What Blogs Have Wrought (Buckhead)

Weekly Standard ^ | September 27, 2004 | Jonathan V. Last

[Truth Table]

IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment. The night of Wednesday September 8 was no different. Following the 8 P.M. airing of CBS's 60 Minutes hit on President Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard, Freepers were rattling their cages and pinging around the web in anger and disconsolation. On a thread begun in response to a New York Times article about the 60 Minutes story, "tomahawk" wrote, "The MSM [mainstream media] are whores for Kerry, whores for Democrats, and whores for Jihadists. Through their lies and distortions, our country's continued existence is now in doubt."

Amidst this clamor, the post by "Buckhead" could easily have gotten lost. At 11:59 P.M.

[El Gran Salseron]

"The MSM [mainstream media] are whores for Kerry, whores for Democrats, and whores for Jihadists. Through their lies and distortions, our country's continued existence is now in doubt."

Wow! I'm heartened! He didn't deny any of this! There may be hope for him.

[RatherBiased.com]

CBS Supporter Tries to Shut Down RatherBiased.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219787/posts

[Steel Wolf]

IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad.

TRANSLATION: I'm addicted to FR, but I'm afraid of what my media buddies will think. I'd better just dog it publicly, so they don't suspect me of doing more than just research.

Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment.

TRANSLATION: *sniff* I posted twice, and I thought *sniff* that my posts were really good, but no one replied to me. *sniff* *sniff*

[Enterprise]

"IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment."

Of course, if you troll through the posting boards at DU, you'll start laughing. Hundreds of voices are whining, drooling, and taking short breaks to get their ADHD meds.

[Truth Table]

Yes. I know. It's a small point though. Free republic is an opinion forum, and the blog is the first cousin to the forum. Blogs and forums feed each other which is part of their power.

[Vision]

IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment.

No one's keeping you here you idiot newbie with a column.

[Truth Table]

about the denizens of the fever swamps. Yes. Exactly.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Spit for Attention Bump! Ptoooey!!

[Steel Wolf]

The more I troll here, the more I feel relieved and hopeful for the country.

Either you meant 'read','lurk' or 'post', or you're an infiltrator who's about to 'go native'.

Either way, I agree with your point. FR's responses to the media, government, and all other forms of national stupidity alway brings a smile to my face.

[Happy2BMe]

BUCKHEAD - PING

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

...the small, incestuous blog world was humming...

Hmmm...

[Bryan]

Of course, if you troll through the posting boards at DU, you'll start laughing. Hundreds of voices are whining, drooling, and taking short breaks to get their ADHD meds.

Don't forget the Prozac and the Zoloft. They have to be entering a terminal state of depression at this point.

[Truth Table]

Free Republic's Buckhead had scooped him. And dozens of bloggers, whether in pajamas or three-piece suits, had subsequently filled in many of the details. (CBS could still break one big story--who gave them the forged memos?--but has so far hidden behind an invocation of "longstanding journalistic ethics" governing "confidential sources." So forgers are now sources?) Bloggers, and Internet-savvy writers more generally, have now proven that they can ferret out journalistic malpractice and expose the guilty parties.

Got that, DUmmies?

[MaryFromMichigan]

Let's put flowers & a copy of Post #47 on Nixon's grave. He'd be proud of Buckhead, and most amazed.

Bump for your tagline.
One of the best lines I've read this week.
Thank you.

[PattonReincarnated]

The more I troll here, the more I feel relieved and hopeful for the country.

There is a difference between a lurker and a troll. If you are relieved and hopeful for the country, you may have been a lurker. Now that you have posted, you are not a lurker anymore ... Welcome to Free Repubilic!

[miltonim]

Good read

[TruthWillWin]

....voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention...

A+bert is back?

[Lijahsbubbe]

"Shouting, spitting and clamoring for attention..."

Sound more like a description of Chris Matthews and James Carville. And since they're supposed to be professional, shouldn't they be held to a higher standard? After all, we're just pajama clad operatives.

[occutegirl]

I guess I am a reader. I have been a reader for some time, and just started posting. What I really like here is the intellectual level of the dialog, no profanity, name, calling, etc, that I have seen on other forums.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Don't forget the Prozac and the Zoloft.

The love of God and Country made us Freepers,
Prozac made us friends.