Posted on 08/01/2004 6:31:53 PM PDT by Trident/Delta
Fair Warning, This is a VANITY rant.
I have been watching (lurking), for quite a while. I have come to the conclusion that, since FR has almost assumed "icon" status as an alternative news outlet, there seems to have been an "organized" effort at using FR as a vehicle for subverting thought.
Most recently, there have been some interesting banter, usually between the same individuals, about how much better CNN has become and how FNC has degraded, and how "so and so" isn't watching FNC anymore because of.....(insert some bogus issue here).....
After you break the code, it is almost hysterical to watch.
The usual targets seem to be Fox News Channel, ANY gun post, and FR in general.
I would just caution and advise all of us old-timer, hard-corps Freepers, be aware that you may be the subject of manipulation on the part of the notorious "seminar callers" of Rush Limbaugh fame.
As a note of warning to the "opinion shapers" that think they are being clever on FR. I have been documenting chapter and verse and send it to the Mods regularly.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled threads........
Semper Fidelis
Trident/Delta and I go way back to the days of DITHF.
I know more about the 'DITHF' flap than you do squid, -- so whats your point?
Now I'm from Illinois not Missouri, but before I put much stock in anything T/D says, he's got to show me.
Show you what?
I just 'showed you' three gun threads that are infested by a bunch of clowns that fight ~against~ our RKBA's.
They do this at FR all day every day, just as T/D pointed out. How much proof do you need?
Oh for Cripe's sake, mopes of various stripes have been trolling on FR ever since it came on-line, and they'll continue doing so.
Of course they will. - So why do you want to 'name names' and make a big flap?
That's no reason to go playing the great conservative gate-keeper protecting the sheeple from the evil libs.
As contrasted to your role as the great moderate squid protecting us from DITHF type trolls?
Get real kiddo.
Frankly, they all (cable & mainstream news orgs) suck. Thank heavens for freerepublic.com.
And YOU are the TROLL!
I can honestly say that I don't understand anything about this thread.
GOOD ALERT. THX.
Well, see, there's this guy with a clipboard. And beyond that, I'm not sure either.
if A+Bert was here, these things wouldn't be happening
But that having been said . . . .
FR is not the strategy vehicle of the RNC. It probably should be in some instances, but the RNC guys would worry about their paychecks if it became clear there was no need to spend money on consultants.
Given that strategy is isn't made here, then the only other point of subversion would be to depress turnout. This would be by lowering energy and inclination to volunteer and GOTV.
Shrug.
Relative newbies are now calling people "trolls" because they got soundly refuted and can't stand it.
And,for the record,Old friend (who IS An OLD FRIEND of mine.LOL)and I did NOT say that CNN was "good".We said that FNC had gone wobbly lately and it has.I didn't mention CNN at all.I said that I had watched the Dem Convention on C-SPAN.Many of us did so,because we wanted to see it uninterrupted by talking heads.
Triue,true,that used to be the way FR worked.
A LOT of people here,ignore the requests from the Mods and Jim now;sadly.
I doubt it.
tpaine wrote: As contrasted to your role as the great moderate squid protecting us from DITHF type trolls?
Back in those days we had phonies like DITHF and Quidam feeding the forum lines of complete claptrap.
And then there was Trident/Delta.
I'm interested in seeing it but I'd hate to give my money to Meryl Streep...Remember she bad-mouthed our President during the recent Whoopie Goldberg hate-fest DNC fundraiser.
CNN getting better? not here.
Fox has its share of leftists who have failed to cover or attack property. (ie oreily's weak interview of moore who got him with questions that assumed such as 'would you send you child to die' because it would assume child will die. Especially with kerry's withholding of money.) But fox is head and sholders above the competition.
Meryl Streep? I heard that Al Franken has a bit part. No way will it get my bucks. Besides, the original didn't need improvement.
That's ~really~ wimpy tpaine.
I heard they changed the bad guys from commies to capitalists. No thankyouverymuch, no matter who is in it.
We always get an influx of trolls in election years..'98, 00, '02, and now. Evidently some of them have kept their registrations current.
We seem to have a lot more of them during this Presidential Election year than ever before.
I like to toy with them awhile, before coming in for the kill.
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