[EternalVigilance]

Long article. Good, but long.

Took them an awful long time to get to the incredible power of the web--and I don't know how they can discuss the power of conservativism in this medium without mentioning Free Republic.

[longtermmemmory]

makes me wonder if some posters on FR are part of "truth" squads of various political candidates or groups.

[.cnI redruM]

we was robbed!

[Buggman]

Yeah, I was somewhat disappointed that they mentioned Lucianne.com but not FreeRepublic too. OTOH, I'm happy enough about the continuing effect to not quibble with articles examining the causes.

It'll be a hard road back, and it may not be possible to restore what we've lost, but it's worth the fight, and it's heartening to see some signs of the turnaround that we've struggled for for so long.

[Political Junkie Too]

I'd have thought that the Media Research Center would also have gotten a nod.

-PJ

[InterceptPoint]

... I don't know how they can discuss the power of conservativism in this medium without mentioning Free Republic.

Excellent point that I was going to make but you beat me to it.

Someone must have some statistics on how we rank with andrewsullivan, for example. I would be very surprised if Free Republic isn't a bigger Internet force than any of the right wing bloggers. We're not Drudge but we're a big player.

[Doc On The Bay]

"..without the mention of Free Republic!"

"They" ALL TREMBLE WITH FEAR when "Free Republic" is mentioned; "they" KNOW FR is something Potent, but, like the Legend of the "Sleeping Giant," They Hope to "Tiptoe Past It," & not Awaken It.

FR is an Internet Giant which Terrifies the Left; they Know that--somehow--FR was partly responsibile for their defeat in the 2000 election.

They know that FR represents the "Tip-of-the-Iceburg" of the VAST conservative majority in America. They know that Some of us awakened in the last Presidntial Election.

They are TERRIFIED that a Majority of us are now "waking up."

SADLY for the LEFT, America is awaking from it's long, peaceful slumber, & the SHOCK of 9/11 has stirred our collective moral outrage.

The Amoral varmits who have murdered our fellow citizens (& those under our Protection) are, sadly, unable to comprehend how deeply culturally rooted our concepts of "fairness & civilized behavior" are.

If one "tap's into" the smoldering rage of our Nation's Citizens, you see VERY LITTLE mercy for the subhumans who associate themselves with 9/11.

Most Americans would approve that ANY associates of those who perpretrated 9/11 be questioned "down to the Molecular level,"--& Discarded--at the molecular level.

After 9/11, most Americans REQUIRE that "Islam" PROVE it did not--& Would not condone such an atrocity.

"Islam" has certainly failed, Miserably, to disassociate itself from similar atrocities.

Short of It's repudiating--& offering up the perpetrators of--atrocities committed "in It's Name,"--ANY rational observer MUST CONCLUDE that "Islam" is COMPLICIT in the atrocities committed in It's Name!

If "Islam" want's a "Holy War,"-- then COME OUT & SAY IT!! Stop this Cowardly guerrilla Crap, & ACT WITH HONOR!!.

After 9/11, we in the west are Ready! But, after 9/11, DON'T expect any "mercy."

Doc