[maxwell]

We made WSJ??? Kick a$$!

[Kay Soze]

I have news for you.

Rush claims his show to be news prep for the networks.

But guess where Rush gets al lot of hs stuff?

He will never admit it but he and his staff read free republic DAILY.

[Happy2BMe]

"Free Republic scooped the AP by at least 11 minutes--which is an eternity in the competitive world of wire-service reporting."

Now, why does that not surprise me!

[L.N. Smithee]

I have always thought that Taranto had to be an FR lurker, if not a full-fledged secret Freeper. Unfortunately, people who have to protect their professional reputations are most likely loathe to admit Freepership because of the the few who can't control their language and/or behavior.

I have mixed feelings about threads like this. A scoop is a scoop, and it's nice to see FR get some positive attention. But when we all start back-slapping about a tragedy, it's really kind of morbid.

I believe that I was the first to post on the Internet (after the word came from a local S.F. newscast) that Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had passed away February 12, 2000, a hour before the Sunday morning the final Peanuts strip was set to run. Matt Drudge will never admit this, but he was lurking, and minutes later posted the same headline as the thread I authored ("Charles Schultz [sic] Dies On Eve of Final Strip") on his home page. Both occurrences preceded the official AP story 12 minutes after my thread.

I didn't feel all that good about that one, because I was a fan of Peanuts. I am more proud of being the only one who has published -- print or otherwise -- that President Clinton committed perjury in written responses to House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde's questions about the issues regarding his deposition in the Paula Jones trial, and my exclusive discovery in the HTML code of an MSN entertainment site's story about the Dr. Laura TV show how biased they were against her.

[Gophack]

ping

[bonesmccoy]

Thanks for the posting.

I thought it would be of value to post the other threads (which were locked by the admin). They had relevant postings. Since your message is discussing timing of reports, these other posts are relevant to the discussion which rapidly evolved between 6 AM and 7 AM Pacific time on FR on 2-1-03.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833911/posts?page=6#6

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/833912/posts

These threads were locked, but the postings should be integrated into the historic record of this website's communication.

God bless the crew of STS-107!