"Capitol Hill Blue supports the Free Republic web site..."

[jim3775]

Thanks to the archive.org wayback machine i've been digging up some of CHB's past.

http://capitolhillblue.com/">"Capitol Hill Blue supports the Free Republic web site..."

http://capitolhillblue.com/">"Capitol Hill Blue supports Free Republic..."

Here is an anti McCain rant that looks like it was written by the bush campaign.

Scroll down on this page to see a link to CHB's poll; "Is Bill Clinton guilty of treason?"


Remember that rant posted here recently calling bush a "son of a bitch" well here is a rant doing the same to Clinton:

Why the son-of-a-bitch is getting away with it all

The son-of-a-bitch is gonna walk.

William Jefferson Clinton, First Felon of the United States, the President who turned the Oval Office into his personal playground, the Arkansas white trash who sold out his country, the lowlife who lied, cheated and obstructed justice, is going to get away with the whole damn thing.

...

It's over. The bad guys win because the good guys weren't that good at chasing the bad guys. Bill Clinton is, without a doubt, the most morally-corrupt, venal piece of putrid trash to ever occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but that no longer matters. The public is tired of all the bungled attempts to bring this criminal to justice and without public support, Congress simply will not convict him and send him packing.

This shouldn't surprise anyone. In today's society, the bad guys usually win. O.J. Simpson savagely murdered his ex-wife and another man and is walking about free. Mike Espy, another corrupt member of Clinton's obscenely corrupt administration, walked earlier this week after the government bungled its case against him.

Now Clinton will skate. And what message does his escape from justice send? Is it now all right to cheat on your spouse, lie about it under oath, obstruct justice at every turn, use the power of the federal government to pry into the private lies of opponents and destroy the lives of those whose only crime was trying to tell the truth about a criminal named Clinton?

Here is another crazy rant about Sidney Blumenthal:

Blumenthal, the White House smearmeister whose sole job is to spread dirt on real and perceived enemies of William Jefferson Clinton was a pseudo-journalist whose only claim to fame was an undying devotion to spread the lies of the President. So the White House hired him to do the same out of 1600 Pennsylvania.

Often working with fellow mudslinger James Carville, Blumenthal smeared Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, White House volunteer Kathleen Willey, Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, Clinton critic Dan Burton and -- of course -- Monica Lewinsky.

Here was their links page, featured are links to Free Republic, The Federalist Society, World Net Daily and NewsMax


This goes way beyond "being burned by a source", Capitol Hill Blue was a rabid republican website that printed all sorts of bullshit against Bill Clinton and his administration. The freepers who read the site back then were dumb enough to believe all that crap.

Now that CHB is printing anti-bush articles some DUers are believing them. Please don't fall for their tricks and don't be stupid enough to believe them.

Please keep this kicked.

[MetaTrope]

1. Well, that just proves the observation

That whatever outrageously venal activities the Democrats are accused of, are merely projections of what the Republicans are actually engaging in.

[LeftCoast]

2. Just a cautionary note:

Please don't let this thread turn into a flamefest or we will have to lock it. Thanks, all! :hi:

[MojoXN]

22. Aw, but flamefests are fun, just like book-burnings!

:sarcasm:

:)

MojoXN

[rpannier]

3. Good post

Always a good idea to remember the past of these sites.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Nice job! Recommended.

[patrice]

5. That explains whey their standards in journalism are so low.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Censorship! Censorship! Bleeaargh!!!

Good post. Thanks.

[annabanana]

33. "Bleeaargh!!!" ? . . . . . n/t

[Dave Reynolds]

7. Thanks,

every time I read anything from that site it reminds me of a check-out lane tabloid, long on bullshit and short on fact.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. you don't want to know my thoughts 10 yrs ago, obviously

but to be honest, I was less than happy with Clinton. Quite a bit less than happy.

With time, he is looking better and better, and my former opinions are far, far away.

My excuse? none. I learned, I read, I experienced, and I grew.
and I readily admit that I was wrong. Very wrong. About clinton and bush.

[wtmusic]

13. Clinton was a far better president

than he was a leader. Had he the respect of the nation, he would have been both.

Dubya is neither.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. "and I readily admit that I was wrong"

hell, that makes you about a 1000% better person than most freepers.

[wtmusic]

9. good work

and now can we conclude that CHB will gladly print whatever the public wants to hear?

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Care to ask Doug Thomson if he supprts them today

they did in 1995, amazing, in case you have missed it, they evolved.

But don't let that bother you.. affer all Brock wrote the Anita Hill books... and other books that were part of the Arkansas Project... I believe these days David Brock runs this place called Media Matters... (and I take his info with less salt than Thomson, but still, that is the point)

I will repeat this... they need to be taken with the same grain of salt everybody else needs to be taken these days... don't care who or what they are pedling.

[thebigidea]

12. so did Brock renounce all that? eh?

did Thomson? I thought so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. I have not bothered asking, have you

Maybe I should just for fun...

[thebigidea]

18. maybe you should so your argument has a leg to stand on.

think of all the fun you could have then!

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Afraid of asking

I just may, just for fun

[NYCGirl]

20. Maybe you ought to read this book, just for fun,

and then you could stop bringing up David Brock and Media Matters.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400047285/qid=1132016114/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7691708-9887054?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[I Have A Dream]

21. Yes, David Brock is definitely someone who is fighting the good fight...

with us. We're very fortunate to have Media Matters.

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. I have BOTH OF THEM

you forgot the Right Wing Noise Machine

As i said, why don't you ask? I have seen that place ahem evolve even in their discusion forum...

