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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buckhead; cbsnews; killian; rather
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1 posted on 09/18/2004 7:23:10 AM PDT by Truth Table
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To: Truth Table

They taled about Buckhead on FOX and friends this morning. They talked about the democrats beliefe that he's part of some grand conspiracy.


2 posted on 09/18/2004 7:24:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The economy won't matter if you're dead.)
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To: Truth Table

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


lol, a ten minute lurker.


3 posted on 09/18/2004 7:25:07 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Truth Table
Hundreds of voices

Thousands of voices...
4 posted on 09/18/2004 7:25:25 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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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.

Wow. That's not very flattering.

5 posted on 09/18/2004 7:28:01 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Truth Table

This is a great article for summing up the whole controversy--from the beginning on Free Republic to Rather's defense--to the gradual accumulation of evidence that turned virtually every part of the old MSM against CBS.


6 posted on 09/18/2004 7:28:34 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: Truth Table
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad.

So, THAT explains it...

Brian Mosely, member since Nov 30, 1997.

7 posted on 09/18/2004 7:29:46 AM PDT by Brian Mosely (A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned http://spinswimming.blogspot.com)
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To: sartorius
Amen!
I am addicted to this story!
Thank goodness (and the Robinsons) for Free Republic!
9 posted on 09/18/2004 7:32:48 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: CaptRon

If you get past the "shouting, spitting, and clamoring" comment, this is probably the best recap of the whole Memogate controversy I've seen to date.


10 posted on 09/18/2004 7:33:20 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort ("Col. Mustard in the Library with a Word Processor")
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To: CaptRon
Wow. That's not very flattering.

Yeah, but it is accurate. :)
11 posted on 09/18/2004 7:34:13 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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To: Truth Table
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad.

Mad is it? If dear Jonathan were in New Delhi, India, right this minute, I'd show him mad. LOL! But seriously, good story.

12 posted on 09/18/2004 7:37:25 AM PDT by neither-nor
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Too true, and I will not totally disagree with the first comments.

FR is pretty rambunctious at times, and very much so for a new user. This does not make it any less valuable, informative and addicting, once you get past the initial shock.

Besides, compared to DU, this place is a tranquil haven of reason, order and civility.
13 posted on 09/18/2004 7:37:48 AM PDT by M1911A1
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To: Tooters

Agreed, it was a good article, but that beginning!


14 posted on 09/18/2004 7:38:57 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Truth Table

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


15 posted on 09/18/2004 7:40:37 AM PDT by occutegirl
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To: Truth Table
Truth calling Dan Rather. Pick up the courtesy phone.


16 posted on 09/18/2004 7:43:57 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Truth Table

Free Republic is not a blog!!!!


17 posted on 09/18/2004 7:44:17 AM PDT by cwiz24
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To: Truth Table

That's a good long article that tells it like it is about the denizens of the fever swamps.


18 posted on 09/18/2004 7:45:21 AM PDT by OhMike (He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart...we would not die in that man's company.)
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To: M1911A1

Last's initial discription is accurate from a "fist visit to free republic" point of view, IMHO. I was very pleased with his summary analysis of the story, detailing the guts and debunking the nuts. (DU: Karl Rove Did it!!!!)

Buckhead will be doing a book deal soon (Course Boarders will hide it when it is published.)

Meanwhile the dems:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=4639&r=dyfsa


19 posted on 09/18/2004 7:45:40 AM PDT by Truth Table
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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. "

A simple test:
Close your browser (trawler?),
step away from the keyboard,
if you still hear those voices, shouting, spitting, or claiming to be God;

Seek help.
[I have it on unimpeachable authority that the Texas National Guard will provide you with access to a VA hospital if you ask nicely.]

20 posted on 09/18/2004 7:47:08 AM PDT by norton
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