Matt Drudge - Romney INSIDER

http://www.prezcast.com/2007/12/matt-drudge-romney-insider.html ^

[MrArbitrage123]

This is quite interesting. I have been suspicious of Drudg lately. Sorry if anyone has already posted this.

http://www.prezcast.com/2007/12/matt-drudge-romney-insider.html

[dynachrome]

Better post if it wasn’t from a huckster website.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Drudge is biased like everyone else. What makes him better than average is that he at least leans to the conservative side. But his biases are clear. He’s no different than anyone else. He is clearly anti-Huckabee. He might be more neutral on Thompson but he is definitely pro-Romney. So Romney gets a big fish. It happens. Won’t sway me.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Drudge has clearly been out to bring down Huckabee. So his supporters put up a defense. Who can blame them.

[Reagan Man]

I don't know if Drudge is a Romney insider, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

When Fred Thompson recieved the biggest GOP primary campaign endorsement to date, from the #1 pro-life group in the nation, the NRTL Committee, I don't remember seeing one mention of it on Drudge. If it was posted, it was pulled immediately.

[dynachrome]

True, and my guy is now Fred. So I am not biased at all, of course. LOL

[counterpunch]

This is nonsense. Romney’s campaign knows how to play the media access game, and is much more media savvy than any of the other candidates, most notably Fred Thompson. That’s all it is, nothing more. Drudge really push Fred Thompson’s early momentum, too, but as it turned out Fred just can’t - or won’t - deliver. He doesn’t know how - or refuses - to play the media access game, and that’s why he’s been sinking ever since. Drudge can’t print stories if they’re not fed to him, and he goes with what he gets. Romney understands that, the other candidates, Fred particularly, don’t.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Here are Drudge's Thompson headlines. He did report the endorsement on Nov. 12, but I had to look it up because I couldn't remember it either.

[MrArbitrage123]

” I don’t know if Drudge is a Romney insider, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all. “

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What wouldn’t surprise me at all is if Drudge is getting millions of dollars from Romney under the table.

He wouldn’t have to worry about any Drudge breaking the story.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Oh come on now. Drudge is plenty calculating about his placements and choice of headlines. That’s part of what’s so fun about him. For example global warming. Almost always when he links to a GW headline he will also link to a cold weather report. It’s great. You have to take the bad with the good, though. It’s his site and he can do with it as he pleases. The difference between Drudge and the other media is that Drudge admits what he is. The MSM tries to pass itself off as neutral.

[Reagan Man]

That was a headline in prelude to the actual endorsement.

I don’t remember seeing a major headline posted on the Drudge Report touting Fred`s NRTL endorsement.

[nctexan]

They're all out to get Hunter, Thompson, Huckabee because he's the only true conservative candidate.

[hole_n_one]

It was last month that the same assertion was made about Drudge and the Clinton camp.

[counterpunch]

Drudge goes where the story is. He’s posted positive and negative stories on all the candidates. Shmuckabee’s getting negative press right now because all the opposition research is being sent out from the campaigns. Romney’s gotten bad press on Drudge too. The bottom line though, is that no press on Drudge is the worst press of all, and Fred Thompson is getting plenty of it. And that is because his campaign doesn’t go out and get it. In contrast, Romney’s press office is very active.

[Palladin]

Drudge is being rather selective in his coverage of this race. But then, it’s his website.

[hole_n_one]

Drudge goes where the story is.

It's no more complicated than that.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Oh okay. You may be right then. I’ve thought Drudge favored Romney for several months now. He is definitely anti-Huckabee. I haven’t decided what he thinks of Thompson but if you are right, that’s a big clue right there.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Drudge is human. He is no more neutral than anyone else. He may even think he is neutral, but he isn’t. Clearly you wouldn’t see the unfair treatment of Huckabee when you can’t even say his name without derision (Shmuchabee?).

[counterpunch]

Wrong, Drudge is a muckracker. He loves to dish dirt, no matter who it’s about — even himself! Regardless of his own personal biases, he cannot resist the mudslinging. That’s about the beginning and end of it.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

To a minor point he is a muckracker. But he is also biased and his biases are easy to spot.

[counterpunch]

There is no unfair treatment. Huckabee dirt is just the current newscycle. Every candidate has gotten hit with it. Drudge has also had postitive Huckabee headlines, too, such as the big one that took his poll surge national, “HUCKABOOM!”

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I completely disagree with you on that. Some get hammered while others get the red carpet and still others get ignored. I am not saying it is unfair for Drudge to be like every other human being on the face of the planet. He is biased and his biases show. If he is trying to hide them (I am not sure he is) then he is not doing a very good job.

[counterpunch]

Drudge is biased towards dirt. That’s it.
He goes where the action is. Huckabee is climbing, so that’s where the action is. Rival campaigns are dishing out dirt to anyone who will listen, and Matt loves dirt.

Fred gets no press at all because there is no action there.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No. This is more than bias towards dirt. Drudge pieced this hit job "exclusive" together himself.

[counterpunch]

“Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.”

Matt heard from Democrat insiders why they’re being so quiet on Huckabee (contrasted with how they pounced on Fred Thompson before he ever even entered the race.) Someone dished Matt a juicy piece of gossip and he printed it. Where is this inconsistent? It is what he does.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Now you are just choosing to deny the obvious. My proof is rock solid.

[counterpunch]

Well I can tell by your tagline that you’re obviously a Huckabee supporter, and you don’t care that he’s a follower of Karl Marx so long as he’s also a follower of Jesus. Huckabee is a weak candidate, the weakest in the GOP field in the last several cycles, and it is newsworthy that is of particular importance to Republicans that the Democrats want to run against Huckabee because they know how weak he is. The truth is the truth, and it seems you don’t want the truth about Huckabee to see the light of day.

[WOSG]

YUP....

The Huckabee vetting files:

http://realmikehuckabee.blogspot.com/2007/12/meet-huckster-san-diego-union-tribune.html

http://www.taxhikemike.org/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2007/nov/14/taking-stock-tax-hike-mike/

http://www.redstate.com/blogs/rightsideredux/2007/dec/11/the_huckabee_most_wanted_list_location_unknown#comment-588732
http://redstate.com/blogs/perico/2007/nov/29/is_this_the_slow_and_painful_death_of_the_republican_party_as_we_know_it#comment-576559
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/new-documents-revealed-in_n_76186.html

http://www.nysun.com/article/67835

Huckabee does a flipflop
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-huckabee11dec11,0,7354822.story?coll=la-tot-topstories&track=ntothtml

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Questions+remain+about+rapist-turned-murderer&articleId=8ca3c723-a927-4f5f-83ab-a5d2780e7911

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/12/019245.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/12/019244.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/12/019208.php