Posted on 08/01/2007 11:30:14 AM PDT by Impeach98
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Posted By:
Melanie Morgan
Permalink Why Bill O’Reilly’s Attack on FreeRepublic.com are Unfair
Bill O’Reilly’s been making waves the past few weeks by focusing on the prevalance of ‘hateful’ content at the liberal website, Daily Kos. O’Reilly is particularly disturbed to see Democratic presidential candidates agreeing to speak at the annual YearlyKos convention that will take place August 2nd through 5th.
To show balance in his reporting, O’Reilly has unfortunately chosen to target the good people who visit the conservative website, www.FreeRepublic.com. Last night O’Reilly had on his show a friend of mine, Kristinn Taylor, who is a spokesperson for Free Republic, to defend the website from O’Reilly’s criticisms.
To his credit, O’Reilly noted that the amount of controversial content at FreeRepublic pales in comparison to that which appears on a near-daily basis at DailyKos.
As someone who visits FreeRepublic each day, and as someone who has contributed to the website’s fundraising drives, I feel compelled to speak out in defense of FreeRepublic from the critical comments made by O’Reilly.
FreeRepublic.com was launched in the infancy of the Internet, serving as a source for the sharing of news stories from around the world, and the chance to have an open dialogue on these stories. Soon thereafter, FReepers (as they are known), used the website to also organize grass roots efforts to allow patriotic Americans to mobilize efforts to make their voices heard in the public square.
As the Chairman of Move America Forward, the nation’s largest pro-troop organization, I’ve seen the impact that such efforts have had. Thousands upon thousands of proud, decent Americans who love their country have become informed of Move America Forward’s countless pro-troop rallies, care package shipments and calls for help to assist the heroic men and women of the United States military thanks to Free Republic.
To equate these decent and noble efforts with those of a website like DailyKos, which routinely denounces the U.S. military and the foundations of liberty that this nation cherishes, is dishonest and unfair.
I won’t stand for that, and I urge all the members and supporters of Move America Forward to show solidarity with the great Americans who participate at FreeRepublic forums.
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This September FReepers will once again use the FreeRepublic website to organize public displays of support for our troops and their missions in the War on Terror. This is the kind of good work these people do each and every day, and that deserves the respect and support from all of us who cherish this country and the leadership our nation provides in fighting the forces of tyranny and terrorism.
-- Melanie Morgan
Chairman, Move America Forward
www.MoveAmericaForward.org
I (heart) Melanie. One of the mitigating comforts of living in libtard land in Northern CA is to be able to listen to Melanie on the way to work each morning on KSFO...
BOR is a bloviating degenerate with a superficial veneer of conservatism — I’m glad Melanie let ‘im have it with both barrels. :-)
O’Reilly is a mental midget. I can think of nothing less intellectually stimulating than his insipid, dilettante little show.
Thank you for your service to Free Republic, maybe you don’t hear that very often!
You can go back to the earliest Michael Vick threads (sorry, I don’t know which one) and one poster made a horrible statement about black people. Two posts down, he was thrown off. I was pretty impressed with the speed of the banning, and thought that the “mods” were really on their game that day. May I suggest that you look over your lists of banees and find that one as the AdMod was pretty frank and straight up in his remarks. Then you should take all banned posts, all response times, and all AdMod remarks and send them to Bad Boyfriend Bill. Good Luck to you and all the great people here who work to make Free Republic the most excellent and responsible site on the Web.
Bill O’Rather...
What’s BOR’s FReep name?
Doesn’t have one?
Explains his ignorant statements about FR.
Maybe he’s “Falafel_Luvver”. Doesn’t post much. ;-)
Sheeeeeee. Gonzo got a visit from the feds for it and he wasn't the first. It happened but Jim stayed on it. The lefty forums are controlled by crazy people. You expect that behavior from them. It's funny when they talk about impeaching the President and they have no idea why he should be impeached. Their hate has no foundation at all.
bttt
Leftists don’t pay any attention to O’Reilly because they think that he’s a moron.
It’s the one thing on which I am in agreement with those leftists.
I add my hello to the O’Reilly interns.
Gonzo is one of our “Secret Service cleared and approved” posters. A great guy too!!
Does The Leprechaun even care?
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Freepers in Action, always so selflessly:
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‘Many come out to show war support across land’ *
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030324antiwar0324p7.asp
* See our AP ‘GOD Bless America’ Freep Photo taken on the famed Corner of Hollywood Blvd & Highland Ave right across the street from the 2003 OSCARS,
...as my own Vietnam War U.S. 7th Cavalry ‘GARRY OWEN’ Regiment was busy spearheading Freedom’s arrival to Iraq.
A famed corner that was under threat of a possible terrorist attack that bright sunny day unfolding right in front of the world’s media.
Just for the LOVE of it..!!!
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Signed:..”ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer
Veteran-”WE WERE SOLDIERS” Battle of IA DRANG-1965, Landing Zone Falcon
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48215
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14752
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O’Reilly is a mendacious, bloviating popinjay.
Thanks Melanie. But with all due respect, Bill O’Reilly’s assessment of this site wasn’t “unfair”. It was slanderous in my view.
No more stopping by his “show” for me anymore. It was lousy anyway.
As I posted previously, I think that's not the issue. From my perspective, all the FRiends of FRee Republic should stand up, speak out, and show their pride in the good work that we do here at FR and willingness to stand with them. Else, if you allow a lie to be repeated without refutation at some point people begin to accept it as truth.
Better to have a chorus of people saying, "I disagree, I love Free Republic."
“When BOR gets something wrong, he tends to get it spectacularly wrong.”
That’s the problem as I see it too. Also his attempts to SEEM balanced means he often defends people who are really beyond the pale.
On the other hand, When BOR gets something right, he tends to get it spectacularly right. On balance he has done good, like when he nearly assaulted Whoraldo recently. I give BOR a B-, it could be worse. Wish he’d take an economics class on big business though.
But those cars!!!!
I was surprised the Secret Service went after him because it wasn’t that big a shot and he asked for it to get pulled immediately.
They must work overtime on DU posters.
I have sent a email off to Bill O’Reilly asking for a list of the comments he found that were objectionable.
We will see if he pony’s up the list.
If he does not we will have proof positive that he is a phony(He does keep saying he wants this “hate” stuff off the net).
If he does we can pick apart the list and see who was a plant and get rid of them (and point out that they were plants).
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