[pretzel4gore]

11. notice the personal hatred for clinton?

i'd love to get one of these goons in a backroom with a pair of thumbscrews etc and locate the nexus of the location of their hatred for our Billy...it defies understanding, given that Bill out rightwinged the rightwing (unless the cruel heartless aspect of the rightwing is more then just cosmetic, it's the essence!) governmentwise while feeling the left's pain-the success of the clinton regime was genuine, you know how one can tell? because the type of thing we read here, the almost embarassingly vicious hatred for the man, that was felt across the board in the newsmedia, even among local media...the same dupes who love geeb (brother of flo gov john ellis bush, or 'jeb') hated Billy Jeff with a passion that was astounding!
in all the years i've been watching this, i've yet to hear one of the bushwhores explain their hatred for Saint Billy, i mean Sir Billy.... Bill Clinton, you know...

[grasswire]

15. ask a freeper what he thinks of CHB today, why don't you?

There was a "parting of ways" some number of years ago. It might have happened when Rove used Doug Thompson for disinformation in a HUGE dirty trick. CHB was used and abused by Rove. When CHB turned against Bush, FR turned against CHB. The Freepers hate him.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. With a passion

living near teh place where Jim bo has his HQ I sometimes get to hear it even at coffee places. Of course these are the same chickenhaws that are given enlistment forms by me

[Quixote1818]

30. Good Point. Thanks for that information. nt

[jim3775]

19. Self-kick

[The Witch]

25. kick.

it's easy to be seduced by what you want to hear, but therein lies the Way of the Freepers(TM).

[Walt Starr]

26. Tom Flocco + CHB = Disinformation n/t

[Swamp Rat]

29. But it can be entertaining!

:D

[DemonFighterLives]

27. Maybe a lightbulb lit above their heads

:think: I'm not saying that CHB is the final word on W and it doesn't really matter. I have my own filter and the melting bush makes some sense to me.
It is of course possible that if they were way out there with Bill, they could be way out there with dubby.
No matter what anyone says Clinton did one heck of a better job of governing the country than any b*sh ever did or will. It is something about heart. :donut:

[happydreams]

28. CHB funded by "GOP Management"

Or at least it was a few years ago.
Try googling it.

[Quixote1818]

31. Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat. What is the point of this?

Doug goes after any administration! If he sees something he doesn't like then he reports on it. Why do we have to agree with him all the time? I think it's kind of refreshing to see a journalist go after both sides. Look at the heading on his website. It says:

Because as long as Congress is in session, no one is safe.

I think he is non-partisan to be quite frank but it's obvious he has come to absolutely HATE Bush with a passion. For that I applaud him.

Call CHB a "Rag" if you like but aligning them with Free-Republic because they supported them on one cause ten years ago is just plain meaningless today.

[CatholicEdHead]

37. Reagan was also a Democrat before the party switch

In the 1960's.

[Quixote1818]

32. It's dishonest to title your Post as though they still support FR

You don't know that and yet you posted it as gospel. You should have titled your Post "CHB use to support FR".

This is like saying "Ariana Huffington supports Freerepublic".

[jim3775]

34. No I didn't post it as gospel

It was a quote. A quote from CHB. You can tell a quote by the use of these things -> ""

Edit: Also they didn't just support them for one cause one time, they had a nice big logo and link to freerepublic on their front page for about a year. They also had a image saying "conservative news"

[Quixote1818]

35. You didn't have to use that quote in the Subject line though

It gives the impression to the casual person passing by that the quote is current. You used it because you wanted to get hits on your thread and to shock people into supporting your point not because you were worried about the truth. That in my opinion is kind of dirty. If I started a thread that said "Ariana Huffington supports George Bush" or "Ariana Huffington Hates Bill Clinton" and tried to play it off like she still felt that way I would get hammered for being dishonest.

I am disappointed so many DUers are overlooking this and letting it slide just because they don't care for CHB.

[jim3775]

36. So you want me to change my subject line because

'the casual passer-by' might take what I posted the wrong way. Isn't that people's argument against you using CHB as a source?

I've found a bunch of new stuff from Doug Thompson and Ill be posting it soon. Here is a preview:

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/June1999/061099/clintonwomen061099.htm

[Quixote1818]

39. That article has already been posted a dozen times in the last three days

Every Clinton rape story has been posted. People are getting tired of the CHB threads.


Your title is "Flame Bate" nothing more nothing less.

[jim3775]

40. In dont think it was flame bait

My post got a nice positive reaction.

If you dont like the article I posted, here is another one straight from the horses mouth:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000621173903/chblue.com/rantarchive/dailyrant051000.asp

"(RE: clinton) This is the mark of the consummate con man or at least a sick man in deep, deep denial."

"Bill Clinton is slime, but he is smart smart slime. While those who pursued him may have had truth and morality on their side, they were downright dumb and stupid when it came to politics and manipulation of the legal system. Truth, a lawyer I know once said, is irrelevant in the American criminal justice system. Clinton knew that. His enemies didn't."

[Quixote1818]

41. I don't agree with him but maybe he felt that way

I don't have a problem showing people these old articles so they can get the whole picture but I really don't see what the big deal is. Look how pissed Clinton's cabinet was when they found out they were lied to. A lot of people were pissed at Clinton but he admitted his mistake's and apologized profusely and the Country forgave him.

I remember Sam Donaldson being really pissed at Clinton yet I don't see a bunch of old Sam Donaldson articles being rehashed on DU. I still know a number of Democratic women who have a real problem with Clinton because they know what it's like to be cheated on. It's incredibly painful for those who have been through that kind of thing.

[jim3775]

42. Oh come on, now you're just making excuses

Here is an anti Hillary rant from Doug about the 2000 New York senate race A Boy Scout versus the Wicked Witch of DC

[madeline_con]

38. Well LA DEE friggin DA

They BOTH suck the big one!!!!