This is all the more reason for us freepers to stay above the bar in terms of our comments, language, researched contributions, etc. If we are getting this kind of viewer audience, they are just looking for a way to discredit us. One visit to DU and it is obvious the IQ and/or rage level discredits anything they post. Their language is atrocious; their research "isn't" and they are all screaming all the time.
FR as an institution needs to do that, as regards language and comments - but if you look at the threads that first broke Memogate I think you will see some counseling that we should just find the silver lining in the memos rather than risking being wrong about the validity of them. That was in retrospect terrible advice.As an individual FReeper, Buckhead was excited about what he perceived - and if he had been wrong, so what? It was an important possibility, with hugh implications if true. So, he pleaded for fuller investigation. And the rest is history.