Hilarious Salon article on freepers from '99 (interesting)

[Kalish]

Check out how tinfoily some were on Bush at first.

"The top extremist, in the estimate of the disenchanted, is its founder, Robinson, a wheelchair-bound Navy veteran of the Vietnam War who operates the site with his son and an unpaid helper from his home in Fresno, Calif. When Robinson unleashed a windy jeremiad linking Texas Gov. Bush with alleged CIA-connected drug-running under his father, a former CIA director (1975-77), vice president (1981-89) and president of the United States (1989-93), all cyber-hell broke loose."

Then check out this tidbit from Lucianne Goldberg. Has she ever sounded more reasonable? WTF?

"'He's a mean shit,' says Goldberg of Robinson, once her partner in exposing Clinton crimes. She launched her own Web site, Lucianne.com, taking "2,000" Freepers with her, she says. 'I am not anti-abortion, I am not Y2K either. I'm not a homophobe, I'm not an anti-Semite -- Christ ... I have a Jewish husband ... I have four people who work for me and half of them are gay. I mean, this is ridiculous.'"

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/13/free/

[GeorgeBushytail]

1. Is there any way we can dig up those old posts at FR?