[dawn53]

Doesn't seem to me like he meant the quotes as a compliment to the site.

[tbird5]

But does mean something if HE is reading it, right?

[mdittmar]

I reread it and see no leaning either way.

Except this,

Reactions to the Lawrence Central High School ruling, expressed on FreeRepublic.com (a "Conservative News Forum")have been spirited and sprightly .

Any publicity.....

[NutCrackerBoy]

Doesn't seem to me like he meant the quotes as a compliment to the site.

It is a glimpse as to how the Internet forum now functions as a countrywide "barbershop". The "commentators'" contributions: short, unrehearsed, honest, some clever, playing off one another, some way off the cuff, form a jazz improvisation.

I've heard it said that the dialectic offered through FR's format - even at DU - arrives at the truth. But polyphony is a step beyond dialectic, and so it may arrive at, if not the truth, perhaps a hologram of shared reality.