However, 99% of the articles posted on Free Republic are postings of hard news articles - people on Free Republic often post responses with satire to these hard news articles, but as I mentioned, the vast majority of posted articles themselves are not satire/fake news.
The subject post was posted in "Bloggers & Personal." FR provided a means for conservative writers to post here. What you will find is conservative writers and bloggers that actually do something for the conservative cause will post while other "conservatives" that do little, other than criticize, mock and attack and do what they can to drive the poster from the site.
The ironey is that a majority of posts here are posted from liberal sites. Material that links back to the liberal site, generating traffic and ad revenue for liberals that pay nothing to FR. All the while... conservatives who pay FR, link their sites and original content to FR are harrassed until they leave or are banned!
Quarterly fundraising used to take three to four weeks. This one will take 15 threads and end about the last week of May or first week of June.
I agree that the semi-news is marked, and, sometimes, I do notice it before clicking on the title, but, when I’m in a hurry, sometimes I don’t. Are you never in a hurry?
Of course! But John caught me twice. If it pisses me off, I immediately go back and check. In all fairness though, I've never blamed John for my failings.
...it just seems like a waste of time.
And yet it provoked you enough to respond!
Which reminds me, is the point of these semi-news articles to catch readers unaware and thus, have a joke at their expense because they were in a hurry and didn’t happen to notice the by-line under the title, or, is the point to make fun of the idiots on the left? I guess Mr. Simmons point could be to do both, but I would rather spend my time just making fun of the left.
So, instead of making fun of the left... what did you do?
This isn’t a big deal and my wife thinks I just need to “lighten’ up”, and, she’s probably right. Mr. Simmons has just as much right to post anything he wants as any other Free Republic member. All the same, it still annoys me. Just saying.
You are blessed with an intelligent wife!
John’s posts are pretty easy to sniff out - there’s always one thing in there that is so over the top, it causes you to look up and see - Yep Semi-Satire from AZConservative. Then you chuckle and move on. Each time when I read the first line, I am composing a post in my head and after the second or third tidbit, I know this is one of John’s satires. This is like Rush Limbaugh using the absurd to demonstrate the absurd. And this one is pretty damned believable given the crap coming from the White Hut...
re: “What you will find is conservative writers and bloggers that actually do something for the conservative cause will post while other “conservatives” that do little, other than criticize, mock and attack and do what they can to drive the poster from the site.”
I fail to see how posting fake news articles is doing something for the conservative cause, but regardless, if John Semmens wants to do so, he is certainly within his rights to do it, and, it’s my right to express my dislike for that style of writing.
re: “But John caught me twice. If it pisses me off, I immediately go back and check. In all fairness though, I’ve never blamed John for my failings.”
Again, I don’t see the point of posting fake news articles on a forum that is dedicated to discussing hard news articles - that’s why Mr. Semmens “catches” so many people - If my pointing that out makes me “blaming John for my failings” I guess I am guilty.
re: “And yet it provoked you enough to respond!”
Yes, that’s true, but that still doesn’t mean that posting fake news articles for the purpose of fooling people in a hard news political forum isn’t a waste of time.
re: “So, instead of making fun of the left... what did you do?”
I wasn’t making fun of anyone - I didn’t post the article, Mr. Semmens did. I voiced my opinion that I didn’t care for fake news articles.
re: “You are blessed with an intelligent wife!”
I totally agree with you on that one.
I guess as the saying goes, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, I suppose the same holds true for humor.
What I mean by that is that all those who enjoy Mr. Semmens writings should just keep enjoying them, and I’ll just keep on being annoyed by them.