Last I heard, directly from JR, when I asked him, was that FR had something like 300,000 members.....that is anything but ‘fringe’.....and most of those members do engage REGULARLY in ‘conversation’......something I don’t think the wellknown Lefty websites like Daily Kos and HuffPo
or Democratic Underground, do.As little as I visit those “neighborhoods” I am continually amazed at what creepy, snarky, hatefilled, and positively anti-life “folks” fill their bandwidths. No, the reason FR has been vilified is precisely because it IS influential, and precisely because you can find serious discussion here.
They know their days are numbered, as their Messiah, at best , stumbles over his own feet, and turns off more and more of his “constituents” with his arrogance and incompetence every day. Team Obama dispatches thugs like the SEIU,who come across as would-be wimpy cousins of the Red Guard, every so often to rough up a TeaParty protestor, because we’re the only thing standing between them and their own version of “The New World Order”, where THEY, courtesy of Dear Leader Obama, are the “Favored Ones”. Pathetic weasels. People should have listened a little more closely when he promised to “remake America”, instead of clapping right through it. It’s going to be us that remakes America, and half the project will be to rollback the damage he’s already done.
I have found that the DU crowd shows up there and typically sounds dreadful compared to the Freepers who combat them.
The Warshpost comments operation is looking more and more like FR and I suspect JR will eventually need to sue them for copyright (and coding) violations.
It is like opening the door to a bad odor, isn't it.