Likewise, I do not recall your ever being mean to Sean Hannity. Moreover, the positions attributed to Sean in the article do not ring true - except perhaps as an anti-Freeper's wishful thinking.
Thank you so much for recounting the history of Free Republic and thank you for keeping her going all this time, a place for like-minded political activists. It would have been easy to be a "me too" bbs, forum or blog.
If any Freeper out there wants to curtail or even end the Freepathon method of fundraising, the best solution is to become a monthly donor.
no one fawned on him, but were accepting
Sean had a hissy fit, said Freepers were bashing him constantly
he announced on his show that people dont go to freerepublic anymore and he is starting his OWN chat room on his page
well, THAT did not sit right, and it brought out all the secret thoughts on just what people thought of sean
Right from Hannity’s start, all he did was repeat, in order of appearance, all Limbaugh's talking points and even used Limbaugh's audio files played in the previous 3 hours
Hannity had almost zero original thought or points to raise on any issue, he was just a parrot of Limbaugh and acted like those thoughts were his own.
I remarked to Nutmeg several times the reason I listened to Hannity was because I got to hear a repeat of Limbaugh each day
Well, on the rebuttal/confrontational thread of the following days, Mark Levin chimed in to me about how he was going to educate me on this subject...and I levelled him, let his have it
Levin didnt want to make his points to public I guess, he stayed away from the thread and didnt fight point for point, but I had him cold on his previous remarks
Within 6 months after that , a NEW freeper made a single comment that he read a story on Freerepublic.com and Hannity immediately hung up on him. That freeper started a thread asking what happened, not aware of the fight, and some tried to defend hannity, most who heard the show defended the freeper, Hannity just hung up on him and ended the call with a snide “Okay..>Okay” and let him go
Since then, I have made it public that I am not a fan of his show at all, dont listen anymore and wont.
as for chasing Ann Coulter away, she used to eat with us, have dinners with us, she was not fazed with her detracters at all, in fact, one of the comments I made to Levin was that Ann acts more like a man towards the insults than Hannity does!
I dropped my support for Ann, though, recently, when she joined in with the homosexual rights group GOProud. That is just morally offensive for someone to call themselves a Christian and Conservative and to join hands FORMALLY with a homosexual rights group as a public advisor role.