LOL. Remember this:
"It was amazing Thursday to watch the documents story go from FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy, to Drudge to the mainstream media in less than 12 hours," said Jim Jordan, a strategist for independent Democratic groups opposed to Bush.
Ok playing devil's advocate here for a second.
Maybe Sean made his "fringe comment" based on some of the trolls and disruptor types that tended to invade some of the political threads over the last coule years i the run up to the election.
I mean think about it...how may times was a thread started and within the first 20 posts...no matter what the topic was...someone would start the Michael Savage-ish "language, borders, culture" rant. Sometimes that's called for, but NOT in a discussion about budget proposals or the President's visit to Walter Reed to see wounded troops. Or you'd get a Liberaltarian jump in and, in a very pavlovian way, start talking about how the military was violating the Constitution by operating outside the parameters of defending the country's borders on a thread concerning the SOTU address.
And we've ALL weathered the frontal assault from the leigon of DU Trolls.
Looking at this forum in that contest...being an occasional lurker and not understanding the mechanics of this forum by being here on a daily basis...one could easily conclude that this site has been...on occasion been overrun by the "lunatic fringe" of conservatism.
Like I said I'm not defending Sean...if he said the things he did based on on a wrongheaded premise that everyday FReepers like myself and others on here are the "fringe"...then he deserves everything he gets from us.
I didn't hear the original quote over here in Korea. And as I said I was just playing devils advocate.