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Regarding Bill O'Reilly's attacks on FR: The best defense is a good offense
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Posted on 08/02/2007 3:20:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Edited on 08/02/2007 3:29:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Hey, Bill!

You've got a tough job up there in the clouds riding herd over the folks. Apparently you're having problems with the folks speaking out against the America hating left. But that's ok. Just keep your eyes closed, ears plugged and your jaws flapping. Eventually the folks will tune you out and we'll all be better off for it.

FReepers:

We're taking flak so we know we're over the target. Fire at will! Fire for effect!


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: elitist; fr; frinthenews; headthattalks; ivorytower; loofahman; oreilly; pajamapeoplerule; pinhead; popinjay; tabloidtelevision; unfairandunbalanced
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To: mware; michigander
BOR had one editorial comment,"Free Republic needs a permanent monitor on their site."

He's demonstrated to one and all that he's an ignorant pinhead who knows next to nothing about Internet forums.

241 posted on 08/02/2007 7:19:02 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: Admin Moderator
Free Republic Admin Moderator:

Doing the work that other Americans won't do. :-)

242 posted on 08/02/2007 7:23:36 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: Jim Robinson
I think all of this goes to show we can’t just ZOT trolls but, we should leave counteracting comments to disprove whatever is claimed/said. We never know when someone will dig up trolls and try to make them look like the norm.
243 posted on 08/02/2007 7:30:45 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: an amused spectator
Actually, that makes sense.. we need to run down to Home Depot and pick up some mods on the cheap..
244 posted on 08/02/2007 7:32:28 PM PDT by mnehring (Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
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To: Cementjungle

BOR threatened by the internet. Oh, yes, I can see where you are right.


245 posted on 08/02/2007 7:33:46 PM PDT by voiceinthewind
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To: mnehrling
I think all of this goes to show we can’t just ZOT trolls but, we should leave counteracting comments to disprove whatever is claimed/said. We never know when someone will dig up trolls and try to make them look like the norm.

I think this is the true source of Mr O'Reilly's angst. The Viking Kitties won't work for him at any price.

I came for the conservatism but I stayed for the Viking Kitties. They so cute when they slaying trolls!

246 posted on 08/02/2007 7:42:01 PM PDT by Duke Nukum (...till pity is become a trade, and generosity a science that makes men rich...)
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To: Jim Robinson

I think you’re wasting your ammo. After reading the reports here, I then read the transcript. Kristinn did great, and the only point O’Reilly made was there are some stupid posts here. Which is correct. But his target is Kos, and the convention.

He said today that Free Republic was NOTHING as crazy as Kos. All he is doing is setting Kos up to wack them as hard as he can. I say let him.


247 posted on 08/02/2007 7:42:38 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Admin Moderator
YOUR SECRET IS SAFE WITH ME!
248 posted on 08/02/2007 7:44:17 PM PDT by LilAngel (No blood for quislings)
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To: Admin Moderator

BO’s remarks about a “paid” moderator reveals clearly that he knows nothing about FR. There are thousands of threads with thousands of posted remarks. It would be impossible for one moderator to scan all of them, even in a day. The way Jim has it set up is the only possible way to moderate this site. I think we do a pretty good job of moderating ourselves via the abuse function.


249 posted on 08/02/2007 7:44:37 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: jonrick46

I completely agree.


250 posted on 08/02/2007 7:48:16 PM PDT by Mrs.Nooseman (Proudly supporting our Troops and Allies!!!!)
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To: Fido969

You mean like the way Murtha uses the troops to whack Bush?


251 posted on 08/02/2007 7:51:31 PM PDT by LilAngel (No blood for quislings)
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I'm boycotting O'Really. And I don't have cable!

But Oh, really, to say "right wing hate" is to speak redundantly, as we have been taught since the time of French Revolution (when was it, 1651?) that "right wing" = "hate". You never hear "left wing hate site", because the left wing is for the good things, and that's assumed and understood by everyone. Hence the Che Guevara cult, when it's well known he was a mass murderer. But oh, really, a well intentional one. Free healthcare for everyone!

Sysiphean labours, FRiends.

252 posted on 08/02/2007 7:52:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: mnehrling
Actually, that makes sense.. we need to run down to Home Depot and pick up some mods on the cheap..

