FreeRepublic.com founder Jim RobinsonPosted on 09/24/2011 8:55:48 PM PDT by kristinn
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Domain Name: FREEREPUBLIC.COM
Created on..............: 23-SEP-1996
FreeRepublic.com founder Jim Robinson
AKA Jim Thompson
Jim Robinson leads Free Republic's Clinton impeachment rally called the March for Justice, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1998
As featured in the Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up and Sing
Free Republic was Tea Party before there was a Tea Party
Thanks Kristinn for your great Posts throughout the years.
LOL!!! I had forgotten about the TAGS!
The first time I had heard of FR was when I would be listening to episodes of Rush Limbaugh in the late 90s that I had recorded onto cassette tape (yes, that long ago) to listen to later, where he kept talking about the “Freepers” getting on his case about something.
I was way too shy to sign up in the late 90s, but I read it constantly to get my 2000 election aftermath fix.
Thank YOU, Jim!
Happy Birthday, FreeRepublic!
Thank you, Jim Robinson!
Rally in front of Joe Lieberman's house in New Haven. Discovered the rally while lurking on FR. Became a member shortly thereafter.
Happy 15th Birthday, FreeRepublic!
Attended the March for Justice in ‘October ‘98, was a lurker then, signed up 12/30/98.
Jim put out the call on FR for the March for Justice, and 4,000 people from all over the nation showed up in DC to protest Bubba and to press for his impeachment, which happened about 7 weeks later.
This was the first political equivalent of what we would call a “flash mob” today—then, to use the internet in this way was genius.
In 1999,and 2000, Satrday morning protests at the White House kept tourists and residents of DC focussed on the perfidy of the Clintoon Administration. The “Crime Wave” poster was a tourist favorite. The DC Chapter led the way in inspriring protests, and in conducting the rules of protests for Freepers. And who can forget the Bill Clinton chant?
Two years later, in 2000, was “Sore Loserman”, and Freepers in Florida preventing a count of votes behind closed doors.
9/11/01—FreeRepublic was among the first to have news of what was really happening around the country as we endured a day of infamy.
Summer 2004, we joined with the SwiftBoat Vets to unmask the Communist in the race, John F. Kerry, the only person in all of history to win five combat medals in a three month span and never spend a day in a hospital bed from wounds, and one of our own stopped Dan Rather and CBS from using a forged document to bring down George Bush.
The rallies at Walter Reed, in Olney,MD, the rise of the Tea Party, the massive marches in DC in 2009 and 2010—all have been participated in by hordes of Freepers.
Our most important battle now is ahead of us—the elction of 2012 and the utter defeat of a criminal enterprise—Obama and the Democratic Party.
We will be a force for good once again.
Awesome!
Happy Birthday Free Republic!!!!
For this saving oasis of sanity in a world gone mad, this FReeper sends his heartfelt thanks, and congratulations on our 15th birthday !
Free Republic—the place for truth. Happy anniversary FR, Jim R., and all the regulars who make me think, and sometimes cry, every single day. Whooo Hoooo!!!!
Happy Birthday to the best website on the planet.
Excellent tribute.
Happy 15th anniversary! I’m looking forward to the 150th anniversary
Thank you, Jim. Congratulations.
Lamh Foistenach Abu! I found a way to find your freeper ID number using the internet archive.
Marie: 27519
DB: 865
I love this place!
“I love this site.”
There’s nothing like it on the whole internet.
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