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Rush talking about bloggers breaking CBS story (Update: Rush, thanks for plugging FR. We love ya)

Posted on 09/22/2004 11:46:12 AM PDT by Jenya

Edited on 09/22/2004 1:18:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Cool.


Mod update.
Ordinary Americans have dragged slowly but surely other big institutions to the truth. The big institutions were the last to arrive at the truth and some of them to this moment are still not there.

Now I realize that within this new alternative media there exists some jealosy,. I sense that some people don’t want to give the blogosphere the full credit. They have to parcel it out because every body wants a piece of the action; this is quite normal, this is human nature. The fact of the matter is that it was the blogosphere and it was a couple of sites: Powerline and FreeRepublic. And FreeRepublic has been one of the most impugned blogs / websites in the history of websites by the very institution that has been brought down.

When Dan Rather talked about partisan political operatives, he means those who lurk at FreeRepublic. Who is FreeRepublic, it’s ordinary Americans – liberals look down at ordinary Americans, don’t know have enough decision making power, [?] do the right thing, not smart enough …

You don’t know how much it grates on them at CBS that its something like FreeRepublic or one of their chat rooms or one of the FReepers there or the Powerline … you have no idea that it irritates them that that kind of person brought them down. An average, ordinary untrained journalist that … you just do not know how this irritates them inside. More than the fact that they got caught, it’s who caught them that irritates them.

And, so just as I started out … I was a fad, and I was a liar, and I made it up and I was bad for America and I posed threats to democracy, as the cover of Time said. So now the same things are being said about the bloggers. Fox news has had its turn and we all continue rotating in the criticism carousel of the left.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Free Republic; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: congrats; fr; freep; napalminthemorning; rathergate; rush; wow
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1 posted on 09/22/2004 11:46:13 AM PDT by Jenya
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To: Jenya

Even mentioned Freepers. Said we were scum of the earth to the elite media.


2 posted on 09/22/2004 11:47:41 AM PDT by bduet (sarcasm turned on)
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To: Jenya

This is great. He's really talking up FreeRepublic.


3 posted on 09/22/2004 11:47:44 AM PDT by Jenya (I'm a newbie here, but not to life. Don't even think of imposing your seniority on me.)
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To: Jenya; Admin Moderator

Mentions Freerepublic several times!!!!!!

Awesome!


4 posted on 09/22/2004 11:47:47 AM PDT by jbstrick (War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory.)
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To: Jenya

MAJOR HUGH RUSH KUDOS TO FR AND FREEPERS . . . SERIES PRAISE . . .


5 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:06 AM PDT by LikeLight (__________________________)
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To: Jenya

Fantastic.....
Talking up Free Republic like its the best thing since the invention of the wheel.....


6 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:47 AM PDT by 76834
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To: Jenya

Rush gave major props to this site and Freepers!!

Mentioned the hits Freepers have taken, and how they took down CBS. So cool.


7 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:56 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Jenya; MeekOneGOP; Howlin; Buckhead; Poohbah

RUSH just gave props to FRee Republic and Powerline!


8 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:59 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Jenya

Very high on Freepers. I'm sure Rush is one himself.


9 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:59 AM PDT by ozzie
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To: Jenya

Very high on Freepers. I'm sure Rush is one himself.


10 posted on 09/22/2004 11:48:59 AM PDT by ozzie
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To: Jenya

Very high on Freepers. I'm sure Rush is one himself.


11 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:09 AM PDT by ozzie
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To: zip

ping


12 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:14 AM PDT by Mrs Zip
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To: Jenya

Dittos.....

"Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists"


13 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:29 AM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: Jenya; Jim Robinson

Big time focus on Freerepublic! Let's hope someone puts up a transcript when available!


14 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:32 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (You never know what you'll get when you troll through a newsroom with a phony document.)
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To: bduet

Yes, I heard it. It made me proud to be an ordinary American!


15 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:41 AM PDT by sweetstuff
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To: Jenya

Freeper Bump!


16 posted on 09/22/2004 11:49:44 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: bduet

They are afraid of us.


17 posted on 09/22/2004 11:50:06 AM PDT by jbstrick (War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory.)
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To: Jenya

Where is the Time story he mentioned re "Are bloggers good for Democracy?"


18 posted on 09/22/2004 11:50:08 AM PDT by Guillermo (OJ is innocent because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.)
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To: LikeLight

ATTABOY Rush!


19 posted on 09/22/2004 11:50:14 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: Jenya
Sigh -- bet FR gets real slooooow for awhile.

I heard the piece, he noted how the snobs and elites hate to lose to the common man.

20 posted on 09/22/2004 11:50:17 AM PDT by Cboldt
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