[Eroteme]

Free Republic, founded by Robinson in September 1996, doesn't attract much attention from the national press and is not well-known among political experts.

uh-huh. riiiiight. If they weren't lurking FR, half these "experts" and pundits wouldn't have an original thought in their heads, much less a decent soundbite. FR darn-well has both press and poltico attention. They just don't admit it. Otherwise, they'd have to report on what was being said and have JimRob and Kristinn on CNN every night.

Good job!

[magslinger]

They quit mentioning FR because every time they did, FR got a membership bump. Too many people would come here to see how bad we really were and got hooked.

They probably wouldn't have noticed and would still be calling us a right wing hate site if that fact hadn't been pointed out here.