[thackney]

Don't forget to Ping the Admin Moderator and Jim Robinson as well. They really like to see threads set up to divert traffic from Free Republic to other sites.

My interest is in keeping Free Republic to best source of information for the topics that interest conservatives.

If you want to use Free Republic to promote a blog that steals content from someone else, expect some flak.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

They really like to see threads set up to divert traffic from Free Republic to other sites.

Yes, that's why nearly every thread is a link to another site.

In fact, I may be wrong but I believe that part of the legal defense that FR has used over the years to justify excerpting stuff from copyrighted sources is that FR sends traffic to those other, copyrighted, sites.

Either way, if you really cared about the exchange of information I doubt you'd be so upset about whether it came from a blog or, I dunno, the "highly reliable" New York Times or CBS.

In fact (again) I might be wrong but one of FR's finest moments was back in 2004 when the now-hated "blogs" were the first sites to figure out that CBS had forged the Bush National Guard memos.

Boy, too bad we didn't have your view of blogs back then. We might have gotten a President Kerry.

:-)