Rush talking about bloggers breaking CBS story (Update: Rush, thanks for plugging FR. We love ya)

[Jenya]

Cool.

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Mod update.

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Ordinary Americans have dragged slowly but surely other big institutions to the truth. The big institutions were the last to arrive at the truth and some of them to this moment are still not there.

Now I realize that within this new alternative media there exists some jealosy,. I sense that some people don’t want to give the blogosphere the full credit. They have to parcel it out because every body wants a piece of the action; this is quite normal, this is human nature. The fact of the matter is that it was the blogosphere and it was a couple of sites: Powerline and FreeRepublic. And FreeRepublic has been one of the most impugned blogs / websites in the history of websites by the very institution that has been brought down.

When Dan Rather talked about partisan political operatives, he means those who lurk at FreeRepublic. Who is FreeRepublic, it’s ordinary Americans – liberals look down at ordinary Americans, don’t know have enough decision making power, [?] do the right thing, not smart enough …

You don’t know how much it grates on them at CBS that its something like FreeRepublic or one of their chat rooms or one of the FReepers there or the Powerline … you have no idea that it irritates them that that kind of person brought them down. An average, ordinary untrained journalist that … you just do not know how this irritates them inside. More than the fact that they got caught, it’s who caught them that irritates them.

And, so just as I started out … I was a fad, and I was a liar, and I made it up and I was bad for America and I posed threats to democracy, as the cover of Time said. So now the same things are being said about the bloggers. Fox news has had its turn and we all continue rotating in the criticism carousel of the left.

Post #339

[smiley]

....how's 'bout the NEW TRIANGULATION of the NEW MEDIA...:)

[Guillermo]

Those are nothing but fronts for the DNC.

I don't think FR is a front for the GOP.

If Jim Robinson takes X amount of millions from this or that group, he becomes beholden to them.

[fritzz]

Rush said it was because of the ordinary person. However As I have found our through the years, this site has some very talented people with a wide array of interest.

Thank you FR for letting me be a voyeur and participant.

[NonValueAdded]

Time to start the 4th Quarter FReepathon to capitalize on the recent focus. Perhaps an endowment or two?

[MileHi]

Darn! I missed it.

See my link at post #130

[MontanaBeth]

OK, so who here is ready to take down ABC, now that buckhead et al., has brought down CBS?!

I'm in, I really hate that all the hours I'm working is cutting in to the time that should be spend here.

[Taliesan]

Pajamanaut! Good. They perform pajameroics. Or pajamexploits. Pajamadventures.

[Old Sarge]

Now, I've yelled, "Check Fire!" on a few occasions, and have taken a few of them under my wing.

But woe unto the vast majority of others...

[the Deejay]

I want my FRTV.

YESSSS!!!! WE ALL DO!!!

We'll be GREAT!

[Jenya]

We have a name... FReepers

No kidding. I'm referring to the name that's used when referring to the FReepers uncovering CBS's crime. It would be nice to all get on the same page. Pajamahuddeen or whatever is a terrible name.

[dokmad]

"Never have heard Rush praise Free Republic like he did just a few minutes ago "

Howie Carr mentioned Free Republic the other night in his broadcast too. Life is good!

[Mad Dawgg]

....how's 'bout the NEW TRIANGULATION of the NEW MEDIA...:)

DIck Morris, is that you? ;D

[Christian4Bush]

"Talent...on loan...from Gaw-uh-d" BUMP!

[UB355]

save

[STARWISE]

I was disgusted to catch an MSM reporterette on Keith Olberman's show the other night, in dissecting Rathergate, referring to FReepers as radical .. painting the picture that we are scary or dangerous people. I wanted to smack her up side the head. Sure hope other FReepers saw it and got her name and have emailed Olberman. I think her first name was Barbara .. but I'm in a tizzy packing to leave frightening FL .. and didn't get it all.

[Chieftain]

Rush bragging on FReepers!!

[Christian4Bush]

This is classic! I wish that one could be made for real!

[The G Man]

Did he mention me by name?

[cwiz24]

Me too. I've tried to help a few who have been attacked in various threads. The poor things...I feel for them. I was one not too long ago!

But you're right. Many of them are wolves in sheep's clothing...

[Lazamataz]

DNC^BS