A reader e-mails: “John, I’m as conservative as they come but your correspondents could have a point about what gets written in these public fora. Check out some of the knuckle-draggers posting at www.freerepublic.com sometime.” UPDATE: Gerry Daly of RedState e-mails that I’m being unfair to Free Republic, which does moderate and delete inappropriate material. Its guidelines include : “Free Republic reserves the right to remove any postings that are considered inappropriate. Examples of inappropriate posts are those that are off-subject or contain advertising, pornography, obscene material, racist material, bigotry, Nazi (or other hate group) material, materials promoting violence, threats or illegal acts, etc.” Couldn’t find anything comparable at tpmcafe or DailyKos.