When they were carried on zero industry-leading cable channels, the conservative grass-roots on FreeRepublic, in the individual efforts we have all come to love and appreciate here, asked their cable providers, or some refused to sign on to their cable providers, until Fox was finally carried. The rejoicing every time a new cable company signed on would be familiar to all of you pedes.

They forgot us. Now they're out of fuel at 40,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.