http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blogosphere/ en-us Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:32:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406563/posts Anti-Obama sentiment brewing on internet as Tea party threatens boilover WHEN Stacy Mott, a stay-at-home mother of three children, started writing a blog after the election of President Barack Obama last year, she had no involvement in politics and simply wanted to vent her frustration at financial bailouts, healthcare reform and legislation to combat climate change. The former marketing executive at Toys R Us quickly found she was not alone. One year on, her blog, Smart Girl Politics, is an organisation with 23,000 members and co-ordinators in almost every state. "There are a huge amount of people out there... theaustralian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406563/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:32:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398393/posts The Huffington Post is one of those aggregation Web sites criticized by media titan Rupert Murdoch yesterday. And its response to his statement that practices by those sites amount to content theft: Enough of the whining and finger pointing. Here's Arianna Huffington's post in response to Murdoch: She said the News Corp. chairman just doesn't get the new Web media model. Murdoch and Huffington were among those at a media star-studded event at the Federal Trade Commission on the future of newspapers. The FTC said its workshop was meant to consider ways the federal government could play a role in... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398393/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2366031/posts Either I have a message worth reading - in which case LGF blocking me makes no difference, or I have nothing worthy to say - in which case acceptance by LGF makes no difference! Meanwhile, after wracking my brain as to why I was banned and seeing who else the good Mr. Johnson has been feuding with, I can only surmise that the above quoted posts and many others which expose extreme Islamists in my blog may have cumulatively been the cause of my banishment. Should that be the case, I can only thank Charles Johnson for elevating my little... Freedom's Cost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2366031/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:09:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360192/posts always say I love numbers because numbers don't lie. I recently scanned Michelle Malkin's site, Michael Gaynor's site, and Anita Moncrief's site, and what I discovered is rather illuminating. For instance, on Michelle Malkin's site, Anita Moncrief is mentioned in more pieces (25-19) than Wade Rathke. In other words, if you relied primarily on Michelle Malkin's site for your news, you'd think that Anita Moncrief is more important to the ACORN story than the long time CEO of the group, Wade Rathke. Wade Rathke is known by almost all that follow ACORN whereas Moncrief is relatively unknown by most that... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360192/posts#comment Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343026/posts I’ve counted Right Wing Nuthouse as one of the blogs I read on a regular basis for the past few years now (as noted by the fact that it is in our blogroll). I’ve always found Rick Moran’s articles to be interesting and thought provoking, even if I often disagreed with him (as he is a bit more moderate than I am). Yet, earlier this week, he wrote a column that I found to be a vitriolic attack on Rush Limbaugh for a typical Rush segment in which Rush illustrated absurdity by being absurd. The bit in question that Rick... Axis of Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343026/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:37:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2316929/posts I had looked forward to interviewing Phelim McAleer at the Right Online conference about his new film, Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria, since I interviewed him at CPAC about his efforts on the documentary at that point. This time, though, Phelim’s co-director and wife Ann McElhinney joined us to discuss the film, the radical environmental movement, and how Rachel Carson changed the world — to the detriment of tens of millions of people who have needlessly died through the banning of DDT. Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2316929/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:00:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316406/posts Conservatives take on liberals in blogosphere DAN NEPHIN Aug. 14 PITTSBURGH -- Call this city blogger central. Two grassroots groups - one left leaning, the other right leaning - are holding their annual conferences here and teaching members how to wield clout online. On the left is Netroots Nation, which has been credited in part with helping usher President Barack Obama into office. On the right is RightOnline, a project of the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation. The Netroots Nation conference is much larger, at about 1,800 people, and lasts four days. RightOnline has about 700 people and lasts two... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316406/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:01:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308926/posts There are plenty of interesting thoughts swirling around in the blogosphere, as evidenced by this first NewsReal Blog Round Up. Andrew Sullivan muses on the Cash for Clunkers program and conservatism: What conservatives have to do, in my view, is not demonize government, but to champion limited government. If government can do tangible practical things that help everyone, while balancing its budget, it’s doing what conservatives think it should. Smart, practical initiatives that address problems that the private sector has failed at: what else is government for? The rest is ideology – and it seems to be all the Republicans... NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308926/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:07:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305794/posts The whole birth certificate issue gets weirder still: "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...." But why are we supposed to rely on the testimony of Dr Fukino, whom I believe entirely. It is not my job as a journalist or yours as a... