Free Republic Purge: Conservative Web Site Bans Giuliani Supporters

NY Observer ^ | Published: May 24, 2007 | by Rebecca Sinderbrand

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I see nothing in hes resume that indicates he is capable of conducting war. Like Hillary, the thought of prosecuting a war is frightening to them.

[processing please hold]

Dial up. pfft. Some day they’ll pump it where I live like they do the sun light.

[calcowgirl]

I think it is the personalities, combined with the issues.
Take contentious issues, combine them with toxic personalities, you’re bound to get fire, LOL.

[MarkL]

Over the past few weeks, chaos has reigned in the “Freeper” community as members sympathetic to the former mayor's candidacy claim to have suffered banishment from the site.

Chaos? That wouldn't happen to be "Professor Chaos," would it?

Mark

[Caipirabob]

I guess you Yankees has not experienced occupation and oppression on your land. But, for a Euro, the brownshirt behavour doesn’t feel right.

I don't think this was an issue of being a "brownshirt". One of the basic values of conservatism is "respect".

Those who were banned most likely exceeded the boundaries of good taste. I've had plenty of discussion with reasonable Guiliani supporters. I think situation is "does the debate promote the conservative values promoted by FR?" If one goes about bashing conservatives stances while trying to make a point I doubt they'd last long.

I think that someone promoting Guiliani on his ability to appeal to liberals as well as conservatives needs to rethink that argument. It'd be like having a FReeper harangue us about the virtues of Al Gore and Fidel-style beards.

Bad behavior is absolute grounds for being banned. Again, JimRob's house, they need to watch the language and play nice.

I believe there is enough room in this forum to voice differing opinions without letting it develop into a full blown flame war. I think JimRob, in his experience knew where some of those posts and posters were leading us. We don't need a repeat of the "Shaivo Flame Wars". We lost enough good people then.

[Bernard]

The women I know and work with (many avid Dems) despise Hillary. I'm thrilled by their opinion of her.

As long as that turns into, "they won't vote for her", that is good news.

[BurbankKarl]

Any fishwrap that Joe Conason can work at is a piece of work....I think the only reason they even posted this missive is to raise their own rankings via clicks from FR.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Travis McGee:

Link

[firebrand]

Nah. They are a gossipy rag. They love this stuff. Even their real estate section. Has photos of celebrities and the apartments they have bought.

[spectre]

The support for RINO Rudy that resulted in the purge and exodus from FR centered around his ability to beat Hillary because of his popularity and his leadership against the WOT.

So if he is not going to stay the course in Iraq, we need to know about it, so we can officially lump him in with the other Democrats running for POTUS.

sw

[Politicalmom]

Oh, for crying out loud. Missing an “s” while typing is hardly “writing like a child”.

I suppose you are perfect.

[Polybius]

I don't recall the specifics, but my vague memory is that Drudge became unhappy with the anti-Clinton vitriol all over FR and delisted it. There was probably more to it than that, though.

Every single article linked to Drudge was also posted on FR. FR became Drudge with interactive commentary.

So, why would somebody that knew about FR bother to ever go to Drudge, especially since going to Drudge gets you three times your recommended daily allowance for Internet advertising?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Disaffected Freepers have used liberal media to strike back before. Below is an early example.

Free-for-all at Free Republic

[Politicalmom]

I believe that MiaT said that anyone who was against Giuliani would have the blood of dead babies on their hands when Hillary won. She may have said that directly to Jim, and Jim was already a bit..exercised at the time.

Like there would be ANY difference between the two.

[SoCalPol]

You hit it, toxic.

Most of the Rudybot and some of the Mitt folks were bashing Hunter, making 5th grade comments re his name and spamming.
They would tag team in their bashing.
Threads were overtaken by these mindless baiting & bashing.

Then they wonder, why people were fed up.

I have had some discussions with a few of the Rudy folks
who are still here and they have always been civil.
The bulk, not so much who they support but their
bashing was childish and they did not want a dialog.
They all but asked to be banned and some actually did.

[LilAngel]

I suspect you’ll find that some of his statements that are supposed to show his support for the war in Iraq, are actually about Afghanistan. You’ll probably find a lot of his statements have been misinterpreted to create the illusion that he supports the entire WOT.

[spectre]

Thanks. I'm finally paying close attention to every word uttered (or not) in this election.

sw

[Plutarch]

Uh, I think that if Giuliani were to gain the nomination I could grudgingly support him.

I support Romney, who many at FR consider a RINO.

Am I going to be banned?

[calcowgirl]

From my experience, they acted as thugh, usually in a pack like wolves and often pasting innuendo that they refused to back up. Remember the “FBI Investigation” fiasco?

I’m all for disagreeing. Let’s get the platforms of all of the candidates out on the table, honestly. Let’s look at all of their records. But when some felt it necessary to post lies or to defame Ronald Reagan to build up their candidate, they went too far.

There are plenty of Rudy supporters still here. I rarely agree with them as they seem to carry some pretty liberal views, but they have been civil and are open to discussion. Others are still yelling the “He’s the only one that can beat Hillary” argument which 1) I don’t believe and 2) I won’t consider as the sole basis to vote for a candidate. As such, I usually just agree to disagree.

[Lancey Howard]

This is interesting. I thought that a lot of those “regulars” who disappeared did so basically because they were intellectually dishonest and crass in their defense of Rudy, or because they flat out dared Jim to ban them.