I’m actually going to vote this year based on the policies that the candidates espouse, and not anything to do with any of their personal foibles, alleged or proven.
If we post without proof and it turns out to be fabricated material we are as bad as ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. I don’t think freepers want to stoop to their level. Journalistic fraud is not something to be proud of.
Can I post my exclusive Hill & Huma video?
A moose once bit my sister.
I think the more fascinating part of this story, is not the man’s claims themselves, but the timing and motivation.
Hopefully someone somewhere is taking note of this man’s finances? political contacts?
Is he “beholden” to anyone?
This is all very suspicious -and very Clintonesque.
Keep the anti-Obama powder dry until he kills the beast. Keep pulling the posts.
When the Juanita Broaddrick story was first posted here there was even less evidence. We definitely need to be all over this story.
I don’t know how hard this would be to pull off, but you could possibly allow YouTube links after this fashion: add a line in personal information for a forumite’s YouTube channel (or one that they at least claim to be their’s).
Then when someone links to YouTube it only goes to the specified video on that channel, which would mean that they would be at least tacitly claiming responsibility for content behind any link.
The upshot is that they can’t just ‘channel hop’ in their preferences because that would invalidate other links.
It won’t absolutely prevent things like porn or objectionable material, but it should slow it down a great deal.
I think crap like that is beneath Free Republic’s dignity.
I say ignore it unless some REAL FACTS can be substantiated.
BUMP-TO-THE-TRUTH
I think we have had enough of this. It has nothing to do with ideas. The people to whom it matters if he did this aren’t going to vote for him anyway, and those who are going to vote for him don’t care. Enough, enough, enough.
Without absolute proof it’s a rumor/smear. A rumor/smear posting at FR left standing is the same as condoning the rumor/smear in the eyes of some. I don’t think we at FR want our integrity associated with such unsubstantiated and questionable rumor/smear.
We will be better off without such garbage posted at the site we all attend, and it would be better for fearless leader that nobody post such crap at his site. JR did not create this site for crap. We don’t return day after day to this site for crap.
ah’ve sed ‘nuff.
There where allegations of oral sex underneath a desk and some activity involving a cigar.
Initially, the only source for the allegations was some guy that had a somewhat popular website and liked to wear a fedora.
FR ran with it from day one.
I'm not suggesting the two are equal, I'm just offering it up for what it's worth.
Raise the bar. Raise it HIGH.
Respectfully,
Reep
I’d like to see FR take the high road when it comes to rumors and innuendo, especially something this nasty. If it turns out to be true then it’s up for discussion, otherwise let’s keep this site something we can be proud of.
I think stories from established sites, even WND or Newsmax, should be allowed.
Posts from blogs, unknown sites, etc., should be in Bloggers or Smokey Backroom.
Vanities on this subject should not stay in the News forum.
All IMHO.
We should wait for, or find, real proof that passes the smell test. Anyone can say anything. Democrats usually do.
I’d like to see Obama’s liberal policy ideas and proposals given widespread public scrutiny. They are more than disgusting enough. That ought to be sufficient. Ain’t gonna happen, of course.
This stuff is part of election history, with the added power of being recorded and analyzed by experts here on FR. Collectively, we are smart enough and wise enough to separate fact from fiction.
FR hosted the dismantling of RatherBiased inside of 10 minutes on the National Guard story and the vermin was dispatched without honors.
That idiot Marcel Matley hasn’t been used anywhere in public as a handwriting expert since. The document’s signatures were proven utterly fake the next day here on FR.