[shibumi]

Although your reply is addressed to me, I know there are several other FReepers who will be interested in reading it. They are therefore copied on this ping.

In reading your response, the first thing that jumps out is whether you meant what you wrote here:

"In the past, on my WRKO show, New Republic helped me and accepted me when I was just learning about the dynamics of the news/talk format

If you expect this forum in any way to emulate experience you had with "New Republic" then I fear you're in for a real shocker.

If that's a typo, and you are referring to this forum, then what exactly was your past experience? Did you post under a different screen name? If so, please let us know what it was, so that we can get some feel for your history.

If you are, in fact, Reese Hopkins, then you are fully aware that there's a lot of negative "stuff" out there about you. How do you address the past events, and what is your current legal status?

It's not up to me to "accept your membership." That's something for the Moderators and Jim Robinson to pass judgment on. I'm just asking questions that I'm sure are on everyone's mind.

[libertarian27]

A couple of past threads on this radio talk show host:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2498476/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2694058/posts

(Reese, we love ya’ (well, those of us who know your work and the horror you went through) the others will love your work all in good time!)