Posted on 02/17/2005 1:15:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Keep up the good work Sean!
If you're taking flak, you're over the target!
Bombs away!
If you're taking flak, you're over the target!
Bombs away!
ROFL!
The Borgata Casino and Spa thread got to ya! I can tell!
I did say I was going to sleep. Now I have a headache that's keeping me awake :-)
Sean is a GREAT AMERICAN too. Tell him to let the dopey comments roll of his shoulders. The overwhelming number of FreePers continue to support him.
I haven't been following the Hannity vs FR situation. Was "banned posters" the issue Hannity had raised? This would seem to be trivial. Or was his objection general, i.e. He doesn't agree with the unstructured discourse on the forum -- which by its nature remains open to a certain amount of acrimonious behavior by posters? Or what was it?
I know that posters can be banned for violating forum protocol (severe profanity, personal attacks, DU disruptors, etc.), which is Jim's right as owner-manager of this site. I understand that Jim objects to posting material from certain sites, which is also his right. The rules are spelled out, and if they are violated, posters can be reproached, reprimanded, suspended, or banned. This all seems quite reasonable to me. If posters object to punishment for violating the forum's rules, they have nothing to whine about.
If some decent folks chose to leave the forum because they felt that the quality of discourse had declined, this might be of interest to Jim Robinson.
I joined in March, 2002, and thoroughly enjoy Free Republic to this day. I appreciate the banter and discussion of topical issues. I no longer have any need to see multiple sites for current events, because I know that anything that would be of interest to me would also be of interest to FReepers, and would therefore be posted. I have gained a tremendous amount of useful knowledge from reading posters' comments and links on the forum.
The quality of folks who I have encountered here is awesome and inspiring. Sure, there are the occasional scrapes. But on balance, I can't see anyone being concerned about them, and the mods do a great job of keeping things under control.
I for one have never considered Hannity to be a "heavyweight", and I have often yelled at my radio after he once again missed a great opportunity to expand on a key conservative point of argument. But his programs and books are enormously popular, and he certainly has expanded the exposure of conservative values to a greater proportion of the populace, thus aiding the conservative cause. Foremost for this reason, I agree with Jim, Sean IS a "Great American".
Take one aspirin and FReepmail me in the morning!
Me too. Whatever happened to Sabertooth?
That is a really good point - and I agree people are much more aggressive when they think they can do it with impunity.
Oh Man! I just saw your 'about' page. That is hilarious!
I have been waiting for a transcript from today's show which hasn't arrived yet.
I did hear Sean's remarks yesterday dissing FR.
Did he address his remarks of yesterday, slamming FR, in the context of pimping his own "better than" site?
All in all, Sean, whether wittingly or not, did FR and great favor the last 2 days by merely mentioning FR.
I'm holding your book right now and can't wait to dive in...AFE
PS I dare Sean to come back into the FR fray and be as tough here as he is in control of his own Talk Show...but it's always easier to take your ball somewhere else and be the big fish I guess. WADR from the front lines.
You're here...so obviously that can't be true. (grin)
redrock
Am I a Freeper?
Naaw... That would be animal abuse.
Hi Torie, new glasses and a spell checker.
" I must have missed something."
I'm with you!! I have been around FreeRepublic for
several years. I am a great fan of both FR and Hannity. I
can't believe I missed something as "dastardly" as this "attack on Hannity" must have been. Who? What? When?
LOL
PS: Please keep your wife's friend on the right path. It's you duty to God and Country!
"YOU spend days a week, for more than 5 years, in the same room with Alan Colmes..."
Hey, Hannity does it, anybody could do it. I can't think of anyone I would rather have shots at putting down every day than Colmes.
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