The moderators do a great job of holding up the standards that Jim has set for Free Republic. However, they need all of our help--in exercising our good judgment when posting and in hitting the abuse button when out of line comments are made.
We are not a politically correct site, however the posting guidelines need to be adhered to. The comments cited by O'Reilly are literally drops in the bucket of the millions of comments posted on FR and do not represent what FR is about. However, the better we take care of FR, the less chances we'll give people to pull stunts like O'Reilly did last night.
I want to thank everyone for the kind and supportive comments last night. It was not a 'fun' interview, but hopefully some good will come out of it.
The Fonz jumping the shark was an indicator of creative vacuum..
O'Reilly knows nothing of FR OR CARES.. Andy Rooney don't really care either..
O'Reilly and Rooney are dung beetles.. interesting only because of what they are rolling smells like.. Their shows/act's ask you to pull their fingers.. or smell it..
The whole reason O’Rielly attacked Free Republic is to appear “balanced” when he attacked the Daily Kos. I think this whole balance thing has gone to his head. Sometimes balance is unnecessary because some problems require only one answer: the correct one. The whole Fox News network should just drop the obsession with balance and just say what they believe. Aren’t we far enough away from the Depression and the Civil Rights eras that we can truly exercise free speech?
I heard someone accuse a FReeper of posting that on O'Reilly, but I've never seen any posts against any race.
Behaviors, though, are fair game. They're a "choice."
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Some people, on both sides, take themselves far too seriously. This, like almost every other verbal and written shouting match, is more about ego polishing than it is about content.