OK.
Consider the immediate responses in these two threads: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288308/posts or http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288216/posts
No discussion of the specific comments at all; just venom about the author of same. Some of the FReepers on those threads are laughably unhinged.
There are thousands of freepers. How can you make a blanket commendation of a diverse group like that?