You didn't even read your own excerpt. No wonder you think they're biased:
"Known on the Free Republic as "freeping" a poll, the practice is not unique to the Free Republic forums and is employed by many other activist websites of all political stripes."
Victimhood is evidently not unique to liberals.
Funny. There is NO such discussion of the practice in the DU listing.
No mention on the DU listing about the hateful threads they pull when they appear in print in the Wall Street Journal (i.e. DU in the News).
Again, would you feel comfortable trying to explain to someone about your posting at a site such as FR if that is what forms their perception of the site?