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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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To: buffyt

We considered the pajama angle, but on reflection felt it better if FR were presented as a serious, professional group.


521 posted on 09/23/2004 7:40:53 PM PDT by Bob J (Rightalk.com...coming soon!)
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To: Jenya; All

COOL rack itt

Alright Rush if you lurking honey welcome to FR dude

CBS you deserve it now your news crediatiy is shot to hell


522 posted on 09/23/2004 10:57:33 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Not everybody , in it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Matchett-PI
Freerepublic is "Radical" says MSNBC guest

COOL! That's a compliment in my book.

523 posted on 09/24/2004 2:23:27 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Real gun control is - all shots inside the ten ring)
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To: Bikers4Bush
Everyone except the dems Liberals that is.... :/
524 posted on 09/24/2004 1:40:06 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: Jenya

I can't get his stream today. ARGH. It keeps timing out.


525 posted on 11/03/2004 9:12:19 AM PST by Terriergal ("Woe to you...Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!"Matthew 23:23a,24)
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To: Jenya
An oldie but a goodie! I'm still stunned about this:

When Dan Rather talked about partisan political operatives, he means those who lurk at FreeRepublic.

526 posted on 08/26/2005 11:08:36 AM PDT by GOPJ
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