Posted on 08/05/2007 4:54:00 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Hugh seems to have forgotten the major role F/R played with the whole Dan Rather Fontgate / TNG story in 2004.
If that's the case, then I guess I'll just take my ball and go home.
I couldn't disagree more. If we are so marginal, why is O'Reilly coming after us? Because we are influential. Comparing us with the Kosmunistics, is ludicrous.
Two words for Democrats,Republicans and America in general.
Power Corrupts!
Agreed. You can have all the pro bowlers you want but without a good coach a team isn’t going anywhere.
Hugh’s panties are still a stitch too tight from his Harriet Miers spanking on FR.
Wrong. FR has ALWAYS been marginalized. It is too grass roots for the RNC, a Tory elitist, financialists, hereditary organization that at it best disdains working class conservatives in the millions, small business in the hundred of thousands with their petty gripes. We have done nothing for the RNC and the Republican party save raise money, voters and issues in local and national media. With zero thanks. FR was near neigh responsible for bringing down Dan Rather and many other successful illuminations of MSM lies, distortions and out right daily sloppiness. Something that the billions of dollars spent by the RNC could never do. (Of course it is hard to be taken seriously when you wear an ascot in the shower.)
Anyways, we don't need the RNC, the Republican party anyways. Real politics is in the street, at the one to one level. Elitists of all stripes that think productive citizens are some sort of resource cattle to be mobilized in some lame campaign by one of their overpaid hack friends with a 'consulting' business, haven't a clue. Internet and talk radio is the reality. Politics shuffles along in the dust of our passions and ideas.
One good thing you can be sure of with Hugh is that if you were in a bar fight, by the time you got to the car, it would be all warmed up and with windows defrosted.
That said, PR is dead wrong re: FR and its' impact. It is truly a wonderful site and the modern day equivalent of the townhall meeting where the people could voice their opninion in 2-way dialogs.
The old MSM is strictly one-way and is dying...thank God!
Now we have a Democratic congress and no contender for the White House.
There are two more Supreme Court nominees to be had and war on terrorism to fight!
It’s time for us to do something more
About the RNC. Don’t mistake their constant work of decades as an error.
Ok BB1 ..... How many FReepers will be at the most important event of the year, The Gathering of Eagles II. Will you be there?
Free Republic does not have the clout ot get members to turn out. It has been marginalized.
I think this was written by Patrick Ruffini?
Hugh admits to having his clock cleaned. I can’t recall whether he admits to being wrong about Miers, but I think he does. I believe Hewitt knows FR was key on the amnesty bill, as well.
Post #8 says more about the real state of affairs than all of the RNC snivelling you’ll read from now until Hillary moves into the White House.
Exactly right. He also fails to cite any evidence of our “marginalization”, and destroys his own argument at the very end by conceding that we’re still the big kahuna of the conservative web.
This sounds like a plea to add more interactive, web 2.0 features disguised as a eulogy for FR.
The author seems to miss the point. FR is for the free exchange of ideas from a conservative standpoint, NOT for the indoctrination of the useful idiots. FR will be here long after the propagana mills have come and gone.
I have to agree [sigh].
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