So I'll admit it, I am a reader of many-a-right-wing-blog; probably the top three would be WhatReallyHappened, Drudge, and Free Republic. I don't know why I read these, maybe to make an informed decision regarding politics and whathaveyou, maybe to make my blood boil, and maybe because when I toke I become one hell of a flamer/troll/pissant. Nevertheless, as I was lurking around F.R. recently, I couldn't help but notice the dwindling number of freepers out there. Just for instance ... at 12am on 20 May, the number of replies to their equivalent of front page diaries from top to bottom goes as follows: 7, 2, 8, 8, 7, 2, 3, 1, 15, 1 17, 10, 13, 7, 4, 5, 30, 0, 10, 11, 13, 1, 14, 11, 8, 5, 3, ... wow, 30, ... DREAM BIG. Most articles get fewer than 10 comments, and the ones that elicit more are mostly just unabated vitriol on the order of what Bill'O would have you believe exists on this site ... times a factor of ten. Honestly, the number of comment responses would not be embarrassing, and possibly respectable for the Melanie's Stories About My Cat Blog .... but this is supposed to be the right-wing counterweight to a site such as this.
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But what you'll find is that the membership and visits to DKos are monotonically increasing while FR succumbs to despair averaging nary 6 comments per article, most of which consist of nothing but utter malaise directed towards various right-wing targets o'the day. Laffable.
Thus concludes my eulogy to the free republic turd spiraling ever and ever towards the bottomless shit-filled abyss. Farewell and RIP.