Rush: "Liberals Orgasm Over Web Pipe Dream" (Hot Link to Free Republic from his web site tonight)

Rush Limbaugh Web Site ^ | July 7, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[concerned about politics]

We need a .pdf document of a print ad on the homepage of FR...something we can forward to friends on email, or print and place the ad ourselves....

Whenever anyone brings up a political issue in an e-mail, I send them an FR link to read the real story. It works. Just start sending out links with your e-mails. It's free.

[blackbart1]

Rush is HOT today.

[Diamond]

Glad to see you again after a long time still here making the salient point!:^)

Cordially,

[My2Cents]

Why does the vertical axis on that graph appear inverted? The bottom reads "100,000," while the mark toward the top reads "1000." How is this graph read?

[singsong]

It's ranking not hits. So FR is now 800 something in order of popularity, MOO goes between 2,000 and 100,000.
I'm not sure about the money angle, I don't think the site generated the money, probably wealthy sposors.

[Redcloak]

The graph shows how many sites have more traffic. Thus smaller numbers are better.

[My2Cents]

Kind of like a golf score. Now I understand. ;-)

[Slyfox]

If we are Freep-ers, then MoveOn.org must have MoveOn-hers.

Clinton musta thought that one up.

[an amused spectator]

Concerning the WashPost/LATimes thing, I never could understand that. I compared what FreeRepublic was doing to if I bought the paper, and then showed an article I liked to 25 people who did not buy the paper. Isn't that the same thing?

It was a SLAPP suit (probably ordered by the Clinton White House), designed to cost FR time and money. It was brought before a Clinton judge who secured her position on the federal bench in part through advertisements in the LA Times (which were disguised as "news columns", written by a LAT "journalist" who was actually part of the suit).

Surprisingly (</sarcasm>), the "judge" came up with a four-point test that found that FR was "infringing".

Curiously, with this ruling firmly in hand, LAT/WP allow liberal websites to post full-length articles from their papers. Imagine that!

This very article by Ronald Brownstein is posted in full on the Smirking Chimp (a smaller liberal website, a little larger than FR was at the time of the lawsuit). The Smirking Chimp actually posted the FR judgement article way back when, so the operator can't claim ignorance - and he posts the majority of the articles:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=12123&mode=nested&order=0

It operates pretty much the way FR does, fundraisers, etc.

[rwfromkansas]

360 Youth is one group. I received their survey and need to fill it out, but need to find the ad rates etc. so I can do all the confusing math crap I have to calculate.

[rwfromkansas]

(I wish we had an ads manager, needless to say so I wouldn't have to deal with that....ah, the perils of a small publication).

[oldglory]

I heard the entire Rush broadcast--INCLUDING --his animated reference to Free Republic!!!
Rush referred to Dan's Bake Sale-that day too-and it reminded me of my youngest son's trip to Colorado---to attend the event!
I still have the "T" shirt he picked up for me,which said-----I RUSHED TO DAN'S BAKE SALE--TO CELEBRATE LIFE,LIBERTY,AND THE AMERICAN WAY!!!

FR "Market-a-Thon"--sounds like an idea "waiting to happen"!!

[Bob J]

Not a bad idea. I think JR is considering several significant options regarding support for Bush in '04!

[Bob J]

Do you remember the name of the agency?

[OPS4]

So lets get a link on Hannity!
Ops4 God BLess America!

[GOPJ]

bump

[Vesuvian]

No, I'm sorry, but hopefully it will be easy enough to track down. The only thing I remember about those days was when some dimwit locked me in the office : /

[Libertina]

Thanks Rush! Keep conducting the economics instruction!

[Saundra Duffy]

BUMP

[No!]

Big Rushbo bump!