Posted on 12/19/2010 8:36:52 AM PST by kristinn
Wow, those were the days, especially here at FR. “Impeachment summer” on Free Republic was like watching a 300-car freight train run into a wall. ...Day after day, hour by hour, one new expose after another. NOBODY covered it like Free Republic.
My family was walking outside Radio City Music Hall in New York City on this day 12 years ago, and it was a brisk December day and I remember looking across the street and seeing one of those scrolling electric banners going around the corner of an office building and it said, “CLINTON IMPEACHED”.
I still have a framed copy of the "Clinton Impeached" newspaper hanging above a worn out fax machine and the old 386 PC in a corner of my home office! That particular battle was won... but the War continues.
Lifting a glass to Victory, past, present, and future!
We drove down from PA and were there for the first rally where we were introduced to Jim Robinson. We went to the dinner to thank the House Managers at the Hilton. We met Freepers there and spoke with Lucianne and Jonah. It was a huge event, never to be forgotten.
I still have the pins that say:
FREE REPUBLIC.COM
May 4, 1999
Heroes Rally & Managers Tribute Dinner
Thanks for the ping, onyx.
Shared the day with a number of you. :-) It still feels good.
This girl (Monica Lewinsky) has become the villain in this whole mess, according to the left she’s the one who led poor little innocent, sensitive President Clinton astray. He, on the other hand, has become the “elder statesman” who did nothing wrong. - How about ruining a female subordinate’s life just for starters? - I shall never forget the slouchy Clintons and the wide, destructive wake they trailed behind them everywhere they went. People would do well to remember it when they start thinking that “Hillary wouldn’t be so bad”.
Well said.
bttt
Bubba wears that impeachment mantle like a medal of honor. The guy has absolutely no moral compass. He cannot be shamed.
Ahhh, the day the House voted for something that did absolutely nothing to impede or stall the presidency of Bill Clinton.
I many times refer to him as the impeached one....
I still prefer “The Rapist”.
(((STARWISE)))
I knew when I pinged you that you would make this thread special, but WOW!
Thanks very much! Now, I’ll bookmark!
1732
Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
1776
Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."
1843
Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol."
1946
War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1972
Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1984
Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1998
President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
2003
Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.
This scumbag can never change this. HA
(Ping to Bubba for ‘Clinton Memorial’)
Repesentative Bob Livingston blackmailed into resigning on House floor, Dem’s rally against “faithfully executing the law” on WH lawn, the first major internet-only news story...
It’s all (oral-anal) history now.
Memories, giggles and comfort in the knowledge that
the inconsequential frothing and core leftism of the
Beltway pundits loses every time against real Americans.
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Topic:
Bill Clinton
Tuesday, Jul 13, 1999
Free-for-all at Free Republic
Lucianne Goldberg, Matt Drudge and other friends abandon the Clinton-bashing Web site over its attacks on George W. Bush.
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By Jeff Stein WASHINGTON — Last year, when the sound and fury of the anti-Clinton movement was cresting with every White House revelation, no group reveled more gleefully in the president’s troubles than the habitues of Free Republic, a raucous conservative Web site where Clinton bashers vied to top each others’ harangues and posted press clips bolstering their views.
The “Freepers” turned their cyberspace coffee klatch into the liveliest, if not the biggest, right-wing Web site on the net.
But Free Republic was more than just a Web site where red-meat conservatives could interact, as opposed to merely read.
Freep sponsored anti-Clinton Washington rallies. It took out newspaper ads. It gave a dinner for the congressional managers of the impeachment drive. Freep clubs sprang up in some cities. Lucianne Goldberg, the New York literary agent and catalyst of Monicagate, joined the party, and Web Wunderkind Matt Drudge helped it out with publicity and links.
Free Republic became the main soundstage for the anti-Clinton bandwagon, with its “latest posts” page drawing 50,000 individual visits per day.
What a difference a year makes.
Drudge, Goldberg and several other Free Republic stars have left; visits are reportedly down to less than half what they were a year ago; Free Republic’s founding guru, Jim Robinson, has been sued by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times; and a swelling number of haters have turned up the volume of death threats, gay-bashing, name-calling and conspiracy theories tying the father of Republican front-runner George W. Bush to drug-dealing by the CIA
Rest
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/13/free
We’re still here and GOING STRONG! Does November 2nd ring a bell ?
It was Algore’s only chance to be president and the nitwit stuck by the rapist president.
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