In my business, I deal with the public. Yesterday - everyone that talked about OBL (mostly unprovoked by me - although I did have Rush playing on the radio) - voiced doubts about it happening the way the government and news media reported that it did.
I don’t think this is just a FReeper thing - I think there are an awful lot of people in the country that don’t trust what they hear anymore. It’s not just crazy conspiracy nuts - it’s the general public! I agree with you, it’s very sad that we’ve come to this - but it is what it is.
I’m glad the bastard’s dead - but I’m not happy that he got a “respectful” burial - - I’m not happy that they won’t release photos of him for fear of “inflaming Islamic sensibilities”. If this is truly the case - then it doesn’t matter that we killed OBL - we won that battle, but we’ve lost the war.
Don’t blame FReepers for voicing what everyone is thinking right now.
Maybe what has been framed as blame is actually evidence that Free Republic has a very good sense of what America is really thinking.
For better or worse, at least we're accurate. :0)