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What brought you to Free Republic?

Posted on 09/16/2010 6:57:03 PM PDT by GoCards

What was your story that brought you here to this site.


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To: knews_hound

Late 2004. My son was flying CAS over Iraq (Fallujah) and I got really really p*ssed off at our local newspaper’s coverage (Miami Herald), so I started to read FR.


121 posted on 09/16/2010 7:50:06 PM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: GoCards

I think I first got connected to the internet around 1995. It took me a year or so to get comfortable with surfing the internet. I did a lot of searches on political subjects. Clinton was in one scandal after another, and I wanted to hear the latest.

At some point, I began to notice that my searches were directing me to FreeRepublic quite often. It was probably 1996 or 1997. I started visiting the site more frequently, and pretty soon I was addicted. But I lurked for a year or two before getting up the nerve to register.

I don’t know what happened to some of the old Freepers from those days. One guy used to post pages from the tabloids with the latest Clinton scandal info on them, and he would claim he was Socks the Cat (Clinton’s cat), reporting from under the bed at the White House.

Another guy called himself Beachbum and had lots of interesting information and opinions about Clinton.

Alamo-girl had a running log of articles about the First Couple and their scandals.

People had lists of mysterious deaths around Clinton (Arkancides).

Those were exciting and stressful times.

God bless Jim Robinson. He has played a big part in the resurgence of conservatives today.


122 posted on 09/16/2010 7:50:47 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Rocky

I do miss the ole Freepers, I vividly remeber MadIvan and his posts. Wow. Hope they all are happy and healthy.


123 posted on 09/16/2010 7:53:57 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: Sigurdrifta

Yep. And I canceled my newspaper subscription a year after that. I had been a subscriber all my life.

I made the wiser choice.

Cheers,

knewshound


124 posted on 09/16/2010 7:55:42 PM PDT by knews_hound (Credo Quia Absurdium--take nothing seriously unless it is absurd. E. Clampus Vitus)
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To: GoCards; logos; OWK

FR was mentioned in a discussion on the WEDG forum so I checked it out.Lurked for about 2 years then had to register to jump into a debate between Logos and OWK.


125 posted on 09/16/2010 7:56:47 PM PDT by mitch5501 (top of the world ma!)
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To: Pox

I saw a short article in the Kansas city Star about a new conservative site. Lurked for a long time before registering. It’s all day long since I retired. Only stop to watch the Nebraska Cornhuskers. I know I need to get a life.


126 posted on 09/16/2010 7:57:00 PM PDT by gopno1
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To: GoCards

Back when I started at least, the news broke faster on FR than anywhere else, including Drudge and it was 100% reliable. After lurking for a good while, I wanted to join in the discussions, offer my tainted point of view.

Now I’m hooked.


127 posted on 09/16/2010 7:57:24 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: GoCards
I was online late one night searching stories on The Drudge Report the very night of the revelations that on January 17, 1998, on the Drudge Report web site, that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff, exposing the affair President Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky.

Also that was back when Drudge had a link to Free Republic, which I went and signed on around this time ... but shortly lost my screen name and had to re-sign on with current name ... and have been on ever since.
128 posted on 09/16/2010 7:58:15 PM PDT by slickfree (Obama hogs airwaves, AGAIN!)
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To: GoCards

Zathras know but Zathras not tell.
Seriously, The Toons and their machine.


129 posted on 09/16/2010 8:01:51 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: GoCards

- An embossed invitation from Jim Thompson

- Recommendation from the NRSC (yeah, right)

- The cat


130 posted on 09/16/2010 8:01:56 PM PDT by mikrofon (via Drudge in 2000)
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To: GoCards

I first found Free Republic back during the Clinton impeachment hearings. I think it was a link off of Drudge’s site. Anyway, was more involved in the Southern Patriot stuff so I didn’t hang around long and eventually forgot about it. I somehow stumbled onto it again right before Obama got elected. I really like this site now, the people and everything.


131 posted on 09/16/2010 8:01:57 PM PDT by Ammo Republic 15
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To: GoCards

At one point, MadIvan threatened to leave because there was too much England-bashing on FR, or so he said. A lot of Freepers persuaded him to hang in there, and he did for a while, but he eventually dropped out. I never thought there was that much England-bashing on FR, but I’m probably not as sensitive to the negative comments, not being British.


132 posted on 09/16/2010 8:04:15 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: AppyPappy

Same here. You were one of the first freepers I talked to. Always liked you. (knew you as ParrotsUp)


133 posted on 09/16/2010 8:04:49 PM PDT by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: GoCards

The Iraq war (part 2)


134 posted on 09/16/2010 8:05:18 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (Mike/Chris Wallace: Did you give in? Palin: "HELL NO!" 47 days til the midterms, if they're held..)
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To: GoCards
Ultimately it was when the Twin Towers fell. I was so busy chasing the almighty dollar that I did not know who Al-Qaeda was.(yes, I was embarrassed). I tuned into local talk radio, which sent me to a local political forum. I eventually searched for additional material to combat the liberal POV and kept getting FR as a source. I finally started lurking and became hooked.(as the home page says...very addictive). I have mostly lurked since then because there are some very intelligent, insightful and articulate posters that I have learned so much from. I truly appreciate their knowledge that helped me to sort out my own thoughts.

I have decided to become much more active lately. Much of that can be attributed to the usurper in the White Hut. WE THE PEOPLE do not deserve the change that he has brought. I want my America back. And I am ready and willing to do what I can to secure that.

135 posted on 09/16/2010 8:08:18 PM PDT by jy8z (From the next to last exit before the end of the internet.)
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To: AppyPappy

LOL! “Latest Posts” has always been on the top of my favorite list.

First thing I check in the morning, last thing I check at night (and a whole lot of refeshing in between).


136 posted on 09/16/2010 8:09:08 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: CharlotteVRWC
Somebody mentioned it on Doonesbury, before the Drudgereport even existed. Had to wait until it went open so I didn't have to buy in through some system like "compuserve" (or whatever it was these guys worked with earlier).

That makes me ALMOST an original ~ but not quite.

137 posted on 09/16/2010 8:17:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GoCards

A link on Drudge


138 posted on 09/16/2010 8:20:36 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Rocky

The Clinton Body Count at this site http://www.etherzone.com/body.html is pretty representative of what it was like toward the end of the impeachment cycle.


139 posted on 09/16/2010 8:21:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: GoCards

Count me among the users of the “Whitewater” link on Drudge in Nov ‘97. Lurked about a year and have been learning ever since.


140 posted on 09/16/2010 8:21:17 PM PDT by ProfoundMan (Time to finish the Reagan Revolution! - RightyPics.com)
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