Posted on 02/17/2008 6:00:30 PM PST by Admin Moderator
Edited on 02/17/2008 6:17:12 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
OK folks, where should we go from here? Do we continue to post the YouTube video, and the articles about the YouTube video, here on Free Republic?
We've had to pull some articles about this, all sourced to the YouTube video. Some were pulled because they were from porn sites. One site was blocked tonight because of other disgusting content.
Is Free Republic above this or do we want it to be true so badly that we'll post anything about this from any source?
If we're going to discuss this topic we should at least ask for more proof.
Thanks.
Cheers!
I agree with many others here. We can’t just go on hearsay from one potentially crazy person.
We are better than the DUmmies and the KOmmies.
The $100,000 was offered by whitehouse.com. Are you familiar with the site? It’s blocked at Free Republic. Check it out if you want to know why.
Until something more than a random YouTube video is available, I say pull the threads that link to it.
Discussion threads about the topic are fine.
But we should NOT PROMOTE the video by linking to it, directly or otherwise.
> ...I say pull the threads that link to it.
Or at least pull the comments that include a link to the video.
“We are better than the DUmmies and the KOmmies.”
Yes, the ratio of nays to yeas shows how different Free Republic is from DU. If this was about a Republican you know what would be happening.
In my five years here I’ve come to depend on FR to get to the truth and to get there way ahead of the MSM. I’m for backing away from all this unless or until there is concrete evidence to present. But if that happens, all bets should be off.
It has Mafia written all over it, Jim.
This woman’s calendar was filled up with usual suspect MSM program appearances, and her gossip was through-the-grapevine stuff. This Sinclair guy is making first hand unproved accusations so I don’t see how Lauer and the rest of the usual suspects can fail to publicize his story.
I'm not familiar with the site but I checked it out and found this:
"We are rebranding and relaunching as a Political/News/ Entertainment site in January 2008."
I found no porn and no offensive content. It looks like the site was totally redone and it now has normal news stories like McCains son returning from Iraq, etc. Might want to rethink the block policy if the changeover to normal political news blog is for real. They link to numerous liberal and conservative blogs.
That guy first came out on rense.com which is a banned siteher IRRC. We don’t want that crap here.
This “story” does not pass the smell test.
Pull them until this shakes out a bit more.
Yeah, check the limo for DNA. Why is it that conservatives always ask for more proof but all it takes is one liberal to make an accusation of a conservative and it has to be defended?
The fact that Larry Sinclair made this video and posted it to YouTube is political news and is worthy of one thread with a link to the video.
The fact that whitehouse.com offered Sinclair a substantial contract to take a polygraph and that Sinclair accepted is also news and is therefore also worthy of a thread.
If and when whitehouse.com posts the results of the polygraph, positive or negative, that's news as well, etc.
I hope that FReepers will be somewhat reasonable in discussing these events but they are definitely news and I see no reason to ignore them.
As we speak some one is presenting some evidence to Dan Rather. I heard that they look real. Real or not I’m sure that they are accurate. LOL
However, if this guy produces Barak’s blue dress with both guys DNA on it, it’s a whole other ballgame. So to speak.
I hope I did nothing to offend you or break any rules at FR as my account came up suspended for “3 days to cool off” but then was reinstated moments later. Then someone put all the stories that I had mentioned (as other things posted that also could not be proved) into breaking news I guess to make a point.
My last post was simply to do what you said to do. Check out that site. I did, and it appears they have changed into a political blog. I do not want to break any rules so please let me know if did anything wrong and if posting these comments here is wrong please delete.
(got me a little scared to be honest)
Even if the accusations are true, I see it as only helping in the view of homosexual Liberal Democrat voters...
Let’s wait for B J Clinton or Hillary to publicly raise the issue, then we attack them and Obama.
We sure don’t want to be useful idiots running with fake planted stories so that when real dirt shows up, we won’t have any credibility.
World Net Daily ran the story today. They are considered a reputable source by most.
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