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Of course what you posted isn't true. The proof is that the real Kerry Fonda photograph and its concomitant photo was picked up--even by the NY Times. And that story orginated here.

John Kerry At Valley Forge (With Jane Fonda)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074369/posts

Are you arguing that FR doesn't have to worry about being credible? That it is just a chat site? Maybe you're right. But others here seem to have higher hopes for it.

Maybe it is a waste of time to post things like the story above or the material about how Turnipseed was misreported, which helped to turn around that story. But even those two stories--and others like them--have shown that things posted here can have an impact, even on the leftwing media.

Again, this hoax just set the effort back. But I can see how that wouldn't concern you.

One excuse is as good as another, isn't it? The left doesn't consider FR credible and never has. It doesn't turn to this site for confirmation of anything unless it's going to be used to attack us. Whatever good work is done on FR by FReeps is rarely attributed to anyone here, unless it comes from Rush.

The photo of Kerry with Fonda made us look like we were grasping at ANY straw to link the two together simply because it would be enough to discredit Kerry. It was *also* used to attack and insult the right. It ended up having the same effect that Registered's fake photo had.

Free Republic is as good as its participants are willing to make it.

Good luck!

Hon, you're wayyyyyy to upset about this. You need to calm down a bit. The whole thing you're going to have to realize is that at least 50% of the new hits from papers like NYT and Berkley Fish Wrapper (O.K. Maybe 20% from Berkley) will come here to see what kind of place this is and find they like it and stay. And if they look hard enough (and most will), they'll find that Registered is an EXCELLENT artist when it comes to humoristic Photoshopping. Eventually, in the public's eye, those that remember the name Free Republic from the article will probably be interested. Those that don't wouldn't have cared about coming here anyway.

For the most part, FreeRepublic requires you to think. Liberals, for the most part, turn off the thinking, rational part of their minds. That's why they hate us so much.

Just stop and take a deep breath. The NYT and Berkley Mullet Wrapper wouldn't give us a fair shake anyway. Even if we had the smoking gun that blew the whole story out of the water about Kerry's Vietnam service, or his affairs, or anything. We could have a member who was Kerry's illegitimate love child here and they wouldn't believe it even with DNA and him looking just like Eddie Munster. So, just slow down Hon. I understand that you've done a lot to blow the top off this one. And that's great. Unfortunately, even if you did, they wouldn't pay attention, and would even bury the story because it came from a Freeper. I'd love to see someone like Tom Brokejaw or Dan Blather join just for the debate of it, and then someone in the elite media find out. There would be a destructive firestorm. The media would eat their own.

That's the nature of this beast. You've apparently either had a different handle or been a LONG time lurker. So, you can understand. We had stories about Clinton and Gore that should have had them thrown in jail. They were properly sourced and discussed at length. The lamestream media ignored them because they were from here.

As they say in Hollywierd, "No publicity is bad publicity". The negative connotation will go away very quickly. The name will last. Don't be too suprised to see an upsurge in members after the NYT revealing article and the other one posted on this thread.

Paul