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What Blogs Have Wrought (Buckhead)
Weekly Standard ^
| September 27, 2004
| Jonathan V. Last
Posted on 09/18/2004 7:23:10 AM PDT by 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.
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To: Truth Table
"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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:47:35 AM PDT
by
El Gran Salseron
(It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
To: Truth Table
To: Truth Table
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*
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:48:32 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Don't make me roll initiative...!)
To: 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." 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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:49:16 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(The left hates the Constitution. Islamic Fascism hates America. Natural allies.)
To: cwiz24
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.
To: 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.
No one's keeping you here you idiot newbie with a column.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:50:30 AM PDT
by
Vision
("When you trust in yourself, you're trusting in the same wisdom that created you")
To: OhMike
about the denizens of the fever swamps. Yes. Exactly.
To: Truth Table
Spit for Attention Bump! Ptoooey!!
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:53:08 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Let's put flowers & a copy of Post #47 on Nixon's grave. He'd be proud of Buckhead, and most amazed.)
To: occutegirl
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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:53:25 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Don't make me roll initiative...!)
To: Truth Table; Buckhead; MeekOneGOP; PhilDragoo; dennisw; Geist Krieger; potlatch; devolve; ...
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:53:27 AM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(47 days until November 2nd)
To: Truth Table
...the small, incestuous blog world was humming... Hmmm...
To: Enterprise
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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:56:23 AM PDT
by
Bryan
To: 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?
To: AmericanInTokyo
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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:56:36 AM PDT
by
MaryFromMichigan
(We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
To: occutegirl
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!
To: Truth Table
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:57:15 AM PDT
by
miltonim
(Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
To: Truth Table
....voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention...A+bert is back?
To: Truth Table
"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.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:58:24 AM PDT
by
Lijahsbubbe
(POP - Political Operative in Pajamas)
To: Steel Wolf
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.
To: Bryan
Don't forget the Prozac and the Zoloft.
The love of God and Country made us Freepers,
Prozac made us friends.
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posted on
09/18/2004 7:59:22 AM PDT
by
MaryFromMichigan
(We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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