LOL! O'Really would be in favor of "undocumented Americans" working the line at FR.

Some people say a Moderator is made outta mud
An undocumented Moderator's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You read sixteen thousand posts, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the Free Republic board

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my keyboard and I got online
I read sixteen thousand posts of FR trolls
And Jim Robinson said "Well, a-bless my soul"

You read sixteen thousand posts, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the Free Republic board

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Zottin' and deletin' are my middle name
I was raised in the Smoky Backroom by an ol' Viking lion
Cain't no lowdown troll make me walk the line

You read sixteen thousand posts, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the Free Republic board

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta trolls didn't, a lotta trolls died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you, then the left one will

You read sixteen thousand posts, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the Free Republic board

253 posted on 08/02/2007 8:00:46 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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To: maica

It will attract their attention, it may even reach BOR ears, it won’t make the air, as it doesn’t promote his agenda, which is that the right also has ‘hate’ sites.

I’m not as pessimistic about this as a lot of freepers, mainly because I listened closely, and heard him carefully parse his words. He never said that FR was a hate site, but he did INFER that some posts are over the line.

Your analogy is an excellant one that most everyone can understand.

Bill is also being very short sighted, this kind of stuff just PO’s the segment of the viewers that are a significant part of his audience support.

The part that irritates me is that Kristinn didn’t get that fairly defend something that is fully defensible, although I understand why.

I’m not going to stomp off as some here have done, vowing never to watch again, I’ll still watch. But it’s similar to finding out that someone is cheating you, things will never be the same.


254 posted on 08/02/2007 8:02:01 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Fido969

Whatever. All the facts are in. O’Reilly blew it. He either apologizes for his overreaction or he doesn’t. Either way, his credibility is shot.


255 posted on 08/02/2007 8:20:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
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To: mware
"Dodd went on the show so over the weekend he can brag about how he confronted BOR."

Dodd really did take O'rielly to school. You could tell when Bill realized his empty headed, shallow attacks fell flat, because he then tried to fire up the drama with a shouting match. Then Dodd just laughed him off.

This has to be the worst week in the history of that show. O'rielly has made a total horse's ass out of himself. Horse's asses may indeed be more intelligent though, and I'm sure they sound better when they make noise.

256 posted on 08/02/2007 8:29:55 PM PDT by KoRn (Just Say NO ....To Liberal Republicans - FRED THOMPSON FOR PRESIDENT!)
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To: tennteacher
Welcome to FreeRepublic from another noob. ;^)

He does seem to slip into socialist idiocy on occasion even though he is normally level-headed. He really p*ssed me off about the Swifties as I served same (An Thoi) as the idiot,lying, socialist sKerry. Did ya know he served in Vietnam?

Excess profits taxes?.....FR a hate site?....bah !

O'Reilly slips into idiocy now and then. I think he has a couple of koolade drinking, closet libs as assistants doing research(?) and doesn't have a clue. You are right though, he wouldn't make a pimple on an honest Conservative's fanny.

Nam Vet

257 posted on 08/02/2007 8:35:19 PM PDT by Nam Vet (Timely reporting from Attila's right flank)
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To: FMBass
What I perceive is that he is auditioning for CBS News to replace Katey.

That'll be a trick--getting the news in between selling his books in 30 minutes!

258 posted on 08/02/2007 8:43:12 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: an amused spectator
.....even at the same time that FOXNews is losing viewers on the Right by the bushel.

Is that really true? I know I watch a LOT less FOXNews now (can't stand that brainless moron Colmes and his constant, shallow and rude interruptions). I still watch BOR almost daily, but it is no longer a must and my interest could chill with more stupid and outright disingenuous, Dan Blather type "research".

Are FNC prime time numbers really dropping?

Nam Vet

259 posted on 08/02/2007 8:46:14 PM PDT by Nam Vet (Timely reporting from Attila's right flank)
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To: Nam Vet
I don't have any figures, just personal anecdotal.

I used to watch Fox & Friends every morning, and some FOX stuff in prime time.

Dropped my cable in part because FOX was no longer holding my attention.

I've found that I don't miss them a whit.

260 posted on 08/02/2007 9:05:50 PM PDT by an amused spectator (AGW: If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a research lab, you never know what you'll find)
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