V A N I T Y - Subversive activities on FR?

None | 08-01-04 | Trident/Delta

[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

[an amused spectator]

Note my tagline. I agree with your premise. :-)

[tpaine]

Wow.. There's a revelation of import.

[gatex]

"By the way, do you remember who outed DITHF...."

I remember that Clintons A Lier carried on a two day rant wondering why he was digging into ancient archives -- when the file she mentioned was constantly noted on the left side of my screen in a list of files -- like the current right hand side . Someone got him banned within minutes. Luckily, he had email contact with another Freeper to advise about the banning.

JimRob, not too long ago, posted that ClintonsALier was on one of the other forums trashing FreeRepublic (She posted several times that she was in PsyOps in the National Guard)

[quidnunc]

gatex wrote: I remember that Clintons A Lier carried on a two day rant wondering why he was digging into ancient archives -- when the file she mentioned was constantly noted on the left side of my screen in a list of files -- like the current right hand side . Someone got him banned within minutes. Luckily, he had email contact with another Freeper to advise about the banning.

You're probably talking about SneakyPete who was banned for questioning DITHF's bona fides.

[gatex]

"You're probably talking about SneakyPete ..."

Roger.

[Don Joe]

if A+Bert was here, these things wouldn't be happening

Right. He'd be too busy fighting Arne Fufkin for the bottle.

[Fenris6]

My favorite - from a caller into the Chris Kore Show (WMAL 630)

"I'm a die-hard conservative, but I'll be voting for Kerry this year, cause I think Kerry is more competent"

I was laughing so hard I had to pull my car off the road.

Thanks Libs - sometimes you guys are a riot.

[Fenris6]

"As to the steady diet of tabloid murders, yes, PLEASE give us all a break."

No kidding! When I hear the "missing" soundtrack, I automatically change channels. Wish FOX would ditch the tabloid entertainment at expense of others - who cares about the daily tidbits of gossip from the Kobe Byrant case. Poor Greta - at least on CNN she was discussing constitutional law.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[Syncro]

Used to be,(sic)people who didn't know what they were talking about,(sic)were soundly thrashed on FR.

No, they were straightened out with facts.

And sometimes were brought from the darkside to the reality of what this great nation is all about.

Now when we just jump on someone who doesn't have their facts straight, we have no chance to reach them.

The trolls were soundly trashed. And quickly send packing.

[Graybeard58]

HairOfTheDog:

And carrying a debate you are having there to another thread is something that is actually condoned? I don't think so. I haven't clicked your links or gone on your treasure hunt. Fight them there, if they are wrong. Trash-talking them here without pinging them is pretty dang wimpy!

tpaine:

Whatever

WOW! He zinged you there Hair. However will you live with the shame?

[nopardons]

Who was ever "turned"/straightened out? Eschoir? Nopes.Ash? Nope.Those people banned,who now inhabit sites such as LP,FU,etc.? Nope.The rabid Patsies,most of whom were cleaned out,finally,in 2000? Nope.

Unfortunately, facts have little effect on most here.

[Bob J]

Jim and John used to purge old unused accounts on a regular basis, but that may have been before we stepped up to the larger disk drives.

[HairOfTheDog]

~winks~

[Lijahsbubbe]

Frankly, they all (cable & mainstream news orgs) suck. Thank heavens for freerepublic.com.

I agree. They're all self serving entertainers in my book. (don't ask which book)

[Col Freeper]

So Noted. Thanks.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Verry interesting.... I will be documenting your post....(takes puff off of heater..)

[Syncro]

I remember that Clintons A Lier carried on a two day rant wondering why he was digging into ancient archives... Someone got him banned within minutes.

The DITHF banter went on for months.

CAL was completely taken in by it, as were a lot of people at FR.

You're probably talking about SneakyPete who was banned for questioning DITHF's bona fides.

Actually SP got banned much later for different reasons. You could ask him over on one of the sites where he is posting now if you want.

[Syncro]

Hay I liked Quidam...he brought some levity to FR.

I always wondered if he really knew anything. He was good at what he did.

I think his picture is in the dictionary under "cryptic"

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Ack te lieber!

I need to brush up on me Teutonic languages quick.