Eric Alterman Indicts Free Republic!!!

C-SPAN-Deaux Book TV ^ | March 1, 2003 | The Beloved Deb

[Deb]

An hour ago on C-SPAN's "Book TV" uber-puke Eric Alterman went on a semi-coherent tirade about Free Republic.

While in the process of flacking his book..."The Myth of Liberal Bias" (or sumpin like that), he claimed that, during the Florida recount, the saint-like members of this forum posted the phone numbers and home addresses of the Florida Supremes for the expressed purpose of harassment and/or "whatever". The "whatever" was obviously the suggestion of violence.

He also said Free Republic was repsonsible for the flood of Republican activists who descended on the state and therefore was responsible for the Bush presidency.

This is one powerful place, Gumbas. Congratulate yourselves...the left-wing bows to your awesome strength.

The source of his tirade seemed to be his book which might be worth checking out. Just figure out how to do it without actually paying money for it.

Another fact he flung at his tiny, badly-dressed book store audience, was that people came to Free Republic and stayed for 5+ hours, making us an unbeatable force since Liberals suffer from ADD and can't stay with anything longer than the average bowel movement. (I paraphrased that last bit)

[meyer]

Liberals suffer from ADD and can't stay with anything longer than the average bowel movement.

Actually, if you've watched MTV, you'd see evidence that their attention span is much shorter than even a very short movement.

[Capitalism2003]

Could he be refering to one of these posts?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/search?s=florida+recount&m=exact&o=score

Great job freepers...wish I was with you in 2000! ;)

[reformedliberal]

The source of his tirade seemed to be his book which might be worth checking out. Just figure out how to do it without
actually paying money for it.

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Wait 6-8 weeks. It will be remaindered.

[reformedliberal]

When the Electoral College functions as designed, it is a take over.

When the people support their President by overwhelming majorities, it is evidence of the Bush cult.

When our government acts to protect us, it is fascism.

When anyone disagrees with the Left, it is a conspiracy.

God Bless us, FReepers, everyone!!!!

[Howlin]

It's probably there already.

[Howlin]

I expected him to drag out the old slander that the Washington chapter of FR "scared Al Gore's children" when they chanted "Get out of Cheney's house!" all night,

That was all covered in Vince Bugliosi's book.

[Howlin]

This guy?

[Slyfox]

I guess little Eric is under the impression that those of us in the state of Flyover should not be allowed to voice our opinions.

We at FR are just people who've gotten sick and tired of writing letters to the editor of liberal newspapers and only to be consistently rejected. We don't have to wait anymore for the 'approval' of an editor to have others see our point of view.

We are our own editorial board.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

That 'Free Assembly' bit really pisses the lefties off.
Only THEY'RE allowed to get together. Not the conservatives.
This guy is a wipe.
One of the last vestiges of namby-pamby liberalism.

[Howlin]

I'm going to Florida in a couple of weeks and I'm already getting the shakes.

[meyer]

I flipped through and saw him mention that there's no left-wing bias, since there's a "Market Watch" but not a "Labor Watch." I waited a bit to see if he mentioned what percentage of working people invest in the market (buying stakes in companies) or whose paychecks come from companies. He didn't get around to that. He's a poor speaker, to boot.

The market and business in general isn't "right-wing", it is neutral. Perhaps a little left even, considering the socialistic actions of the likes of Ted Turner and Ben & Jerry.

America is rooted in free enterprise - Only in the leftist-socialist world can free markets be considered right of center.

[JusPasenThru]

Conservative guess. I get it.

[Deb]

Right.

[GopherIt]

#31..JimRob might get invited to the next state dinner at the White House..

That's no stuff. Think we might just oughta lobby for that very thing to happen as Campaign '04 ramps up?

[DaughterofEve]

I cannot stay away from FR for more than a few hours.

A few hours! You must have a sponsor to call.

[Naomi4]

I live in Florida. In one of the most Republican counties in the state, with optical counting machines and a voting system about as idiot proof as it gets. We did not have any voting discrepancies and yet, after the election, we had floods of out of state Democrat operatives and lawyers come to our county election office with the sole intent of wreaking havoc on our election process. Had it not been for Free Republic and other conservatives outlets, a horrible travesty would have been visited on Florida and the country. Alterman has it exactly wrong.

[houstonian]

It don't get no better than that.

Ahemmmm. Let's not forget the impeachment of X42.

That was an FR-instigated operation the Libs like even less.

[potlatch]

Liked your 'paraphrase!!

[Ole Okie]

I wonder what Alterman's screen name was before he got himself banned.

Eric's gonads aren't big enough to even lurk on FR, much less post to get himself banned.

He did have a chile a few years back. At that time he said he wasn't going to marry the mama.

He's really a piece of work.

[Deb]

He knows he's lying. We know he's lying. And he knows we know he's lying.