JimRob & John Robinson - GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER - or the Nut Roots will take down Free Republic

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:

Obama vs. WGN-AM
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.com

Chicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.

Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.

Excerted

Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.com

Much of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.

Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.

It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.

chicagotribune.com

If you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.

You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:

1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].

Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:

[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net
[n - 1] 128.242.105.82
[n]     209.147.64.200

2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.

The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.

Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.

[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]

3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.

Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.

I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.

[yoe]

"...then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months."

I am afraid I agree completely. The left cannot allow a McCain-Palin win--the Left's long knives are out...the need to refute all lies by the hour is imperative...using FR and your e-mail lists as well. Obama and his ilk have many folks still flummoxed mainly because they refuse to research his past and vet him.

[Quix]

The “pray for my kitty” threads are important. Seriously, those threads help posters who are energetically opposed to each on particular political points, to remember that they’re both human and have some things in common that are important to them and that they agree on. The sense of community that such threads help build, improve the cultural foundations of FR and the overall tone of the discourse here.

= = =

Have tried to warn about that for at least half a year.

I don’t think folks realize the degree of demand.

[netmilsmom]

>>Would you happen to know how to change one’s tagline?<<

Really?
I can help.
Type new words into the box at the bottom that says “Tagline”.

(you knew that didn’t you. I’m just gullible, aren’t I?)

[Fred]

If you want to win this race, then I suggest you get your arses out to the toss-up states and volunteer. As the saying goes 'run to the sound of the canons because that is where the battle is'. Let these OBAMATARDS blather endlessly on the phones but this battle will be won on the ground LIKE MOST BATTLES....

WHOEVER TURNS OUT THE VOTER ON ELECTION DAY WINS


Do not allow yourselves to be distracted by all the noise on the internet, MSM and the internet....

Here are several solid sites that give a snapshot of the battleground. This is an electoral college race NEVER forget this fact

Rove tends to lag about week behind but still a good bellweather


RASMUSSEN REPORTS POLLS DAILY - EXCELENT DAILY SNAPSHOT OF THE BATTLE GROUND
Election 2008: Electoral College Update Electoral College: McCain 200 Obama 193 AS OF 091308



May God bless us all and may God always bless http://freerepublic.com....

[OKIEDOC]

upchuck wrote:
Free Republic has gone from a place for conservative to hang out to a major disseminator of conservative thought, ideas, news, etc. Free Republic today is essential to the conservative cause.

WORTH REPEATING:

Please be proactive in protecting Free Republic from left wing attacks. If this means a special FReepathon to buy equipment or pay for colos, then so be it.

Comment:

I am aware of through a close personal contact that the planning for shutting down anti Obama web sites like FRee Republic has been discussed and will be implemented if Obama falls much further behind in their internal polling.

Right now as I write this, new trolls are being recruited to disrupt Conservative web sites.

My very high level source laughingly said that these people mean business and they do have the financial backing to cause havoc with anyone who crosses Senator Obama.

As for those polls people ask us to FReep, well these are being manipulated to Obama’s advantage.

Also be aware that these folks are trying to figure out who is making adverse comments and seeking to identify their true identity.

Just some interesting information from a high level source.

[Quix]

AGREED:

This is no ordinary election. Anyone can see we are moving towards some kind of cold civil war. As the battle escalates, removing the voices of the ‘enemy’ from the public discourse will become an important priority (primarily for the left. Conservatives are not afraid of the nut roots’ blather). If you think that talk radio and Free Republic are forever, think again. The enemy, if he wins, will spare nothing to shut down opposing voices, the Constitution be dammed.

[Miss Didi]

I’ve been whining for days about it. ;)

[Publius6961]

I’m sure Jim, John and company are way ahead of the game on this. This site has been around for a long time and has seen much worse attacks that Obamalamadingdong can do.

Ahhhh.
The dreaded complacency/loyalty counterattack...

[GATOR NAVY]

Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

You people can pray for your d*mned kitties on your own time.

We need to be praying that these Bolsheviks don't take over in January.

These people are stark-raving, bloodthirsty, marxist kooks - if you think your d*mned kitty is of any importance in the greater scheme of things, then you had d*mned better be prepared to be enslaved by the government you deserve, because you're about to get it.

[Publius6961]

I am not the only one having problems getting onto and posting on FR?

What problems?
Nothing to see here, please move along.

Isn't tribal knee-jerk mini-outrage wonderful?

[Quix]

AGREED:

I couldn’t agree more, and specifically I would support a separate “Mirror sites” fund; yes, with my checkbook.

Any suggestion that this thread be “Zotted” couldn’t aid the enemy more...

[TomServo]

I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies

Maybe we can ban racists, too.

[tiredoflaundry]

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Right now as I write this, new trolls are being recruited to disrupt Conservative web sites.

We have been having alot of fun with them on Ace of Spades. If somebody did not know better, they would think we have all gone stark raving bonkers.

[bcsco]

I thought Shrillery was the huge BW*tchatee???

Only above the Mason-Dixon line.

[Publius6961]

I don't like the monthly thing.
I just contribute a year's worth once a year.

This is an extraordinary expense, made necessary by the extraordinary Obama Organization and the dedication of the frenzied.

I'm in for extra funds...

[Quix]

True enough . . . .

Though some threads are considerably more frivolous than the prayer threads, imho.

[ShadowAce]

What do you guys think??

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Just some interesting information from a high level source.

In other words, Team Obama is acting just like the ChiComs or the old Soviets in trying to shut down the opposition.