Posted on 11/19/2008 12:26:59 PM PST by kristinn
A Democrat is poised to take the reins of power in Washington, D.C., and Fresno resident Jim Robinson is feeling a sense of deja vu.
It was President Bill Clinton's 1992 election that sparked Robinson's political activism, driving him to create a Web site that made him a grass-roots leader among conservatives before Clinton's term was over.
This year, as Barack Obama prepares to sweep into office on another tide of Democratic votes, Robinson and denizens of that Web site, freerepublic.com, are preparing to do battle again.
"We'll double and redouble our efforts to fight for what is right," Robinson says. "We've got people just spitting nails."
Free Republic, founded by Robinson in September 1996, doesn't attract much attention from the national press and is not well-known among political experts. Many of its postings have a decidedly fringe feel.
But long before Red State, Daily Kos and Little Green Footballs arrived on the Internet political scene, Free Republic was building an audience -- and becoming a formidable political force among conservatives and libertarians that is admired even by some who disagree with its political philosophy.
In a study last month by the Internet ratings firm comScore, Free Republic ranked fifth among political blogs, just behind heavyweights The Huffington Post, Politico, Drudge Report and RealClearPolitics.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Some sites like FR and Drudge are heavyweights because they've done something and been around for a while. Huff is heavyweight because it's got big financial backing.
Not at all. Sometime next spring I won't be suprised if the Home Page is a yellow police line wrapper.
God Bless you Jim and God Bless Free Republic!!!
Anywhere other than the immediate metropolitan areas: San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
Those areas, plus creative gerrymandering, have pretty much hijacked the entire state, politically.
Yes, spread the word:
The way to fight Marxism and neo-Marxism is PUSH HARD NOW.
Whenever they attempt to build their Marxis programs and time-bombs, arouse everyone who can be aroused. Spread the evidence far and wide. Create massive public pressure. Make it the amnesty battle squared. Don’t be afraid of “McCarthyism.” Just give out more evidence and use the word: Marxist.
Another word to use now instead of “conservative” is “American.” Use the word. American, Americanism, Americanist.
Use the occasions to teach about America being necessarily founded on the rights to Life, Liberty and Property — including unadulterated business ownership without institutional theft by government.
Capitalism is just economic freedom. The three pillars are 1. Private Property, 2. The Profit Motive, and 3. Free and Defended Markets.
If the electors actually elect him, we are in the eye of the storm and the winds are strongest in ahead of us.
I thought it was shown to have come from one blogger, not a FR post itself. The blog may have been quoted on FR, but it was not hosted here to my knowledge.
And the left consistently used the straw man arguments like attending a "madrasa" and "was sworn in on a koran" to shoot down the legit ones (such as being enrolled as a muslim, attending koran class, and still being able to recite the islamic call to prayer in arabic).
Love you both! CONGRATS JIM!!!
Why would the MSM call a phycology professor to get information about a war?!!! This must be the LEFT WING MEDIA’s go-to-guy about everything.
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“I view communications as even more important than the bombs and bullets,” Pratkanis told Newsweek magazine
Pratkanis feels he is helping “define” the story for reporters
Pratkanis, who discounts Bush administration reports of the war’s progress
Pratkanis, who makes his home telephone number available to reporters
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As an expert on propaganda, psychology professor Anthony Pratkanis was braced for calls from reporters following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
“It finally slowed down today,” Pratkanis said a week after the U.S. military action began.
Among the media outlets that have contacted Pratkanis about war propaganda and psychological operations are Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Toronto Star, Sacramento Bee, Scripps Howard News Service, CBS News, KION/KCBS TV, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Kansas City Star, Hamilton Spectator in Ontario, Contra Costa Times, KCBA-TV, MSNBC News, and South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s biggest English-language newspaper.
Pratkanis and other UCSC faculty are in demand as journalists seek insight into various aspects of the war.
We are going to have to fight even harder this time. The MSM is even more leftwing than during Clinton’s day. So left wing, they screwed Hillary out of the nomination so Commie Boy would win.
And a whole lot of views it gets like triple the hits that FR and other sites get politically. It even gets more hits than Drudge.
I was reading for upwards of a year before 9-11 but didn’t sign up to be able to post until after than event. Before that, I’d been reading WND.
Congrats on the honor coming from this news report. This is so much needed after all the tech issues FR has been dealing with. :)
The one thing Kos has done that FR does not seem to do is encourage its readers to donate to sympathetic candidates and causes. Have you ever thought of moving in that direction?
I stand corrected. Thanks
Another tide of votes? Sorry but Klintoon wasn't "swept" into office on a "tide" of votes. He got less than 40% as I recall.
Just as Rush has afforded us thought provoking review, analysis and public input regarding news and issues critical to our republic via the airwaves, JRs dedication to task and sacrifice of time, money and talent has given America another critical venue of communication and sharing of ideas.
Thank you Jim. May we be blessed with your presence for many years to come. Good health to you.
Taken from the article:
“University of California at Santa Cruz psychology professor Anthony Pratkanis sees similarities in Free Republic and Daily Kos, though they come from different ends of the political spectrum. “Both put out the spin that their supporters want to hear; both either exaggerate facts or just plain make them up,” he said.”
Ignorance is bliss...
Semper fi
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