH after upchucking in my bedroom toilet from reading that small sample of HORSES**T from Jesse Watters’ “FoKKKs Nashun” sewer hole. It’s a VERY DANGEROUS AND TROUBLING thing when one takes into account the fact that there are STILL TENS OF MILLIONS OF RACIST AND REDNECKED AMERICANS OUT THERE WITH VERY TWISTED AND EXTREMELY WARPED minds who raise Jesse Watters and his boss Bully O’Lielly almost to the level of divine beings.

:^(
radpat_USA commented 2015-05-31 08:00:42 -0400 · Flag
Jeff Matson….fear not anyone from the left cheering your death as most of us know the difference between a conservative and a Fox air head!
Elemental Fraction commented 2015-05-31 07:00:34 -0400 · Flag
as is expected by fox news and it’s followers
Joseph West commented 2015-05-31 04:14:27 -0400 · Flag
My response to Jeff is this: When a MEAN-SPIRITED conservative dies, one who’s entire life has been spent vilifying others for the sole horrific sin of not being a conservative, then I have no problem celebrating that person’s death—even cheering for the person’s welcome into the nethermost pits of Hell. Like when Breitbart died. I had a comment removed from this very website because I was sincerely unapologetic in taking pleasure in the man’s death. When Thatcher died, I had no problem taking pleasure in the Iron Bitch’s demise, given her horrific treatment of anyone who was less fortunate than her (not to mention her government’s attack on the very existence of LGBTs); the only thing that tempered my glee was that it took so long for Lady Voldemort to shuffle from this mortal coil.

I was glad—no, ecstatic—when Falwell died—I hold him largely responsible for the millions who died from AIDS because he wielded his religious ideals as a club against the LGBT community. (When Pat Robertson finally croaks, I’ll be celebrating then too.)

That said, when principled conservatives, like William F Buckley Jr and William Safire, died, I felt no pleasure in their deaths. I didn’t agree with their politics but they were both incredibly open to discussion with political opponents, rarely devolving into personal attacks on them. They were highly articulate about their ideology and were pretty witty and even charming. Even when Barry Goldwater died, I didn’t feel any reason to be glad he was gone. Again, he was a principled conservative whose politics were largely anathema to me but he somewhat redeemed himself after chiding his fellow GOPers for their tying themselves to the Religious Right’s social agenda (which Goldwater thought was contrary to his view of conservatism—which wanted VERY limited government involvement). Given the current state of conservatism in this country, I don’t foresee myself feeling the least bit of sorrow or regret when any more right-wingers die.

But Beau Biden NEVER did anything to cause distress to anyone. And any self-described conservative who takes any pleasure in his death is a boil on the collective butt of humanity (and the sooner those people die, the better).
Aria Prescott commented 2015-05-31 03:34:03 -0400 · Flag
Oh, and since I commented before reading the other comments… Jeff, how about you give it a rest with that whole “If he was a conservative,” and “both sides do it,” while showing your inability to condemn the examples presented in the article?

Seriously… It’s really tacky that you have more to say to us for shaming this talk, than to them for speaking it, almost like you don’t have a problem with what they’re saying. This is in especially bad taste since you’re playing up that it should be about respect to Beau.
Aria Prescott commented 2015-05-31 03:23:46 -0400 · Flag
Hey, remember when Bush I was seriously ill, in the hospital, and people thought that he might die? Remember how those “evil, godless libruls” responded by putting it aside, and offering their prayers and condolences to the Bush family?

Fox viewers don’t- They’re celebrating the death of a vice president’s son, and praying the VP joins him ASAP. I don’t even have snark for this, because there is no sane universe where this is anything but sickening.
Jeff Mattson commented 2015-05-31 02:41:15 -0400 · Flag
People from both sides of the political spectrum participate in stomping on the graves of the dead or hoping for death of people from the other side and it is pretty disturbing. Sorry for the Biden’s loss of their son Beau.
Antoinette commented 2015-05-31 02:36:35 -0400 · Flag
Karma will take care of those half-men clowns, and the punishment will be twice as bad than the comment.

RIP Beau Biden.
Jeff Mattson commented 2015-05-31 02:28:46 -0400 · Flag
How do you know these people are Christians? The left always cheers for death of conservatives so please save your outrage. RIP Beau.
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