Posted on 02/14/2005 3:43:21 PM PST by Vision Thing
And besides, let he who has never registered with a gay military porn site under a different name cast the first stone.
Dang right we have! I bet everybody here has done that! Time to kick the closet door down! Kick the platform shoes away, sweep the tutus and the lingerie aside, FReepers, are you with me?
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[Sound of crickets chirping and a lonely prairie wind...] .
OK, well, never mind...
Well, I guess we've all been there...
I generally like Jonah, but unfortunately he punts on giving any real answer to the question in his title - why are the right wing blogs more successful?
Doesn't it seem a little odd to leave out the potential answers that A) our positions are better able to withstand criticism by virtue of consistency, B) our grievances have more meat to them, C) we aren't nearly as hypocritical as the Lefties (see the gay-bashing of Gannon and virtually every other conservative as just one example), and D) we generally apply the same standards for behavior to our own that we do to the other side, something they never do?
In other words, maybe we're kickin' ass not just cause we're Right, but also cause we're right. And they're wrong. Our arguments are stronger and our grievances actually have substance. It seems odd for the winner in a competition to ignore those possibilities, but Republicans do seem to be good at it.
Qwinn
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...And now we know why we Freepers are an Oval Office-coveting HILLARY's Target No. 1.
See RICHARD POE's disturbing Book of CLARITY titled...
'HILLARY's Secret War: The CLINTON Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists'
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314562/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340673/posts
Transcript of Jeff Gannon's interview with Wolf Blitzer
CNN ^ | 2/10/05
Goldberg should get his facts straight.
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And besides, let he who has never registered with a gay military porn site under a different name cast the first stone.Dang right we have! I bet everybody here has done that! Time to kick the closet door down! Kick the platform shoes away, sweep the tutus and the lingerie aside, FReepers, are you with me?
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[Sound of crickets chirping and a lonely prairie wind...] .
OK, well, never mind...
I doubt anyone here in the Free Republic will cast that first stone.
However, with the pride that one should have in being gay (I mean, they have that Gay Pride parade every year, don't they?), you'd expect at least one or two smelly lefties to throw it.
I'm going to second that, because this thing is going to heat up.
As example, take the House Bank scandal. While it was more than 3:1 Dems to Repubs, many of the Dems involved are still in office. Not a single Republican that I am aware of made it through the primaries. Conservatives generally know they will be held accountable, even by - or especially by - their allies.
"The most obvious one is that the Right's hunting preserve is teeming with big game."
More like shooting puppies in a barrel!
The MSM has become so complacent and self assured of it's own omniscience and infallibility, that the thought that they could be wrong about something is simply not a consideration.
Rathergate is a perfect example. To this day, Rather cannot admit that he could have been wrong.
This hubris is what will be the downfall of these self made "gods" of journalism.
A personal request: could someone please make Helen Thomas the next target in the press corp? ;-)
He seems to be saying, IMO, it's because there are more lefties in the media than conservatives, which makes for a more target-rich environment for the conservative bloggers, but I believe it's more because we have right on our side.
Are you telling me a prominent Democrat could do crack cocain and still get elected? Come on, that could never happen.
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HILLARY's heating things up is precisely what Freerepublic.com Founder JIM ROBINSON predicts and is preparing for in RICHARD POE's Book Forward of 'HILLARY's Secret War'
It's Pray and Prepare time, USA.
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I have the forward to my copy of Richard Poe's book signed by THE MAN who wrote it. Braggart. Name dropper. :) You could not be more right about this. The truth is the biggest danger that there is and this is where it is found.
Actually, Michael Barone already answered it.
Left-wing bloggers are full of hatred and forcing the left further left.
Right-wing bloggers have taken aim at the MSM.
In effect, both are using the internet as a deadly weapon. One to shoot themselves. The other to shoot their enemies.
Just so. The leftists in the MSM have gotten so arrogant and over the top with their lies, that they can be seen with the dullest eye once anyone looks at them. No doubt the right also makes an occasional mistake, but there's nothing like the kind of arrogance you see on the left.
That's the result of their having a monopoly on the media for such a very long time. When you have a monopoly, you start to get careless and take things for granted. You can do whatever you like and no one can stop you.
Until now.
That goes without saying, which is why Jonah didn't. It is so friggin' obvious that centrists & lefties reading the article come to that conclusion by themselves and are therefore virtually "Hanntized".
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