60 Minutes was freeped!

[nostamj]

Stahl said the overwhemling volume of letters were strongly negative and then read three freep classics and one positive.

do you think someone should clue in 60 Minutes?

maybe a link to a thread promoting the email attack?

[Junkdrawer]

1. Yes, that would be helpful. n/t

[Wonk]

17. Found one

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102922/posts

[0007]

2. 60 minutes was shut down on the Condi interview, IMHO

[PaDUer]

4. yes indeed..n/t

[VOX]

10. My feeling too. (n/t)

:kick:

[PaDUer]

3. When you get the link...

copy it so the freeps don't pool the thread as they're known for..they like to hide the evidence.

[nwstrn]

5. Unbelievable

"Dick Clarke should be tried for treason and if guilty face a firing squad and 60 Minutes should be tried as his accomplice and forced to pay a large fine . . . "

"Why can't you be fair and balanced like Fox News?" (This is hilarious)

[BootinUp]

7. They read that one?

I hope they don't take garbage like that seriously.

[nwstrn]

9. Here's the third one

"Where is your honor? Where is your integrity? Is it really true that you are a propaganda arm of the liberal elite?" Please. Wallace just finished doing a puff piece on Judge Pickering.

And the second letter started with: "Using 60 Minutes to promote a Bush-bashing book is reprehensible."

[Windy]

12. Those mails were chosen on purpose

They truly reflect the feelings of the misinformed and the far right wackos out there. Frankly, I think they cast bush and his supporters in a terrible light. (albeit, a true reflection of the thoughts and feelings of the lunatic fringe!) I hope those mails inflame others who hear them to more actively support the cause of ousting Bush and pals on their collective arses next November!

[nostamj]

14. i agree with you.... there was *something*

about her presentation that suggested that.

she chose letters that made the writers look VERY bad and ended up with a very sensible, positive one.

in a way she said: is this really the majority opinion?

maybe it's time for a 60 Minutes piece on FR. if the repubs are going to call the Dems "angry" - expose the real hatred.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

15. Maybe she is trying to make Reichists look bad?

Hopfully she is.

[nostamj]

16. whether she was *trying* or not

she did.

I mean, 'drag him away and shoot him' ???

and the dig in using, 'fair and balanced like Fox News'

I think she knew exactly what she was doing and it was a big FU to the freepers - no matter how much they high-five each other over 'winning'....

[drhilarius]

21. yes

i get the feeling that the freepers aren't sophisticated enough to appreciate something like irony.

[BootinUp]

6. That sucks

I sent an e-mail to MTP today, but did not send one to CBS last week. :(

[otohara]

8. Did CBS Ever Hype One of Clinton's Judges

like they just did for Pickering?

[Union Thug]

11. I sent a letter after the 60 minutes aired...

..showering 60 minutes and Leslie Stahl with praise. Guess it didn't count.

[Adelante]

13. I know somebody who works on 60 Minutes

If you can get me the link, I will get it to her. Thanks.

[nostamj]

18. here it is!

but thank wonk in post #17, not me!


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102922/posts

[Adelante]

20. Thank you and Wonk

I will get it out to her right away.

[yardwork]

19. I sent an email to 60 Minutes this evening

thanking them for airing the Clarke interview and mentioning the fact that some right-wingers like to overwhelm places and polls with negative emails. I didn't mention FR but I figured they got the message, which is that we know they know, so they have no excuse for saying that "the public has spoken!"

Over in freep-ville tonight they were talking about ganging up on the commercial sponsors of tonight's 60 Minutes. They didn't like the way it went.