posted by [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com at 09:01am on 2004-10-24
I am highly skeptical of anything from freerepublic, both factually and in its intent. I'm doubly skeptical of insinuation, unbacked suggestions, and twists of the truth: "On September 2nd, in Huntington, West Virginia, someone fired a shot at the Republican Headquarters as local party members were watching President Bush's nomination speech" -- I want to know whether the shot was fired AT the HQ or if it was a stray. And how they knew. And suchlike. In the same vein for the Tennessee incident (see South Knox Bubba; IIRC he had coverage of that one). And as for the theft of computers -- hm. I wonder why he feels entitled to cry about it in one instance and decry it when the shoe is on the fish of another color, in Ohio. (Damn. lost the link. And too tired to find it)

Don't get me started on the anti-union spew. "Goons." Well, as we learned truly in kindergarten, it takes one to know one.

Now to wash my hands and eyeballs and take a cleansing drink, after reading that.

Trusting that site is like believing in the Weekly World Newa, except the latter is funny.
 
posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 03:38pm on 2004-10-24
FreeRepublic is *not* what it looks like. It's about on a par with Little Green Footballs as a hotbed of wingnuttery. Got any *credible* sources?

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