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Posted on 09/16/2004 10:42:21 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob
I found P. Dog's manifeso to be right on. Last night on Fox the Hannity and Colm program proved equally correct. Sean Hannity dominated the program with his guests, which included Carl Bernstein (Watergate fame), Michael Reagan, Pat Caddell (Los Angeles demoncRAT strategist). On Bernstein Hannity forced him in a corner a couple of times in a roundabout way to admit that CBS did wrong. What interested me most was Pat Caddell's viewpoints that at times mirrored some of P'dog's comments.
I read PD's most EXCELLENT column the other day, and you've got it right, CBB.
Very well said bump.
The theme is the same of the lead editorial in today's WSJ (the first editorial notice WSJ has taken of Rathergate), if rather more forceful.
I read it when he posted it, bumped it then.
Bumping it again.
For many years few of us have been able to channel our political ideas as well as intellect. Before I found FreeRepublic, I was at war with newspapers, and media. They had the forums and microphones, I had nothing so I hurled threats and vulgarities at my tv and my newspaper and of course, wrote my Congressman almost monthly. Now because of people like BillyBob, PukinDog, Howlin, and we won't forget Buckhead and every other Freeper, WE ALL HAVE A PODIUM NOW! This must be how my ancestors felt when they won their freedom in 1776.
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Here's a "not-in-my-PJs-at-the-moment" bump for a great article written about a great manifesto.
"What interested me most was Pat Caddell's viewpoints that at times mirrored some of P'dog's comments."
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It didn't surprise me.
Pat Cadell is kind of a poor man's Zell Miller. He did not like Clinton at all and even mentioned once in a radio interview that the thought of Madeline Albright as SecState was terrifying. The interview, as I recall, took place in about '94-'95, and it was about the situation in North Korea.
He's much like Zell in that he's disturbed by the party's current status and direction and wants to to bring it back to a respectable level of coherence and integrity. They differ in that I suspect he's not nearly as conservative as Zell, but he is nonetheless generally a straight shooter.
Your comments were Music to my ears.
Hear, hear. Emergent media BUMP.
Back to the top .
I second the motion.
I will re-read it tonight while I am wearing my pajamas. -Tom
One poster called Free Republic the new open source "Linux" of the news world.
It was Free Republic that had on-site freepers reporting firsthand that there were no boos at the Wisconsin Bush rally, contrary to the lying reporters at the AP such as Tom Hays and Lindlaw, et al.
It was freeper Travis McGee who busted the AP for quoting a fake SEAL last week.
Buckhead and others broke Dan Rathers' forgeries wide open, and various freepers have caught the New York Times parroting known lies, too.
Thus, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that Free Republic itself has finally built so much mass that it has passed the tipping point to go super-critical, as in nuclear...explosion...
Free Republic is now blasting the Old Media to pieces. We're international. We've got freepers *inside* Iran. We've had freepers go into Vietnam for firsthand research. We're on the ground in Iraq. We're in all 50 U.S. states. We're in Israel. We're in Turkey. We're in France, Germany, and Britain and Ireland. We're in Saudi Arabia. We're in Africa, where an on-site freeper reported firsthand on the supposed Kerry "girlfriend" who was hiding away there. We've got an entire Canadian contingent.
It was AmericaninTokyo who exposed Howard Dean's illegal foreign campaign donation scam that was running in Japan.
From every corner of the globe (an anachronistic metaphor, so sue me) FReepers are adding their personal analysis, their firsthand reporting, and their own research that combines into a sum that is greater than its parts.
Just as volunteers in the software community freely contribute their efforts and expertise to Linux (a platform that I don't particularly like, but do respect how it grows and improves without being micromanaged), so too are FReepers around the world contributing to a news gathering and analysis system the likes of which have never before been seen in the news and political arenas.
And to mark our newfound capabilities, the Old Guard news media is now attacking us. Dan Rather and Andrew Heyward of CBS are calling us the new "digital brownshirts."
To them, *we* are the new bullies on the block.
That sort of admission from the Old Guard marks our Powershift (an ode to Alvin Toffler fans everywhere). What we have witnessed and in fact in what we've participated is a seismic shift in power.
There is political power.
There is power in information.
There is power in Force/activism.
There is power in money/wealth.
There is power in love.
Free Republic brings together the best elements of all of the above forms of power, filtering out bad applications of it all, catching our own errors, challenging ourselves to improve, and amalgamating a sum of information and activism that has now become a threat to the established news media giants.
The world will never be the same. The old king is dead. Love live the new republic!
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
Just damn.
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