After the initial thread was pulled I dared to post another vanity: How free is Free Republic? Which subjects are too hot, too inane, too uncomfortable, too nonsensical for the moderators to allow us to discuss? I've posted since 1999 without incident until tonight, so I want to know, what is free for discussion at Free Republic and what is not free for discussion. I understand that I don't have to visit this site, or post, or care, and that it is privately owned and can be run however Jim wishes. But I do wonder what subjects and which personalities are taboo. So I am asking you, the latenight freeper, what should we be free to discuss?
Of course this resulted in the suspension of my posting privileges.
So go ahead and pull this thread and suspend my posting privileges. It won't matter, I, like so many before me, won't be back.
SLUDGE: "Hey, Paula, See CNN's Bob Franken over there? He just told me that the Extacy at the EIB table is subperb...not that I believe him or anything, but I thought you might want to know."
10/01/2003 6:50:19 PM PDT
· 6 of 14 goliath
to hole_n_one
Geez, is the Sludge off limits at FR? Guess I missed that memo, but since you registered a year before me let's just chalk it up to a typical newbie mistake on my part. I'm sorry, it won't happen again.
Because the story, as written, claimed the White House gave him THE NAME Valerie Plume, as though the name by itself was some big secret. This is not my spin on the matter but the Media's
he's not saying whether they're White House officials -- gave him the name of Valerie Plame in the days after her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, wrote a New York Times piece critical of President Bush on Iraq.
Gee, all Novak had to do was a little Google search to find the name of Wilson's wife. If he had, he'd have come across this little bio done over a year ago in which Valerie Plame was ID'd.