Free Republic Purge: Conservative Web Site Bans Giuliani Supporters

NY Observer ^ | Published: May 24, 2007 | by Rebecca Sinderbrand

[Eurotwit]

Just came over this. Thought some of you mind find it interesting.

Cheers.

[Eurotwit]

Someone posted on this article under the nick EV?

Was it you?

Cheers and a good weekend to you,

Euro.

[RightWhale]

Appears to be a non-event except in the imagination of some amateur historians.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

A lot of these morons weren't banned, they committed FReepercide on their own.

Couldn't handle the truth on Giuliani so they fell on their sword.

[Eurotwit]

It this a serious magazine??

[xcamel]

Sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield comedy skit...

[steve86]

the site’s new “anti-Giuliani, anti-abortion jihad.”

Onward, Jihad!

[Yaelle]

Finally, one popular theory holds that the Free Republic is secretly hoping for another Clinton presidency that would send its Alexa ratings soaring back to levels it hasn’t experienced since its halcyon days of the Clinton impeachment, when a since-soured relationship with blog pioneer Matt Drudge and overwhelming anti-Clinton sentiment in Republican ranks helped make Free Republic one of the hottest Web sites in the nation.

This is how they think, so they project it onto us.

They think only of their own personal gains and only appear to give a hoot for the country as begun in 1776. So they assume we are the same and would rather have no USA left but a thriving Free Republic website. (They also imply that conservatism can only thrive as an underground opposition, which would have put Rush Limbaugh out of work 7 years ago; last I heard, the MajaRushie is doing fine.)

[rockrr]

"(They asked that their names be kept out of this story for fear of antagonizing the famously frisky site regulars.)"

Then screw you cowards. Stand up like a man or crawl back under your bridge...

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Kool

[OwenKellogg]

“They were victimized, they say,... “

That’s just so sad. Sniff.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I though it was a purge of liberals not just Rudy fan - oh, wait - never mind.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"...the site’s current campaign is spreading a dangerous primary-season meme of Rudy Giuliani as big-city liberal..."

Giuliani is a "big-city liberal" and if the meme is dangerous then that is more reflective of his liberalism than any "current campaign".

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

100,000 reply thread!!!

[loreldan]

famously frisky site regulars

Although I'm not supporting Rudy in the primaries, I've posted some things supportive of him. I've not been banned so far.

[Jim Robinson]

LOL.

Check out the photo they ran with Mojo’s article:

http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/rudypride.jpg

“Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg marching in the gay pride parade in Manhattan in 2001.”

I rest my case.

[RightWhale]

Can’t say; don’t know anything about it. Probably some neo-marxist beatnik Greenwich Village rag of little note.

[Colofornian]

anti-abortion jihad

OK. Who declared war? Was war waged on the womb or from the womb? (I don't think anyone smuggled in arms to the pre-born babies, except for the "two" they naturally come equipped with)

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Robinson, it should be noted, famously blasted George W. Bush’s presidential candidacy back in 2000, before a dramatic late-campaign about-face that saw him emerge as one of the GOP ticket’s biggest supporters.

Bush at least stood up for the unborn and was pro-gun & pro-tax cuts.

Sadly, we all saw that Bush only gave lip service to conservatism. The opposition to Giuliani and other RINOs simply means we don't want to make that same mistake again.