The Juanita Broaddrick story didn't break until November 1998. Free Republic had exsisted years before that. You don't know what the heck you're talking about.
My point was Freepers (myself included) have PROVEN ourselves able to draw conslusions based on slimmer evidence than that piled against Gibson.
That's because the court of public opinion doesn't have the same evidentiary requirements as a court of law.