I could have sworn Hugh Hewitt said he was one of the first who POSTED it on FR.....Is Hugh a Freeper?
Unless he is JeanS, then it wasn't him. My post
was at 11:14 am http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730012/posts
With JeanS posting at 11:16 am http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1730016/posts.
Many are FReepers or lurkers. Often I've heard something on for instance Brit Hume's show, and I know the only place they could have gotten it from was FR. Unfortunately most of the time FR gets called a "blog" which it isn't.