Couldn’t have said it better myself, Norm.
We try to be careful and patient with people who are adding quality material to FR with special emphasis on those who ~freely share~ what they have written or discovered.
Then there are those, like this one recently dispatched, who plagiarize, re-blog, re-re-blog, excerpt for a hit to read a single sentence and generally act scummy while using FreeRepublic as their personal marketing playground.
That type - of which Talkradio03 was a quintessential example, we don’t cotton to. They drive away legitimate traffic and in some cases put FR in legal jeopardy. The latter case happening more often than you might think.
For example - Talkradio03 regularly took video produced by Fox News, CNN or another source, did a minor edit on it, put his blog’s name as a watermark on it and reposted it to YouTube. Then he would put it on his blog, without commentary, post the blog on FR and force you to his site to view what he had stolen. Pretty shabby behavior, wouldn’t you say?
Thanks to both of you for your responses. I understand the problem now.