DU is a garbage dump. Isn't is odd, though, that whenever the press reports on hateful, vile web sites full of nuts, FR is the one that is mentioned.
Do you really think that people who cite FreeRepublic as vile and hateful, and say nothing about Democratic Underground, have actually visited and read from both sites? Honestly, I had read for years on FreeRepublic how ghastly a place DU was, but it was nothing like seeing it for myself firsthand. They are raving, hate-driven ideologues. The only effect facts have on them is to ratchet their hatefulness up several more notches. It is scary!
I once told a liberal in a chat room about the foul and hateful things said on DU. He told me that he didn't believe it and it was "probably a Republican stunt to make democrats look bad".