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

Posted on 09/22/2004 11:46:12 AM PDT by Jenya

Edited on 09/22/2004 1:18:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Cool.


Mod update.
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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Free Republic; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: congrats; fr; freep; napalminthemorning; rathergate; rush; wow
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To: Jenya; Grampa Dave; NormsRevenge; blam; SunkenCiv; Dog; Dog Gone; Howlin; MEG33; Mo1; McGavin999; ..
Outstanding recognition and fully deserved by the Truth-Squad (Freerepublic Bloggers)
381 posted on 09/22/2004 2:12:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: smiley
"I can't even bring my foot up to suck my own toes!"

I am not sure if decorum dictates that I offer you Kudos or Condolences.

382 posted on 09/22/2004 2:13:44 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Jenya

thank you el Rushbo!


383 posted on 09/22/2004 2:13:46 PM PDT by votelife (Calling abortion a women's issue is like calling war a men's issue!)
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To: Jenya

Although I don't post too often, I'm here everyday. A little Freeper on the bottom of the totem pole, but boy it feels good to be a part of something big that is making a real difference. FR and Freepers are wonderful. I'm so proud.


384 posted on 09/22/2004 2:13:48 PM PDT by marway (JF'nK, show us your records now!)
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To: Coop; Cap Huff; Boot Hill; Carry_Okie; RadioAstronomer; RightWhale

Ping!


385 posted on 09/22/2004 2:14:37 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211904/posts?q=1&&page=1

60 Minutes to Infamy- those forged memos and The Shot Heard Round the World
Backhoe's file


386 posted on 09/22/2004 2:16:55 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: MEG33
Backhoe's file...

Thanks, FRiend- here's another:

-Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media--

387 posted on 09/22/2004 2:22:38 PM PDT by backhoe (The OnLine Avenger...)
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To: Mo1

We are definitely off their Christmas list.


388 posted on 09/22/2004 2:23:43 PM PDT by daybreakcoming
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To: Prime Choice

I'm eternally grateful that Rush refers to us as bloggers and FReepers instead of the increasingly-inaccurate "Pajamahadeen."

Me too!! Afterall, not all of us wear pajamas!!!!


389 posted on 09/22/2004 2:23:44 PM PDT by ancient_geezer (Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
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To: backhoe

Another addition to the "backhoe file",Thanks!


390 posted on 09/22/2004 2:28:29 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: MEG33
Thank you!
391 posted on 09/22/2004 2:30:04 PM PDT by backhoe (Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: All; Matchett-PI
Crosslink to full transcript: Rusha " Rush: "Ordinary Americans Brought Down CBS" FReepers Credited (leaves out the "criticism carousel of the left" line that I thought was kinda neat)
392 posted on 09/22/2004 2:32:37 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (You never know what you'll get when you troll through a newsroom with a phony document.)
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To: Jenya

Linking to the transcript:

Rush: "Ordinary Americans Brought Down CBS" FReepers Credited - Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 9/22/04 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 09/22/2004 5:26:05 PM EDT by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223966/posts


393 posted on 09/22/2004 2:39:23 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either religious relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: Matchett-PI
Rush thinks SOME who post here are conspiracy theorist kooks, and he's right. Some are, although they're getting weeded out.

I think a lot of those conspiracy theorist kooks are seminar posters trying to discredit the site and give us a bad name. Off with their jammies!

394 posted on 09/22/2004 2:40:39 PM PDT by MaeWest (Hey, Dan, we're here, we're jammied, and we're in your face!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Thanks, again. You're on the ball - I didn't realize you had already linked it when I did my post.


395 posted on 09/22/2004 2:41:13 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (All DemocRATS are either religious relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: Jenya; Howlin; Buckhead

Okay. I have now read 379 posts in this thread. It is time for me to put my two cents worth in.

Yes, as you can tell by moving your cursor over my freeper name, I am a newbie. Well, to be honest, I was a lurker for quite some time, but still am nothing more than a newbie.

With that said, let me caution those of you who are gloating in the publicity provided by Rush to not get caught up too much in that publicity. FreeRepublic did not bring down CBS. Buckhead did not bring down CBS.

The TRUTH brought down CBS, and the TRUTH, in this newbie's opinion, is what FreeRepublic is all about. Let us all stop patting ourselves on the back and go back to what we do best, finding and reporting the truth.

There is absolutely not one thing wrong with being proud to be a freeper, and being proud of Howlin, Buckhead, et. al., but let's please stop with the gloating, and place our pride in being Americans, and our belief that a conservative America is a better America above all else.


396 posted on 09/22/2004 2:41:33 PM PDT by HorsePlayer (Give me a $100 trifecta on Bush-Kerry-Nader)
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To: MaeWest
Off with their jammies!

Be careful what you wish for ... :)

397 posted on 09/22/2004 2:41:40 PM PDT by asgardshill (Got a lump of coal? Tell Mary Mapes to 'shove it' - in 2 weeks you'll have a diamond.)
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To: GretchenM

I resemble that remark .. LOL


398 posted on 09/22/2004 2:42:10 PM PDT by STARWISE (Keep our brave military in your prayers .. vote as if your life depended on it. It does.)
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To: cvq3842
the "official" transcript
399 posted on 09/22/2004 2:46:25 PM PDT by tai-pan
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To: MeekOneGOP; Jim Robinson
WOW! Very impressive ... I expect about 10-12% will be certifiably FReepers .. and that's a good thing. Jim -- you're an icon .. a legend before our eyes ..a true American Patriot .. God Love Ya and a very grateful


400 posted on 09/22/2004 2:48:52 PM PDT by STARWISE (Keep our brave military in your prayers .. vote as if your life depended on it. It does.)
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