Photo gratuitously swiped from an LP'er.
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Bill O’Reilly has no idea of the positive, insightful and creative forum that Free Republic has always been.
The humor, intellect and knowledge is unsurpassed.
Freepers Rule the Earth.
And while he should have expressed a greater understanding of the nature and problems of an Internet forum, I agree with his charge to FR.
BTW, if any well paid Newscorp employees are reading this -- your man O'Reilly seems to want to treat our nation's essential American (Judeo-Christian) political philosophy with a filter of Margaret Meade-like cultural relativism, despite his recent book. Please let him know that it's a problem, to have one foot on a boat and the other on the dock.
What we really want to know is did you see Laurie Due? LOL!
I never watch O’Reilly,he’s a,oh,I don’t know,I never watch him;)
The fact is, O’Reilly doesn’t like any website that doesn’t make him money — which means the only website he approves of is his own.
He hates the web because he can’t control it. He hates the web because he can’t have the government control it. He hates the idea that he is not a gatekeeper of information like the old days — that the web opens up opinion to people other than himself.
This is one of the key points to understand about O’Reilly. It colors every response he has to the internet. I mean, my God!...people are able to express themselves without having to pay their dues on “Inside Edition” or a paycheck from a legitimate media source. We can’t have that! It’s anarchy!
“Most Ridiculous item of the day”
Calling this site a hate site.
Does BOR realize FReepers are supporters of FOX?
Prep H on its’ way! Got you the giant tube!
O'Reilly and Lanny Davis just called Free Republic a Right Wing Hate site
Posted by kjam22
On News/Activism 07/30/2007 5:08:38 PM PDT · 464 replies · 11,774+ views
vanity | 7-30-2007 | kjam22
Bill O'Reilly Slams Freerepublic
Posted by WyCoKsRepublican
On General/Chat 07/29/2007 3:49:13 PM PDT · 178 replies · 6,232+ views
Great job as always Kristinn! I don’t much go for BOR’s populist style but he hates liberals so he isn’t all bad.
He has no clue how this is grassroots funded.
Let him go play pattycake with CodePink next time.
Watched the segment and durn near popped a gasket! I've said many times, O'Reilly is like a drunk in the neighborhood bar, always wanting to pick a fight after a couple of beers. He was determined to pick a fight with you, Kristinn, as a follow-up to the "FR hate site" BS he spewed the other day.
Professional moderators? Boo-Sheep! We have thousands online at any moment who will hit "abuse" in a N.Y. minute if racist/hate/bigotry/overt sexual/inciting violence, or what-ever out-of-bounds comments are posted, and the moderators do a DAMN good job of filtering out the crap BOR claims FR is loaded with.
I'm thinking Bill O' needs an enema (or maybe a good ole fashioned FReepin). Ya did real good, Kristinn!
And in case O'R is reading this, I may watch you Bill but it's only because I haven't figured out how to use the remote..........However I have figured out what the "mute" button is for.
As to BOR’s comments about moderation, we could moderate ourselves by posting reactions to people who show exceptionally poor taste. Or should people here believe in “live and let live”? (let jerks be jerks?) Or maybe we just give the standard liberal answer: if you don’t like it, just change the channel?
Faie and Balanced???
http://tinyurl.com/yshxox
If the subject is critical of the Left O’Riley will go out of his way to find anything to criticize Conservatives...as if to say they both share blame. You know, both hurricanes and whirlwinds involve movements of air. Just make the statement that they do the same thing and leave it there.
But to pull that statement out of the air and make no references to where or when it was posted is unforgivable.
I’m sure there are posters who don’t like blacks, whites, Jews....the list is endless... and have every right to dislike anyone they choose. However, I have never seen any poster with that opinion (however they frame that opinion) supported by the members.
FR posters are hard on every group, but, harsh when harshness is justified. Not a PC poster in the bunch.
Yea...sometimes we make stupid jokes that can be a little ‘insensitive’ and taken ‘the wrong way’. Who hasn’t done that?
This is pathetic. I think it shows just how easily the American public, particularly Republicans, can be manipulated. Freepers is going to let BOR dictate what can and what can not be said on this site? Do we really need BOR to decide for us if this is or is not such a place? Oh no! He said we are a hate site. So what? Again the people that come here regularly know weather this is that type of place or not.
We need to be careful. You check your speech too much and then you end up not having any opinions at all because you might offend someone. This smacks more of manipulation then anything else. How many post does this site have? I can’t even venture a guess but to say there are not at least a few vitriolic post in what must be at least a million is absurd.
I have never seen anything on here that comes close to the hate, foul language, and filth that permeates sites like dailykos or DU.
Saw it and you did great!
You represented the FreeRepublic better than Mr. O’Reilly represented his opinion~~ which I felt was very soft.