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305794/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:39:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226553/posts There's been a lot of talk recently about what is being lost with the death of newspapers. But less discussed is what is being GAINED. And that is that the Web is a much more interactive, participatory medium that a newspaper can ever be. One controversial or memorable blog entry can attract more comments than entire career as a newspaper reporter. Just as important, there is no filter -- no copy editor -- to get between you and those armies of commentors out there. And those commentors come in many forms -- more than most of us ever imagined. Here's... Edgelings.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226553/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:33:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2182264/posts Reaching across the aisle must have been too uncomfortable for a man who is used to standing around and watching admirers crawl up that same aisle to offer obeisance. In his first televised press conference since being elected to become All Things to All People, Barack Obama dropped the pretense of giving a crap about what anybody else thought. Those of us who have been paying attention to the man rather than the media-spun myth were less than surprised by the development. Three weeks into his tenure, Mr. Obama acknowledged that his effort to change the political climate in Washington... Axis of Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2182264/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:46:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179081/posts This was the pot calling the kettle . . . broke. Talk about chutzpah, this was the journalistic equivalent of John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer co-authoring an advice book on how to stay faithful to your wife [foreword by Bill Clinton]. By its cover story this week, Time deigns to dole out advice to newspapers about how to save themselves. This from the same Time whose parent, Time Inc., just a few months ago announced massive layouts. Time Inc. is in turn owned by Time Warner, which just yesterday announced a fourth-quarter loss of . . . $16 billion. Time... FinkelBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179081/posts#comment Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:56:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts Week of babies and lies Sarah Palin talks about her daughter's baby, and a hoax that fooled Oprah Winfrey falls apart. Buzz Week in Review A collective exhale ushered the volatile 2008 out the door this week, although one baby who caused a political storm managed to quietly slip himself out before the end. Meanwhile, a long-time Oprah hoax and high-seas piracy stirred up the Buzz—and the searches—during this transition period. Mom, Do We Have to Do a Combo Celebration? Bristol Palin's boy emerged not as the grandson of the first female vice president, but as another December baby who... Yahoo Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153705/posts There was no Memorex around when the brontosauri were bidding bye-bye, but I think we have a pretty good idea of what they sounded like as they were going extinct. Just listen to Brian Williams this morning. Appearing on Morning Joe, the NBC Nightly News anchor lamented the decline of "classically-trained" journalists in favor of guys with "an opinion and a modem." A question from Pat Buchanan about the ebbing fortunes of the old media set Williams off on a soliloquy he assured us was not self-interested. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153705/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2118504/posts Who is "Buckhead" for the WBEZ tapes? Remember 2004, Dan Rather, the "fake but accurate" memo, and a poster on Freerepublic.com named "Buckhead" who was the first to spot the fact that something was not quite right about that memo? Well, now we have the tapes of Obama, Ayers, et al., in the WBEZ (Chicago National Proletarian Radio) archives that, as far as Obama being a socialist, are like the punchline to the old joke where the guy asks the girl if she'd sleep with him for a million dollars, and she says, "Sure!". Then he asks her if she'd... HotelSierra blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2118504/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:44:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114247/posts Mary Mapes is in gloat over-drive. Dan Rather's erstwhile producer, the woman behind Memogate, is beside herself with joy at what she sees as the impending death of the conservative blogosphere. It's her expectation that Barack Obama will win the presidency that has Mapes so hopeful. Annotated excerpts from her HuffPo column, The Monster is Dying [emphasis added]: * This whole thing is starting to feel a lot like the climactic death scene at the end of a 1950s monster movie. * Palin actually resembles that old monster movie staple -- the beautiful-but-bookish brunette working as a lab assistant for... