Another fake picture from Free Republic.com

The fake photo which was widely spread across the Internet.

The new doctored photo presented on the Free Republic thread, (US Marines snub Kerry!) Newly crowned Kerry storms back on the campaign trail

In the thread references were made to Reuters and the Drudge Report, but the truth of the matter is that reading the invented slogans and diolog they would like to have had actually said shows this site capable of just about anything; including inventing the news.

I am an activist who has has been monitoring the Free Republic for several years, and I have watched them call on fellow FReepers to skew unscientific polls with them linked in threads imploring, "FREEP THIS POLL!!!!" and other unethical practices. I was on the site originally as 'ferret' until the inevitable banning of me in April 2000, and I am currently on Libertypost.org, an open to all site with many FReeper exiles.

I have watched the site grow increasingly cultish, and go from a conservative news discussion site to a grass roots working engine alleging to be pro conservative, but that come second to Jim Robinson's favorite game of manipulating the news. Many FReepers have left or been banned in the wake of Robinson doctating the presidential canidate all on site can support, and one problem he faces is the lack of literacy and posting ability of newcomers to the site.

They have also been involved in harrassing Peace Fresno, and they are a presence all over the Internet and in real time "FReepings" of people and events they dislike.

Manufacturing pictures and presenting them as the real news item got them in troube already this election cycle. Apparently they did not learn a thing.