Free Republic: glass ant farm for zealots

Globe and Mail ^ | 10/27/06 | IVOR TOSSELL

[mad_as_he$$]

I bet that paragraph pained him. The fact that this terrible site actually did the MSM's job must hurt.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

There does seem to be some of that, sometimes. At other times, threads are much more egalitarian (is that the proper use of the word?) and a wide opinion of views is not discouraged.

It seems to depend on the time of day/week and the thread topic.

Then there are freepers who apparently call on other freepers to bully a dissenter into submission......

[P-Marlowe]

So it is that, day in and day out, Freepers attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories.

Speaking of John Edwards... Didn't Ann Coulter hint that maybe he plays the bassoon.

[DuncanWaring]

They left out "fierce, warlike tribe".

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Well done!

[twonie]

None of us reall cares what the moonbats think about us, but as I have said many times before here - they are watching us and feasting on our general nastiness over here.

[weegee]

This is Free Republic, an exercise in political extremism that, despite being and something of an anthropological train wreck, keeps popping up square in the mainstream.

FR is considered "extreme" conservativism, and not properly recognized as more mainstream conservative voter opinion, because the socialist utopians are so blind to believing that theirs is the ONLY way.

FR is the mainstream. The left thinks that Rush Limbaugh is "extreme" as well. The audience wouldn't be as large if it only represented a fringe. When one half pretends that the other HALF shouldn't have a say ("conservatives should be like children in days of old, seen and not heard"), they may be shocked to realize we DO have a voice even if the MSM tries to shut us out.

[twonie]

Everything canadians do is funny (and pathetic at the same time), and most of it is unintentionally so. Check out any canadian newspaper on the internet. Just read the headlines to start laughing. Go on into the articles and you can roll on the floor.

[Beckwith]

At least Freepers have some skill in constructing a sentence, unlike the writer.

This is Free Republic, an exercise in political extremism that, despite being and something of an anthropological train wreck, keeps popping up square in the mainstream.

[twonie]

Any time the Globe and Maiil is on your case, you are headed in the right direction. Keep on.

[Beckwith]

Read para #6.

The University of Toronto should ask for his degree back.

[twonie]

Is CTV government owned? I didn't know that. I know CBC is, but I thought CTV was privately owned. Not that it makes a dime's worth of difference. CTV seems like it owned by the CMA (you had to be there).

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Yeah, but at least he used spell check. (groan)

[TexConfederate1861]

EXACTLY! :)

[twonie]

Pay them no mind. Everything looks little to canadians. They are somehow built to view the world that way. Nobody pays them any mind for the most part, so they are put off by that. They live cheek by jowl with the greatest and most successful country in the world, and they are REALLY put off by that. Their entire country runs by monopolies. And their national elections can only be described as "Saturday Night Specials". They are being slowly strangled by their unions - both public and private. They hate WalMart. I'll stop now, but believe me I could go on....

[Red Badger]

Heck, some on the "other side" might even be "converted" with logic and reasoning when they see it in its "natural" state of free discourse.........

[itsamelman]

[B.O. Plenty]

Congratulations to IVOR TOSSELL of the " Globe and Mail".

He finally made it to the big time.

More people will read this here on FR than would have ever read it on the G&M.

I never heard of Mr Tossell, or even the G&M before...probably would have never read any of his "stuff" had it not appeared on FR.

[Arrowhead1952]

We are being talked about ping.

[Freedom4US]

This guy is an "English Major" - thinking outside the box is heavily discouraged, if not an outright criminal offense. They're working on that too.