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Kristinn,

Thank you for being the very rational face of FreeRepublic on Bill’s show.

If the research O’Reilly and his staff did on FreeRepublic is any indication of the poor research his staff does on a regular basis on other topics, he is the worst violator of the No-Spin Zone on record.

You did a great job given the absolute garbage you were handed. The “I hate blacks” and “homosexuals are dogs” are phrases from the titles of original source documents, not posted comments by Freepers. And O’Reilly and his staff did not read the home page where the standards for posting are listed. He also didn’t know that posters who are registered here have a “Report Abuse” tag under each comment to report “vile” comments.

You tried to say these things, but Bill was too busy trying to lecture you on how to “fix” something that does not need “fixing”.

FreeRepublic is the best policed site on the web—because it is done by those care—both moderators and posters—who want to maintain the quality of this site.

FreeRepublic was slandered tonight. Jim Robinson needs to ask for time to rebut Bill’s sloppy research and broad-brush smear of this website. Maybe a video link-up could be done with Jim and with you and with Bill. FR would ask for this because we don’t want our name besmirched, and lies and falsehoods should not go unchallenged. Unless the left wing sites that truly are the definition of “hate sites”.

The record needs correcting.

Bill O’Reilly showed himself to be a bloviating blowhard tonight, who does not vet his research, but he feels qualified to tell us what we should do and what we “owe he country”.

What hogwash.

Anyway, you did a wonderful job and we are fortunate to have such a well spoken and well behaved spokesperson to represent us.

Thank you for doing this interview—I don’t think I could have done it in as classy a manner as you did.