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You need tons click "co-ordinating" (Free Republic - The conservative click Guerilla)
Spiegel (Germany) ^ | 08. März 2004 | Of franc Patalong

Posted on 03/08/2004 1:00:56 PM PST by Jim Robinson

(This is a Google translated excerpt from a Spiegel article regarding Freeping)

Vote vote-pfuscher

You need tons click "co-ordinating"

Of franc Patalong

Votes are a fine thing, the butter on message bread. They give a feedback to the on-line Medienmacher, how the reader sees a thing. George W. Bush regard nearly 60 per cent of the readers of MIRROR ON-line ONE for example as a Top president. We know also, why.

From the guidance for the falsification of the Mirror On-line Votes: "You need tons cklick ' co-ordinating!'" The widow Vivian Freep from Midland (Texas) is "George Bush's biggest more supporter".

Beautifully for Bush, the European imagines there, but in an American conservative Credos ascends equal the anger. An insolence is that, which does not want to say no more and less than the following: Bushs success is based on the assistance of humans, who manipulate, disturbs, falsifies.

Because "Freeping" is an Slang expression. He means the nocturnal pasting over of election posters, the organization of being noisy area MOS, the purposeful disturbing of appearances of political opponents and - not least - the massive falsification of tunings in the InterNet.

The strange term developed for end of the nineties and goes back on the web page "Free Republic" of the ultrakonservativen activists Jim Robinson. "Freep", how the web page was fast called by fans, understands itself as "a conservative message forum". Principal item of the offer is the panel, in which it goes partly violently to the thing.

The conservative click Guerilla

Free Republic began as Clinton Hasser side, developed themselves further however fast. First Lorbeeren harvested the "Freep Movement", when the side began to call in various elections for the "support" of conservative candidates.

Completely concretely: It concerned to disturb demonstrations of the democrats to tear off or falsify posters, to opponents to support actively. Already as itself Bill Clinton saw, to organized Freep groups in different US cities "info. meetings" and switched newspaper advertisements confronted with an office expulsion procedure. The term "Freeping" developed and meant: Over tones the opponent.

(Excerpt) Read more at 216.239.37.104 ...


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To: netmilsmom
EuroWimp (Troll #3) translated it and added its own commentary at Post #228.
241 posted on 03/08/2004 2:37:46 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: EuroWimp; 4mycountry
Oh, good, we're three for three. 4MyCountry, did you put out an ad or something?
242 posted on 03/08/2004 2:39:09 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (You need tons click "co-ordinating")
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To: EuroWimp
You've have certainly defeated us with your
cleverness. In fact, I feel as though I have
been destroyed in a Zyclon--be-
cause of your devastating wit.
243 posted on 03/08/2004 2:39:13 PM PST by Petronski (John Kerry looks like . . . like . . . weakness.)
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To: ReduzierterAllgemeinzustand
Froom www1.spiegel.de:
  VOTE-AUSWERTUNG
  Stand: 08.03.2004, 23:38

Bilanz
Seit drei Jahren ist George W. Bush der mächtigste Mann der Vereinigten Staaten - und der Welt. Wie beurteilen Sie seine bisherige Amtszeit (in Schulnoten)?

1 27.49%27.49%27.49%  42871 27.49%
2 3.47%3.47%3.47%  5417 3.47%
3 2.10%2.10%2.10%  3272 2.10%
4 1.65%1.65%1.65%  2575 1.65%
5 7.58%7.58%7.58%  11816 7.58%
6 57.72%57.72%57.72%  90019 57.72%
 Gesamtbeteiligung: 155970  

ZUM ZUGEHÖRIGEN ARTIKEL
SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Votes sind keine repräsentativen Umfragen. Sie geben lediglich ein Stimmungsbild derjenigen wieder, die bei den Votes mitmachen. Die Teilnahme ist unverbindlich und freiwillig.

