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Have you ever seen the assortment of black on white symbols that appear below the main title in most every post. They look something like this:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890.,?!

Now there is something you may not have noticed. When these strange symbols are put together in specific ways they impart meaning. Which leads us to,

Concept #1: The primary meaning contained in a FreeRepublic post is located below the main title.

Let's try a few sections ourselves shall we!

THE WAR IN IRAQ HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11
If you believe that you are a fool.
John Kerry seemed to enjoy saying over and over during the 2004 presidential campaign that Iraq did not attack America on 9/11. Kerry’s infamous argument that the war in Iraq was the “wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time” was a case that Saddam Hussein was in no way a subject of the global war on terror.
Liberal news commentators have been fond of asking the question: If George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have not been at least implying that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks then why do 80% of their supporters still believe that to be true?”
Here’s is the answer to both Kerry’s claims and the accusatory questioning of the liberal pendants: conservative minded people are not fools.

Ok, now let's try putting those symbols together in our mind to see what happens, "AGGGGHHH ZOT ZOT YOUR A TROLL PPPHHHHHBBBBHTTTT ZOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!". Ok that was a..., um.., fine start but maybe this is time for,

Concept #2: Some ideas require more than one sentence to relay their meaning to the reader.

I know that in today's society where great truths are imparted with minimal verbosity like "Four legs good! Two legs bad!" it's easy to give up after the first few microseconds of reading. But if you devote a few extra minutes to reading a post you will be pleasantly surprised with the results!

Now look at the line that I've marked with bold for you,"conservative minded people are not fools". You will notice that this statement is contrary to the title of the article. Now you might be thinking, "Oh No! The author must be lying to me. It's a conspiracy! What ever shall I do!". Don't worry, there's no need to fret! This is actually a technique used to pull a reader (at least most readers) into the article. Quite a dastardly thing to do I admit but reading sometimes has its dangers.

But armed with this insight I'm sure that someday you and other prezotters will become excellent readers of FreeRepublic posts.(cue closing music, fade to black)