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114247/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108412/posts An ordinary citizen speaks up about how federal policies affect his family and his pocketbook, and bloggers dive into his personal life. His finances, his address, his background and family connections are all splashed all over the Internet as bloggers line up to debate whether the instant celebrity is all he appears to be. Many feel he's concealing enough about his background to make his opinion worthless. Next the media steps in to defend the ordinary guy. Time Magazine's Karen Tumulty says he's being swift-boated. The New York Times says he's being slimed. One partisan blogger says the other... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108412/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:26:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073433/posts Film-maker Michael Moore has apparently praised the gulf weather for its chance of disrupting the Republican convention: “This hurricane is proof that there is a god in heaven.” Another low point in politics, though possibly one that could be passed off with a laugh—a partisan irony, rather than a serious derangement. But over on the leftist Daily Kos website, there is a post that sinks much lower—so low that it caused many of the commentators to denounce it. Which led another commentator to make this remark: I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to destroy the Republican Party as... First Things http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073433/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035375/posts Here's an interesting representation of the "Blogosphere" and how Free Republic appears in this map. As far as I can tell, FR get's linked to or has links from? all these sites that we have a tie to...Red are conservative, Yellow are "InfoPits"? and Blue...the enemy...Go to the website and you can search on websites and vary the size of the display to achieve better resolution. Sorta fun to see... Presidential Watch 08 Website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035375/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:59:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033322/posts In reading a small slice of the coverage of the AP - Drudge Retort contretemps it struck me that a lot of the more breathless coverage in the blogosphere stems from the rather larger misperception that one day last week, out of the blue, Rogers Cadenhead got slapped with a lawsuit by AP. As one of the few people who has seen all the legal documents in the case and has actually read the Digital Millennium Copyright Act I can see it would be wise for some folks to cool down and acquaint themselves with the rather prosaic facts in... Media Bloggers Association http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033322/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032534/posts The Associated Press took a grandiose Facebook-style faceplant last week when it attempted to impose strict guidelines on the blogosphere. Now, just like Facebook’s initial unapologetic enthusiasm for its privacy-violating Beacon program followed by Facebook’s effusive apology for its privacy-violating Beacon program, the AP is bowing to the will of the angry Internet masses and backing off. Sort of. [snip] [snip]To citizen journalists out in cyberspace, AP’s proclamation against one little aggregate site (much smaller in comparison to, say, Digg, etc.) rang like a shot across the bow of fair use, especially after an AP spokesperson announced that, from here... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032534/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:57:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2027543/posts There are bloggers who present their calumny under the guise of “allegations,” applying evasive constructs like “some people are saying” or “it has been alleged.” Such writers are often well educated (sometimes with a law background), skilled at parsing words in order to avoid culpability for legal defamation. In this they rely for protection on the high standard of proof required to bring a libel action. Others recognize the evil in calumny, but see it as a compromise that must be made for the sake of a noble cause. They hope that by destroying an opponent’s reputation they will de-legitimize... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2027543/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1943133/posts Mike Huckabee campaigns as religious Baptist. Yet how religious is Huck? Robert Novak, in the Washington Post, questions the depth of Huckabee’s Baptist support: More than personality explains why not all his Baptist brethren have signed on the dotted line for Huckabee. He did not join the “conservative resurgence” that successfully rebelled against liberals in the Southern Baptist Convention a generation ago. Ann Coulter goes farther, and questions both Huckabee’s intelligence and sincerity of his supposed religous convictions. Hat Tip: Allah Pundit: Hot Air, Huckabee is a liberal Arkansas politician, who would be a democrat, if the party was not... Bitsblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1943133/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939815/posts As regular VC readers know, I am one of several conspirators who is supporting Fred Thompson's campaign for President. I cannot speak for the others, but my reasons for supporting Thompson include his commitment to federalism, his candor on important issues other candidates would prefer to avoid (e.g. entitlements), and his record on regulatory reform and government oversight over the past thirty years. For National Review's pentultimate issue (the one before they endorsed Mitt Romney), I authored an article making the conservative case for Thompson. For those without subscriptions to the print magazine, here is an excerpt: Sen. Fred Thompson... The Volokh Conspiracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939815/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936707/posts **Under pressure from outraged viewers, NBC has reversed its decision not to air the Freedom's Watch ads thanking troops... Developing... The Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936707/posts#comment Sat, 8 Dec 2007 19:47:12 GMT