[DouglasKC]

The newer members on the forum don't know what it was like during the Clinton era. It was so frustrating to *know* that the media was completely biased. Rush Limbaugh was doing his share to get the word out, but there was still no way for the masses of conservatives to unite and speak out against the lies of the Clintons.

And then...FreeRepublic! Oh man, was that great. Finally you could take the lying journalists and dissect and disassemble their lies one by one. It felt great, empowering. It also felt great to know that there were at least a few people that agreed. And as FreeRepublic grew you knew that there were MILLIONS of people that agreed with you.

Jim Robinson is a great American!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Jim Robinson is a great American!.....

I would put him on the same level as George Washington.
Both saved this country, and both saved FREEDOM.

[Milhous]

The newer members on the forum don't know what it was like during the Clinton era. It was so frustrating to *know* that the media was completely biased. Rush Limbaugh was doing his share to get the word out, but there was still no way for the masses of conservatives to unite and speak out against the lies of the Clintons.

Some of us newer members instinctively recognized Olds Media as propaganda years (decades?) before the Clintons came along. Fairly easy to discern propaganda when you find yourself losing all the time on every issue despite probability predicting that you ought to win half the time in a fair system. Thank you to the great people on FR who taught me many things during the past couple of years.

[Nita Nupress]

The newer members on the forum don't know what it was like during the Clinton era. It was so frustrating to *know* that the media was completely biased. Rush Limbaugh was doing his share to get the word out, but there was still no way for the masses of conservatives to unite and speak out against the lies of the Clintons.

And then...FreeRepublic! Oh man, was that great. Finally you could take the lying journalists and dissect and disassemble their lies one by one. It felt great, empowering. It also felt great to know that there were at least a few people that agreed.

Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking.  It was so different then.  "Blog" was not even a word. Conservatives were forced to read their daily liberal hard-copy newspaper to get the news, only to be frustrated by the obvious media bias. And for most of us, it was hard work to scan the entire Internet to find out the "rest of the story," especially when it was about the Clintons.  When we first clicked on Drudge's link that said "Whitewater," many of us had no clue what that word meant; we were just curious about the word and what was behind it.

And once we got here, gosh, there were so many things to talk about besides Whitewater -- the Oklahoma City bombing, Chinagate, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, all the other people on the Clinton Body Count list and the circumstances surrounding their deaths, Ash Alerts, blah, blah, blah...

There are many old FR threads where FReepers reminisce about the moment they discovered FreeRepublic, and they all seem to have one common theme:  It was like finding out you had a long-lost twin brother or sister after spending years of being the lonely "only child."  This seemed especially true for people who lived in the blue liberal places.

For anyone who is writing a book that includes FR, this phenomenon needs to be included, IMHO.