Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
Last night I did a Newsbank search on Obama in the Chicago area. Reading from the older articles forward, it did not take me long to realize this run has been in the works from the beginning.
He has been groomed for this from well, forever.
If anyone has access to Newsbank I would encourage them to do the same. Maybe you will see the amazing disappearing articles!I can access at home through my local library account. Free It would be worth anyone checking into..
Resending (without refreshing) seems to work just fine *providing* one checks to see if the first attempt did actually post (sometimes it gets through despite the blank page). This would make sense whether you refreshed or not. You can check to see if the post got through by clicking 'pings' at the top of most FR pages.
And that's great to hear. The idea of limiting enrollments is not good. We should welcome newcomers. If they're Trolls they'll be rooted out soon enough. And those who are here legitimately will be welcomed warmly. I know how I felt and how I was well received.
We can never change our welcome to the World. It's who we are...
Reminds me of my all time favorite thread:
Anatomy of a ZOT....
:-)
Whatever works is fine. I’ve found my method and will stay with it. I’ve not had problems. With that said, if other methods work, that’s all the better...
“Hillary’s Secret War”
...Ah Linux, heard goods things about it. For a platform it is a rare bird but for those who have it, it does its job.
Read you use Linux for the servers. It is a good program. John will keep FR going despite the storms that may come its way.
I have no doubt....
:-)
Just did a quick search on what Linux and it is a form of unix. Macintosh OSX which I am using, the tiger is unix based. It is suppose to be stable.
Yes. Version 3.0.1. Perhaps there is some JavaScript that is browser specific and misbehaving due to failure to check for 3.X versions.
I forgot to mention that I first have to hit the ‘Back’ button before resending.
That's the really good news. FR is covering issues the Obama loving MSM chooses to hide.
I hope the "trouble reports" contribute positively to shaking out the bugs. I always find that more detail helps me target the problem faster.
I forgot to mention that I first have to hit the ‘Back’ button before resending.
Just kidding... :)
Oops. Got the blank page trying to post my last response and forgot to check to see if it posted anyway. It obviously did. Sorry for the duplicate. Sorry for the duplicate. Sorry for the duplicate. Sorry for the duplicate. ...
It wasn't intentional. I was just lazy and didn't check if the first posted.
Just razzin’...
Consider the Palin email hackers and the Obama website has us on its sites, I think your concern is valid. We need to make this site as secure as possible during this election.
Period. End of story
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