Jim Robinson of FR, obsessed with Clinton?

[ck4829]

Maybe RimJob cared more about Clinton getting impeached, than allowing him to fight terrorism.

30. I began getting interested in politics around the time that Bill Clinton ("Clinton") was running for President in 1991. I read all of the stories about his reputed Arkansas "scandals" and I was a member of the Prodigy online bulletin board system where politics was a major topic.

31. After Clinton was elected, I participated in a rather active bulletin board on the Prodigy service which was called the "Prodigy Whitewater News" board. The Prodigy News Bulletin Boards was a service provided by the Prodigy Online Computer Service Company (co-owned by IBM and Sears corporations) where "paid-up" Prodigy members could post and discuss copies of newspaper articles. For several years, I was a regular reader and poster to this "board." I was impressed with the free and open discussion and this is where I got the original idea for a news and politics "posting and discussion" bulletin-board site on the Internet.

32. In 1996, some of the Prodigy Whitewater bulletin-board ("WW board") participants began discussing what we believed to be President Clinton's illegal dealings in connection with the "Lippo Group." There was considerable controversy in the opinions expressed concerning this subject.

34. I had also been spending time on the alt.clinton.crime.corruption.whitewater (or something like that) USENET newsgroup. (Usenet groups also allow full-text posting of articles.) One of the problems I found with USENET groups is that they have no moderators and are subject to disruption by vandals. This is an additional reason I wanted to create my own "bulletin board" forum web site.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/freerep/19991029rob.htm

[Carni]

1. Rimjob also used to diss Bush 1

Now for three years it has been a bush lovefest...Gee I wonder who cut that scumbag a check?

Check this Salon article out circa 1999

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:UbZQ_tjMWMoJ:www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/07/13/free/+salon+free+for+all+at+freerepublic&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"Drudge, Goldberg and several other Free Republic stars have left; visits are reportedly down to less than half what they were a year ago; Free Republic's founding guru, Jim Robinson, has been sued by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times; and a swelling number of haters have turned up the volume of death threats, gay-bashing, name-calling and conspiracy theories tying the father of Republican front-runner George W. Bush to drug-dealing by the CIA.

To be fair, Free Republic has always been a home for pugilistic far-right zealots, and its recent traffic decline is probably due to the passing of impeachment as an issue, not just dissent over the crusade against Bush. But disaffected Freep stalwarts say that in recent months Robinson "let all the Y2K, gun-nut, Jew-baiting crazies take over and flame the plain-old conservatives," in the words of Goldberg."

MORE

"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.

Untold thousands of conservatives, desperate for the front-running Republican "Dubya" to oust the Democrats from the White House, left, leaving the playing field to the loons. Sources with access to Free Republic's traffic data say visitors and page views are down by at least half from their peak a year ago."

[mike_c]

2. prodigy whitewater news....

Damn, I musta missed that one.... Life DID seem sort of incomplete in those days.

[anti_shrub]

3. If I remember correctly

Freepland was pretty anti-Bush during the 2000 primaries until it became clear Bush was going to win, then RimJob did some sort of cleansing of all the members who wouldn't drink the "BUSH IZ GREAT!@" kool-aid.

[Carni]

4. Yes you remember correctly!

I have been monitoring those suckers since late 97