Free Republic: glass ant farm for zealots

Globe and Mail ^ | 10/27/06 | IVOR TOSSELL

[Maurice Tift]

is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived - as a crowd of "the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters the political landscape has to offer" who "attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories"?

What???

[Lancey Howard]

Later, and less admirably, Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command -- the hatchet job about John Kerry's military service that crippled his campaign -- was found to be posting racist, sexist diatribes on the site.

I think this is a lie. I remember reading that Corsi posted here, but I don't remember anything "racist".

[NinoFan]

"The day we start tailoring our replies and comments based on what the MSM, libs, socialists, commies, Nazis, Muzzies, etc. might think about what we say, is the day this website and its members are doomed. "

Hear, hear!

[conservative in nyc]

I'm not suggesting tailoring replies and comments based on what the MSM or liberals (often redundant, I know) might think. They are wrong about so many things that we'll never fully change their minds. I'm only suggesting that we all think a little bit more before we hit post.

Fanfan & GMMAC - a ping for the list. Is search not working properly, or did we somehow miss this Globe and Mail article back in October?

[NinoFan]

Good catch.

[Lancey Howard]

....is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived - as a crowd of "the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters the political landscape has to offer" who "attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories"?

???
So.... you agree with this simple mouse, Tossell? You're punking us, right?

[saganite]

Hopefully he'll be able to someday add to his list of "hits" is that Free Republic helped scuttle the whole global warming theology.

[HAL9000]

Most recently, it has resurfaced as a villain in the Dixie Chicks movie

[Allegra]

I wonder what his screen name is...

Aw, he was banned. He's on some other forum obsessively trashing FR now. ;-)

[jellybean]

who mobilized their large and largely disgruntled membership

I'm offended by this! I am NOT disgruntled! I've got my gruntle right here...

[EternalVigilance]

;-)

[GOP_Raider]

Freepers attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories.

"Go sit in your tower, Globe and Mail!

[loboinok]

It would be infinitely more difficult to fight "liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism," and "wacko environmentalism" if we are going to adopt PC groupthink and worry about what our opponents think of us.

[familyop]

"When the first same-sex Canadian soldiers were married last year, the story garnered 73 angry responses, ranging from 'Disgusting and despicable' to 'I'd resign my commission before performing a ceremony to marry a couple of bone-smugglers'" . . .

The few Canadian readers who are educated enough to gather such a beacon of innuendo are going to laugh themselves silly at that.

[EternalVigilance]

Hmmm...wonder what's up with that? ;-)

[bd476]

Thanks NinoFan. The guy must be a real fan of Ivor Tossell's writing style to keep posting his articles. ;-)

[Cementjungle]

Sounds like we're the poster child for the "Fair Internet" concept some are pushing.

[Lancey Howard]

Nice work!

[conservative in nyc]

Interesting that you posted another one of Ivor Tossell's articles which criticized Free Republic last year:

Thanks. I forgot that I even had posted that. It's clear Tossell doesn't much like this site or our Canadian sister site.

Every so often, I run a Yahoo and Google news search for articles containing the phrases "Free Republic" or freerepublic.com. That's how I usually find these articles. This one I found while searching for the old Free Republic traffic website. I didn't find that, but this article was on the second page of the Google search. The first article might have been posted on our Canadian sister site, Free Dominion, in the run-up to the Canadian election last year.

[familyop]

...correction. The author is a Canuckian man. The chick is the one who is the admin. contact for the theglobeandmail (with CTV--government owned).