landsbaum may indeed be the author of the many Orange County Register items he posts - but it's a legitimate newspaper, so I'm not sure I see the problem.
If someone put up a billboard advertising their product on land they did not own, would that be fine with you?
Homey is USING Free Republic as a marketing tool.
He (multiple log-ins, by the way) does not participate in the forum.
We're just a hit farm to him. You still don't see the problem?