[Squawk 8888]

If we shifted to ad funding, that means our sponsors become vulnerable to boycotts if outsiders get upset about the frank comments and frequent ridicule of the Left that often appear in these pages.

For some advertisers that isn't a bug, it's a feature. My target market is small businesses and the self-employed who work from home, who tend to be conservative or libertarian. My experience has been that leftist customers tend to be disorganized, lacking a viable business plan and slow to pay. It would therefore be to my benefit to advertise on FR in an unobtrusive fashion. It is for those reasons that I spend some time every day liberal-baiting on Twitter, because retweeting hate messages sent my way gains me conservative followers and generates traffic at my website. I've only been actively posting there for a week and the hate mail sent my follower count from 5 to 63.

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That is elegantly devious, Squawk.

I’d like to take a look at your website.

Please send the link, either here or via FR mail.

Thanks.