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Why are you pinging me to this? I already read it last night, and read it in the original form at wideawakes.net.

There is no doubt that some people there are a tad bitter over being banned from a site they contributed to, and were welcomed on, for many years.

I am there because I like MadIvan, and because I want to talk to people I can no longer talk to here. If that is setting you off, well, I am sorry but that's the way it is.

Nothing you or areafiftyone have said has set me off, and I meant no disrespect to anyone. I have no control of anyone in the debate of who wishes to stay or leave FR, other than I wish to continue to support the goals of FR as best I can. I am truly disappointed and saddened that a number of what I consider FReeper friends have chosen to depart us and I hope they come back and visit from time to time. There is nothing wrong with being members and contributors to either or both sites. As areafiftyone said its a free country. I have no animus against anyone at WA, DC or anywhere else.

I had two purposes in posting what I did. One was to expose the over-the-top rhetoric of posters Duke and Zook, both of whom I do not know btw, at WA. I would expect better common sense of anyone, even here at FR, to post that kind of thing. It is certainly been the case that the rhetoric on various threads here at FR have been heated and outright disrepectful in many ways, including my own, and I apologize for that.

My second purpose was to try to put a stop to the long "Flame" thread and a few others that caused most of the conflicts, which were continuing this morning btw. I have been trying via selected comments, as have others using mail, a couple of which were directed to me, to get people to back off, take a deep breath, and stop this fight. It does no one any good. I hope I made that purpose clear in my remarks directed to Brad's Gramma at the beginning my post. Even JimRob earlier today made this point as he said

It's time for the reconciliation and healing to begin, and then let's get back to work. We've plenty of work to do putting our own house in order, then redoubling our efforts in promoting the best conservatives to represent us.

I happen to fully agree with him on that score.

Areafiftyone mentioned that the blogosphere was buzzing over flame wars here at FR. Well, that is par for the course on the right side of the political spectrum. A healthy, sometimes heated debate can separate the wheat from the chaff. The left side can't even tell the difference between wheat and chaff:)