Posted on 02/22/2013 7:47:40 PM PST by JoeProBono
Lost Freepers: What ever happened to FReepers such as...
NativeNewYorker
My comments didn’t pertain to Romney. He was my last choice in the primary and the last choice of most conservatives.
I was referring to the disdain toward those who supported other conservative candidates such as Cain, Bachman, Perry and Santorum. I was one of those and caught a LOT of flak for it.
I didn’t write that I supported True Blue or cared a whit about that forum, as I don’t.
My response was just a factual answer as to where a lot of Freepers had gone and my first hand observation in looking at the membership list at True Blue was that many of them might have gone there. Or else, it’s just a coincidence that there are lots of people there with the same FR handles.
We’re all on the same team. God knows we need to stick together as there seem to be less and less of us all the time. Splintered into numerous little factions, we become ineffective.
As you know, Democrats have offices full of people who do nothing but frequent conservative forums to sow seeds of dissent. They freely admit it and are gleeful at how easy it is to get conservatives to eat their own.
I appreciate what you do and applaud you for it. I’ve been here off and on since the days when a whole day’s posts took up one web page. It’s been exciting to see the site grow and become a major force toward the advancement of conservatism both through the dissemination of information and activism. I hope and pray that the growth and impact of FR continues. The future of this nation hinges on adherence to Constitutional conservatism.
Some people are just ahead of their time... :-)
I seem to remember Frantzie was a little prickly...if I am thinking of the same person.
Look at the barrel - plugged.
Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else, but wasn't Parsy the token liberal here? I seem to remember he admitted as much in one his posts. At any rate, I think he was tolerated because he at least had decent manners.
Clint don’t need no Garand.
Clint uses his face and voice to dispatch his foes...:)
Parsifal was in a running war with the birther crowd which got very, very ugly. He was officially warned several times to stay off their threads but he wouldn’t. Towards the end he was getting baited constantly by a group working hard to get him banned. They won.
Ah...the Bedford Incident. One of my favorite cold war movies! I thought Richard Widmark was brilliant. There was something about his appearance that reminded me of my dad.
I loved the twist of the ex-Nazi U-Boat guy advising him.
[I can’t stand any news program, including Fox News...]
There’s an old joke about the idiot who when asked why he banged his head against the wall he replied because it feels so good when I stop.
READING the news of your choice is far better than watching and listening.
I loved the story of him and John Wayne at the Actors Guild meeting in the Forties after the war...
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“I Sure As Hell Did!”
In the 1940s, Duke was one of the few stars with the courage to expose the determined bid by a band of communists to take control of the film industry. Through a series of violent strikes and systematic blacklisting, these people were at times dangerously close to reaching their goal. With theatrical employee’s union leader Brewer, playwright Morrie and others, he formed the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals to challenge this insidious campaign. Subsequent Congressional investigations in I947 clearly proved both the communist plot and the importance of what Duke and his friends did.
In that period, during my first term as president of the Actors’ Guild, I was confronted with an attempt by many of these same leftists to assume leadership of the union. At a mass meeting I watched rather helplessly as they filibustered, waiting for our majority to leave so they could gain control. Somewhere in the crowd I heard a call for adjournment, and I seized on this as a means to end the attempted takeover. But the other side demanded I identify the one who moved for adjournment.
I looked over the audience, realizing that there were few willing to be publicly identified as opponents of the far left. Then I saw Duke and said, “Why I believe John Wayne made the motion.” I heard his strong voice reply, “I sure as hell did!” The meeting and the radicals’ campaign was over.
Later, when such personalities as actor Larry Parks came forward to admit their Communist Party backgrounds, there were those who wanted to see them punished. Not Duke. “It takes courage to admit you’re wrong,” he said, and he publicly battled attempts to ostracize those who had come clean.
Duke also had the last word over those who warned that his battle against communism in Hollywood would ruin his career. Many times he would proudly boast, “I was 32nd in the box-office polls when I accepted the presidency of the Alliance. When I left office eight years later, somehow the folks who buy tickets had made me number one.
Duke went to Vietnam in the early days of the war. He scorned VIP treatment, insisting that he visit the troops in the field. Once he even had his helicopter land in the midst of a battle. When he returned, he vowed to make a film about the heroism of Special Forces soldiers.
The public jammed theaters to see the resulting film, The Green Berets. The critics, however, delivered some of the harshest reviews ever given a motion picture. The New Yorker bitterly condemned the man who made the film. The New York Times called it “unspeakable ... rotten ... stupid.” Yet John Wayne was undaunted. “That little clique back there in the East has taken great personal satisfaction reviewing my politics instead of my pictures,” he often said. “But one day those doctrinaire liberals will wake up to find the pendulum has swung the other way.
He descended from his lofty perch on Mt. Olympus to post an opus, dripping with condescension. There's a surprise, huh?
Then he beat feet back to his lair at DU (posting there under the same name) where he re-posted his opus, declared victory and awarded himself a gold medal.
The DUmmies thereupon dropped rose petals in his path and hailed their returning hero for giving them there FReepers a well-deserved what-for.
He used to make my skin crawl.
Like you know jackchit about it, NooB.
I just finished reading his book...what a man. Sounded like a man like a cactus...:)
I particularly loved the story about taking over the squadron in Germany, and his first official act was to destroy the O-Club by getting his men to play the old RAF drinking game of “Bump-Bump”! (at least, I think that is what it was)
Yep, I stopped that feed (isn’t really him, just a fan page- most ‘celeb’ pages are just fan pages).
This is his real one.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/John-Stossel-Townhallcom-Columnist/250143568342683?ref=ts&fref=ts
The one with all the Alex Jones crap I believe is made by the same person/group that made the fake Michelle Malkin page (and others). They cross post the exact same articles.
Great home page. Thanks for your service...I couldn’t help but see the quote by Thomas Jefferson at the prominent place at the top of the page.
He is often regarded as a saint by the left...I have often wondered why we don’t throw that quote more forcefully back in their faces.
Parsy wasn’t a lib, he just wasn’t a birther which means to the birthers he was a lib Obot and a hundred other names.
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