244 posted on 03/08/2004 2:39:31 PM PST by RonDog
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To: netmilsmom
Actually, I did use Switched on Schoolhouse for Texas history. They're pretty good.
245 posted on 03/08/2004 2:39:47 PM PST by 4mycountry ("Completely concretely" - - That's "the power of the 'Freeper'.")
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To: arasina
I'd rather read yours! EuroWimpee the Troll is not as interesting.
246 posted on 03/08/2004 2:39:58 PM PST by netmilsmom (Ultrakonservativen Activists FReeper Frau!)
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To: ReduzierterAllgemeinzustand
Buy any stylish lamps lately?
247 posted on 03/08/2004 2:40:16 PM PST by Petronski (John Kerry looks like . . . like . . . weakness.)
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To: Petronski
>>Buy any stylish lamps lately?<<

Ooooooo, that's mean! LOL!
249 posted on 03/08/2004 2:41:33 PM PST by netmilsmom (Ultrakonservativen Activists FReeper Frau!)
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To: onyx
Lots of excellent tags to be had.... I'm trying on a new one myself.

What do you think of this one? Does it make my butt look way too big??!!??

I simply dread SwimTag season...
250 posted on 03/08/2004 2:42:13 PM PST by Tamzee ( "George Bush's biggest more supporter")
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To: SandyInSeattle
No! I don't even have perfume on! LOL
251 posted on 03/08/2004 2:42:13 PM PST by 4mycountry ("Completely concretely" - - That's "the power of the 'Freeper'.")
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To: Tamsey
What do you think of this one? Does it make my butt look way too big??!!??

I simply dread SwimTag season...

250 posted on 03/08/2004 2:42:13 PM PST by Tamsey ( "George Bush's biggest more supporter")





Dare I say this? What the hell. "It looks tight and compact to me." LM*O!
252 posted on 03/08/2004 2:44:18 PM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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To: netmilsmom
How could you?! Didn't you know that ReduzierterAllgemeinzustand lost two uncles in the concentration camps?

They got drunk and fell off their guard towers.
253 posted on 03/08/2004 2:44:19 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: alwaysconservative
I just love it when President Bush makes them so incoherent!

Good point... I hate to say it but even Germans look kinda cute when they're babbling ;-)

254 posted on 03/08/2004 2:44:46 PM PST by Tamzee ( "George Bush's biggest more supporter")
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm not surprised that the media only single out FR for this activity (and I suspect that often the media is notified by Red DUpes). Here is a little researched evidence that the media chooses to ignore.

The media has written time and time again about how FReepers FReep polls. Newsweek/MSNBC recently included a link on their poll page to send surfers to FR to see the call for people to go to the poll.

MSNBC- Are You a Bush Booster -- or Basher? (Updated: 5:27 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2004)

Editor's Note: This week, the online version of the Newsweek poll received an unusually high rate of response, with the clear majority of participants casting uniform votes. For these reasons, we believe the poll is being intentionally manipulated. In addition, we received an e-mail alert suggesting that the campaign is being coordinated by at least one special-interest group.

SF CHRON ON FR: FReep This -- How The Right Wing Is Making Itself Heard

(Thursday, January 30, 2003) Something strange happened during the 2000 Gore-Bush election fiasco you may have missed.

CNN, which was running 24-hour special election coverage, hosted a program with conservative columnist Bob Novak shortly after the disputed election results were returned. Novak was adamant that Al Gore should quit trying to steal the election and concede. To bolster his point, he brought up the results of CNN.com's public-opinion poll "Should Al Gore concede?" Poll results showed that a full 89 percent of the thousands of people who had visited CNN.com and voted had agreed -- Gore should give up the ghost.

But had the American people really spoken? Or was this poll FReeped?

Though many may not know about them, FReepers are members of a small but growing and vocal right-wing movement who are making a name for themselves. [snip]

But then, well, there are those other tactics some FReepers have been known to use.

First of all, the mass poll voting: A FReeper will post a link to a poll on Free Republic and urge other FReepers to FReep it. Search under "FReep poll" at the Web site and you'll find many "FReep this poll!" marching orders each day. In monitoring Free Republic myself, I have been amazed at how fast the FReepers seem to find polls, which are sometimes posted to Free Republic just minutes after they appear online.

"Whenever a poll is posted on Free Republic.com, everybody goes and votes the right way, and there's nothing wrong with that," says Marinelle Thompson, FReeper and founder of gun rights group Second Ammendment Sisters. "We just do it for a laugh. It doesn't really mean anything."

