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Thank you for writing for us all, CBB.

I must point out that for CJR to come to grips with the internet methodology is going to take the a lot longer than they realize. Some of us have been active in the development of this Media for over ten years - I was involved in the "gopher" days long before FR about 1991 or so. This media has evolved under the radar for a very long time, and it is not new. Many of us are very experienced in separating the wheat from the chaff and that is why we so seldom are misled. The CJR reporters and the other Old Media simply don't have the background to comprehend what has been going on and why and how we are now effective.

It is going to be a long time before they do, I think, and by that time our numbers will have grown even greater and more formidable. This revolution is not going to be easily suppressed, despite the things they still are wont to believe.

The Internet, Free Republic, and the blogs have given us something we never had....power. I am a housewife and grandmom who before Free Republic had NO VOICE unless I wrote a letter to the editor, whicih was unlikely to be published.

This forum allows me to comment on anything...from foreign policy and democrat political tactics to the Westminster Dog Show and car chases on Fox. How empowering is this ability to have my words read by thousands!

And the power that I have is something that the MSM do not want me to have; they wanted that power of being heard reserved for themselves.

Congressman, your comment about separating the fans from the players was spot on. Even here on FR we do this. There are members whom I trust for their opinions, and then the rabble who run in one direction or another depending on the topic. I think you made a very astute observation.

Thank you , Billybob, for standing up for us. Our voices are just as important as those of the MSM, and in fact more so. God bless Jim Robinson for this site, and for the inspiration to others.

"It's pretty clear that the Right is light-years ahead of the Left (or the center) when it comes to blogstorm warfare tactics." - Rebecca Mackinnon, journalist & former CNNer, musing in her online blog about the Eason Jordan situation on February 4, 2005.

I monitor a couple of the Lefty sites that are similar to Free Republic. They're semi-literate, and they NEVER examine both sides of the question. It's all "Bush is EVIL, and the Republicans are STUPID!", and the posters never allow the facts to get in the way of a good, slavering Two-Minute Hate.

It's like taking candy from a stupid baby, as we used to say about the way the Demmies used to treat the Pubbies during the impeachment wars...