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To: Dale Baker who wrote (4259)	10/13/2005 6:55:37 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 540820

I think I may have stumbled onto something useful. I scan the Free Republic site regularly, several times a day. The way Free Republic works is, you post a news article, and them everybody comments on it. They don't have long-lived threads like SI. Once the thread vanishes below the front page, it's pretty much gone forever. You're supposed to post the articles with their original headlines. I had observed but never really thought about the fact that many articles are posted with "barf alert!" attached. All of a sudden it hit me! "Barf alert" is intended to cue readers to the fact that they should be outraged by the article. And then I realized that most of what is posted on Free Republic is expressions of outrage. Same with Democratic Underground. A similar story could be told for Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Al Franken. They live to provoke outrage, outrage at "them," whoever "they" are. Apparently the country is full of people who have a lot of free-floating hostility and need a target. I suppose the same thing could be said about the world in general, might explain the popularity of Osama bin Laden.

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