Thank you Monica for introducing me to Free Republic! Well, it was actually a link Matt had up to FR at some point in early 1998.
I had to look twice, seeing your sign up date is 7/7/07.
New name, same old Freeper! ;^)
Merry Christmas, FRiend!
Me, too.
people debated the subject in AOL chat rooms.
Was it the AOL chat rooms that made the story? I remember I was following Drudge for some. I took a peak at Drudge just before going to bed on a Saturday night, and he had the siren up with some teaser text. I watched it develop over the weekend, and mentioned to my allergist Monday morning that a big story was going to break. Rush then turned it into a story too big for the Drive-by Media to ignore.
Good times.
Same here. Was introduced to Drudge & FR (don't remember the order, but close together - too long ago :) in '98. I attended the March for Justice in October of '98 on the mall in DC (Drudge was there, among many others), the House Manager's rally in May of '99 (also in DC - met Jim Robinson), and have been an avid FR reader, occasional poster, ever since. Those were the days :)