And we're still trying to keep those 'liberal liars' exposed!!
Thank you to all of you Vets!
Posted on 11/22/2007 4:43:01 PM PST by kristinn
FreeRepublic.com, the eleven-year-old conservative granddaddy of political discussion websites, was rated the most popular political website by Hitwise, an Internet data tracking service, for the week ending November 17, 2007 with 5.14% market share.
The liberal site, HuffingtonPost.com, founded two-and-a-half years ago, was the only site that came close to Free Republic in interest from net users, with 4.51% market share. In a distant third place, the five-year-old liberal site DailyKos.com, was left in the dust by Free Republic and Huffington Post, garnering only 2.57% market share.
The others sites Hitwise listed were, in order, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com with 2.17%; townhall.com with 2.1%; buzzflash.com with 1.95%; politico.com with 1.9%; humanevents.com with 1.84%; realclearpolitics.com with 1.72% and democraticunderground.com with 1.69%.
Free Republic has received none of the fawning promotion in the mainstream media that its nearest competitors get. It takes no paid advertising, has no membership fees and relies solely on donations for its existence. Its founder and webmaster, Jim Robinson, is not touted as a political player like Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga are. The site has endured withering criticism this year by pundits from Bill O'Reilly to Patrick Ruffini. Yet, Free Republic survives and thrives as one of the most popular and influential political websites.
From leading the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton in 1998, to the 2004 exposing of the fraudulent National Guard documents that led to Dan Rather's firing by CBS News, to the recent deep-sixing of expansion of the S-CHIP program, Freepers, as members at the site are known, have changed politics in America.
Liberals despise them, some conservatives seeth with envy, yet none can deny that more than a decade in to the online revolution, Free Republic is still a force to be reckoned with.
I was here during the 2000 election, sept 11, 2001 and during the 04 elections. Sometimes its good to have a place to go when everything else is crazy.
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AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! TO THAT.
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We're number one!!
Don't forget to include yourself!
Thanks Jim!
According to the google stats program we’re currently using, as of yesterday we’re receiving an average of 5,651,290 visits per month from 2,751,027 “Absolute Unique Visitors,” viewing 29,613,711 pages per month or 5.24 Pages/Visit. Using google is a temporary experiment. Don’t know when, if ever, John’s going to restart our old stats program.
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GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
DITTOS! Two drumsticks UP!
if knowing Hillary’s staff is in fact reading all of us, what great kindlin’ for the fires of the truth.................hey Hillary staff........we know what marxist / socialism is and you ain’t gonna sell it.
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2 great classic .gifs from potlatch!
Thanks for the peak into the current numbers. Looks like no matter which way you cut it, your forum is drawing at least 2% of all US internet users who use the net for political information. Which means if you accept the basic Hitwise numbers, some of those sites on the other side of the political divide could be pulling in significantly less than 0.75% of the same demographic.
This is why I never like seeing some of those sites mentioned on FR, many here give them way too much credit and free publicity.
Thank you devolve, you know your ‘classics’ well! Lol.
They belong in a cave with the ‘creepy-crawlies’!!
that said, I wanna be on a golf course with a classic polo golf styled shirt that says FREEPER.................................
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