Posted on 06/25/2002 9:53:08 PM PDT by vikingchick
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By disrupting the constant drumbeat of liberal propaganda -- Reagan was a brute, Cuba has excellent health care, Santa's home is melting, Gore won the election, and Clinton is Elvis--the Internet had become a threat to "democracy."
The first chapter of Sunstein's book [Republic.com -- a book that apparently advocated censoring the Internet] was posted on Freerepublic.com --a website that is wildly popular on the basis of the now-discredited "consumer sovereignty" principle. One Freeper responded, "I've been exposed to a massive excerpt from Republic.com, a book written by a liberal, on a conservative niche website. Without that conservative niche site, which I visit often, I would not have read his stuff."
Yowch, how great is that, being an example of what NOT to do to mess up your life?
My daddy always said "son, no one in this world is completely useless. He can always serve as a bad example."
Never knew he meant ME.
So Sunstein doesn't think that the customer is king? He ought to try running a business. A real business; one that relies on customers for its livelihood, not a government-grant "study".
Thanks to Ann Coulter for mentioning Freerepublic!
(Internet) In a ranking of the nine most-visited websites in the "Politics & New Media" category, conservative sites regularly outnumber liberal sites.
Though the rankings vary from month to month, the list for March 2001 is typical: Four of the nine are conservative websites: drudgereport.com (number 2), townhall.com (number 4), freerepublic.com (number 6), and reagan.com (number 9). Only two are liberal websites, coming in at numbers 5 and 8.
I'll have to remember that one.
Yowch indeed. I realized that you sent her the vignette, as opposed to calling in her radio show, but I've never understood how anyone can call Dr. Laura or any other radio show dealing with personal problems. I've called local sports radio stations a few times, and I would invariably hear comments in person from somebody who heard me on the radio. It doesn't matter what time I called, or how obscure the show was, there would be at least one person in real life who would recognize my voice and tell me he heard me on the radio.
Anyhow, I just know that if I called up Dr. Laura to ask for her advice, there would be many friends and acquaintances who would recognize my voice. Yikes!
Well, in my case I responded to her on-air call for personal anecdotes by faxing her my own. It's a bit less risky as she only included my first name (my actual name, though, I might add).
I figured I would be helpful, just like I said according my father's words: I could serve as an example of what NOT to do. I thought maybe it might help some poor guy down the road who found himself in a similar situation.
She's talking about her experience on the CrossFire show and her encounter with SerpentHead Car'vile'.
I believe you can listen on his website here
Mike Gallagher Show
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