Posted on 10/26/2006 7:18:40 PM PDT by kristinn
That's what's so ridiculous about this. We didn't get proper credit IMHO for our role in sending Dan Rather to premature retirement, but the DixChix are giving all credit to us when it was the American people that put them in their place.
Lets ban dark sunglasses and helmets and then we can win this war. /Terry Moron
(yawn)
Mm, what were you saying?
Hope I'm wrong, but I'd lay 2-1 they cut Kristinn altogether. For one of two reasons: 1) They expected/wanted and mouth-breathing Neanderthal, and Kristinn was too smooth, rational and articulate and/or 2) Despite being journalists they somehow manage to figure out the fingering of FreeRepublic by Natalie is pure delusion, that FreeRepublic was no more involved than any of hundreds of other blogs, there was no "mailing list" etc, and so they quietly drop that angle altogether to spare the Chix embarrassment.
Exactly! That slime ball.
Your post 156 is spot on.
I will add that it is not just politics but type casting too.
Bob Denver could never be anything but Gilligan and now the Dixie Chicks can never be anything but bimbo anti patriots.
I'd think they would be more likely to dig up who posts or reads Free Republic in an attempt to smear them should they become powerful one day.
You think? Funny, I was wondering if we should pay THEN for the publicity. (And to solidify the credit -- even though falsely given -- for bringing them down.) Besides, they could probably use the money about now.
You just got bumped to friday night with high school football and halloween parties.
You must have done very well.
I find the program suspicious, especially before an election. FR may grow in the long run, but election damage to undecideds may be the play in the short term.
We are going to have to get a lot of servers!
And a bigger pipe!
LOL! Like your screen name, you always find the silver lining! LOL
Don't bother to watch tonight!
Excellent!
That would be way too expensive and difficult. Much easier to pass a law against "whatever they decide to call us".
It is airing right now.
The interview went on for what seemed liked thirty miinutes, but it was probably shorter. It was a decent interview, question wise. One thing that threw me for a bit of a loop was when she read back a quote by one of the Dixie Chicks from the interview they did for the show this morning. The gist of it was they were blaming Free Republic for creating an atmosphere of hate that led to death threats. I answered by saying, "Don't lay that at our door" and spoke about the death threats that conservatives get on a regular basis and about the new Bush assassination film and the similarly themed books and plays, and Air America host who called for Bush's assassination. I asked where's the outrage for that.
I also said that if Natalie Maines had made her remark in Iraq about Saddam Hussein at that time, that she would have been kidnapped, raped, tortured, mutilated and her body dumped ina canal or buried in the desert and that her family would never hear about her again.
Love it! Kristinn, you are SO good at this! :o)
Welcome..I am kinda glad I could switch it off!
Thanks for the link. First I've heard of this, very interesting. Hope that this becomes a larger story.
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