Considering we get 0.9% of total monthly traffic from FR (just above Yahoo and just behind WeaselZippers, where we can't even post), I think you overestimate its value as an "advertising tool". Perhaps some of us just want to share our conservative ideas with people we have come to respect for well over a decade.
The FReeper you harassed over his postings of Canada Free Press (yes it appears he is a columnist there -- the horror!) has been a FReeper for 11 years. I have been one for 16. How exactly is it "scummy" to post articles he either wrote or from a site he runs? Top Right News gets nearly as much traffic monthly as Free Republic. Canada Free Press is highly ranked too. We don't need to post here. We want to.
As an aside is also rather ironic that 80-90% of content from TheBlaze, Breitbart, DailyCaller, Newsbusters and CNSNews involve repackaging what humblegunner would call "stolen videos". Yet I have yet to see them called "blogpimps". And I don't think Glenn Beck is a FReeper.
I guess my butt just hurts. Boo hoo.
Cry me a river.
To which site are you referring? TRN or CFP?