She's right -- there's nothing at all wrong with encouraging a group to vote in a poll. It's done all the time in political groups of every stripe. What most people, even some FReepers themselves, object to is the intentional swaying of polls by people who vote repeatedly. In fact, SF Gate has had a few of its own polls FReeped. As SF Gate News Director (and poll writer) Vlae Kershner put it, "People are finding a way of getting around our system that only allows one vote, and they're voting hundreds of times. It's not thousands of people voting one way; it's one or two people voting hundreds of times."

Anyway, Kershner says, SF Gate's polls are for entertainment value only. After all, the poll population is self-selected. The people who vote in online polls are those who care enough about an issue to vote -- by its very nature, a skewed population. But not everyone who looks at poll results knows the difference.

"Online polls are silly -- everybody knows that," says liberal political analyst William Rivers Pitt, whose book War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know made him something of a FReeper target for a time. "But it can have a real effect if it's brought out as news that actually means something. The best example is the Gore thing."

David Allen, founder and moderator of major liberal forum Democratic Underground, a popular site many think of as Free Republic's most direct ideologically opposite rival, agrees.

"A lot of blame here needs to be placed on the media itself," says Allen. "These polls are put up there on Web sites and sold as if they are news, as if they are an accurate reflection of the opinions of American people, and they're not. They're completely skewed to whomever finds it first -- and, to be honest, that's never us liberals. It's always them. As long as the news media continues to report the results of an Internet poll as if it's news, the FReeping of polls will continue to be a problem."

Here was a thread I located on DUh and share to FReepers:

From the thread titled "Should We Report Freepers Whenever they try "Freeping" polls?"

Sun Oct-12-03
NUMBER ONE POST: Sure why not...
And yes we should continue DUing polls. There is a need to help people from making stupid mistakes and if a poll result might influence even one person from supporting these idiots in charge then I have no qualms with it.

So you see, it is all a big con. The Rat Party outs the FReeps and then DUpes the public all in one big scam.

To show that FR is hardly the only group PINGing people to vote in polls, here is a documented case if ISLAMming a poll. I discovered it when googling Omer Chouardy's name the day that the 3 medical students were stopped after a suspicious tip in a restaurant:

Students forum on Missouri.edu (muslims thread)

Omer Choudhary
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 20:15:25 -0600 (CST)

Seriously, everone go to this website Milia sent and vote for the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him. I just went and voted and apparently, Alhumdullilah the most votes are for the Prophet (PBUH) right now, at 20,352. Second place is Jesus, with 5,026. So we're way ahead but the more the better.

also want to point out a very important thing. Many of you will think that we don't need to worry about some stupid vote to prove or show anyone that Prophet Muhammad, Peace Be Upon Him is really "Number One".

Agreed. However, stop and think for a minute that the amount of people around the world that are influenced by these same magazines, programs, and surveys will also think that "Hey, how did this person win?
What's so special about them...etc etc". So the idea is that this is also a way, (a big way), to attract people's attention to Islam and to what the religion is all about, rather than them being bogged down by stereotypes they hear from the media, etc. So please go and vote at this website:

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/Millennium_People/MillP_ReligPhilos.asp

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Life Is Goooooood!"
-Omer J. Choudhary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hmmmm. MSNBC never did report that poll was ISLAMmed. Obviously those results were tilted 4-1 in Muslims favor when ABC just reported that 8 out of 10 American adults is "Christian".

255 posted on 03/08/2004 2:45:14 PM PST by weegee (Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Jim Robinson
LOL!!
256 posted on 03/08/2004 2:45:33 PM PST by Soaring Feather (~ I do Poetry and party among the stars~)
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To: ReduzierterAllgemeinzustand

257 posted on 03/08/2004 2:45:47 PM PST by EllaMinnow (Within fewer hours the "Freepern" succeed in tilting the tuning.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
LOL Thanks for the ping.
258 posted on 03/08/2004 2:45:59 PM PST by Soaring Feather (~ I do Poetry and party among the stars~)
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To: onyx
Good, phew! I was hoping the black and white would be a safe and traditional look ;-)
259 posted on 03/08/2004 2:45:59 PM PST by Tamzee ( "George Bush's biggest more supporter")
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To: redlipstick

Perfect!
260 posted on 03/08/2004 2:46:05 PM PST by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold.)
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