Free Republic: glass ant farm for zealots

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

[Bean Counter]

Proud Member since 1998....and I have never soiled my hands (or hearing) with a Vichy Chicks CD...

[Eddie01]

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

useless...

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.

Dear Mr. Beckwith,

You are completely wrong. "extremism", "train wreck" these are terms meant to disuade your readership from probing deeper.

Why Sir?, would you seek to divert attention unless we at FreeRepublic were on target to destroy your fraud.

At FreeRepublic we encourage engagement with all sources of information, you Sir, seek to shut them down.

FreeRepublic is beyond you. Like a child fallen through an ice covered pond, you hopelessly claw at the unforgiving cover above. Your whimsicle moment in the spotlight, where a few remnant curios bite, will be displaced by a roar of indepentent human intellects stomping on your anthopoligical head.

Rest well, fading discredit monger.

Eddie01

[jmc813]

This guy's face is completely out of proportion with the rest of his head. And what's with the eyebrows?

[Pox]

The day we start tailoring our replies and comments based on what the MSM, libs, socialists, commies, Nazis, Muzzies, etc. might think about what we say, is the day this website and its members are doomed.

Well said!

[twonie]

Ha ha! And that is about the extent of it, isn't it!

[Sloth]

There's old daily traffic stats here, but unfortunately they stop about 3 years ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/weekday-report

[Issaquahking]

Thought it was me and my neighbor only, when he launched the two "Dixie runts" CD's of mine, out over a cliff, and I tagged them with #6 bird shot from my 12 gauge shotgun. Have to be careful and watch for those photographers and reporters, cowering in the bushes.

Just might find myself on the cover of "Rolling Stone"....

[MHGinTN]

Vichy chix has a nice truthful ring to it.

[mewzilla]

Morphological and Functional Diversity of Ant Mandibles

Whoa. Who knew?

[MHGinTN]

Just out of curiosity, Jim, under what name did this Ivor dumpster-diver Tossell post at FR? What a maroon

[ConservativeChris]

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

Bite me."

I'm laughing so hard I am crying. Too Funny!

[devane617]

This story helped relieve my constipation. Thanks!!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You didn't seem to "get" Beckwith's point: the author of the article used improper grammar.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

It's the camera angle (taken from a sort of lower than eye-level point toward his chin). He could use a tan, though.

[SShultz460]

Don't forget Person of the Year

[DouglasKC]

is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived - as a crowd of "the most paranoid, xenophobic and reactionary characters the political landscape has to offer" who "attempt to outdo each other in posting the most pungent, juvenile reactions to stories"?

It doesn't matter. If there were 1,000,000 freepers that supported the Dixie chicks, the liberal media would cull the remarks of the one that doesn't. They're always going to twist and take remarks out of context.

This article only shows that freepers are effective in combating liberalism.

[DouglasKC]

The day we start tailoring our replies and comments based on what the MSM, libs, socialists, commies, Nazis, Muzzies, etc. might think about what we say, is the day this website and its members are doomed. One should never, never, kowtow, or bow to liberals. They will never, never love us, as George Bush should have figured out about 5 years ago. No amount of "can't we just get along" will ever work, and trying to appease those that are unappeasable will be the death of conservatism. You know, freedom of speech, and all that rot. The leftists would like nothing more than to shut it down.

Well said.

[Beckwith]

Huh?

[subterfuge]

But before this thread descends into Dixie Chick and Canada bashing, is this really how we FReepers want to be perceived

Wow. Thats a great testimony of what you really think about the fine people on this forum. Way to get people on your side.

Is not the beauty of the forum that we can say what we believe without having it corrupted by some editor or attacked unchecked by some troll?