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FR Management should ban posts from Breitbart

Posted on 04/24/2016 2:58:24 AM PDT by markomalley

I've started to see Breitbart host more and more pro-Cruz propaganda items on their sites. If they're going to continue posting anti-Trump lies and deception, they should go the way of "Right Scoop" and not be allowed to be posted on this site.

For example, this morning I come across a scurrilous piece by Dr Susan Berry, Donald Trump Foundation Donated $20K to Public School LGBT Activist Group GLSEN. Not saying that it's true, but even if it was, since when would Donald Trump have day-to-day management control on each and every donation made. Besides, it was 4 years ago. What relevance is this to today?

This just shows that it may not be a reliable news source any longer. I think articles from this source should be banned from FR.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: antitrump; breitbart; vanity; waambulance
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To: wiggen
Communists and Nazi’s were into banning free speech. By all means lets follow their lead. Never thought i’d come across such a despicable suggestion here.

I've seen worse. It's reasonable for Jim, as owner of this site, to determine what content is allowed, and what isn't. Jim's a reasonable man. He's not likely to ban all content that isn't completely in lockstep with his position, no matter who suggests it.

41 posted on 04/24/2016 4:02:33 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: markomalley

Trump is a lib at heart. Get over it.


42 posted on 04/24/2016 4:02:51 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: markomalley

Get a grip - there are likely just as many people here who support someone else - should they ask to ban any mention of your ‘god’ and all his worshipers? If the shoe fits - wear it. Any time you stifle/suspend/ban speech, it is to end free speech - no matter the justification.

Ideologues have no place in a conversation or debate when they insist the other guy has no right to criticize the ideologues view point.


43 posted on 04/24/2016 4:04:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: markomalley

Wait until he sees that he can’t rip up trade agreements without starting an all out trade war where nothing from the U.S. can be exported because of tariffs that will be instantly placed around the world on all US goods....idiot.


44 posted on 04/24/2016 4:06:39 AM PDT by CanadianBloodAmericanHeart
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To: sneakers

Bttt


45 posted on 04/24/2016 4:08:24 AM PDT by sneakers
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To: P-Marlowe; Tax-chick
Let’s just ban articles from every news source out there that isn’t owned by Trump Enterprises. Don’t allow any criticism of Trump on this forum at all. Just make this place a “safe space” for Trump supporters.

It's simply a matter of Realpolitik. The objective here is to prevent a President Hillary.

A strong PR campaign is required to accomplish that goal. Any PR campaign needs to control information flow. It's that simple.

46 posted on 04/24/2016 4:09:12 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley
Silence the opposition?

Until after the elections this November, that's 100% correct.

Or what? I'll get the ZOT?

Go for it, turn me in to the 'zot police' and collect your gold star.

As long as people who disagree are here the echo chamber won't be complete and Trump won't get 100% in the Caucus Thread.

But if you kick me out now for voicing my opinion, I won't be back, ever.

There will be nothing to come back to.

If you think we have mussed your boy's hair here, just wait until he matches up with the people who really know where his bodies are buried.

47 posted on 04/24/2016 4:12:48 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: some tech guy

Salon and Vox are like a Crucifix to a vampire for me. I just see the words and I jump back.

But you’re right. I either post, “i hate these sites” or post nothing :)


48 posted on 04/24/2016 4:14:51 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Popman

“I peruse huff post every day,
It’s nice that they tell us the libtard game plan by what idiotic meme and articles they are pushing...
It’s like reading their playbook....”

And same can be said about liberals reading FR.


49 posted on 04/24/2016 4:18:28 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: markomalley

50 posted on 04/24/2016 4:19:02 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: markomalley
Wow, that's just ...

... something.

Here, have a kitten. It can't hurt.


51 posted on 04/24/2016 4:19:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Thirteen years on Free Republic made me a feminist.)
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To: markomalley

So you support making Free Republic into a safe space for Trump fans?

You think that will help insure a Trump Victory and save the Republic?

And what about down ticket candidates. Are we going to make this site a safe space for them?

Or do you think DT can save the universe without any help from Congress.

I guess he can use his pen and phone, eh?


52 posted on 04/24/2016 4:21:54 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: markomalley

So only pro Trump propaganda is allowed?

Our Republic truly is lost based on what’s happening this election cycle.


53 posted on 04/24/2016 4:22:57 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: markomalley
 


"...
 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
What does this mean?

54 posted on 04/24/2016 4:27:15 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Hulka

-—And same can be said about liberals reading FR-—

Not sure about that...

FR has little or very lax oversight over what is posted...

There is no editor to approve articles or push an agenda...

Libs can get a flavor of our mindset on FR, but nobody is behind the scenes dictating a agenda or surpressing opinions...before they are posted...

There is always the ZOT...


55 posted on 04/24/2016 4:30:33 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone.)
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To: eartick
"The mods need a break and their ZOT button is wore out but a new one is on order that reads ZOTZOT for after he is elected."

REZOT

56 posted on 04/24/2016 4:33:08 AM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: markomalley

Snowflakes need safe spaces!


57 posted on 04/24/2016 4:33:13 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: markomalley

A bit loco. They still report positive Trump stories. I found 5 in a scan now. Unfortunately, the paste doesn’t work well on my tablet or I would post links. I’d have to switch to the notebook to do it.


58 posted on 04/24/2016 4:37:26 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: markomalley

Why not just ban guns and gut the Second Amendment? It can be done now that Justice Scalia is out of the way.


59 posted on 04/24/2016 4:39:33 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Popman

It’s an arm of the Trump campaign with him being the presumptive nominee.


60 posted on 04/24/2016 4:43:08 AM PDT by Nickname
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