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A Dirty Little Secret About Drudge
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| 11/26/2023
| Paula Bolyard
Posted on 11/26/2023 6:15:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Veto!
I found the link to FR from Drudge too. Fortunately it was before 9/11. I say fortunately because I was glued to Free Republic that entire day and evening. It was THE BEST source for on the ground news that day - not from reporters but from Freepers who gave eye witness reports on what was going on in Manhattan, on the Mall and the Pentagon.
Darn, I just looked up the date I first signed up. November 1998. I missed my 25th anniversary.
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posted on
11/26/2023 8:09:28 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: Watershed
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posted on
11/26/2023 8:19:48 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: ladyjane
Guess I found it before 9/11 too. There was an interesting Freeper at that time, Ken5050. We had so much in common, we traded phone numbers. On 9/11, his daughter was in one of the towers, and he called me and said he was going down there to find her. Then called when he did find her. She was on one of the lower floors and got out.
Then Hitlery bought a house right across the road from his. His wife had lunch with her a few times and said she was quite charming in person. Last thing I heard was that he was going for heart surgery. Never called or posted again.
Rush Limbaugh turned me into a Republican. I’d just quit my job in Florida, voted for Bill Clinton, and then decided to go to CA. where my daughter lived. As I drove across the country, Rush was the only station I could get on my car radio on those long stretches between cities. By the time I got to CA, I was a Republican. That was also before the Uniparty obliterated the difference. .
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posted on
11/26/2023 8:26:11 PM PST
by
Veto!
(FJB Sucks Rocks)
To: Lowell1775
You should get out of the country now....you won’t believe what is coming. They have already won and we are just making noise. Some can't afford to run. Some wouldn't if they could.
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posted on
11/26/2023 9:23:31 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: Veto!
I found Free Republic through a link at Drudge just after 9/11. Same here, but during the early part of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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posted on
11/26/2023 9:25:30 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: SeekAndFind
He also broke the story about Lewinsky story I think?
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:03:41 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: SeekAndFind
>> Any news regarding the whereabouts of Matt Drudge himself?
Hell?
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:04:51 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: imabadboy99
>> We couldn’t even have one tiny piece of the media that was normal.
There’s Free Republic... :-)
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:05:46 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: Nuc 1.1
>> run [from America]... Some wouldn’t if they could.
Guilty as charged.
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:07:37 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: Nervous Tick
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:09:25 PM PST
by
Nuc 1.1
(Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: SeekAndFind
Drudge flamed out. So to speak. My guess he lives in Thailand, Asia or Brazil. You can get lost there and be an unknown.
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:13:10 PM PST
by
dennisw
(Be positive. Every day is another day.)
To: SeekAndFind
That’s how I found Free Republic from a Drudge link while reading stories about a White House intern.
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posted on
11/26/2023 10:26:01 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: SeekAndFind
He may have been to Epstein Island...
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posted on
11/26/2023 11:37:52 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: TexasFreeper2009
20 clicks a day for 20 years here. 2019 sounds about right. We call it “The Dirty” now in my house.
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posted on
11/26/2023 11:40:37 PM PST
by
Linda Tripp
(America's Best Best Friend)
To: TexasFreeper2009
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posted on
11/26/2023 11:51:06 PM PST
by
sauropod
(The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
To: Gaffer
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posted on
11/26/2023 11:53:37 PM PST
by
sauropod
(The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
To: Ken H
#16 That site could use 3 columns to display all them links!
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posted on
11/26/2023 11:55:10 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: SeekAndFind
“Drudge was listed as #41 in the nation with 164 million visits in October 2018. Currently, the site ranks at #145 with 51 million visits in October 2023”
Looks like a lot of views could be had by duplicating the old recipe. But I suspect the paywalls of today would make it a challenge.
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posted on
11/27/2023 1:00:19 AM PST
by
WinMod70
To: ladyjane
My 25th comes up next year. Would have been a lot earlier,
but back then, Free Republic wouldn't accept my hotmail
address. When I got a business email account in 1999, I
whistled right in.
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posted on
11/27/2023 1:26:25 AM PST
by
StACase
(CO2 is NOT a Problem)
To: Watershed
I think it’s that Drudge links helped them but when DR changed, it financially hurt them. Basically, it’s all about them.
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posted on
11/27/2023 3:30:28 AM PST
by
Pollard
(The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)
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