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Fair Enough (John Podhoretz on Free Republic)
The Corner ^ | 7/18/06 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 07/18/2006 6:17:17 AM PDT by finnman69

A reader e-mails: "John, I'm as conservative as they come but your correspondents could have a point about what gets written in these public fora. Check out some of the knuckle-draggers posting at www.freerepublic.com sometime." UPDATE: Gerry Daly of RedState e-mails that I'm being unfair to Free Republic, which does moderate and delete inappropriate material. Its guidelines include : "Free Republic reserves the right to remove any postings that are considered inappropriate. Examples of inappropriate posts are those that are off-subject or contain advertising, pornography, obscene material, racist material, bigotry, Nazi (or other hate group) material, materials promoting violence, threats or illegal acts, etc." Couldn't find anything comparable at tpmcafe or DailyKos.


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Podhoretz was trying to defend FR, but he did not have to post one of these seminar troll e-mails.
1 posted on 07/18/2006 6:17:18 AM PDT by finnman69
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To: Jim Robinson

FYI ping~


2 posted on 07/18/2006 6:23:34 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: finnman69

knuckle-draggers??

Sounds like something from the DU


3 posted on 07/18/2006 6:23:51 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: finnman69

There are more SMART people here at FR than anywhere!! I have requested very obscure things and within minutes, have gotten the answers WITH links!!! Thank you fellow freepers....proud to be amongst you!!


4 posted on 07/18/2006 6:26:15 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy ("When Cabals Go Kaboom"....upcoming book on Mary McCarthy's Coup-Plotters.)
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To: finnman69
some of the knuckle-draggers posting at www.freerepublic.com

I just checked and my knuckles still don't hang below my knees, let alone drag. Must be self-projection.

5 posted on 07/18/2006 6:27:01 AM PDT by FairWitness
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To: finnman69

Podhoretz did a very poor job of defending FR.

The least he could've done was format his post. ;-)


6 posted on 07/18/2006 6:27:03 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Suzy Quzy
I have requested very obscure things and within minutes, have gotten the answers WITH links!!! Thank you fellow freepers....proud to be amongst you!!

You've just pointed out that FReepers are obsessive compulsive political junkies. ;-)

7 posted on 07/18/2006 6:28:03 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: finnman69

I was going to send this in sooner, but there was too much blood on my keyboard from my bleeding knuckles. I accidently hit a liberal in his nose and broke his finger, then scrapped my knuckles on his teeth while trying to help him get up.


8 posted on 07/18/2006 7:19:28 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Well, I don't know about there being more here than anywhere!

However, we sure have our share of people who think they know it all. :)

9 posted on 07/18/2006 7:39:02 AM PDT by Constitution Day (HeadOn.ApplyDirectlyToTheForehead.HeadOn.ApplyDirectlyToTheForehead.HeadOn.)
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To: finnman69
A reader e-mails: "John, I'm as conservative as they come..."


10 posted on 07/18/2006 7:52:41 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: finnman69
Hmmm... I just checked my hands and neither my knuckles drag or my palms are hairy. This contrasts with posters at D.U. ...
11 posted on 07/18/2006 7:56:05 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: Mo1; Jim Robinson

Some of what is attributed to freeper posting are posted by quickly zotted trolls who are NOT freepers. I've seen perfectly awful things quoted elsewhere that came from someone who was here about half an hour (if that) and their posts removed or ridiculed in a zot thread. I think that in some cases, they come here solely for that purpose--they post something ugly just so they can claim freepers write that kind of stuff all the time.


12 posted on 07/18/2006 7:57:38 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: finnman69
DrAt i'M hAbIng TRuble POsTIng, mYY KNUuCLkes KeeeP DRaGiNg oN tHes KeWysBoErD.


:-)

13 posted on 07/18/2006 7:57:40 AM PDT by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: geezerwheezer
I almost lost my appetite to post Jpods comemnts.


14 posted on 07/18/2006 7:58:24 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

knuckle-draggers ?

better that than one's belly or rear end


15 posted on 07/18/2006 9:16:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --- Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: finnman69; Knuckledragger

knuckledragger would be a cool screen name


16 posted on 07/18/2006 1:18:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Famous last words: "what does ibtz mean?")
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To: finnman69

"I'm as conservative as they come"= "I'm a lifelong Republican, but..."


17 posted on 07/18/2006 1:23:39 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: finnman69

Who cares what the chardonnay Republican media elites think?


18 posted on 07/18/2006 1:26:19 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (The Latest on the Ohio gov race http://blackwellvstrickland.blogspot.com)
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To: finnman69
Podhoretz was trying to defend FR

Podhoretz posted a gratuitous and unsubstantiated slam on FR because he is no friend of FR. He got called on it and so he posted an update containing someone else's lame defense of FR. "JPod" blows.

19 posted on 07/18/2006 1:56:51 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Suzy Quzy
There are plenty of nutjobs around here as well, and I think they are starting to outnumber the smart ones. Check out this thread for one example of a heapin' dose of crazy. There was a better example (the one linked in comment #32), but it got pulled due to many FReepers calling for violence against the New York Times and the photographer (whose name and address were posted).
20 posted on 07/18/2006 7:14:53 PM PDT by JTN ("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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