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PBS is learning a hard lesson about conducting online polls relating to hot-button political issues. In early September, following coverage of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the television program NOW, the broadcaster launched an online poll asking viewers whether or not she was qualified for the office. A massive campaign to influence the poll soon ensued, with groups from both the right and the left vying to tip the scales for or against Palin. Blogs ratcheted up interest, with those on the right questioning the impartiality of PBS. A common theme: Why wasn't there a similar PBS poll...

SIERRA VISTA — The Herald/Review’s online opinion poll recently became a pawn between right- and left-wing political organizations. On Sunday, the newspaper was alerted by a woman in Los Angeles to the fact that the Herald/Review’s poll was being “freeped.” “Freeping” is the act of directing the members to influence an online poll, according to Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. The term is derived from a Fresno-Calif.-based Web site, www.FreeRepublic.com. It was founded in 1996 by Jim Robinson as a vehicle of protests against President Clinton. A voicemail was left for Robinson at his Fresno office, but had not been returned by...

Read it for yourself right here: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b9c55d3038c.htm Freep this poll on Bush v. Gore decison (democrats.com & others trying to sway this one) Activism/Chapters Breaking News Announcement Source: MSNBC Online Posted on 09/09/2001 22:55:31 PDT by GOPcapitalist Current Poll numbers: Did the recount decision hurt the Supreme Court's credibility? * 9020 responses No. The ruling was a correct interpretation of the law. 42% Yes. The court's decision was obviously politically motivated. 56% Undecided. 2% Get freeping! Democrats.com has this on the top of its page and is trying to get the dems to vote against the Bush v. Gore decision....

Posted on 03/08/2004 4:00:56 PM EST by Jim Robinson (This is a Google translated excerpt from a Spiegel article regarding Freeping) Vote vote-pfuscher You need tons click "co-ordinating" Of franc Patalong Votes are a fine thing, the butter on message bread. They give a feedback to the on-line Medienmacher, how the reader sees a thing. George W. Bush regard nearly 60 per cent of the readers of MIRROR ON-line ONE for example as a Top president. We know also, why. From the guidance for the falsification of the Mirror On-line Votes: "You need tons cklick ' co-ordinating!'" The widow Vivian...

One of the things I appreciate most about Free Republic is the humor. As JimRob says about FR posting: "And we always have fun doing it." So what were the funniest FR threads of 2004? Here are a few to get us started: Funniest Category or Type of Thread The "Caption" threads. John Kerry, Howard Dean, and the rest gave us plenty of "photo opportunities." One of the funniest was this thread posted by dead: Bwaaaaahaaaaa! My new favorite Soccer Kerry picture just released by Reuters! (Unfortunately, old caption threads lose a lot of their pics as the news photos...

Posted on Sat, Sep. 18, 2004 'Fake' polls, 'phony' stories -- sounds like a leftist paper Professor Toro Professor Toro By now, the "no" votes could be up to a gazillion on an informal poll on The Herald's Web site last weekend. The poll asked: Should the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons be extended? The results haven't been tallied because the poll was hijacked. Or "Freeped." That's what the Free Republic Web site calls it when its fans jam a poll to mess up the results. The Free Republic folks wrote that the poll in a "small local left...

Freep baking "we are nevertheless also many" The report over Vote manipulations by users of a conservative US Website led to the manipulation of the manipulated Votes - and to a solid reader echo. While some welcome "Vote being", others remind deliberated handling Votes and expressions of opinion in the on-line journalism on. At 17 o'clock on Monday registered the "Schulnoten" Vote to the presidency of George W. Bush accurately 38,449 voices. 59.6 per cent of it evaluated the US president with "unity", approximately 13 per cent with "six". Even these numbers for itself taken already showed that this Vote was...

Below is my translation (rough, don't swear by it) of Der Spiegel's latest on-line article about the Freeping of their "poll" about President Bush. I note, Vote, capitalized, refers to an online-vote conducted by a media site. There's a difference between it and the verb "to vote" or the noun, "vote." I apologize for the length of the body of the comment. If I knew a way to hide the bulk of it, I would do so. An earlier thread deteriorated into a shouting match including lots of ethnic slurs on both sides, IMO. Blah. I think these folks are...

SPIEGEL ONLINE With Large Pro-Bush User Base The votes are in. It's official: two thirds of SPIEGEL ONLINE visitors rate President George W. Bush's job performance as "very good" (59 per cent) or "good" (8 per cent). An anonymus SPIEGEL ONLINE source described the results as a "complete surprise to us, comparable only to the demise of comrade Erich Honecker". At this very moment, the left-wing SPIEGEL ONLINE editorial team has convened for a strategy session with their media consultants to determine their future course. "In terms of ideology, everything is now up for grabs," said the source. "We might...

SPIEGEL ONLINE - 15. Juli 2004, 7:48 URL: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,308736,00.htmlUS-Campaign Whoopi Goldberg knocks on Bush Hollywood-Star Whoopi Goldberg made sexual insinuations about the name of the US-President. Conservative America reacted promptly. Now the actress has lost her contract with the company Slim Fast. AP Actress Goldberg: Target of Conservative Attacks Washington - John Kerry, der Democratic presidential candidate, enjoyed the event. He thanked everyone for an "extraordinary evening". But not everyone was enthusiastic over the appearances of the Kerry-supporters in New York. Only a week after actress Whoopi Goldberg appeared in an election campaign event for Kerry, the Hollywood biggie is no longer permitted to...

I posted the following statement to our front page in response to the criticism I'm receiving lately as to not being fair and balanced and perceived mistreatment of trolls and assorted malcontents. Got news for all, I'm NOT fair and balanced. I'm biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom and against liberalism, socialism, anarchism, wackoism, global balonyism and any other form of tyranny. Hope this helps. Statement by the founder of Free Republic: In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of...

<p>An anti-war marcher who asked not to be identified listens as Keith Cole of Murfreesboro, of the conservative group Free Republic, talks about anti-war demonstrators near the Federal Building downtown.</p> <p>Beating drums and carrying signs calling the Iraq war unjust and President Bush a liar, about 450 people held a rally yesterday marking the one-year anniversary of the war.</p>

NRT's Report- Wolicy_Ponk, radu and Mr. radu; wardaddy with sweet virginia and their future Freepers, Reformed Beckite and myself had a great time standing tall for our service people and representing the face of civilized conservatism this Saturday while a few hundred A.N.S.W.E.R.-sponsored “Stop the War” activists marched by. Hippies and beatniks, obviously gay couples, misled elderly people: you name it and they were represented. Ragtag as we were, none of their parade stepped beyond the point of casting a few verbal barbs. Some looked downright ashamed to be seen by us as they walked behind the strange neo-tribal...

Is Johhn Kerry weak on defense? (53%) Yes (47%) No

(This is a Google translated excerpt from a Spiegel article regarding Freeping) Vote vote-pfuscher You need tons click "co-ordinating" Of franc Patalong Votes are a fine thing, the butter on message bread. They give a feedback to the on-line Medienmacher, how the reader sees a thing. George W. Bush regard nearly 60 per cent of the readers of MIRROR ON-line ONE for example as a Top president. We know also, why. From the guidance for the falsification of the Mirror On-line Votes: "You need tons cklick ' co-ordinating!'" The widow Vivian Freep from Midland (Texas) is "George Bush's biggest more...